United Nations Myanmar Monthly Newsletter - January 2021

In this newsletter

• Myanmar on the brink of graduating from the category of Least Developed Countries (LDC)
• Myanmar launches the National Youth Policy Strategic Plan (2020-2024) with UN support
• UNFPA delivers 40,000 COVID-19 Ag Test Kits to the Government of Myanmar
• UNICEF partners with Rakuten Viber to amplify voices of youth in Myanmar
• UNICEF joins hands with Government of Japan to build resilience to crisis in Myanmar
• Investing in Community Engagement can help Transform Lives
• UNDP handed over teleconferencing equipment to the Kachin State Government
• How the pandemic gave rise to an unlikely dream for an internally displaced woman in Kachin
• Youth Integrity empowerment: building integrity and ethics among the leaders of tomorrow
• Panel discussion on gender and corruption
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. supports Myanmar’s Health Sector with
• JPY 1.1 billion to the UNOPS-managed Access to Health Fund
• When no one is left behind: A coordinated migration response during Covid-19
• UNESCO puts culturally sensitive communication on the map in Myanmar
• Myanmar Youth take on active role in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage
• Songs and peer education to teach comprehensive sexuality education