STORY ON PROGRAMME IN MONGOLIA SELECTED TOP

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Winner of annual storytelling competition have been introduced. These stories highlighted the UNDP's critical work on poverty reduction, democratic governance, crisis prevention, and the environment and sustainable development. On Wednesday, the UNDP Administrator Ms Helen Clark granted the prizes of the top articles. The content for the latest edition of the Development Advocate was selected by 12 international juries based on the 120 submissions from 66 UNDP country offices and regional programmes, where Mongolia's "Managing Natural Resources Better" was selected among 12 winners. This year's winning selections--Brazil's "Eco-stoves empower indigenous women", Bangladesh's "Empowering women to fight poverty" and China's "Farmers plant a seed for a chemical-free future"--topped a list of stories by entrants hailing from a wide geographic range, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Colombia. B.Khuder