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Rethinking international finance for the SDGs
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Destination 2030
Accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
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Military escalation in Middle East could push more than 30 million people into poverty worldwide, UN Development Programme warns
Effects of the crisis reach far beyond directly affected countries, falling hardest on the poor and most vulnerable. Targeted and temporary cash transfers are the preferred policy response for fiscally constrained countries
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Statement on conflict in Middle East
UNDP stands by the UN Secretary-General's call for de-escalation and dialogue
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Righting the wrongs
Making justice work for women
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Stories
On the bench, for the people
Women changing justice
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Laying the foundation for recovery
UNDP addresses the full cycle of debris management
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Kickstarting a Palestinian owned and led early recovery
UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo visits Gaza
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Stories
1,000 days
As the war approaches the 3-year mark, Sudan's people can't wait to rebuild their lives
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News
Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025
Overlapping Hardships: New report reveals nearly 80% of the world's poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards
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Stories
UNDP at 60
Six decades of partnership and pioneering solutions
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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.
What we do
UNDP is the United Nations’ lead agency on international development. We support countries and communities as they work to eradicate poverty, implement the Paris Agreement on climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We advocate for transformative change, and we connect countries to the resources they need to help people build a better life.
Learn more
Human development on a healthy planet
UNDP works with countries to expand people’s choices for a future where prosperity and sustainability advance together, leaving no one behind. Through integrated, evidence-driven action aligned with national priorities, UNDP works to accelerate human development while easing pressures on the planet.
Prosperity for all
UNDP focusses on creating prosperity for all, while maintaining our strong footprint in poverty and inequality programming. This shift aligns with our partners' changing aspirations: moving beyond the goalpost of a minimum poverty line to build dynamic, resilient economies and societies where everyone can thrive.
Effective governance
UNDP develops accountable, people-centred and rights-based governance. Using systems thinking, innovation and strategic foresight, UNDP helps countries develop more agile, anticipatory governance and policymaking and provide responsive services and economic opportunities, including increased access to services through digitalization and AI.
Crisis resilience
From day one of a crisis, UNDP focuses on protecting development gains and reducing risk, laying the groundwork for recovery and eventual exit from reliance on humanitarian assistance. UNDP acts as a “bridge-builder” between the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding systems, helping to maintain continuity across response phases and advance long-term development.
Healthy planet
UNDP is a leading connector at the nexus of planet and development, delivering integrated solutions on climate change, disasters, biodiversity loss, energy, chemicals and waste, while advancing development priorities. Translating global commitments into effective local action, we support countries to assess their options for achieving just and sustainable transitions.
Digital and AI transformation
UNDP’s broad expertise and country-driven approach allow us to support holistic digital transformation in an integrated, systemic way. UNDP has worked with over 120 countries to leverage digitalization, including helping institutions and people develop the capabilities to access and use technology and data; and supporting countries to implement robust digital public infrastructure.
Gender equality
Complementing the work of UN Women, UNDP designs its interventions for a deliberate impact on gender equality, seen by partners as one of its most effective areas of work. Through its trusted relationships with governments, UNDP is well placed to help advance women’s empowerment across all dimensions of development.
Sustainable finance
UNDP works to accelerate development and expand investment opportunities in emerging and developing economies. We help countries mobilize domestic resources and strengthen their institutional frameworks, making financial governance more stable and transparent. We work with development finance institutions and the private sector to scale financing instruments such as blended finance, green bonds and insurance.
Overarching goal
Strategic objectives
Accelerators
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.
132
Countries
supported from 2022 to 2024 to help people escape multidimensional poverty
100
Million
people benefited from stronger policy and market conditions for sustainable energy from 2022 to 2024
816.2
Million
registered voters supported to participate in elections from 2022 to 2024
$867
Billion
public and private finance aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals
Publications
Report
UNDP Strategic Plan 2026-2029
Supporting countries’ progress towards human development.
Read
Report
Human Development Report 2025
A matter of choice:
People and possibilities in the age of AI
Read now
Report
UNDP Annual Report 2024
UNDP’s work in 2024 is living proof that investing in development makes things possible. By connecting prosperity, climate, energy, nature, resilience, innovation and digitalization, we are reaching–and achieving–our “moonshot” global ambitions, while accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Read
Report
Signals Spotlight 2024
Looking ahead to the Summit of the Future in September 2024, the question of what kind of world we leave to our descendants concerns us all. The Signals Spotlight identifies some of the areas where our legacy to future generations is in doubt – and asks what that means for development.
Read
Recent
news
Blog
From first response to fresh starts
Acting early to change South Sudan’s trajectory
Read more
Stories
Danger in paradise
Clearing WWII ordnance in Solomon Islands
Read more
Stories
The Sudan war at three: The price a nation is paying
New report counts the staggering human and economic cost, and what is possible through peace
Read more
Stories
Beyond music
The craft of luthiery is a source of knowledge, confidence, and creativity—offering both a sustainable livelihood and a strong sense of empowerment.
Read more
Blog
Using better data to break the cycle of permanent crisis
Setting recovery in motion
Read more
Stories
Mine action clearing the path to climate resilience and lasting peace
Explosive ordnance can remain embedded in landscapes long after conflicts have ended
Read more
Stories
Insuring the future
Increasing financial protection for the most vulnerable
Read more
Blog
Ten years of partnership: Türkiye and UNDP shaping regional solutions for a changing world
Since UNDP established its regional functions in Istanbul in 2015, the partnership with Türkiye has expanded well beyond a traditional host country relationship.
Read more
Skip to main content
Development on the front lines
Rethinking international finance for the SDGs
Read more
Destination 2030
Accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
EXPLORE NOW
Featured
News
Military escalation in Middle East could push more than 30 million people into poverty worldwide, UN Development Programme warns
Effects of the crisis reach far beyond directly affected countries, falling hardest on the poor and most vulnerable. Targeted and temporary cash transfers are the preferred policy response for fiscally constrained countries
Read more
News
Statement on conflict in Middle East
UNDP stands by the UN Secretary-General's call for de-escalation and dialogue
Read more
Stories
Righting the wrongs
Making justice work for women
Read more
Stories
On the bench, for the people
Women changing justice
Read more
Stories
Laying the foundation for recovery
UNDP addresses the full cycle of debris management
Read
News
Kickstarting a Palestinian owned and led early recovery
UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo visits Gaza
Read more
Stories
1,000 days
As the war approaches the 3-year mark, Sudan's people can't wait to rebuild their lives
Read more
News
Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025
Overlapping Hardships: New report reveals nearly 80% of the world's poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards
Read more
Stories
UNDP at 60
Six decades of partnership and pioneering solutions
Read more
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.
What we do
UNDP is the United Nations’ lead agency on international development. We support countries and communities as they work to eradicate poverty, implement the Paris Agreement on climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We advocate for transformative change, and we connect countries to the resources they need to help people build a better life.
Learn more
Human development on a healthy planet
UNDP works with countries to expand people’s choices for a future where prosperity and sustainability advance together, leaving no one behind. Through integrated, evidence-driven action aligned with national priorities, UNDP works to accelerate human development while easing pressures on the planet.
Prosperity for all
UNDP focusses on creating prosperity for all, while maintaining our strong footprint in poverty and inequality programming. This shift aligns with our partners' changing aspirations: moving beyond the goalpost of a minimum poverty line to build dynamic, resilient economies and societies where everyone can thrive.
Effective governance
UNDP develops accountable, people-centred and rights-based governance. Using systems thinking, innovation and strategic foresight, UNDP helps countries develop more agile, anticipatory governance and policymaking and provide responsive services and economic opportunities, including increased access to services through digitalization and AI.
Crisis resilience
From day one of a crisis, UNDP focuses on protecting development gains and reducing risk, laying the groundwork for recovery and eventual exit from reliance on humanitarian assistance. UNDP acts as a “bridge-builder” between the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding systems, helping to maintain continuity across response phases and advance long-term development.
Healthy planet
UNDP is a leading connector at the nexus of planet and development, delivering integrated solutions on climate change, disasters, biodiversity loss, energy, chemicals and waste, while advancing development priorities. Translating global commitments into effective local action, we support countries to assess their options for achieving just and sustainable transitions.
Digital and AI transformation
UNDP’s broad expertise and country-driven approach allow us to support holistic digital transformation in an integrated, systemic way. UNDP has worked with over 120 countries to leverage digitalization, including helping institutions and people develop the capabilities to access and use technology and data; and supporting countries to implement robust digital public infrastructure.
Gender equality
Complementing the work of UN Women, UNDP designs its interventions for a deliberate impact on gender equality, seen by partners as one of its most effective areas of work. Through its trusted relationships with governments, UNDP is well placed to help advance women’s empowerment across all dimensions of development.
Sustainable finance
UNDP works to accelerate development and expand investment opportunities in emerging and developing economies. We help countries mobilize domestic resources and strengthen their institutional frameworks, making financial governance more stable and transparent. We work with development finance institutions and the private sector to scale financing instruments such as blended finance, green bonds and insurance.
Overarching goal
Strategic objectives
Accelerators
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.
JOIN US
Global
impact
Our work in sustainable development, governance and resilience building.
132
Countries
supported from 2022 to 2024 to help people escape multidimensional poverty
100
Million
people benefited from stronger policy and market conditions for sustainable energy from 2022 to 2024
816.2
Million
registered voters supported to participate in elections from 2022 to 2024
$867
Billion
public and private finance aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals
Publications
Report
UNDP Strategic Plan 2026-2029
Supporting countries’ progress towards human development.
Read
Report
Human Development Report 2025
A matter of choice:
People and possibilities in the age of AI
Read now
Report
UNDP Annual Report 2024
UNDP’s work in 2024 is living proof that investing in development makes things possible. By connecting prosperity, climate, energy, nature, resilience, innovation and digitalization, we are reaching–and achieving–our “moonshot” global ambitions, while accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Read
Report
Signals Spotlight 2024
Looking ahead to the Summit of the Future in September 2024, the question of what kind of world we leave to our descendants concerns us all. The Signals Spotlight identifies some of the areas where our legacy to future generations is in doubt – and asks what that means for development.
Read
Recent
news
Blog
From first response to fresh starts
Acting early to change South Sudan’s trajectory
Read more
Stories
Danger in paradise
Clearing WWII ordnance in Solomon Islands
Read more
Stories
The Sudan war at three: The price a nation is paying
New report counts the staggering human and economic cost, and what is possible through peace
Read more
Stories
Beyond music
The craft of luthiery is a source of knowledge, confidence, and creativity—offering both a sustainable livelihood and a strong sense of empowerment.
Read more
Blog
Using better data to break the cycle of permanent crisis
Setting recovery in motion
Read more
Stories
Mine action clearing the path to climate resilience and lasting peace
Explosive ordnance can remain embedded in landscapes long after conflicts have ended
Read more
Stories
Insuring the future
Increasing financial protection for the most vulnerable
Read more
Blog
Ten years of partnership: Türkiye and UNDP shaping regional solutions for a changing world
Since UNDP established its regional functions in Istanbul in 2015, the partnership with Türkiye has expanded well beyond a traditional host country relationship.
Read more