Success Stories
 18 September 2012 - Wetlands South-South Cooperation The Conservation of Iranian Wetlands project (CIWP), initiated in 2005 as a joint GEF/UNDP and Iran Department of Environment aims to mitigate the threats to biodiversity and environmental sustainability faced by Iranian wetlands by building up a More... |
 18 September 2012 - Sustainable Agriculture around Lake Parishan “Less water, more yields!” exclaims Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, a wetlands conservation project consultant and instructor for the sustainable agriculture initiative around Lake Parishan near the main South Western Iranian city of Shiraz. Most More... |
 25 April 2012 - Lost Paradise, No Longer “Lost" ; Conservation of Biodiversity in Zagros, Jiderzar
Passing through the vast fields that sleep silently on the foothills of Zagros sierras, lie the intoxicating grape gardens that stretch into the forests of almond, oak and wild pistachio trees; all coming together to realize a mesmerizing scenery More... |
 30 September 2011- Treating Tuberculosis in Gorgan “I was so weak it became impossible to work,” sighs Nazar Ghorbani, a 53 yearold metal worker from Zabol living in the north-eastern Iranian city of Gorgan. Nazar has eight children to feed, the youngest of which is only three months old. More... |
 01 March 2011- Being Positive: UNDP and the Global Fund Help Restore Hope for People Living with HIV “I thought that I would go as fast as my husband,” confesses Niloofar, 30, in the meeting room of the Kermanshah Positive Club. She discovered that she had HIV at a hospital in Tehran in 2004. She contracted it from her husband who spent eight More... |
 23 October2011 Rolling Back Malaria in Hormozgan Mohammad Yaaghoob, a 45 year-old migrant from Khunduz, Afghanistan, knows what it’s like to be sick. His memory of the fever and aches and pains of when he contracted malaria 12 years ago is still painfully fresh. So when Abdol-Karim Noorzehi, 17, More... |
 9 October 2011 - UNDP and the GEF help Iran breathe life into the parched plains of Hossein Abad In April of 2005, Prahbu Budhathoki, a technical advisor for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), stepped out of the plane that brought him to Hossein Abad, 100km away from the urban center of Birjand, in Iran’s South Khorasan More... |
 14 March 2011 - Carbon Sequestration in Desertified Rangelands of Hossein Abad Project
Project Title:
Carbon Sequestration in Desertified Rangelands of Hossein Abad Project
UNDP practice area:
This project is under the Energy and Environment mandate of the UNDP but it also has a large element of poverty alleviation, More... |
 27 February 2011 - The Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS in Iran
Project Title:
The Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS in Iran
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This project is part of the HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria mandate of the UNDP. It is also in line with Millennium Development Goal 6.
Project completed or More... |
 15 February 2011 - The Prevention and Control of Malaria in Iran
Project Title:
The Prevention and Control of Malaria in Iran
UNDP practice area:
This project is under the HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria mandate of the United Nations Development Programme. For this reason it is also under the umbrella of More... |
 30 January 2011 - The Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Iran
Project Title:
The Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Iran
UNDP practice area:
This project is under the HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria mandate of the United Nations Development Programme. For this reason it is also under the umbrella More... |
 15 January 2011 - Montreal Protocol Projects in Iran
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Montreal Protocol Projects in Iran
UNDP practice area:
This project is under the Energy and Environment mandate of the UNDP and it has a large capacity development element. In this way it is under the general umbrella of both More... |
 15 December 2008 - The Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS in I.R. Iran through Public, Civil Society and Private Partnerships Project
Targeting MDGs 6 in the I. R. of Iran in 2008
The Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS in I.R. Iran through Public, Civil Society and Private Partnerships Project
The first reported HIV infection in Iran was discovered in 1987 with the More... |
 1 December 2008 - National Capacity Building for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights for Greater Acces to Justice Project
Targeting MDGs 1 - 8 in the I. R. of Iran in 2008
National Capacity Building for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights for Greater Acces to Justice ProjectThe first Human Development Report of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1999) More... |
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