United Kingdom provides vital flexible funding to drive progress on global challenges, including health, crisis response and recovery and climate actionThe flexible nature of core funding enables UNDP to adapt swiftly to crises, prioritising support for the most vulnerable communities—particularly women and girls, who are often the hardest hit. UNDPNEW YO...
As prepared for deliveryMr. President, members of the Executive Board, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen - I am honoured to welcome you to the 2025 Second Regular Session of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board.I thank you all for your continued support, and wish to express my gratitude to the Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General / Chair of the Un...
Photo: Ksenia Nevenchenko / UNDP UkraineKyiv, 14 October 2025 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine and the Centre for Innovations Development have identified four key regional economic clusters with the highest potential to drive Ukraine’s post-war recovery, focusing on rapid expansion of employment, exports, and investment.&...
The EUR 16.5 million initiative will install solar and heat pumps on essential social infrastructure, to secure resilient, decentralised power and help public buildings be more energy-independent.Photo credit: Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of UkraineKYIV, 13 October 2025 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in U...
Agreement Signing between UNDP Nigeria and Lagos State GovernmentAmalachukwu IbenemeAbuja, Nigeria, 09, October 2025: Lagos State government, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has launched Phase 3 of the Lagos State Employability Support Project (LSESP), an initiative designed to tackle youth unemployment and strengthen t...
National analysis reveals high engagement with AI and strong belief in technology's capacity to open new career pathsSurvey Results and InsightsDownload Press Release: English (PDF) Nearly seven out of ten people in the Dominican Republic (68.9 percent) report using Artificial Intelligence (AI) more than once a week, according to new research rele...
Windhoek, Namibia, 8th October 2025 - The African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a groundbreaking joint report, “From the Ground Up: Community-Based Social Protection in Africa”, at the AU Symposium on Social Protection in Africa, held in Namibia from 7–8 October 2025.The publicati...
In Myanmar today, millions of young people are ‘on hold’ — unable to learn, work, or build their futures. This second report in UNDP’s Myanmar Youth Series, following A Generation on the Move, examines the broken pathways from education to employment. Drawing on the voices of more than 7,000 youth nationwide, the findings show that one in four is ...
On the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA-80), global leaders from the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors came together with one clear message: in a world of record-high humanitarian needs and mounting crises, only stronger multilateral action through the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus can deliver lasti...
Asia-Pacific is facing a new era of trade turbulence that could knock countries off their long-term development path, warns a new UNDP report. Rising tariffs, fragmented global value chains, and mounting uncertainty are rewriting the rules of trade in one of the world’s most exposed regions.The report, Disruption, Diversification, and Divergence: Adapting...
