ARMENIA With UNDP support to a national disaster observatory the government has reduced potential disaster losses and is able to better plan for earthquake risk.

KYRGYZSTAN With UNDP support to the interim government in establishing mechanisms for con�ict mitigation and mediation the parliamentary election in 2011 was peaceful.

KOSOVO*

TUNISIAAssistance from UNDP saw more than 50 political parties engage in dialogue that helped to secure a consensus-based transition in the run-up to the country’s 2011 Constituent Assembly elections, after the previous government was deposed.

LIBYA

OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY UNDP support to the justice system helped over 17,000 people receive legal aid through clinics in areas as diverse as domestic violence, family law and property law. IRAQ With UNDP support over 1,600 landmine

victims with disabilities received prosthetic devices such as arti�cial limbs, as well as maintenance of these devices, physiotherapy, walking aids and vocational training services.

INDONESIA Because of UNDP supported early warning and evacuation systems, no lives were lost when a powerful earthquake hit Aceh province in January 2012.

SRI LANKA

With UNDP support to government mine removal activities, over 398,000 internally displaced people have now been able to return home since the end of the �ghting in 2009.

PAKISTAN With UNDP backed emergency employment labour, 526 km of roads; 390 bridges; 4,012 drinking water facilities; 60 km of water courses; and 1,852 disaster resilient and energy e�cient houses have been rebuilt or repaired, bene�ting 1.2 million �ood a�ected people.

FIJI After UNDP facilitated a high-level roundtable process that brought together government and civic leadership for the �rst time since the military takeover in 2006, public emergency regulations were being lifted and a conversation had begun around constitutional and electoral reform.

SOMALIA With UNDP livelihoods support, hundreds of thousands of lives were saved and a more serious crisis averted during the Horn of Africa drought.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGOWith UNDP support to mobile courts and legal aid centres, 193 members of the police and army were convicted of mass rapes and crimes against humanity.

SOUTH SUDAN With UN and UNDP support to strengthen the capacity of the government, the country has become the newest independent nation in the world with a more competent and stable administration.

SIERRA LEONEWith UNDP help, and the establishment of “Saturday Courts” to tackle the backlog of cases, there has been an increase in the number of sexual and gender-based violence cases that were heard in 2011. By the end of the year, 78 percent of these had come before the courts (547 out of 700 cases were heard), and 27 percent were completed.

HONDURASThrough a US$ 1.2 million UNDP supported recovery plan, close to 40,000 people have had their homes, livelihoods and community infrastructure rebuilt or repaired following severe �ooding.

HAITI

In 2011, more than 2 million workdays were generated by UNDP in Haiti, employing over 30,000 people to remove and recycle debris, restore shelters, construct gabions to prevent �oods, plant trees to reduce wind speed, and other activities in debris management and labor intensive works.

COLOMBIA

EL SALVADOR

HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2011

UNDP support to the peace process over the last decade

has seen local and national institutions identify 9,400

cases of disappeared people and help them obtain access to justice for 27,442 victims.

UNDP supported “gun free zones” have led to sharp reductions in crime and

violence. In one municipality a 40 percent reduction in

homicides was recorded in 2011 and an average of 12

percent reduction of murder rates could be seen across 20

of the most violent cities.

UNDP sent 13 experts to help the country get back on its feet as the

transitional authority and civil society began recovery and

stabilisation programmes following Gadha�’s ouster.

With help from UNDP 1,500 former paramilitary

�ghters had been successfully demobilised by 2011 and

integrated into civilian society.

* Hereafter referred to in the context of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999).

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