United Nations Development Programme

UNDP is on the ground in more than 170 countries and territories, bringing global perspective and local insights together to help empower lives and build resilient nations. UNDP addresses a range of critical development issues, meeting the diverse and often shifting challenges facing the people it serves , from combating and adapting to climate change, to fighting poverty and inequality, from protecting the environment to promoting good, inclusive governance. World leaders have pledged to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's leverages its extensive partnership networks to link and coordinate global and national efforts to monitor and achieve the MDGs, while helping developing countries attract and use aid effectively for the same purpose. In all our work, we aim to promote the protection of Human Rights and the Empowerment of Women.