Myanmar Microfinance sector explores development strategies in the light of international experience

10 May 2013, Nay Pyi Taw - Experts from national and international organizations working on financial inclusion gather for a two-day workshop to explore how international good practices can be used to build the more...

Myanmar seeks to strengthen aid information management systems

6 May 2013, Nay Pyi Taw – Myanmar will establish a system to effectively and transparently manage rapidly increasing volumes of development assistance from foreign countries. In an effort to design an aid more...

Myanmar judges introduced to international human rights law, access to justice and Asian judicial reform experiences

2 April, Yangon – International human rights law and mechanisms, including the three core human rights treaties ratified by Myanmar so far were introduced more...

Assisting for self-reliance leading to sustainable development: EB observes UNDP’s poverty reduction support in Dry Zone

19 March 2013, Pakokku – Like many other natives in Dry Zone, villagers from Htan Taw Chauk Village in Pakokku Township used to face hardship because of lack of business more...

Access to water and livelihood opportunities: crucial for people in Dry Zone

16 March 2013, Magway – Access to water is crucial for communities in Dry Zone of Myanmar as the visiting members of the Executive Boards were able to witness more...

Strengthening collaboration strengthens for regional development: EB members visit Dry Zone

15 March 2013, Mandalay – Members of the Executive Boards of UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP began three-day visit to the Dry Zone of Myanmar more...

Building partnerships between rural communities and local administrations for people-centered development

13 February 2013, Mon and Kayin states – UNDP begins series of workshops in townships across the country to share with local government officials the experiences more...

Danish delegation witnessed community development works in Shan

24 January 2013, Shan State – Rural communities in Nyaung Shwe and Kalaw impressed the visiting delegation from the Royal Danish Government with their productive works on improving livelihoods and more ...

Training begins to assist in delivering better services to the Myanmar Parliament

A project prepared for biodiversity conservation in Myanmar

Workshop learns 18 years experience of community development activities

Displaced women in Rakhine received assistance to resume income generating activities

10 January 2013, Rakhine – United Nations Development Programme is aiming to support resumption of income generating activities for communities affected by more ...

Rural communities empowered to be self reliance

20 December, Shan State – U Sein Hla knows little about composing poems but he could not stop himself writing one as soon as he heard the end of UNDP support in his village, Tha Phan Kaing in Naung Cho Township, to express more ...

Barriers remain: Voices of Women forum finds solutions 

Myanmar judges familiarized with international judicial standards and human rights laws

Discrimination still exists at workplaces and communities: policies in support to people living with HIV

October 2012, Yangon – A recent base line study of UNDP conducted to determine the socio economic situation of HIV affected households reveals the need to eliminate more ...

Disaster reduction day observed; UNDP prepared to augment support for DRR

12 October, Nay Pyi Taw – Role of women and girl in disaster reduction is the highlight of the event organized today at the Myanmar International Conventional Centre more ...

Helping displaced people rebuild their lives

September 2012, Kachin State - Daw Khawn Hping is a native of Nam San Yang, a village in the southern part of Waingmaw Township in Kachin State. Fourteen months ago, it was the sounds of gun firing and heavy weapons that made Daw Khawn more..

Creating an enabling environment for communities

September 2012, Yangon - A feedback and response mechanism to provide an enabling environment for community members is expanded in additional 11 remote townships of Shan and Chin States since early September. The Community Feedback and Response Mechanism (CFRM) initiative more..

Access to capital: improving livelihoods in Myanmar

August 2011, Ywar Ngan -  UNDP Myanmar’s microfinance project has proven to be a very effective means of reaching out and empowering rural women by increasing their household income and productive assets. Presently 385,000 members, of whom 98% are women, have loans from the project. more..

Making easy access to safe water

March 2011, Paletwa - Whenever someone hears cuckoo cooing they think of summer time right away as it is a common bird song frequently heard in such type of weather in Myanmar. Villager like Daw Kim Ma Di in Sin Owe Wa Village in Chin State’s Paletwa Township however dislikes hearing cuckoo cooing as it reminds her of the hot weather.

Summer used to be the least favorite period for villagers in Sin Owe Wa situated along the Kaladan River due to water shortages in summers. more..

UNDP Helping Transform lives in central Myanmar with microfinance assistance

March 2011, Nyaung U Township - For Ma Kyawt Kay Thi Khaing, time has been passing very quickly since she became a client of the USAID funded new branch of the UNDP Microfinance Project, more..

Cyclone rebuild better than a dream for beneficiaries

February 2011, Minbya Township – For casual labourer and father of two, U Maung Soe Tun, the arrival of Cyclone Giri on 22 October appeared to destroy his dream of owning his own house. more..

Women find strength in SRGs

February 2011, Pindaya - Deep in the hills of Myanmar’s Shan State is a remote region called Pindaya, more famous for its ancient pagodas, meditative caves and tea leaf plantations than the thousands of villagers who cultivate area farms and raise the livestock which feed its population. more

Building a brighter future with terrace farming in Chin State

February 2011, Falam Township - Life in Northern Chin State has always been challenging: It’s one of the most remote and beautiful areas of Myanmar, with the visual appeal of the landscape matched only by the hurdles it provides for its inhabitants. more

UNDP, FAO and Israel Embassy in Myanmar jointly organised a training to reduce post harvest losses

22 December, Yangon - The United Nations Development Programme and Food and Agriculture Organisation in Myanmar organised a two-day workshop on 20 December aiming to advance lives of people in the country by enhancing more..

UNDP increasing support to communities affected by Cyclone Giri in Myanmar

November 4, Sittwe – Within 24 hours of Cyclone Giri slamming into western Myanmar, UNDP and partners began distributing food and other relief items to nearly 1,600 households in the affected areas. more..

Income generating activities continue in NRS

September 2010, Northern Rakhine State – THOUSANDS of flood-affected households in two townships in Northern Rakhine State (NRS) have benefitted by taking part in UNDP-supported immediate income generating activities that continued until mid-September. more..

Thousands of mouse traps help Chin villagers to protect their cultivation

September 2010, Mindat – VILLAGERS in three rat-infested townships in Chin State have been using thousands of home-made mouse traps since early August in an attempt to deter ravenous rats from eating their crops and food stocks. more...

UNDP Myanmar intensifies its response to NRS flood

June 2010, Buthidaung – Victims of recent flooding in the remote villages of Northern Rakhine State (NRS) in western Myanmar have received rice and other immediate relief items distributed by the UNDP’s field offices in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships, which border Bangladesh. more..

Norwegian Minister witnesses progress of recovery efforts at the delta

June 2010, Kyaiklat – GLEEFUL music from a Myanmar traditional Ou: Zi(drum) band came behind a group of villagers gathering on the last day of the month of May on a small jetty of Myit Tan Village in Kyaiklatt Township. more..

Rice: a lifeline to survive

March 2010, Paletwa: In the hilly Southern Chin region of Myanmar, late December to January is the ideal time for shifting cultivators like U Aung Kyaw to locate a good piece of communal hill-side land to clear up for cultivation. more..

Light for the life

March 2010, Labutta - Nay Lin Tun is a 14-year old student from Oak Kan village. When his school closes for the summer holidays, he is able to help more with his father’s fishing, which is his family’s livelihood. more..