Making Small Island Developing States more climate resilient Infrastructure is a key element in ensuring Small Island Developing States can weather the impacts of climate change. Here’s why – and how to do it.
Gender equality a top priority for UNOPS UNOPS has launched a new Gender Mainstreaming Strategy that places gender equality considerations at the front and centre of its work.
The Executive Director of a UN agency on running it like a business With a business model that combines the best of the UN and the private sector, what does it take to run an organization like UNOPS?
Against child labour This year, the focus for World Day Against Child Labour – marked on 12 June – is on child labour in supply chains. With 168 million children still in…
Iraq Information Centre marks five years linking people with… Since launching in July 2015, the centre has connected over 3 million people in Iraq with vital information and assistance.
Humanitarian hotline logs 100,000th call from displaced Iraqis Operating in one of the most severe and complex crises in the world, the Iraq IDP Information Centre (Iraq IIC) recently handled its 100,000th call,…
To build equal cities, we need equal voices Women are speaking up about the shortcomings of city infrastructure. It’s time we listen.
World Identity Network and United Nations team up to launch… The World Identity Network (WIN), UNOPS and the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT) are partnering to launch a…
The Business of Development – Confederation of Danish Industry Speech by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS, delivered at the session "17 Global Goals - a wealth of opportunity",…
Ethiopia receives its first Biosafety Level 3 mobile laboratory UNOPS handed over the laboratory to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health on 10 November 2016.