Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by UNDP Eurasia
Resilience starts at home: How Central Asian cities are preparing for disaster risk
Since then, our teams have been on the ground in Almaty, Osh, Dushanbe, Ashgabat and Namangan identifying gaps in city-level earthquake management. As initial pilots, earthquake alert systems will be installed in select number of schools, showcasing best practices in earthquake preparedness and risk reduction to be replicated countrywide. This is one example of how better preparedness at the city level can translate into greater safety where people spend their everyday lives.
Reshaping the trade narrative in Central Asia
For more than fifteen years, Aid for Trade, in partnership with the Government of Finland, has worked across Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to advance more diversified, inclusive and future-fit economies, adaptive to the green and digital shifts reshaping global markets and trade. It enhanced the capabilities of businesses and institutions for developing job-rich, sustainable value chains and strengthened enterprise productivity and competitiveness.
CITY IMAGINARIUM
Your browser is unsupported: Please use Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari for the best Exposure experience
Green innovation: A biohacking lab opens doors in Skopje
Green innovation: A biohacking lab opens doors in Skopje
Fighting fires and stereotypes in Ukraine
Fighting fires and stereotypes in Ukraine The story of Kyiv region’s only woman firefighter
The climate crisis and the rise of eco-anxiety in Turkey
The climate crisis and the rise of eco-anxiety in Turkey
Frozen in time: a traditional Kyrgyz village struggles without tourists
Frozen in time: a traditional Kyrgyz village struggles without tourists
In a Georgian settlement, one woman’s fight against an unsettling crisis
In a Georgian settlement, one woman’s fight against an unsettling crisis
7 Lessons & 3 Big Questions for the Next 10 Years of Governance
Co-authored by Milica Begovic, Joost Beunderman, Indy Johar The intent of putting the Next Generation Governance (#NextGenGov) agenda at the centre of the Istanbul Innovation Days 2018 was to start to explore the future of the world’s governance challenges, and to debate how a new set of models are needed to address a growing ‘relevance gap’ in governance and peacebuilding.
What digital nomads have to teach us about emigration
by Kristina Jazinka Nikolic, Head of Experimentation at the UNDP Accelerator Lab in Serbia The StartIT co-working space in Belgrade, Serbia. Photo courtesy StartIT Digital nomads are people who choose where they live and work, since their employment is mainly virtual, changing locations often. Their jobs cover a wide range from graphic design, digital marketing and writing to blockchain, e-commerce and programming.
Treating the forest like family
Treating the forest like family Helping foresters protect the environment in Armenia
In Kyrgyzstan, the hidden cost of water
In Kyrgyzstan, the hidden cost of water
Rethinking Development after Coronavirus
Hong Kong graffitti: ‘There can be no return to normal, because normal was a problem in the first place’ by Millie Begovic, Global Innovation Advisor a.i. at UNDP, and Lejla Sadiku, Innovation Specialist at UNDP This is the dawn of a new era, one of radical uncertainty where control doesn’t exist. Can the development sector reform itself fast enough to turn the pandemic response into more resilient systems? Can we leverage new capabilities to decrease likelihood of and exposure to similar shocks?
COVID-19 will change our lives. And our way of working.
by Gerd Trogemann, Manager of UNDP’s Istanbul Regional Hub, and Lejla Sadiku, Innovation Specialist for UNDP Eurasia In ”The Plague”, Camus asks if suffering can exist not in individuals but as a shared experience in the public. Crisis, he writes, upends existing social order and induces paradigm shifts. This pandemic is a global paradigm shift .
Solar-powered water breeds life in the Turkmenistan desert
The slightest streak of pink runs through the sky as day breaks over Turkmenistan’s Garagum desert. Some 120 km away from the nearest town, the site of Esenaman prepares to receive an important visitor. For the longest time, things have been quiet in these parts, but now, change is on its way. All photos: Sergey Mirzoyev / UNDP Turkmenistan Esenaman once used to be one of the major watering spots for the Garagum livestock; one of Turkmenistan’s most lucrative economic sectors.
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, how far have Eastern Europe’s youth come?
Born in an age of uncertainty, young people in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ukraine and Georgia reflect on patriotism, freedom and opportunity All photos: Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / UNDP Musya Qeburia kicked off what promised to be a long night with friends at a rooftop bar overlooking Tbilisi, in Georgia. An evening filled with cocktails, tobacco and nonchalance, the party continued on at a rave, dancing the night away as if to put important decisions on hold. “We’re starting to learn what freedom is.
6 major human rights trends across Europe and Central Asia
by Ainura Bekkoenova and Oztepe Yagiz Photo: Huseyin Sari / GFSD Golcuk / UNDP Turkey Over 70 years on, human rights remain a bedrock of the UN’s mission and mandate. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we have seen advancements such as a decline in genocide and the number of people killed in war, and improvements in life expectancy and infant mortality.
Montenegro gives progress the green light
Home Javascript will need to be enable to see cover photo effects Montenegro gives progress the green light From the moutains to the coast, a new set of eco-solutions Footnotes: Photos: Risto Bozovic / UNDP Montenegro
Caught in the crossfire, Armenia’s border communities reinvent themselves
Home Javascript will need to be enable to see cover photo effects Caught in the crossfire, Armenia’s border communities reinvent themselves
Eurasia doesn’t get the spotlight it deserves - so we created a journal of our own
by Karen Cirillo, Mehmet Erdoğan, Nicolas Douillet Why dostories from our region often go unreported? Maybe it’s because countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have had a legacy of equality, job security and functioning safety nets. Maybe people perceive it as largely developed with no major crises. Contrary to popular opinion, life is not a bed of roses in Eurasia.
What does inequality look like? – UNDP Eurasia – Medium
All photos: Jodi Hilton/UNDP As an experienced photojournalist, I’d spent a good part of my career working in impoverished communities and with people who were marginalized due to religion or ethnicity. So the concept of inequalities was familiar terrain for me. Although Eurasia is a vast region that includes many different countries and peoples with diverse histories, cultures, and religion, some strong similarities were apparent across the places I visited.
Are Inclusive Cities smarter than “Smart”?
Written by Ray Boyle, UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub Edited by Jennifer Bradley, Center for Urban Innovation, Aspen Institute The collective imagination of the Future of Cities is alluring, and dangerously incomplete. Evidence suggests that past 15 years of Open, Green, and Smart cities has further entrenched inequities within cities rather than equalizing the urban experience. This ever-widening gap threatens cities’ very reason for being: to accelerate opportunity, possibility and innovation.
No one carries water in this Uzbek Village...anymore
Home Javascript will need to be enable to see cover photo effects No one carries water in this Uzbek Village...anymore Footnotes: Photos: Sherzod Alimov / UNDP Uzbekistan
Virtual reality brought me into the world of a strong Roma woman
After our first conversation, I already sensed Fatmira was the right woman to take us on this journey. She draws you in with her charismatic, warm personality. But as we talked more and I learned about her life, it was her strength that I most came to admire. Fatmira’s story is nuanced and complicated. She grew up in a well-integrated neighborhood, but married at 14. This is common for the Roma community, though not what her parents wanted for her. Still, she married, and had two kids before 18.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with UNDP
Contact UNDP, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack