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RSSVoices of women from the Horn of Africa’s borderlands
With support from the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), and together with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNDP cross-border programme aims to help those hard-working women become more self-sustaining.
Volkswagen in South Africa – helping fight COVID-19 and protecting employees
The EU’s private sector has been actively contributing to solutions to the COVID crisis in partner countries, alongside the Team Europe public response. Volkswagen Group South Africa has been working with local authorities and businesses
Water for Food Security in Uzbekistan
The 'Technical Capacity Building’ project is implemented by UNDP in close partnership with the Ministry of Water Resources in the frame of the broader EU programme on ‘Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan’.
Water is Life - EU support to water and sanitation in Tanzania
The Iringa Sanitation Project has ensured that more than 1000 additional households are provided with sanitation services.
When child labour is reduced, opportunities for youth increase
This year is the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour which calls on all of us to raise awareness of the importance of ending child labour and step up our collective efforts for impactful and sustainable actions.
Winning the race for inclusion
Fati is part of a disabled group which was created to support the social inclusion of disabled women and children in Niger.
Woman engineer paves the way for groundwater access in Zambia
It was her experiences in childhood that motivated engineer Beatrice Kanyamuna-Pole to address the water challenges facing rural Zambians.
Women are transforming politics in Paraguay
The EU supported the creation and operation of the ‘Political Training School for Women Leaders of the Superior Court of Electoral Justice’ to increase women’s political participation and leadership in Paraguay.
Women change sustainable energy sector in Honduras
In Honduras, thanks to a solar energy project, financed through the EU-funded Breaking the Barriers programme, women are being provided with an income, while ensuring local communities are less reliant on cutting down trees to light their homes.
Women promote healthy lifestyle and fight climate change in the Marshall Islands
In Ailuk, the RENI project has worked with the residents to increase the availability of local food crops by establishing community nurseries, expanding the use of drought resistant crop varieties, improving soil management practices, and increasing