Beyond Numbers: Visualising Communities and Connections In Bloom: Maldives Census adopts a distinctive approach to data visualisation, focusing on the emotional impact of presenting data through...
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Maldives: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note on Bank Stress Testing and Climate Risk Analysis
A systemic vulnerability analysis and stress tests were conducted as part of the Maldives FSAP. The vulnerability analysis and stress tests were based on quarterly aggregate balance sheet supervisory...
Maldives Country Environmental Analysis: Towards a more sustainable and resilient blue economy
Maldives’ natural capital is the foundation of its economy and resilience. The Maldives Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) examines the critical challenges related to natural resource and...
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Maldives, Sri Lanka achieve Hepatitis B control
Maldives and Sri Lanka have achieved hepatitis B control, the World Health Organization announced today after an expert panel verified that the two countries have had consistently high coverage of...
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Maldives - Lymphatic Filariasis Response - DREF Operation MDRMV004
Date of event / Date when the trigger was met 2023-12-02 What happened, where and when? Lymphatic Filariasis is caused by a chronic mosquito-borne parasitic infection, which can lead to swelling of...
We’re being swallowed by the ocean and running out of fresh water
The reality of climate change for children in Maldives Naff Asim The Maldives, a paradise nation of over a thousand coral islands nestled in the heart of the Indian Ocean, is my birthplace and my...
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Maldives Assistance Overview, October 2023
CONTEXT • The Maldives—an archipelago comprising nearly 1,200 coral islands in the Indian Ocean—is highly vulnerable to recurrent disasters induced by natural hazards such as cyclones, droughts, and...
How 'Early Warnings for All' helps to reduce the vulnerability of Maldives: Key takeaways from the first national consultation on Early Warnings for All in Maldives
Early Warnings for All helps to reduce the vulnerability of Maldives Maldives is the first Asian country and first Small Island Developing State to initiate the UN Secretary-General’s Early Warnings...
Maldives Development Update: Navigating a Tight Line (April 2023)
Maldives Needs More Robust Fiscal Reforms to Sustain Strong Recovery MALE’, April 4, 2023 — Driven by a rebound in tourism, Maldives’ economy recovered strongly last year, and poverty is expected to...
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin - Visit to Maldives (A/HRC/52/39/Add.1) (Advance Edited Version)
Human Rights Council Fifty-second session 27 February–31 March 2023 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the...
World Bank Vice President visits Maldives, emphasizes building resilience in a challenging global context
MALE’, December 10, 2022 – World Bank Vice President for South Asia, Martin Raiser, today concluded his four-day visit to the Maldives. On his maiden visit to the Maldives since assuming office in...
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Bangladeshi Workers in the Maldives: The Thin Line between Migration and Trafficking
By Asinur Reza Dreaming of better fortune for his family, “Hasan” left his remote Bangladeshi village for a job in Saudi Arabia. To pay for his trip, his family sold their only resource, a small...
On tap: How the Maldives is restoring water security on its most vulnerable outer islands
In 2014, the then-President of the Maldives was forced to cut short an overseas trip to tackle an unfolding water crisis in the capital, Malé. With no water flowing in one of the most densely...
Maldives launches MCR2030 on pathway to resilient cities
Kulhudhuffushi City has become the first municipality in the Maldives to join Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030). The city signed up to the global initiative to strengthen climate and disaster...
Maldives advances its disaster and climate resilience agenda
As a small island developing state, the Maldives is among the most at-risk countries to the impacts of climate change. With 80% of its population living less than one metre above sea level, the...
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Maldives: UN expert cautiously welcomes government commitment to bringing nationals home from Syria but urges more action on repatriation and reintegration [EN/Dhivehi]
GENEVA (24 May 2022) – A UN human rights expert* today cautiously welcomed the commitment of the Maldives Government to bring women and children from Syria home, while urging comprehensive action...
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 4 May 2022 - Maldives
(excerpts) Maldives — COVID-19 A quick update from the Maldives where our UN team, led by Resident Coordinator Catherine Haswell, is doing to help authorities tackle the multiple impacts of COVID-19. ...
Path to Progress: Ensuring Sexual And Reproductive Health and Rights in the Maldives - UNFPA’s 6th Country Programme of Assistance 2016-2021
UNFPA’s historic one-output 6th Country Programme for the Maldives started in 2016 taking into account the country’s paradigm shift and the need to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights...
Wading to school in Maldives
Climate change is already having a major impact on the islands, including the lives of the country’s children. By Eliane Luthi DHIFFUSHI, Maldives – “When there are floods, we take our shoes and...
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United States provides additional $2 million for urgent COVID-19 assistance in Maldives
USAID/Maldives infosl@usaid.gov **Malé, Maldives **— In a meeting with State Minister of Health Dr. Shah Abdulla Mahir, the United States, through the United States Agency for International...