UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

1. UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) DR. MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR. [email protected]

2. TYPE PROGRAMME. LEGAL STATUS : ACTIVE. HEAD QUARTERS : NEW YORK.

3. HEAD : HELEN CLARKE. WEB SITE : www.undp.org

4. ESTABLISHMENT UNDP was established in the on 22 November 1966.

5. AIM The basic objective of UNDP is to help poorer nations develop their human and natural resources more fully.

6. It provides expert advice, training, and grant support to developing countries, with increasing emphasis on assistance to the  least developed countries .

7. The status of UNDP is that of an executive board within the  United Nations General Assembly .

8. The UNDP Administrator is the third highest-ranking official of the United Nations after the  United Nations Secretary-General  and Deputy Secretary-General

9. MEMBERSHIP All the nations 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 is a member in the UNDP.

11. ACTIVITIES & FUNCTIONS

12. It works in collaboration with all other international health agencies.

13. The UNDP projects cover virtually every economic and social sector – agriculture, industry, education and science, health, social welfare etc.

14. UNDP supports research and cooperative activities to combat health problems threatening socioeconomic development.

15. To accomplish the 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 also encourages the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women in all of its programmes .

17. The UNDP Human Development Report Office also publishes an annual  Human Development Report  (since 1990) to measure and analyse developmental progress.

18. In addition to a global Report, UNDP publishes regional, national, and local Human Development Reports.

19. UNDP is funded 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, the UNDP works internationally to help countries achieve the  Millennium Development Goals  (MDGs).

21. Currently, the UNDP is one of the main UN agencies involved in the development of the  Post-2015 Development Agenda .

22. UNDP works with nations on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.

23. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and its wide range of partners.

24. HEADS Nr Administrator Land Term 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 Land Term 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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