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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. We are 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 our 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. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:
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.The annual Human Development Report, commissioned by UNDP, focuses the global debate on key development issues, providing new measurement tools, innovative analysis and often controversial policy proposals. The global Report's analytical framework and inclusive approach carry over into regional, national and local Human Development Reports, also supported by UNDP.
In each country office, the UNDP Resident Representative normally also serves as the Resident Coordinator of development activities for the United Nations system as a whole. Through such coordination, UNDP seeks to ensure the most effective use of UN and international aid resources.
Since 1963, UNDP has worked at building linkages that address effective design and implementation of 'poverty alleviation' programmes in Nepal.
Current Programme priorities
Type of assistance and programming
In early 2008, UNDP approved its Country Programme Document (CPD) for 2008-2010 in support of the Interim Development Plan of the Government of Nepal. While capacity development is the overarching objective of UNDP assistance, gender and social inclusion, climate change, and risk management has been addressed as a cross cutting issue in all UNDP supported projects and programmes. The Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP) will be the legal agreement between the Government of Nepal and UNDP. These programmes will regularly be assessed and refocused to align with the new requirements in line with the Government's priorities and UNDP's Strategic Plan.
Support to the peace process
Successful implementation of the peace process is an overriding priority for Nepal's political and socio economic development. Since late 2006, UNDP has provided key technical support to implement the peace agreements alongside UNMIN's support to the political negotiations.
A key political development in 2009-2010 is the discharge and rehabilitation of the Maoist army personnel who had been disqualified on the grounds of having been minors at the time of the ceasefire or having been recruited after the ceasefire date.
During 2009-2010, UNDP also supported the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (MoPR) to formulate a capacity development strategy based on the capacity assessment and the Nepal Peace Trust Fund (NPTF) with technical advice and assisted it to produce its action and work plans. The NPTF received over $95 million of contributions from the government and donors by the end of 2009 which are going to support a range of nationally led peace-building initiatives. UNDP collaborating with MoPR also designed initiatives to support the functioning of local peace committees.
UNDP's Support to Participatory Constitution Building in Nepal (SPCBN) project is providing technical assistance to the Constituent Assembly and invaluable support to a broad range of stakeholders that has helped to increase knowledge on constitutional issues, promoted widespread, balanced and meaningful public involvement in constitution making and helped the assembly function efficiently and effectively.
UNDP coordinates donor support for Constitution building by hosting regular meetings of donors and implementing partners to consider emerging issues and address overlaps and duplication resulting in good coordination in directly support and shared analysis of the rapidly changing situation.
The Centre for Constitutional Dialogue (CCD), established on 19 January 2009, has provided a technical resource centre, a neutral dialogue space and a facility for interactions between assembly members, experts, civil society and the interested public. To give Nepal's citizens the chance to contribute to Constitution making, SPCBN has mobilized NGOs representing marginalized groups to run an outreach programme— democratic dialogues to build awareness on constitutional issues.
The Quick Impact for Peace Support Initiative (QIPSI) and the Livelihoods Recovery for Peace (LRP) projects are providing infrastructure and livelihoods support to households badly affected by the conflicts and who have been neglected by previous development interventions.
UNDP's activities span almost 75 districts and 1,000 out of 4,000 villages. The number of projects ongoing in 2010 is 32. Of the $36 million spent in 2009 an almost equal proportion came from UNDP sources and bilateral/multilateral agencies. The main donor partner was DFID, which funded 17% of programme expenditure.
UNDP believes that concerted efforts to build partnerships are fundamental for building broad-based consensus, resource mobilisation, and effective implementation of programmes for sustainable peace and development in Nepal. In 2008/2009, UNDP continued to build and expand its partnerships with the Government of Nepal, various UN Agencies, bilateral and multilateral donor agencies, the private sector, the civil society organisations, the media, and the academia for the development, resource mobilisation, implementation and monitoring of its supported programmes.
List of Donors & Partners
AusAid, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, British Embassy, Danida, Department for International Development (DFID), Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund (DGTTF), European Commission /European Union, Finland, GEF (Global Environment Facility), Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), Government of Nepal, Himal Power Limited (HPL), IFTF (Integrated Framework Trust Fund), Japan, Norway, Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), Swiss Development Corporation (SDC), SNV (Netherlands Government), UNICEF, UNPFN, UNCDF and ILO.