The CariSECURE Project (Strengthening Evidence Based Decision Making for Citizen Security in the Caribbean) is a component of USAID’s Youth Empowerment Services (YES) project and is made possible by the support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the technical assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The goal of the CariSECURE project is to improve youth crime and violence policy-making and programming in the Southern and Eastern Caribbean through the use of quality, comparable and reliable national citizen security information.Read more

On November 18th 2021, UNDP Suriname, completed the official handover of sewing machines, threads, textiles and other equipment to support ITP's in sewing masks for use in their villages as a key COVID-19 preventive measure, and to support income generating opportunities for ITP women.Read more

Tobacco is a health and sustainable development issue. Tobacco consumption and production causes early death and disease, results in high health costs and economic losses, widens socioeconomic inequalities, and impedes progress across the Sustainable Development Goals. This report presents the findings of the case for investing in tobacco control in Suriname, a stated priority of the Government of Suriname. In line with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Global Strategy to Accelerate Tobacco Control, it measures the costs and benefits—in health and economic terms—of implementing five priority tobacco control measures. The five measures are (1) Increase cigarette taxation to reduce the affordability of tobacco products (WHO FCTC Article 6), (2) Enforce bans on smoking in public places to protect people from tobacco smoke (WHO FCTC Article 8), (3) Implement plain packaging (WHO FCTC Article 11 Guidelines and Article 13), (4) Institute national mass media campaigns against tobacco use (WHO FCTC Article 12), and (5) Support reducing tobacco dependence and encourage cessation by training health professionals to provide brief advice to quit smoking (WHO FCTC Article 14). Read more

The UNDP Country Office with the support of the UNDP Crisis Bureau in New York and the UNDP Regional Hub in Panama, and in partnership with the Association of Indigenous Leaders in Suriname (VIDS) implemented a Covid-19 Rapid Digital Socioeconomic Impact Assessment among 300 Indigenous Households in Suriname in 2020.Read more

The SUMUN is an initiative of the Rotary Club Paramaribo and is held in partnership with the Anton de Kom University of Suriname and UNDP CO Suriname.Read more

Forests of the Amazon makes up 93% of the land surface of Suriname, with a total of 14.8 million ha. Our forests are threatened by deforestation (by logging) and by impacts of climate change (forest fires due to drought). In Suriname, we want to preserve and protect these forests and to encourage this, from May 2017 to December 2019, the GCCA+ project, contributed to capacity building through training provided to the Forest Rangers in the Matawai Community along the Upper Saramacca River. During this project, which was funded by the European Union (EU) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Forest Conservation project in Suriname, the Forest Rangers, a group of young men and women, were trained by the Amazon Conservation Team Suriname (ACT-S). Read more

Joint Stakeholder Consultation - Ensuring Gender Integration in UNFPA, UNWomen and UNDP New Programme Cycle, 2022-2026Read more