Going to school was never a real possibility for the children in the Bangladesh village of Alutila, a remote hamlet that houses a smattering of villages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. With the UNDP-EU support 300 community-run schools and 700 teachers are improving enrollment and attendance rates in the CHT.

Under the EU-funded Support to District Development Programme (EU-SDDP), 25 government officers including Hasmath from the Puttalam District, were provided with a certified training in Entrepreneurship Development, designed and facilitated by UNDP.

Local administration reform initiatives of Turkey stands in the midst of the robust reform agenda of the Government of Turkey, with an aim of strengthening the basis for citizen-centered service delivery with an increased responsiveness to the expectations and needs of the disadvantaged groups, improved efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in the public administration system, last but not least for reinforced grounds for pluralistic and participatory democratic order.

The number of old, lonely and ill people unable to meet their own basic needs continues to grow in rural areas of Montenegro, some of which not connected by any sort of organized transport.

A programme in Turkmenistan that teaches disabled people employable skills is helping improve their job prospects.

In Cuba, food security is an enormous challenge. This unsustainable situation has prompted the Cuban government to define a strategy for self-sufficiency on food, and to make it a national priority. Since 2009, UNDP and the EU have worked together with the Cubans to improve food security in the country. Hear some of stories from Cuban farmers.