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Yemen to become world's poorest country if war continues – U.N.
'If fighting continues through 2022, Yemen will rank the poorest country in the world,' according to a United Nations Development Programme report
COA questions DICT's free Wi-Fi project
(UPDATED) State auditors ask why the United Nations Development Programme has essentially taken more control over the free Wi-Fi project of the Department of Information and Communications Technology
#HackSociety 2018: Build Tomorrow
How can we build the future through accountable innovation? How can we design scalable solutions and achieve impact without 'breaking things'?
2 PH start-up teams win global awards
Philippine start-up teams Arooga Health and Phinix bag two of the five 2018 Asia-Pacific Youth SDG Innovative Awards in China
Australia, UNDP, PhilDev launch mentorship for social enterprises
PRESS RELEASE: The application period for the Innovation for Social Impact Accelerator Program ends on August 8, 2018
PH startups win international youth competition
Startups LawKo, AroogaHealth, and Phinix bag 3 of the 4 awards
Rappler Talk: Helen Clark on leadership and global change
Rappler CEO Maria Ressa talks to Clark about leadership and empowerment, as well as how her views of the world have changed
WATCH: Innovate with Purpose: Leave No One Behind #2030NOW
Watch the 2017 Manila Social Good Summit and join the discussion on how innovation should leave no one behind
WATCH: 2017 #InspireCourage +SocialGood stories
Watch the #InspireCourage segment at the 2017 Manila Social Good Summit
Meet the speakers and guests at the 2017 Manila Social Good Summit
The 2017 Manila Social Good will explore the purpose of innovation and will push back to the center stage the massive and urgent needs that the society faces
Bill seeks to create 'separate and specialized' subject on human rights
UPDATED This follows one of the recommendations of a 2012 study commissioned by the Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme
Hacking agriculture: Promote landless, water-based farming
A group of professionals proposes to build communities that use aquaponics an agricultural technique that cultivates plant products in water infused with nutrition
UN PH chief: 'Social enterprises means to achieving SDGs'
Now is the time to move beyond good will and advocacy and show leadership innovation and share resources says UN Resident Coordinator in the Philippines Ola Almgren
It's time to reform our disaster law
We need a single organization with whom the proverbial buck stops More importantly this organization should have access to sufficient funds manpower and resources to allow it to fulfill its mandate
#SGS2015 exhibits provide practical applications of SDGs
Rappler partners with different organizations for the Social Good Summit to provide opportunities for participants to gain knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals and implement them in their own fields
Performers at the 2015 Manila Social Good Summit
Read on to learn more about the featured performers at Social Good Summit 2015
Innovation +SocialGood: Speakers at the 2015 Manila Social Good Summit
How can technology and innovation help us fix these complex problems in the next 15 years: extreme poverty inequality and injustice and climate change?
Making rice cultivation more eco-friendly
The United Nations Development Programme UNDP suggests a holistic approach in addressing the climate related problems in agriculture
UNDP: Send loans, cash to Ebola-hit countries
While government spending increased due to recurrent expenditure for treatment of Ebola patients long term investments for infrastructure and development are among the casualties
Q and A: UNDP Regional director on Yolanda rehab
From our point of view we ve done a lot But compared to the total size of the destruction what we did is really a small part Yolanda rehabilitation requires the effort of everybody else says UNDP regional director Haoliang Xu
SONA Fact Check: Half-truths about Yolanda
In his State of the Nation Address the President omits key details and paints Yolanda hit areas in a rosy state
14,500 Yolanda survivors still in tents after SONA
These communities are being exposed to tremendous risk and uncertainty aid groups say after the President trumpeted efforts for Yolanda survivors
Inequality in education worst in S. Asia, Arab states, Africa
The latest UNDP report shows older generations continue to struggle with illiteracy; younger ones experience difficulty in transitioning from primary to secondary education
Australia, UNDP grant P172M for Yolanda recovery project
The program is designed to capacitate local governments to come up with better plans and regulatory measures that will help them cope with climate change and disasters
The rise of Santa Fe
The UNDP s cash for work program is helping families affected by Haiyan rebuild their interrupted lives
'World can follow Bangsamoro example'
Diplomats hail the historic deal that aims to end almost 4 decades of conflict
DSWD's cash-for-work benefits 15,000 Yolanda survivors
Beneficiaries are given work according to their capacity under the cash for work program
Sustainable human development in the Philippines after Haiyan
Rappler talks to Rebeca Grynspan UN Under Secretary General about human development in the Philippines
Emergency shelter kits sent to Bantayan Island
UPDATED Habitat for Humanity sends 1 500 2 000 emergency shelter kits to isolated islets in Bantayan Island Cebu while UNDP focuses on debris removal
Kosovo vote key test for EU-backed deal with Serbia
The election of deputies and mayors in 36 Kosovo municipalities is seen as a key test of relations between Pristina and Serbia
Financial literacy for overseas Filipinos and kin
Nine out of 10 Filipino migrants believe in the benefits of financial education to them and their family members
Women 'pork' experts and the men in their lives
Find out how the most visible women in the news nowadays relax and deal with their husbands
PH+SocialGood Summit: Disaster risk reduction
Experts government officials and volunteers come together to discuss disaster risk reduction and preparedness in PH SocialGood Summit
Social Media in disasters: Info as important as food, shelter
People use social media to communicate during crisis Patrick Meier of Digital Humanitarians tells the 2013 Social Good Summit Accurate and real time information are on demand
Luzon areas score highest HDIs, Mindanao lowest
Provinces with the highest HDI scores are all in Luzon while 9 out of 10 provinces with the lowest ones are from Mindanao
Poor Filipinos not only income poor
The poor in the Philippines are also deprived of access to health education and decent standards of living
PH invests $17-M to stop trading of endangered animals
The government and several development partners are investing 17 million in a program that will put an end to poaching and trading of endangered species in the Philippines
