UNDP supports countries in their efforts to successfully address diverse development challenges, framed around three broad settings which require different forms of support: eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions; accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development; and building resilience to crises and shocks. These three development challenges often coexist within the same country, requiring tailored solutions that can adequately address specific deficits and barriers. Underpinning all three development challenges is a set of core development needs, including the need to strengthen gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and to ensure the protection of human rights. UNDP supports partners to eliminate gender inequalities through targeted, gender-focused programmes and by working to ensure that all development efforts take into account the experiences, needs, and contributions of women. By removing structural barriers to gender equality and promoting women’s participation in the decisions that affect their lives, success in eradicating poverty and inequality, building resilience to disasters, climate change and conflict, and driving sustainable development can be achieved.

Primary Functions

• Funding
• Program/Project Implementation

Secondary Functions

• Capacity building/Technical assistance
• Networking/Convening
• Policy Development/Implementation

Geographic Scope

• Global / regional

Attainment

• Post-secondary

Other skills

• Rights/empowerment education
• Vocational training

Skills

• STEM

Website

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Headquarters location(s)

• New York, New York, United States of America

Office location(s)

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Angola
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia, Plurinational State of
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Congo
• Costa Rica
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Cuba
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Djibouti
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• Gabon
• Gambia, The
• Georgia
• Ghana
• Guatemala
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Jamaica
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nepal
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Macedonia
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Republic of Moldova
• Rwanda
• Samoa
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
• Türkiye
• Turkmenistan
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• United Republic of Tanzania
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
• Viet Nam
• West Bank and Gaza
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe