UNDP is the United Nations' global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. It is on the ground in some 170 countries and territories, working on solutions to global and national development challenges.

 

The UNDP in China fosters human development to empower women and men to build better lives. As the United Nations' development network, UNDP has drawn on world-wide experience for over three decades to assist China both in developing solutions to its own ongoing development challenges, and in its south-south cooperation and engagement in global development. Through partnerships and innovation, UNDP works to facilitate the achievement of the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by working on the following for main project areas ​(please also update their links as below):

 

• poverty, equity and governance; 

• energy and the environment;

• disaster management; and

• South-South cooperation.

 

The UNDP started its operations in China in September 1979 with the signature of the UNDP-Government of China Standard Basic Agreement Since then, UNDP has completed over 900 projects, assisting in a diverse set of fields ranging from agriculture to industry to energy to public health to poverty alleviation to economic restructuring, and many more in-between. Beginning in 1982, UNDP has developed and implemented multi-year Country Programmes and Cooperation Frameworks with specific thematic and result focuses. Since then, UNDP has completed five such Frameworks in close collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce.

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Through this partnership and the successful implementation of hundreds of programs, thousands of Chinese citizens have been trained, the technical capacity of key Ministries and institutes has been strengthened, contributing to significant progress to promote and achieve human development in China. Today, more than 85% of UNDP projects in China are directly executed by Chinese institutions, involving more than a dozen government ministries as well as NGOs and the private sector. In recent years, intensified results-based management and broadened strategic partnerships with key development actors have become a priority. Now, in addition to grass-roots interventions, UNDP increasingly works towards advocacy, policy advice, dialogue and facilitation, as well as brokerage for innovative solutions.

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