What We Do

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. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 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 helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.

Millennium Development Goals

UNDP, as the UN's global development network, links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach the MDGs.

Developing countries are working to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs and priorities. UNDP helps to make them effective through ensuring a greater voice for poor people, expanding access to productive assets and economic opportunities, and linking poverty programmes with countries’ international economic and financial policies.

Poverty Reduction

Developing countries are working to develop their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs and priorities. UNDP helps to make them effective through ensuring a greater voice for poor people, expanding access to productive assets and economic opportunities, and linking poverty programmes with countries’ international economic and financial policies. More ...

Democratic Governance

UNDP India is working to build democratic governance. it brings people together within nations and around the world, building partnerships and sharing ways to promote participation, accountability and effectiveness at all levels.More..

Environment & Energy

Energy and environment are essential for sustainable development. The poor are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation and lack of access to clean, affordable energy services. These issues are also global, as climate change, loss of biodiversity and ozone layer depletion cannot be addressed by countries acting alone. More...

Crisis Prevention & Recovery

UNDP’s approach to conflict assessment seeks to operationalise conflict prevention into strategy development and programming. More...

HIV and Development

To prevent the spread of HIV amongst vulnerable groups and to uphold the rights for people living with HIV,  developing countries need to mobilize all levels of government and civil society. UNDP advocates for placing HIV and Development at the centre of national planning and budgets; helps build national capacity to manage initiatives that include people and institutions not usually involved with public heath; and promotes decentralized responses that support community-level action. More...