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UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a UN program that works to help poorer nations develop their human and natural resources. It provides expert advice, training, and funding to developing countries with an emphasis on least developed nations. UNDP is headquartered in New York City and works in over 177 countries on projects related to agriculture, education, health, and other economic and social sectors. The ultimate goals of UNDP are to encourage global development and help countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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- 2. TYPE • PROGRAMME. • LEGALSTATUS : ACTIVE. • HEAD QUARTERS : NEW YORK.
- 3. • HEAD :HELEN CLARKE. • WEB SITE : www.undp.org
- 4. ESTABLISHMENT • UNDP was established inthe on 22 November 1966.
- 5. AIM • The basicobjective of UNDP is to help poorer nations develop their human and natural resources more fully.
- 6. • It providesexpert advice, training, and grant support to developing countries, with increasing emphasis on assistance to the least developed countries.
- 7. • The statusof UNDP is that of an executive board within the United Nations General Assembly.
- 8. • The UNDPAdministrator is the third highest-ranking official of the United Nations after the United Nations Secretary- General and Deputy Secretary- General
- 9. MEMBERSHIP • All thenations of the world, both rich and poor are the members in the UNDP. • The nations meet annually and pledge contributions to the UNDP
- 10. • India isa member in the UNDP.
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- 12. • It worksin collaboration with all other international health agencies.
- 13. • The UNDPprojects cover virtually every economic and social sector – agriculture, industry, education and science, health, social welfare etc.
- 14. • UNDP supportsresearch and cooperative activities to combat health problems threatening socioeconomic development.
- 15. • To accomplishthe MDGs and encourage global development, UNDP focuses on poverty reduction, HIV/AIDS, democratic governance, energy and environment, social development, and crisis prevention and recovery.
- 16. • UNDP alsoencourages the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women in all of its programmes.
- 17. • The UNDPHuman Development Report Office also publishes an annual Human Development Report (since 1990) to measure and analyse developmental progress.
- 18. • In additionto a global Report, UNDP publishes regional, national, and local Human Development Reports.
- 19. • UNDP isfunded entirely by voluntary contributions from member nations. • The organization operates in 177 countries, where it works with local governments to meet development challenges and develop local capacity.
- 20. • Additionally, theUNDP works internationally to help countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
- 21. • Currently, theUNDP is one of the main UN agencies involved in the development of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
- 22. • UNDP workswith nations on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.
- 23. • As theydevelop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and its wide range of partners.
- 24. HEADS Nr Administrator LandTerm 8 Helen Clark New Zealand 2009- Today 7 Kemal Derviş Turkey 2005–2009 6 Mark Malloch Brown United Kingdom 1999–2005 5 James Gustave Speth United States 1993–1999 4 William Henry Draper United States 1986–1993
- 25. HEADS Nr Administrator LandTerm 3 F. Bradford Morse United States 1976–1986 2 Rudolph A. Peterson United States 1972–1976 1 Paul G. Hoffman United States 1966–1972
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