With her new job, Haifa not only supports her family and provides for her children’s medical and educational needs—she also teaches literacy classes with the aim of ensuring all the women in her village can read and write. The idea came to her when she attended milk supply-chain training and realized most of the other women were illiterate. 

UNDP and the World Bank have worked together since 2016 to address the protracted crisis in Yemen. More than US$600 million in World Bank grants have supported small businesses, trained hundreds of thousands of Yemenis for work, helped restore infrastructure and essential services, created opportunities through solar electricity, and rehabilitated tens of thousands of hectares of farmland.

UNDP works with the World Bank in some of the most challenging countries in the world—among 40 low-income economies the IMF has classified as fragile and conflict-affected. They are also home to 1 billion people who will account for 60 percent of the world's poor by 2030.

In July 2022, UNDP and the World Bank signed a $20 million partnership agreement for UNDP to directly provide capacity training to 400 local nonprofit and civil society organizations through UNDP’s ABADEI programme in Afghanistan.