Strengthening homes and communities across Argentina In one of the most urbanized countries in Latin America, a social infrastructure and housing programme is changing the way people live their lives.
UNOPS20: Monitoring volcanoes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Throughout 2015, we will be exploring some of our past achievements. This includes our five-year monitoring mission of Mount Nyiragongo, one of Africa’s…
UNOPS and Japan to repair community development centres in Djibouti Japan is contributing $500,000 toward a UNOPS‐implemented project to rehabilitate four centres damaged by Tropical Cyclone Sagar last year.
Quality infrastructure and better public management key to reducing… UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo and other UNOPS senior leaders joined European Development Days this week in a series of debates on building a world…
Global unity: can we achieve it in the way we understand… Article by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS, published on Development Today, August 2016
Executive Board Members visit UNOPS-KOICA project in Kampala On the first day of the week-long annual Joint Field Visit, the Executive Boards of six UN agencies and UN Ambassadors visit Vocational Training Institute…
A partnership for projects in the countries that need it most: EIB… The European Investment Bank (EIB) and UNOPS signed an agreement on 16 April to work together on key projects around the world in an effort to improve the…
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General visits landslide-affected… Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed visited a UNOPS-implemented project site that’s helping communities rebuild their lives and livelihoods after…
“We believe in being forward looking,” says UNOPS Executive Director… Grete Faremo joins UN Women’s Executive Director at a side-event on the margins of the 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Better homes, brighter futures In 2015, following two massive earthquakes, the people of Nepal found themselves standing amid their crumbling houses. More than four years on, we are…