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UNDP assists partners to achieve sustainable, people-centered development through an integrated approach that links policy with planning and programming, for promoting results based management, instating quality social and environmental safeguards, monitoring and evaluating impact and equally learning from failures and successes.

UNDP introduces systems, from the project level up, to entrench evaluation, learning and knowledge management strongly in the organization by being more open, innovative, knowledge and evidence driven. This eventually supports effective development cooperation, South-South and Triangular Cooperation and higher quality programming and action.

130 initiatives
70 countries

UNDP INNOVATION FACILITY

UNDP invested in over 130 initiatives across 70 countries, partnering with government and private sector to leverage alternative finance, behavioral insights, data innovation, and public policy labs.   

 

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In view of the urgent needs of Caribbean islands affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the…

Capping off the second annual Global Goals week in New York, the Republic of Uganda and UNDP…

Following the establishment of the India-UN Development Partnership Fund on 8 June 2017, as a…

UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Research of Information System (RIS) for Developing…

Innovation and emerging technologies increasingly change how international organizations invest in…

UNDP was found to “largely meet the requirements of an effective multilateral organization and is…

This year for Global Goals Week, UNDP invited diplomats, politicians and global citizens to help put…

Refugees from South Sudan and host communities in Uganda team up to propose solutions for shared…

With a bold new global agenda, we’re closing in on ending poverty – everywhere and permanently –…

Niger’s Rural Energy Service Access Programme (PRASE), funded by the Global Environment Facility…

Agriculture and rural entrepreneurship can be a promising source of income for Kosovars who are…

In Albania, local governments are using locally developed open source software to bring "one stop…

Seven years into the Syrian crisis and with almost a million Syrian refugees residing in Lebanon, a…

At UNDP, we produce an enormous amount of data, insight and analysis, but does it have real impact?…

Among the most important changes facing large organizations like UNDP is the need to manage…

Unless you have been living under a rock, you are bound to have heard either how AI will be the end…

To deliver on the 2030 Agenda, UNDP has laid out a new Strategic Plan that provides the blueprint…

Did you know Indonesia is the second most generous country in the world, with a whopping 79 percent…

This white paper explains how block chain technology works and how it is already being used for…

This Guidance Note offers concrete recommendations for governments looking to establish or…

Provides an overview of the UNDP project management cycle and potential entry points for doing…

The real story of how government innovation labs develop: organic and people-driven,often operating…

This UNDP guidance provides policy direction and indications for coordinated support for data and…

This report shares UNDP’s approach to innovation and showcases over 40 case studies of innovation…

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