UNDP’soreMandateandPriorityAreas-RCOnline.pdfVIP

UNDP’s Core Mandate and Priority Areas The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UNs global development network working in 177 countries and territories, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP coordinates all United Nations (UN) development activities at the country level as the manager of the Resident Coordinator system. In its resolutions 59/250 and 62/208, the General Assembly reiterated that; “..the management of the resident coordinator system “should continue[d] to be firmly anchored in the United Nations Development Programme”. UNDP continues to base its activities on the fundamental values of the United Nations while learning from its past and leveraging its core competencies and unique capabilities. These include its dual role as a UN agency that delivers programming and coordinates the UN country office presence, extensive knowledge network, decentralized structure, and business model. In pursuing this course, UNDP is further guided by General Assembly resolution 62/208. UNDP supports the global push to achieve the MDGs in several ways, including: ? Working with countries on in-depth country analyses on MDG progress and achievement; ? Assisting countries to identify, and prioritize, bottlenecks to MDG achievement and their solutions; ? Providing policy and technical advice to countries as they work to accelerate MDG progress, as well as monitor and evaluate MDG acceleration plans. UNDP also administers the UN Capital Development Fund, which promotes microfinance in 38 least developed countries; and UN Volunteers, which fields over 7,500 volunteers from 160 countries in support of peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. UNDP works in four main areas: Poverty Reduction Achieving the MDGs UNDP sponsors