Diakonie ČCE won the Czech SDG Award 2021
Congratulations to Diakonie ČCE for winning the Czech SDG Award with the Challenge Fund project: Microbusiness and Innovation for Women Menstrual Health and Empowerment in Cambodia! In Cambodia’s Kampong Chhnang Province, period shaming still exists and local women face obstacles in their daily lives both due to the lack of affordable menstrual products as well as due to the lack of awareness at the institutional and private level. This situation is called Period Poverty and Diakonie ČCE seeks to change it.
Tourism and SDGs
Tourism employs one in every ten people on. The UN estimates that because of the ongoing pandemic, 100-120 million direct tourism jobs are at risk. Tourism is also connected to SDGs. It creates jobs, promotes local culture and products, works in the sustainable use and management of the environment, like marine resources, and improves measures […]
What’s new in the 2021 Challenge Fund
The Challenge Fund of the Czech-UNDP Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals entered its fifth round of Call for Application this summer. “We are glad to see the continuous interest of Czech innovators in the Challenge Fund” said Dagmar Novohradská, CUP’s Senior Project Specialist, adding that “We have received many quality applications which came both from […]
Expertise on Demand: What are Czech experts together with UNDP Georgia’s Innovation Specialist up to in Rustavi?
In May 2021, a group of Czech experts from the company UNICO.ai started their work on the Rustavi Smart City expert assignment to review the portfolio of interventions supported by the UNDP Innovation Team in Rustavi.
Czech geological expertise improves water management in Ethiopia
Working in cooperation with the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), AQUATEST recently completed their project of Mapping shallow groundwater resources (SGWR) for household irrigation by developing Ethiopia’s first ever set of monitoring wells. With funding provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the Czech-UNDP Partnership’s Challenge Fund brings innovative solutions from the Czech Republic.
UN World Youth Skills Day and the Challenge Fund
The UN has declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day, to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship. CUP’s Challenge Fund has supported several initiatives that help young people develop their skills and reach their career goals. The Upcycling Challenge in Bosnia and Herzegovina This […]
Challenge Fund 2020: helping with debt issues in Georgia and building a skatepark in Zambia
Since 2018, the Czech-UNDP Partnership for SDGs’ (CUP) Challenge Fund helps to facilitate transfer of Czech know-how and innovative solutions that address development challenges and contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in six priority countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Georgia, Cambodia, Moldova and Zambia. Let’s look at some of the last year’s achievements. Will be 2021/22 round again so diverse, and what are the priorities of 2021 call for applications?
Challenge Fund: Skateboarders from Czechia teamed up with Zambians to build a state-of-the-art skate park
“In skateboarding we learn that it is necessary to fail thousand times in order to succeed once, we learn that nothing comes for free and we also learn that together we are stronger than alone.” says Martin Loužecký, member of the Skate World Better NGO who has recently completed their project Youth Community Centre in Mongu, Zambia.
CHALLENGE FUND 2021: APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN
We are happy to announce that the 2021 Call for Proposals for the Challenge Fund of the Czech-UNDP Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals is now open. The objective of the Challenge Fund: Czech solutions for SDGs is to facilitate transfer of Czech know-how and innovative solutions that would address development challenges and contribute to the achievement of SDGs in six priority countries: Bosnia and […]
Czech Innovations and the World Environment Day
World Environment Day (June 5, 2021) is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. The Czech-UNDP Partnership for SDGs works to contribute to the protection of the environment and improving the situation in the six priority countries. The Czech-UNDP Partnership for the SDGs supports projects which have a […]