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Occupied Palestinian territory: West Bank closures (Jun 2006)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Occupied Palestinian territory: Gaza Strip - Access (Jun 2006)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Breaking the Code: Building Capacity to Investigate Sexual Abuse and Exploitation by Humanitarian Workers - Evaluating ICVA's Building Safer Organizations Project

Following reports of sexual exploitation of refugees in West Africa in 2001 and in Nepal in 2003, the UN Secretary General issued a Bulletin in October 2003 obliging UN agencies and their nongovernmental partners to prevent, and when suspected, to investigate any sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (SEA) by humanitarian staff. Humanitarian organizations, galvanized by the reports of refugee abuse, began adopting and revising Codes of Conduct and other related policies.

The Building Safer Organizations (BSO)
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Hitting the Target: Men and Guns

This Policy Brief was presented at the Review Conference on the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (26 June - 7 July 2006)

The brief explores the diverse roles that men and boys play in relation to guns - as perpetrators, victims, survivors and agents of change - and suggests the need to encourage more positive and peaceful expressions of masculinity. It calls on Sates gathered at the Review Conference to adopt a more holistic approach to
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UNDP Annual Report 2006: Global partnership for development

UNDP plays a unique role in global development. At the country level, UNDP is "partner of choice" for governments grappling with national and global development challenges. UNDP is committed to assist partner governments in finding their own approaches, according to their own unique national circumstances.

UNDP's commitment to developing national capacity finds expression in its interconnected development practices:
building stronger democracies; generating equitable growth; preventing conflict and supporting long-term recovery'