Introduction:• The United Nations Development Programme

(UNDP) is the United Nations' global development

network working in 177 countries.

• Headquartered in New York City, UNDP

advocates for change and connects countries to

knowledge, experience and resources to help people

build a better life.

• It provides expert advice, training, and grant

support to developing countries, with increasing

emphasis on assistance to the least developed

countries.

Founded:

The UNDP was founded on the 22nd of November 1965.

Budget:

In 2014, UNDP’s entire budget was approximately 6.5 billion $.

Function:

UNDP’s offices and staff are working in 177 countries with governments and local communities to help them find solutions to global and national development challenges and to achieve MDGs (millennium development goals).

MDGs are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of U.N in 2000,following the adoption of the U.N Millennium Declaration. All 189 U.N members states at the time (193 currently),and at least23 international organizations, committed to help achieve the following Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Millennium Development goal has 8 points

1) To achieve universal primary education

2) To promote gender equality and empower women

3) To reduce child mortality

4) To improve maternal health

5) To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases

6) To ensure environmental sustainability

7) To develop a global partnership for development.

8) To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Helen Clarke, former P.M of New Zealand is now the

administrator of UNDP.

Administrator has the rank of an Under-Secretary-

General of the United Nations and the 3rd highest

ranking in UN officials.

The Administrator is appointed

by the Secretary-General of the

UN and confirmed by the General

Assembly for a term of four years.

UNDP focuses primarily on five developmental

challenges:

1) Democratic governance (25%)

2) Poverty reduction (31%)

3) Environment and energy (12%)

4) Crisis prevention and recovery (25%)

5) Diseases control (7%)

Democratic governance:

UNDP supports national democratic transitions by

providing

policy advice and technical support to improve

institutional and individual capacity in countries.

educating populations and advocating for

democratic reforms, promoting negotiation and

dialogue,

sharing successful experiences from other

countries and locations.

UNDP also supports existing democratic

institutions by increasing dialogue, enhancing

national debate, and facilitating consensus on

national governance programs.

Poverty reduction:

• UNDP helps countries to develop strategies to

vanish poverty by expanding access to economic

opportunities and resources, linking poverty

programs with countries.

• UNDP also works at the macro level to reform

trade, encourage debt relief and foreign

investment, and ensure the poorest of the poor

benefit from globalization.

• UNDP also promotes the role of women in

development. In this way, UNDP works with local

leaders and governments to provide opportunities

for poor people to create businesses and improve

their economic condition.

Environment and Energy

As the poor are affected by environmental

degradation and lack of access to clean, affordable

water, sanitation and energy services, UNDP seeks

to address environmental issues in order to resolve

these issues.

UNDP works with countries to strengthen their

capacity to address global environmental issues by

providing innovative policy advice and linking

partners through environmentally sensitive

development projects that will help poor people build

a sustainable livelihood

Crisis prevention and recovery

UNDP works to reduce the risk of armed conflicts

or disasters, and promote early recovery after

crisis have occurred.

Recovery programs include disarmament,

demobilization and programs to reintegrate

displaced persons, restoration of basic services,

and transitional justice systems for countries

recovering from warfare.

UNDP spends 20% of its budget for Crisis

Prevention and Recovery

Fight Against Diseases:

HIV/AIDS, Ebola Dengue and Polio are big

issues in today's society and UNDP works to help

countries prevent further spreading and reduce its

impact, convening The Global Commission on HIV

and the Law which reported in 2012.

Through political reforms and careful national planning,

poverty and malnutrition have begun declining in Niger.

Tunisia’s landmark new Constitution drew on extensive

consultation; it provides sweeping protections of human

rights

The Philippines, while recovering from Typhoon

Haiyan, is ramping up measures to reduce future

vulnerability.

Through renewable energy, and more efficient

construction and transportation, Kazakhstan is

transitioning to a green economy.

Projects of UNDP in Pakistan:

• To improve the lives of 3 lac displaced people of

FATA.

• New Police training centers in KP.

• to restore nursery, to improve job opportunities in

Baluchistan.

• clean drinking water for Thar areas.

The UNDP has been criticized by members of its staff and the Bush administration of the United States for irregularities in its finances in North Korea.

Artjon Shkurtaj claimed that he had found forged US dollars in the Programs safe while the staff was paid in Euros.

Documents of Edward Snowden showed that British and American intelligence agencies targets with America's National Security Agency (NSA) included organizations such as the United Nations Development Program.

The UNDP denied any wrongdoing, and keeping improper accounts.

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