Is designed to drive the development of MSMEs by strengthening their financial, administrative, and productive capacities. Its strategic approach enables these enterprises to reach a competitive level ...

Partnerships for a more Tolerant, Inclusive Bangladesh (PTIB) is a multi-year initiative to understand and prevent hate speech, digital harm, and associated intolerance and violence in Bangladesh. The ...

The Youth4Climate (Y4C) initiative is co-led by the Government of Italy and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), empowers young innovators driving climate solutions worldwide. Since 2023, ...

This year is the halfway point in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A global pandemic, conflicts, disasters and other crises have set back progress towards the ...

The UNDP Signals Spotlight 2023 – a first for UNDP - highlights some of the signals and trends we see emerging that we consider will be significant for development. Inspired by some 500 signals of ...

Across the world, UNDP is engaged in taking on the toughest development challenges, helping countries fight poverty, responding to crises, and striving to build a better future. To do this effectively ...

I’m Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Welcome to this site, intended for everyone who is interested in the future of development. I have championed ...

Amid the devastation of war, the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv is choosing not just to recover—but to reimagine its future. With infrastructure damaged and institutions strained, the city is opting to ...

The war is not over, but it’s never too soon to start making the land safe again. Ukraine is now the most mined country in the world, with potentially 23 percent of its land at risk of contamination ...

The summer of 2023 was the hottest summer worldwide on record since 1850. Across the globe the rise in extreme weather events, including hurricanes, storms, floods, and fires, has been a recurring ...

The report includes an in-depth case study on Afghanistan, where 5.3 million more people fell into multidimensional poverty during the turbulent period 2015/16–2022/23. In 2022/23, nearly two-thirds ...

At the UN Climate Conference, COP28, more than 130 countries signed on to a Leaders’ Declaration on Food Systems, Agriculture and Climate Action. Over US$2.5 billion has been mobilized to support the ...