Too often, infrastructure completed as part of a development project is in disrepair just a few years later. Why? In part because the skills needed to maintain the infrastructure in the long term simply aren’t available locally. 

When people who inject drugs are supported it can help reduce the transmission of HIV and hepatitis, lower health costs and reduce crime. In Myanmar, thousands of drug-users can access Harm Reduction services — it has made a difference.

UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo delivered her statement at the first regular session of the Executive Board this January. During the same visit to New York, Ms. Faremo met with new UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.