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A world of development experience
"The fact is that globalization, the
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization
global market economy delivers to
advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge,
the upper half; it doesn't really
experience and resources to help people build a better life. We
deliver to the poor people. In
are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their
some cities in the developing
own solutions to global and national development challenges.
world, you have 50 percent of
As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of
young people unemployed. So the
UNDP and our wide range of partners.
challenge is huge and we have to
focus on it.
World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting
"At the United Nations
poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates
Development Programme, that's
global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is
what we try to do. We try to find
helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:
the right solutions, try to compare
what worked in some places to
• Democratic Governance
what didn't work in other places,
• Poverty Reduction and build and bring capacity
development to these
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery
countries...It is through
• Environment and Energy democratic institutions, through
• HIV/AIDS participation, through people
getting organized in democratic
ways [that is] at the heart of the
UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively.
challenge. You have to have these
In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human
institutions to accompany market
rights and the empowerment of women.
development, to accompany
what's happening in the
The annual Human Development Report, commissioned by
technological and financial sphere,
UNDP, focuses the global debate on key development issues,
so that we indeed have a much
providing new measurement tools, innovative analysis and
more equitable and balanced
often controversial policy proposals. The global Report's
human society."
analytical framework and inclusive approach carry over into
regional, national and local Human Development Reports, also
- Kemal Derviş, UNDP
supported by UNDP.
Administrator
In each country office, the UNDP Resident Representative normally also serves as the Resident
Coordinator of development activities for the United Nations system as a whole. Through such
coordination, UNDP seeks to ensure the most