United Nations Developement Program

3. 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.

4.  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).

5.  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.

6. 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

8.  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.

9. 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%)

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15.  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.

16. 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.

17.  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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