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Powering resilience: How energy startups are rewiring Moldova and Ukraine
This article is the second in a three-part spotlight series exploring how local ventures in Moldova and Ukraine are advancing green innovation. The series is published as part of the BOOST: Green Futures Challenge – an initiative led by UNDP with financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of […]
Blockchain Academy launches its second global cohort
The UNDP Alternative Finance Lab (AltFinLab), in partnership with the Algorand Foundation, has launched the second global cohort of the Blockchain Academy, drawing unprecedented interest from across […]
Six digital experiments that were never meant to scale
Governments are under pressure to move on digital transformation and AI. But many don’t know where to start – and honestly neither do we much of […]
New report introduces the Twin Transition Stencil for cities navigating green and digital transformations
UNDP’s City Experiment Fund has released the Twin Transition Stencil Report, presenting a structured framework that was designed to support cities in designing and managing integrated green and digital transformation […]
From dialogue to action: Building a shared vision for blockchain and sustainable development
As the world moves closer to 2030, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires not just new resources and tools, but new forms of collaboration. UNDP’s most recent […]
Dream Labs: UNDP North Macedonia fuels citizen engagement for policymaking
Reposted from UNDP North Macedonia. Imagination versus & policymaking The world faces a deficit of social imagination’, with people finding it easier to imagine negative rather than […]
SafeYOU, an Armenian app, is taking on gender-based violence around the world
Two years ago, Mariam Torosyan, a human rights lawyer and social entrepreneur, founded SafeYOU, a social impact startup, in a bid to curb domestic and gender-based […]
Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) Facility launches Urban Learning Center for municipalities in Eastern Partnership countries
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched today a new ecosystem of learning opportunities to reimagine urban and local spaces […]
The European Union provides EUR 1.8 million for Crisis Response and Renewal in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova
A financial top-up under the auspices of the Mayors for Economic Growth Facility supports the crisis immediate response and recovery & long-term renewal of Moldovan […]
27 mayors with visions to move beyond “business as usual”
In our previous story „Imagine the city we want,“ we introduced the Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG), a joint EU and UNDP initiative that supports […]
UNDP joins the 2022 Learning Festival on shifting systems towards better futures
“On the surface we’re hitting our targets. But my big fear is that nothing fundamental is changing. We’re not shifting the underlying dynamics that are […]
BOOST’s Women Innovators programme in Europe and Central Asia announces grant awardees
BOOST, a regional acceleration programme for social impact innovation, financed and supported by the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic and Koç Holding, announced […]
50 small and medium enterprises selected to take part in BOOST x Kosovo
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kosovo, in partnership with the Government of Japan, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Innovation […]
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