United Nations Country Team Sites

As part of the UN Development Coordination Office’s work organizing 40 agencies, funds, and programs around the world, they sought to give each “country team” a web presence to promote their work in the country and to provide transparency to journalists and stakeholders. Until this project, each team managed their own site on a variety of CMS platforms, using different designs, and with adherence to different IT standards.

The new multisite system hosts the web presence for the United Nations in over 140 developing nations. Built on top of the Organic Groups contributed module (which Gizra maintains), all sites are managed with one codebase and one database, making ongoing maintenance and development a remarkably efficient task. Gizra worked with an external designer and performed its own UX analysis to build functionality compatible with the workflow of UN Country teams.