United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Stated Purpose

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:

  • Democratic Governance
  • Poverty Reduction
  • Crisis Prevention and Recovery
  • Environment and Energy
  • HIV/AIDS
Organization type
United Nations
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.

Geographic scope of work
global (All regions)
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
UNDP Support