Panama

Ninety-one per cent of the indigenous population of the Ngöbe-Buglé Region suffers from extreme poverty. Their dispersion, mobility and location in remote and inaccessible areas raise the cost of traditional sanitation solutions, making investment and private participation difficult to justify on economic grounds.

This UN Joint Programme approaches the insecurity problem in Panama as a peacebuilding and conflict prevention challenge. It aims at contributing to the social prevention of violence and crime; the strengthening of institutional mechanisms and policies in the security sector; and the coordination of relevant stakeholders (government organisations, civil society, UN agencies and other international cooperation partners) in the security and justice sectors, Both, human rights and gender perspectives are integrated into the programme, which provides for the inclusion and participation of vulnerable groups, and has an emphasis on young people.

This UNDP, FAO, UNEP, PAHO/WHO and GEF-SGP joint programme will promote the implementation of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures in vulnerable populations through sustainable land management and optimal water use, particularly in the agricultural and forestry sectors.