The United Nations supports Azerbaijan's development by creating an enabling environment for improving good governance, reducing poverty, ensuring respect for human rights and gender equality, meeting people's basic health and education needs.
The General Assembly’s decision this year to recognize the International Day of Nowruz is evidence of a growing global awareness of the holiday’s significance not only in the regions where it is celebrated but around the world.
For millennia, when the sun crosses the equator and the northern hemisphere enters Spring, peoples in the Balkans, the Black Sea Basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East and other regions have carried out their own special traditions in celebration of Nowruz.
Baku, March 15, 2010 - The World Bank Office in Azerbaijan is pleased to announce the new round of the CIVIL SOCIETY FUND PROGRAM 2010 (SCF10). The topic of this year program isRoad Safety. We invite civil society organizations of Azerbaijan to participate in the CSF10 with projects that propose one time and highly visible and comprehensive activities/campaigns using modern media that would advocate safe movement on roads.
