Coca-Cola Amatil Improves its Customer Experience with IBM Cloud
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) to move its Asia Pacific customer planning and relationship management systems to the IBM...
View ArticleFAO and ACP member states share strong focus on nutrition and climate change
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Patrick I. Gomes, Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). read more
View ArticleWHO report finds systems to combat antibiotic resistance lacking
A quarter of countries that responded to a WHO survey have national plans to preserve antimicrobial medicines like antibiotics, but many more countries must also step up. A new report, "Worldwide...
View ArticlePFIP invests in BIMA to provide Microinsurance products
The Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP) and Bima launched a partnership today to provide micro insurance products in rural Papua New Guinea (PNG), including the Highlands Region. read more
View ArticleFAO Conference set to kick off
June 2015, Rome - Some 130 ministers, 12 heads of state or government, and numerous other high-level government representatives will be converging on Rome next week for the 39th session of the...
View ArticleSeventy-two countries achieve the MDG target to halve proportion of hungry...
View of FAO's Plenary Hall during the hunger awards ceremony. read more
View ArticleUnderwater Cable to Bring High-Speed Internet to Samoa
Washington D.C., June 19, 2015 – Samoans will soon be connected to cheaper and higher-capacity internet access after the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a grant of US$16 Million for...
View ArticleAssistant Secretary Russel Travel to Honolulu, Suva, Port Moresby, Auckland,...
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel will travel to Honolulu on June 26 for the 7th U.S.–India–Japan Trilateral Dialogue, followed by the U.S.– India East Asia...
View ArticleMedia Release - United Nations Development Programme and Australia
Meeting between the Hon Julie Bishop, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator. read more
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Reuben Summerlin, PFIP Programme Manager
It is with great sadness this week that UNCDF mourned the passing of our friend and colleague Reuben Summerlin, UNCDF’s Advisor in the Pacific region and the Programme manager of the UNDP/UNCDF Pacific...
View ArticleEuropean Union and FAO launch new programmes to boost food and nutrition...
A farmer working in a rice field in Bangladesh. The EU-FAO partnership seeks to boost food and nutrition security, sustainable agriculture and resilience in some 35 countries. read more
View ArticleHomeSend and Azimo Launch New Mobile Money Services throughout Africa and...
Brussels, BE and LONDON, UK – July 21, 2015 – HomeSend and Azimo today announced the launch of new mobile wallet services in ten countries throughout Africa and Asia-Pacific – reaching millions of...
View ArticleUS$ 17 million to fight HIV,TB and malaria in the Pacific Region
New York – Two new agreements reached in the Pacific by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) are set to provide a major boost in...
View ArticleUnited Nations launches Pacific campaign against homophobia and transphobia
SUVA (6 August 2015) – The United Nations marked a historic step towards protection of the human rights of lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people with the launch on 5 August of...
View ArticlePacific region prepares for strengthening of El Nino: UN
A boy stands by debris outside a home damaged by Cyclone Pam which hit Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific, in March 2015. read more
View ArticleWomb-to-Tomb Policies Needed to Tackle Labor Force Decline and Higher Public...
BEIJING, December 9, 2015—East Asia is aging faster than any other region in history, and some middle-income and wealthier economies could lose as much as 15 percent of their working-age population by...
View ArticleUN rights expert urges Fiji to update legislation to provide firm foundations...
SUVA / GENEVA (15 December 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, today called on the Government of the Republic of Fiji to modernise the legal...
View ArticlePotential for more than 10,000 new Pacific Island jobs through IT-enabled...
SYDNEY, December 17, 2015 – The Pacific region has the potential to create thousands of jobs in the offshoring and online outsourcing and other IT-related industries, according to a new World Bank...
View ArticleDespite ban on rallies, thousands demonstrate in Paris ahead of global...
Joel Domenjoud is one of at least 24 climate activists placed under house arrest by the French government for the duration of the two-week United Nations climate change conference in Paris. read more
View ArticleMore Than 350 New Peace Corps Volunteers Sworn Into Service at the End of 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 30, 2015 – During the final months of 2015, more than 350 new two-year Peace Corps volunteers were sworn into service and have begun their work in communities across Armenia,...
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