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Empowering Rural Communities with Climate Smart Techniques
The community of Paruima, an indigenous farming village in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni area of Guyana, was the most recent beneficiary of...

Know Your Status Campaign Commences
In effort to meet UNAIDS 90/90/90 goal 8,215 persons diagnosed with HIV at the end of 2017 Couples’ testing promoted during the...

Training of Trainers Launched to Strengthen Disaster Management Capacity in…
Strengthen Disaster Management Capacity of Women in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Commonwealth of Dominica Supporting farmers in making informed...

Guyana Trans United, UNAIDS host media training for reporting on…
UNAIDS in collaboration with the Guyana Trans United (GTU) hosted a media training session to sensitise local journalists on issues...

MOU signed to conduct 6th Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey in…
The Government of Guyana and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Thursday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to...

UN mourns death of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, ‘a guiding…
The United Nations is mourning the death of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who passed away peacefully after a short illness,...

Multilateralism: The only path to address the world’s troubles, signals…
As the world’s problems grow, multilateralism represents to best path to meet the challenges that lie ahead, said United Nations...

International Organisation for Migration commits to supporting Guyana’s efforts to…
According to the Ministry of the Presidency, the IOM is currently conducting work in gathering data on the migrants and...

PAHO pushes breastfeeding
…says babies should be breastfed within the first hour of life Breastmilk is the best source of nutrition for newborns and...

UNICEF helps Guyana assist Venezuelan refugees
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday announced that it would be providing US$30,000 worth relief supplies to assist...
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United Nations Multi-country Sustainable Development Framework 2017 - 2021
Priority Area 1 - An Inclusive, Equitable and Prosperous Guyana
The priority area An inclusive, equitable and prosperous Guyana builds on the core SDG concept of equitable development for all “leaving no one behind” as a prerequisite for prosperous and sustainable societies.... Read more
Priority Area 2 - A Healthy Guyana
The priority area A Healthy Guyana responds to the concern that health and nutrition are increasingly affecting the lives of the people in Guyana. It acknowledges that to improve health, a multisectoral... Read more
Priority Area 3 - A Safe, Cohesive and Just Guyana
The priority area A Safe, Cohesive and Just Guyana acknowledges that insufficient citizen security restricts the people of Guyana to live full and productive lives. This has an impact especially on women,... Read more
Priority Area 4 - A Sustainable and Resilient Guyana
The priority area A Sustainable and Resilient Guyana is a call for the UN to support Guyana in addressing the effects of climate change on livelihoods, especially those who are most vulnerable.... Read more
Recent Publications

A Basic Guide to Occupational Safety & Health in Agriculture
This booklet is a collection of OSH information sheets which provide straight-forward guidance to foster ownership and knowledge sharing in the agricultural sector. Download booklet Read more
New Publications | Tue, Jan 15 2019

ILO - Gender at Work in the Caribbean: Country Report for Guyana
The Guyana Country Report begins with an overview of the general features of gender at work in the Caribbean, based on a review of research literature (Part One). It is based mainly on quantitative data analysis of the labour market situation of women and men. The focus of Parts Two... Read more
New Publications | Wed, Dec 12 2018
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