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Dont choose extinction

A message to humanity from Frankie the Dinosaur

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Climate Promise

How UNDP is helping countries reach their climate goals

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COP26: Let’s be honest with ourselves

A youth delegate reflects on the UN Climate Change Conference

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Multidimensional poverty and COVID-19

Understanding the different facets of poverty will help us build forward better, with equity.

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UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025

Focused on the future of development, UNDP’s bold Strategic Plan is a framework to help countries get back on track to achieve the SDGs.

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UNDP Response

COVID-19 pandemic

An integrated global response is an investment in our future.

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Our Mission

UNDP works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty while protecting the planet. We help countries develop strong policies, skills, partnerships and institutions so they can sustain their progress.

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People

We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.

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We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations.

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We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.

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We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.

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We are determined to mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people.

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Trusted partnerships

Partnership is at the heart of everything UNDP does. We offer a nearly universal presence across the world. We are determined to mobilize the means to implement the 2030 Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, with a focus on the poorest and most vulnerable.

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People

We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.

Read more Planet

We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations.

Read more Prosperity

We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.

Read more Peace

We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.

Read more Partnership

We are determined to mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people.

Read more
Trusted partnerships

Partnership is at the heart of everything UNDP does. We offer a nearly universal presence across the world. We are determined to mobilize the means to implement the 2030 Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, with a focus on the poorest and most vulnerable.

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Global Impact

Our work in sustainable development, governance, and resilience building.

35 Million

people had better services to tackle poverty

62 Million

people gained access to financial services

290 Million

tonnes of carbon emissions cut

1+ Billion

invested to strengthen resilience to crises

Publications
Report UNDP Annual Report 2020

Driving the future of development

Report Human Development Report 2020

The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene

Report Human Mobility, Shared Opportunities: A Review of the 2009 Human Development Report and the Way Ahead

This UNDP publication recommends actions for policymakers to enhance the benefits and reduce the costs of human mobility to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Issue Brief UNDP Issues Brief on Resilient Livelihoods Value Chains

Through this thematic area, UNDP supports the advancement of climate resilient livelihoods for vulnerable communities, including resilient agricultural value chain development.

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Coming together, miles apart

The changing nature of communities is at the frontier of development – a set of complex social, economic, environmental and cultural systems that evolve unevenl...

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COP26 has recognized we can’t solve the climate crisis without nature

By the end of the first week of COP26, it was clear that nature is no longer consigned to the fringes as a ‘separate’ issue.

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Planting the seeds of peace, breaking cycles of crisis

UNDP Resident Representatives from Iraq, Myanmar and Nigeria share perspectives on how the humanitarian-peace-development nexus offers fertile grounds for seeds o...

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Understanding the world through data

Decision-makers require reliable data to make risk-informed choices. With this goal in mind, UNDP started building a simple information repository to support an i...

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Progressive Platforms: Backing Small Island Developing States and least developed countries to meet the climate challenge

While climate change is a truly global problem, it remains a poignant injustice that those countries which have contributed the least to the crisis, are the most ...

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Building integrity into voluntary carbon markets

Carbon markets can support climate change mitigation by creating an economic incentive for reducing emissions from the forest sector. However, carbon markets face...

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UNDP and Mobile Film Festival screen top 50 one-minute films at COP26

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Fossil fuel subsidies reform could limit climate change while tackling global inequalities. Here's how.

The world is spending billions of dollars on fossil fuels subsidies while hundreds of millions of people live in poverty. Priorities must shift if we want humanit...

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