In 2025, the Climate Action Pathways for Island Transport (CAP IT) project introduced a driving license training programme for 200 women, in partnership with the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to h...
🚗✨ Did you know? In the past 20 years, only 1 in 4 driver’s licenses in Samoa have gone to women - limiting their independence and autonomy.
That’s changing! 🙌 Thanks to the CAP IT Project, funded .
The Markets for Change project addresses both the economic empowerment of women, and gender-based violence. Through their Nofotane programme, the Samoa Victim Support Group partnered with UNDP, und...
The United Nations Development Programme, in partnership with the Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBDI), has empowered women market farmers/vendors to take their ventures to the next l...
In partnership with the Samoa Business Hub, UNDP Samoa conducted trainings for women market vendors, and equipped them with the necessary digital tools. This made it easier for them to keep busines...
The Markets for Change (M4C) Programme, currently in its second phase, is a transformative gender equality and women’s economic empowerment project that supports and develops safe, inclusive, and n...
Handover of IT equipment to mark the end of Phase II and start Phase III of Strengthening the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) System in Samoa.
Trainings and tools provided under the Markets for Change project by the Samoa Business Hub, in partnership with UNDP Samoa, equipped women market vendors in Savaii, Samoa with the necessary skills...
Women food stall vendors at the main market at Salelologa, Savaii benefitted from business trainings conducted by the Samoa Business Hub under the Markets for Change project, in partnership with UN...
Trainings and tools provided by the Samoa Business Hub under the Markets for Change project helped support women fish vendors at the Apia Fish Market.
Implemented by the Women in Business Development Inc. in partnership with UNDP, this component of the Markets for Change project is helping to set up an organic seed bank to assist small-scale farm...
WOW – Women of Waste, is a movement that welcomes all people willing to drive change, break down barriers and create new career prospects for this generation and the next. WOW strives to create dig...
A snapshot of the joint UNDP & UN Women Markets for Change project to ensure that marketplaces in rural and urban areas in Samoa are safe, inclusive and non-discriminatory, promoting gender equali
Visit to UNDP community projects in Samoa by the Assistant Secretary General & Director, UNDP Bureau for Asia & the Pacific, Kanni Wignaraja.
October 18, 2023
Ava Ceremony to welcome to the One UN House, Tuanaimato, Samoa the UN Assistant Secretary-General/UNDP Assistant Administrator & Regional Director for Asia & the Pacific, Ms. Kanni Wignaraja,
Our UNDP Samoa Multi-Country Office is now a Gender Equality Seal gold certified office.
Thank you to all our partners in government, private sector, civil society &
our sister agencies within th
The UNDP Samoa Multi-Country Office leveraged the fa'aSamoa, or Samoan way of life, to drive home the message of gender equality by eliminating violence against women. Our work in this area brought...