In his blog, UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria Imran Riza explains that early recovery and resilience programming has been at the core of the UN team’s work over the last few years.
In Kyrgyzstan, 2,061 out of 2,080 schools already got internet access. But connecting the last 1% of schools in the country requires truly innovative technologies and sustainable financing solutions.
In Yemen and Sudan, where communities confront conflict and economic decline, temperatures have been rising faster than the global average over the last three decades.
One year after Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, reflects on the work the UN team on the ground has done to save lives while sustaining essential services and preserving key community systems.
A line of women carry rocks in the hands and on their heads as they descend to a gully on the side of a hill in southern Haiti. They are bringing the rocks so their community can build barriers which will slow down the flow of water across this verdant valley and prevent the erosion of land that is important to this rural farming community.
Here are some of the UN teams’ stories that trended in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish in the first half of 2022, showing the issues that matter to our readers — and illustrating our efforts to ensure no one is left behind as we strive to deliver better, together.
The war in Ukraine is having a huge and multi-dimensional impact, through a threefold crisis of access to food, energy and finance, says the UN Secretary-General.