United Nations Development Programme - China
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Our Mission and Organization
UNDP is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.
UNDP fosters human development to empower women and men to build better lives in China. As the UN’s development network, UNDP draws on a world of experience to assist China in developing its own solutions to the country’s development challenges. Through partnerships and innovation, UNDP works to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and an equitable Xiao Kang society by reducing poverty, strengthening the rule of law, promoting environmental sustainability, and fighting HIV/AIDS.
Our History
UNDP started its operations in China in September 1979. 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. In the past 23 years, UNDP has completed five such initiatives with its governmental partner, the China International Centre for Economic and Technical Exchange (CICETE).
Through this partnership and the successful implementation of hundreds of programs, thousands of technical and managerial personnel have been trained, improving the technical capacity of key institutes and promoting economic and social development.
Today, 84% of UNDP projects in China are nationally executed in cooperation with more than a dozen government ministries as well as with NGOs and the private sector. In recent years, intensivied results-based management and broadened strategic partnerships with other development actors have become a priority. Now, in addition to grass-roots interventions, UNDP increasingly works upstream towards advocacy, policy advice, dialogue and facilitation, as well as brokerage for innovative solutions.
Website: www.undp.org.cn
