UNDP works in three broad development settings to address poverty, inequality, and vulnerability. It implements six cross-cutting approaches known as Signature Solutions to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, including keeping people out of poverty, governance for just societies, crisis prevention, environment solutions, clean energy, and women's empowerment. UNDP focuses on eradicating poverty in all its forms by addressing interconnected challenges through multisectoral responses. It also promotes nature-based solutions like sustainable land and ocean management to ensure countries have resources, resilience, and green economies that support billions through sectors like agriculture, forestry, and tourism.

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• UNDP’s work, adapted to a range of country
contexts, is framed through three broad
development settings. These three development
challenges often coexist within the same country,
requiring tailored solutions that can adequately
address specific deficits and barriers.
Underpinning all three development challenges is
a set of core development needs, including the
need to strengthen gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, and to ensure
the protection of human rights.

5. UNDP’s Signature Solutions
• To fulfill the aims of the Strategic Plan with the multi-
dimensionality and complexity that the 2030 Agenda
demands, UNDP is implementing six cross-cutting
approaches to development, known as Signature
Solutions. A robust, integrated way to put our best
work – or 'signature' skillset – into achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals.
• UNDP’s Signature Solutions are cross-cutting
approaches to development— for example, a gender
approach or resilience approach can be applied to any
area of development, or to any of the SDGs.

6. Six integrated skills
• Keeping people out of poverty
• Governance for peaceful, just & inclusive
societies
• Crisis prevention & increased resilience
• Environment: nature based solutions
• Clean affordable energy
• Women’s empowerment & gender equality

7. Eradication of poverty in all its forms
and dimensions
• It's estimated that approximately 700 million people still live on less than
US$1.90 per day, a total of 1.3 billion people are multi-dimensionally poor,
including a disproportionate number of women and people with
disabilities and 80 percent of humanity lives on less than US$10 per day.
Increasingly, middle-income countries account for a large part of this
trend.
• UNDP is looking at both inequalities and poverty in order to leave no one
behind, focusing on the dynamics of exiting poverty and of not falling
back. This requires addressing interconnected socio-economic,
environmental and governance challenges that drive people into poverty
or make them vulnerable to falling back into it. The scale and rapid pace of
change necessitates decisive and coherent action by many actors at
different levels to advance poverty eradication in all forms and
dimensions. UNDP works to ensure responses are multisectoral and
coherent from global to local.

8. Environment: nature-based solutions for
development
• Healthy ecosystems are at the heart of development, underpinning
societal well-being and economic growth. Through nature-based
solutions, such as the sustainable management and protection of
land, rivers and oceans, we help ensure that countries have
adequate food and water, are resilient to climate change and
disasters, shift to green economic pathways, and can sustain work
for billions of people through forestry, agriculture, fisheries and
tourism.
• A long-standing partner of the Global Environment Facility, and now
with the second-largest Green Climate Fund portfolio, UNDP is the
primary actor on climate change in the United Nations. Our aim is
to help build the Paris Agreement and all environmental
agreements into the heart of countries’ development priorities.
After all, the food, shelter, clean air, education and opportunities of
billions of people depend on getting this right.