November 19, 2024
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United Nations Global Compact Network Sri Lanka in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Sri Lanka hosted a progressive preliminary workshop, on the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) recently with the exclusive attendance of 48 participating companies from Network Sri Lanka. Senior representatives from UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka’s participant companies, specializing in […]

September 6, 2024
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC), United Nations Global Compact Network Sri Lanka (CNSL), and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), recently hosted a two-day workshop as part of the Sustainable Finance Week […]

September 3, 2024
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A high-level delegation from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), led by Resident Representative Stefan Liller, met with Syeda Rizwana Hasan, the Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, and Water Resources Advisor, at her office in the Bangladesh Secretariat on 1 September 2024 Sunday. The secretary of the environment ministry. Farhina Ahmed and other senior officials […]

April 29, 2024
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka and the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a partnership aimed at leveraging Sri Lanka’s capital markets for sustainable financing. This collaboration is intended to support and encourage private sector stewardship and embed sustainability as an important element of business […]

May 16, 2023
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      United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has recently entrusted Lanka Hydraulic Institute (LHI) to conduct a  hydro-engineering study and prepare a detailed design for a coastal protection structure in West Point, Monrovia  Liberia. Threatened by global climatic change, West Point, Monrovia experiences coastal erosion and shoreline retreat which affects Monrovians’ fishery-based livelihoods of […]

September 12, 2022
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      Colombo, Sri Lanka, 9 September 2022: Amana Bank recently partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka, to channel support through the recently launched ‘Private Sector Giving Facility for Emergency Relief’, initiated towards overcoming the rising challenge of severe medical and food supply shortages due to the ongoing economic […]


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