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The U.N. Development Fund (UNDP) has announced the completion of two model facilities for the safe processing and recycling of earthquake debris in Türkiye.

Extremely vulnerable to climate change, not rich enough to stop it on their own, and not poor enough to depend on aid and development financing: the world's small island countries are bracing for both fiscal and climate shocks.

Türkiye has made strides in human development over the past three decades but challenges persist in areas such as gender inequality and sustainability, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator has said.

The latest report from the UNDP highlights Türkiye's progress in various aspects of human development since 1990.

Turkish first lady Emine Erdoğan has engaged in discussions with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) head Achim Steiner on the sidelines of the Sustainable Development Goals Forum at a Dubai summit.

NEW YORK - Serbian Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begovic met with UNDP Under-Secretary-General Haoliang Xu and the organisation's regional director for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States Ivana Zivkovic in New York to discuss Serbia-UNDP cooperation.

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

A protocol has been signed between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Kocaeli Municipality for this year's Kartepe Summit, an annual international gathering held since 2017 that brings cities together to brainstorm solutions to the biggest urban challenges.

Turkish worldwide famous pop star Sertab Erener called for "urgent action to save people and planet" in a new song released on Nov. 11.

Turkey's zero waste project has won the UN Development Program Turkey's first (UNDP) Global Goals Action Award.

"The project will receive UNDP Turkey's Sustainable Development Goals Action Award due to its important contributions to the goal Responsible Production and Consumption, one of the Sustainable Development Goals," the UNDP Turkey said in a statement.

Turkey's multiple world-record holder and free-diving champion Şahika Ercümen has joined the fight to preserve oceans, becoming a "life below water advocate" of the United Nations.