The Executive Director of UNOPS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Jorge Moreira da Silva, will visit Myanmar from 21 to 23 June 2025. He will travel to Yangon and areas in Mandalay and Sagaing regions that were heavily impacted by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March 2025.

He will meet affected communities and responders following the earthquakes, Myanmar’s strongest in a century. The visit also aims at getting a better understanding of the needs on the ground, and how UNOPS can scale operations to respond.

After the earthquake, UNOPS mobilized $25 million and scaled up its response to reach half a million people with life-saving assistance. It particularly helped partners deliver critical assistance such as emergency shelters, access to clean water, and deployed infrastructure specialists for rapid damage assessments.

Almost three months after the earthquake, more than 6.3 million people remain in urgent need of assistance and protection. UNOPS, along with the UN family, are now shifting to early recovery efforts to help families rebuild their livelihoods, particularly with farmers, facing the annual monsoon season.

UNOPS has the largest UN presence in Myanmar, with over 400 colleagues on the ground. We have worked in Myanmar for the last 30 years, offering practical solutions to help improve health, livelihoods, rural development, and agriculture initiatives across the country. As part of this support, UNOPS manages some of the largest development funds in Myanmar, including the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT), the Access to Health Fund, the Joint Peace Fund, among others.