Disaster Risk Reduction in Moldova: Promoting safety and rural climate change resilience
Under the Expertise for Demand component of the Czech-UNDP Partnership, a team of Czech experts finalised the implementation of the project “Promotion of climate change and disaster risk reduction solutions in the water and civil protection sectors for enhanced rural resilience” (CC & DRR Project) in Moldova. What impact did they leave and why did […]
Community planning in Georgia: Involving the public in regional development in Abmrolauri and Tkibuli
According to the Georgian EU Country Roadmap for Engagement with Civil Society on the local level, the main obstacle to policy dialogue is the low level of autonomy of local authorities and the limited capacities of the local authority staff. Although dialogue mechanisms do exist on paper, in practice, they are often hampered by a […]
Empowering women through providing access to clean technologies of drying crops
International Women´s Day 2021 might be over, but Czech-UNDP Partnership for SDGs and its Challenge Fund component continuously strives to support women´s empowerment and equality. One of the projects working on gender equality is the initiative of the NGO CARE Czech Republic “Introducing the Model of Hybrid Solar Driers for Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs and NTFPs”, […]
Part II: Advancing women menstrual health in Cambodia: Local microbusinesses for environmental and societal change
Cambodia is one of the countries where the topic of menstruation often remains taboo and women and girls struggle to find appropriate menstrual products corresponding to their needs, local context and health requirements. One of the Czech Challenge Fund projects of an NGO Diaconia CCB CRD is trying to change the situation by the introduction of small businesses for […]
Part I: Advancing women menstrual health in Cambodia: Local microbusinesses for environmental and societal change
Menstruation is still a challenge for many women and girls in Cambodia and especially its rural areas. It causes friction in daily lives which is due to both the lack of affordable menstrual products in the market and also the lack of awareness at the institutional and private level, where period shaming is still prevalent […]
2020 for the CUP: The year of challenges and new opportunities
For international cooperation and development, the year 2020 proved to be challenging. With the COVID-19 pandemics, the workload and partnerships had to be switched to the online environment and new themes related mostly to COVID-19 response have emerged. Albeit filled with uncertainty, 2020 also gave space to new initiatives and innovations that have bridged the […]
Evidence-based policy and service design in Georgia: Creating a platform for dialogue between experts in research and policymakers
The “Research for Policy experimental series” roundtables initiated in November 2019 by UNDP Georgia Innovations Team and the behavioral expert Dr. Karla Koutková under the initiative “Behavioral Science for informed policy decision-making in Georgia”. This initiative supported by the Expertise on Demand of the Czech-UNDP Partnership for SDGs has an overall goal of identifying opportunities for collaboration […]
From Africa to “Via Dinarica”: A journey of a young traveller promoting green tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that remains largely unknown to most Czech tourists. Presented in the media as the Balkan “post-war” zone, which attracts only a few brave backpackers, the country remains off the main tourist radar despite efforts to improve tourist infrastructure by local governments and international organizations. One of the projects that […]
Tailoring “care economy” principles to Georgian realities
The “care economy”, a socio-economic concept that promises to advance both growth and gender equality by investing in the care services that are now mainly provided through the unpaid labour of women who remain outside the workforce, was the focus of a round-table discussion held recently with Czech scholars as part of an initiative supported […]
Energy cooperatives in Moldova: Going clean and local
Jaroslav Klusák is a Czech expert working on the project “Transfer of Czech and West European best practices for the piloting of energy cooperatives in Moldova” under the Expertise on Demand component of the Czech-UNDP Partnership, that investigates the energy policy, regulatory and energy market landscape in Moldova in order to pilot and harness the benefits of energy cooperatives in […]