United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP is on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and UNDP's wide range of partners.
World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. UNDP's focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:
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| Organization type |
United Nations
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| Work in the area of governance assesments |
Country-led democratic governance assessments is a key element of the organization's broader agenda on democratic governance: to foster inclusive participation, strengthen accountable and responsive governing institutions, and ground governance in international principles of human rights, gender equity and integrity. This approach to democratic governance and the role of assessment therein, is included in the approved UNDP strategic plan for 2008-2011, and is rolled out through the Global Programme on Democratic Assessments.
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| Geographic scope of work |
global (All regions)
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| Area of Governance |
Civil Society Conflict Corruption Democracy E-Governance Economic Governance Electoral Systems Governance and Environment Governance and Gender Governance and MDG Human Rights Justice Land Governance Local Governance and Decentralization Media Parliament Political Parties Public Administration
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