By Mandeep Dhaliwal, Director, HIV, Health and Development Group, UNDPThis month marks three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Three years on, the world is still struggling to respond to this ongoing threat and other connected crises, desp...

One of the principal endeavours of The Hunger Project (THP), India in Madhya Pradesh over the last two years had been to proactively connect people to government schemes and ensure they had steady and timely access to their rights and entitlements at the peak of the pandemic. ...

Eight-year-old Nampun looks tired as she arrives to collect a flood relief kit and drinking water from the Thai Red Cross distribution site at Tha Chang sub-district in Singburi province, with a neighbor.The ground floor of her two-story house where she lives with her little b...

The rapid spike in covid cases and the number of deaths in India during April and May shocked the country - and the world - as the grim reality of this deadly virus was once again highlighted.Arete photographer Vijay Pandey recounts his experiences documenting India's deadly s...

In June, large shipments of COVID-19 diagnostic tests procured by the Global Fund through our Pooled Procurement Mechanism arrived at the warehouse of a private sector company hired by the National Department of Health in South Africa, to be stored and distributed throughout t...

The story of Ajtene and Behar is that of many Kosovan returnees, aspiring reintegration into society through business ownership amidst a pandemic. One a tailor, the other a hairdresser, both defy the staggering unemployment statistics haunting Kosovo’s youth. UNDP in Kosovo, t...

In Hungary during Covid-19 lockdown

Philip Hatcher-Moore, Arete's consultant photographer, recounts his experiences in Liberia during a recent polio vaccination campaign, and the unexpected response from the Liberian people.

Sherali Rashidov owns the White & Black barbershops in Dushanbe, and like many Tajik entrepreneurs, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected his business.