Why in the News?
A women farmers’ collective from Karnataka has been recognised among the ten global winners of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Equator Prize 2025.
About UNDP Equator Initiative Award:
- Overview: Presented under the Equator Initiative of the UNDP.
- Awarded biennially: To community-led initiatives reducing poverty through biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.
- Significance: Often called the “Nobel Prize for Biodiversity Conservation”.
- Award: Includes a cash prize of $10,000.
- Eligibility:
- Initiative must have existed for at least three years.
- Must be a community-based group in a rural area of a UNDP-supported country, or an Indigenous Peoples’ community in a rural area.
- Actions must be nature-based and benefit two or more SDGs.
Back2Basics: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
- Established: 1966 by the UN General Assembly; Headquarters: New York, USA.
- Mission: End poverty, promote democratic governance, rule of law, and inclusive institutions.
- Focus Areas:
- Sustainable development.
- Democratic governance and peacebuilding.
- Climate and disaster resilience.
- Funding: Entirely from voluntary contributions of member states.
- Role: Advocates for change, connects countries to knowledge, resources, and expertise for sustainable human development.
- Key initiatives:
- Human Development Index (HDI).
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Reports.
- Gender Inequality Index (GII).
| [UPSC 2012] The Multi-dimensional Poverty Index developed by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative with UNDP support covers which of the following?
1. Deprivation of education, health, assets and services at household level 2. Purchasing power parity at national level 3. Extent of budget deficit and GDP growth rate at national level Options: (a) 1 only * (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 |
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