United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
1. In the past year, has the governing body of your organization taken any decisions to advance sustainable, inclusive, science- and evidence-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and ensure that no one is left behind? If yes, please briefly mention these decisions taken by your governing body in 2024 and provide the respective symbols.
Yes - in 2024, as with previous years, the Executive Board of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS took several relevant decisions. These decisions may be accessed through the Executive Board website linked here. Below is a snapshot of these decisions:
- Decision 2024/2: UNDP evaluation (evaluation of UNDP support to digitalization of public services)
- Decision 2024/8: Update on the implementation on the repositioning of the UNDS
- Decision 2024/12: Assessment of how the Executive Board executes its governance and oversight functions
- Decision 2024/13: Midterm review of the UNDP Strategic Plan (2022-2025), including the annual report of the Administrator for 2023
- Decision 2025/15: UNDP evaluation (including evaluation of UNDP’s support to ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation)
- Decision 2024/16: Midterm review of the UNCDF Strategic Framework (2022-2025)
- Decision 2024/17: UN Volunteers programme: annual report of the Administrator
- Decision 2024/18: UNFPA: Annual report of the Executive Director
- Decision 2024/21: Report on implementation of the restated UNOPS Strategic Plan (2022-2025)
- Decision 2024/25: Assessment of how the Executive Board executes its governance and oversight functions
- Decision 2024/26: Structured funding dialogue on financing the results of the UNDP Strategic Plan (2022-2025)
- Decision 2024/7: Report on the UNFPA structured funding dialogue, 2023
2. During 2024, what actions have your entities taken to improve coordination among UN system entities across policy and normative activities as well as with ECOSOC subsidiary bodies with a view to increase impact and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda? Please provide any relevant links.
So far in 2024, UNDP has promoted joint policy and advocacy initiatives with other UN entities within the framework of the HLPF in support of accelerating the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. For instance, for the HLPF, UNDP promoted policy driven approaches on nature investments with UNCDF and UNESCO, on mine action with ESCAP, governance, peace and justice (SDG16) with OHCHR and UNODC. These among other initiatives (detailed list here) are fostering novel partnerships and driving forward-looking opportunities.
These initiatives also reinforce existing policy interventions in line with agreed intergovernmental mandates and forums (e.g. LLDC Conference, ABAS Commitments, Addis Ababa Action Agenda/FfD4, etc.), for many of which UNDP has championed its preparation. The Summit of the Future SDG Action Days also served as a platform for UNDP to reinforce policy coherence with other UN entities on areas related to financing for development (debt, IFA reform) and digital cooperation, reinforcing the UN system/UNDP positioning on the criticality of these issues in support of the 2030 Agenda through concrete forward-looking actions.
Additionally, UNDP along with UNFPA collaborated on the preparation of the joint “Report on the implementation of the decisions and recommendation of the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS,” to be presented at next year’s (2025) First Regular Session of the Executive Board.
3. In the past year, has your organization organized any intergovernmentally mandated conferences, forums or events that contributed to the achievement of the SDGs, or has been in the process of planning and organizing any such mandated events to be held next year?
Event Name | Side Events at 2024 Financing for Development Forum |
Event Dates | 25th April |
Event Location (City, Country) | New York, USA |
Relevant SDGs | All SDGs |
Description (max 150 words): please include a short summary of the event’s mandate and contributions to the SDGs, including its main outcome(s) | UNDP co-hosted or hosted 9 events during the 2024 FfD Forum, available here, ranging from topics including taxation, INFFs and sovereign SDGs bonds. The event, rooted in the Financing for Development (FFD) agenda, emphasized key priorities for achieving the SDGs by addressing the $4.2 trillion annual funding gap. Its mandate focused on strengthening country leadership through Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs), enhancing private sector engagement, and aligning financing strategies with the SDGs, Paris Agreement, and Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework. The event advocated for a financial architecture that catalyzes social, environmental, and economic objectives through inclusive and sustainable investments. Key outcomes included commitments to strengthen partnerships across public and private sectors, explore portfolio-based pipeline identification for systemic impact, and foster new resource mobilization opportunities, including collaboration with Spain. Recommendations made in a report published at the FfD Forum have been picked up by a number of member states in their formal inputs to the FfD4 elements paper. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation reinforced the principles of country ownership, transparency, accountability, and inclusive partnerships, urging political leaders to reaffirm commitments. The event highlighted integrated approaches to financing, aligning national development with climate and environmental goals to advance Agenda 2030. |
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Event Name | Summit of the Future |
Event Dates | 20th September – Youth Lead for the Future 21 September – Action day: A Sustainable Future for All, Action day: A Digital Future for All 22 September: SDG Stimulus 23rd September: Summit of the Future |
Event Location (City, Country) | New York, USA |
Relevant SDGs | All SDGs |
Description (max 150 words): please include a short summary of the event’s mandate and contributions to the SDGs, including its main outcome(s) | The Summit of the Future focuses on reinvigorating multilateralism to address pressing global challenges and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Key contributions from UNDP advanced the priorities of fostering stronger global solidarity, enhancing the global financial architecture, and creating actionable pathways for integrating sustainable practices across all sectors. The main outcomes of the summit include commitments to a Pact for the Future, which emphasizes climate resilience, universal human rights, and a more inclusive global financial system. UNDP will co-lead with DCO the SDG Delivery Working Group to advance implementation of the Pact for the Future. UNDP will also serve as a WG member for working groups on youth, peace and security, IFA reform and digital transformation. (1) A Future-is-Now Report at the SoF reflects country dialogues’ discussion on the HDR/future of development and propose transformative actions at national and multilateral levels. (2) New UNDP research with U of Denver on Future of SDGs - advances the flagship SDG Push with new elements that reflect national climate ambition as articulated through NDCs. The futures research will inform national action that advances human development within planetary boundaries.
UNDP co-convened the following side events/ forums on the SOTF Action Days:
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Website (if applicable) | Descriptions of above side events available at: https://action-datys.cdn.prismic.io/action-datys/Zu2yYrVsGrYSvoxx_24.09.20SummitoftheFutureActionDays-Programmev2.pdf |
Event Name | Side Events at the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) 68 |
Event Dates | March 2024 |
Event Location (City, Country) | New York, USA |
Relevant SDGs | All SDGs |
Description (max 150 words): please include a short summary of the event’s mandate and contributions to the SDGs, including its main outcome(s) | While acknowledging UN Women’s role as the main CSW lead, UNDP had a strong presence at CSW68, especially given the priority theme focused on addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing from a gender perspective, as well as the review theme of social protection. UNDP’s Observer paper contributed to the Expert Group meetings and reflected UNDP’s efforts strengthening institutional reforms for gender equality. UNDP hosted or co-hosted more than 17 global and regional side events including one Global High Level event on making fiscal policies work for gender equality (part of the EQUANOMICS flagship), which included the UNDP Administrator, as well as a High Level Regional Event for Latin America and the Caribbean, also focused on public finance and institutional reforms for gender equality. In total, UNDP gathered over 1,800 participants -- in-person and online – to address a wide range of topics at CSW: from expanding care systems and social protection, to strengthening livelihoods, financing gender equality, the economic empowerment of women in crisis contexts, clean energy investments, strengthening the judiciary in Africa, and preventing gender-based violence. We also celebrated the 18 public institutions who achieved UNDP Gender Equality Seal certifications last year. EQUANOMICS and the Gender Equality Seal for Public Institutions are among UNDP’s priority offers on accelerating gender equality through 2025 and to expedite progress toward meeting the SDGs. |
Website (if applicable) | UNDP at the 68th Commission on the Status of Women | United Nations Development Programme |
Event Name | Side Event at the Twelfth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12) |
Event Dates | 4-8 November 2024 |
Event Location (City, Country) | Cairo, Egypt |
Relevant SDGs | All SDGs (with a focus on SDG 11) |
Description (max 150 words): please include a short summary of the event’s mandate and contributions to the SDGs, including its main outcome(s) | UNDP’s delegation to WUF12 organized ten side events and included high-level representation in several dialogues and roundtables, covering a range of discussion areas on achieving inclusive, resilient, and sustainable development for cities and regions around the world, including boosting local financing mechanisms, accelerating local climate action, enhancing multilevel governance, and engendering recovery and reconstruction efforts in Gaza and Ukraine. Amidst interconnected risks and polycrises, UNDP reiterated its commitment to protect communities by strengthening urban resilience and localization efforts through capacity building of local and regional governments and harnessing nature-based solutions. Additionally, UNDP emphasized the need to tackle multidimensional poverty and territorial inequalities through targeted policies and financing at the local and regional levels. Finally, UNDP stressed its commitment to ensure equitable and inclusive digital transformation by supporting people-centered and localized digital solutions to leave no one and no place behind. |
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4. In the past year, has your organization published or planned to publish any analytical work, guidance or reference materials, or toolkits to guide and support the implementation of SDGs at national, regional and global levels? Please select up to three to highlight, especially those that address interlinkages among the SDGs.
Resource Name | SDG Push Diagnostic |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | All SDGs |
Publishing entity/entities | UNDP SDG Integration |
Target audience | Country office and Regional Bureau |
Description (max 150 words) | The SDG Push Diagnostic is a dynamic tool adopted by over 90 countries to accelerate SDG progress by analyzing national trends, priorities, interlinkages, and future scenarios. Drawing on data from UN Stats and government-requested inputs, the tool delivers rapid, technology-driven landscape analyses to inform decision-making. By identifying key SDG priorities in policy documents and adopting an interlinkages approach, it highlights how actions in one area can influence others, offering a systems-level perspective. SDG Insights generated through this approach were showcased at the SDG Summit. This initiative underpins the scoping and multistakeholder phase of the SDG Push Acceleration Pathways process, completed in Moldova, Peru, South Africa, Namibia, and Indonesia. In Peru, for example, it supported the identification of options to strengthen economic planning for SDG implementation, to be implemented by the government. |
Language(s) | English |
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Resource Name | Achieving Universal Electricity Access |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | SDG 7; SDG 3; SDG 4; SDG 8; SDG 13 |
Publishing entity/entities | UNDP SDG Integration |
Target audience | Country office and Regional Bureau |
Description (max 150 words) | By using futures modelling that captures both synergies and trade-offs of pursuing particular SDG targets, UNDP and the Pardee Center for International Futures (University of Denver) assessed the current state of electricity access and modelled different pathways to achieving significant milestones in electricity access, including the UN-Energy Pledge and the UNDP commitments. The research also explored the impact of SDG Push interventions and universal electricity access on poverty, health, education, economic growth and clean cooking. |
Language(s) | English |
Website (if applicable) | https://data.undp.org/insights/achieving-universal-electricity-access |
Resource Name | Geohub |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | All SDGs |
Publishing entity/entities | UNDP SDG Integration |
Target audience | Country office and Regional Bureau |
Description (max 150 words) | UNDP GeoHub is a data-driven platform that integrates geospatial data, advanced analytics, and visualization tools to support countries in making strategic decisions aligned with the SDGs. By consolidating datasets across sectors such as environment, economy, and health, the GeoHub allows users to analyze trends and challenges at the intersections of SDGs, offering insights to guide SDG planning, implementation, and monitoring at local levels. Designed to address the interconnected nature of SDGs, the GeoHub helps policymakers visualize how various indicators intersect across regions to guide SDG planning, implementation, and monitoring at local levels. In the LAC region, the GeoHub supports the design of care policies by mapping populations requiring care, such as children, older persons, or persons with disabilities, to be implemented at national and local levels. In Tanzania, the GeoHub supports Zanzibar’s Tourism Integrated Strategic Action Plan enhances tourism by integrating technology with cultural heritage, promoting local economic growth, and boosting the visibility of businesses led by women and youth. |
Language(s) | English |
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5. The United Nations has defined six key transitions, or transformative entry points, that can have catalytic and multiplier effects across the SDGs and which have been guiding the UN development system work since the 2023 SDG Summit. In the past year, how has your organization contributed to these transformative actions and how various actors are being rallied behind them to mobilize further leadership and investment to bring progress to scale? Please provide any relevant links.
1. Food systems
In 2024, leveraging two decades of experience managing over USD 1.2 billion in food and agriculture-related grants across more than 100 countries and nearly 500 landscapes, UNDP launched its first White Paper on food systems, titled "Supporting Food Systems Transformation Towards Sustainability and Resilience." Developed by the UNDP Resilient Food Systems Integrated Task Team (ITT)—a coalition of experts from the Global Policy Network and Regional Bureaus—this landmark document delivers a compelling call to action for international development agencies and International Financial Institutions (IFIs). It underscores the urgent need to build resilient food systems through a genuinely holistic and systemic approach. Additionally, it recognizes the deep interconnections between food and key drivers of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including climate and biodiversity, health, poverty, inequality, and gender.
The White Paper outlines four critical action areas: (1) improving the governance of food systems for more coherent and integrated responses; (2) addressing unsustainable drivers such as poverty, health disparities, gender inequality, and environmental degradation; (3) building a fair food value chains to correct power imbalances and ensure equity; and (4) providing sustainable finance to empower local communities and encourage private sector investments towards sustainability and resilience.
Aligned with the white paper, a new initiative is scheduled to begin in 2025 in Jordan and Kenya, designed to strengthen integrated portfolio processes for resilient food systems at the UNDP Country Offices. This project will enhance the capabilities of personnel focused on food systems resilience and amplify multi-stakeholder collaboration and institutional capacities at national and subnational levels.
In Jordan, the initiative will bolster the Higher Council for Food Security and enhance local capacities for gender mainstreaming and risk management strategies, working in tandem with the Central Bank and insurance sector to improve financial inclusivity. In Kenya, efforts will concentrate on developing strategies and solutions that support national plans, providing support to the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) and the National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC) to fortify the nation’s framework for resilient food systems.
2. Energy access and affordability
UNDP’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan has put sustainable energy at the heart of UNDP’s mission on sustainable development, aligned with the UN-Energy Plan of Action: to catalyze unprecedented action and partnerships to provide access to sustainable, affordable, and reliable energy to 500 more million people by 2025 and accelerate the transition to renewable energy through systemic changes that lead to inclusive green economies. UNDP’s work on energy strengthens connections between energy development and the SDGs, enabling energy transitions through enhanced governance, critical transition minerals, social protection, gender equality, climate action and access to finance.
UNDP goes beyond conventional project development on energy. It aims at amplifying exponentially the impact of sustainable energy systems transformation on the ground. It focuses on creating an encompassing ecosystem that addresses policy, finance, business development, scalability, and integration with the other UNDP moonshots. By combining high-resolution data and economic modelling, UNDP in partnership with University of Michigan has developed a statistical tool that allows the identification of the electricity-deficit areas and the understanding of how universal access, in combination with an ambitious set of development interventions (SDG Push), can have powerful development impacts.
In this initiative, the UN will seek to strengthen synergies across the SDGs, taking advantage of the interlinkages of electricity with employment, health, education, climate-resilience, and others. Achieving equitable outcomes in the energy transition requires targeted innovation to identify key areas for action. In partnership with IBM, UNDP has developed the Clean Electricity Equity Index (CEEI), a geospatial tool designed to help policymakers and stakeholders identify priority geographical areas for investment and intervention, ensuring a more equitable and efficient transition to sustainable energy systems. The CEEI is a composite index that evaluates the capacity and need of regions—such as countries, provinces, or districts—to transition to clean energy. It considers factors like clean energy potential, resources for a just transition, and urgency, comprising 14 indicators for which data is disaggregated at the district level.
3. Digital connectivity
Guided by UNDP’s Digital Strategy, UNDP supports over 120 countries to harness the power of digital technology for the 2030 goals. UNDP’s approach extends beyond one-off digital solutions, and also focuses holistically on building inclusive digital ecosystems through inclusive Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), developing digital strategies and policies, and supporting local capacity-building.
In 2024, UNDP expanded support on digital public infrastructure (DPI) across 25 countries, with efforts culminating in the launch of a Universal DPI Safeguards Framework, a multi-stakeholder initiative stewarded by UNDP and OSET to support the safe and inclusive adoption of DPI in countries. UNDP also conducted Digital Readiness Assessments and AI Landscape Assessments in 25 countries to lay the foundation for inclusive digital transformation. UNDP has also continued to support digital capacity-building efforts in more than 30 countries, including through our Data-to-Policy Initiative.
UNDP continues to mobilize investments and collective action to support inclusive digital development, including as a co-lead for the Technical Support Group for the Digital track of the Joint SDG Fund and co-host of SDG Digital, a high-level event for the Summit of the Future Action Days together, both together with ITU. UNDP has also been partnering with the Italian G7 Presidency to co-design the AI Hub for Sustainable Development to support sustainable AI development in the Global South.
4. Education
5. Jobs and social protection
UNDP promotes jobs as a central pillar of sustainable development, recognizing that access to jobs and economic opportunities is essential for eradicating poverty and fostering human development. By integrating its work on jobs and social protection, UNDP empowers individuals and communities to build resilient livelihoods while addressing lifecycle vulnerabilities through comprehensive social protection systems. This includes expanding universal coverage, strengthening adaptive and shock-responsive mechanisms, and leveraging digital innovations for improved service delivery.
UNDP prioritizes inclusive job creation, entrepreneurship, and skills development, ensuring that marginalized groups—particularly women, youth, and people with disabilities—have equal access to economic opportunities. By linking social protection with employment initiatives, UNDP fosters labor market inclusion, reduces inequalities, and supports just transitions, driving sustainable and inclusive economic growth. UNDP’s partnerships support 90+ countries to generate much-needed jobs and livelihoods, benefiting over 20 million people in fragile contexts alone.
In collaboration with other UN agencies, UNDP plays a pivotal role in advancing the objectives of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. Currently supporting the implementation of joint programme is 14 countries, UNDP contributes to the design of integrated policies that connect employment generation with comprehensive social protection systems, ensuring these efforts are aligned with national development goals and the SDGs. Recognizing the critical role of financing, by capitalizing on the INFF process, UNDP seeks to support governments in identifying financing gaps, unlocking investments for inclusive job creation, and establishing sustainable mechanisms to expand social protection coverage.
6. Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution
UNDP is leading coordination of Climate Promise 2025, a bold surge effort that convenes over 30 UN entities at global, regional and national level to support developing countries to align their next Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), due in 2025, with the Paris Agreement’s global goals and SDGs. Leveraging the infrastructure of UNDP’s Climate Promise, UNDP is working closely with UN Country Teams to map and coordinate support on the NDCs 3.0. This includes supporting the raising of ambition while strengthening quality, inclusivity and ‘investibility’, that can allow countries to arrive at COP30 in Brazil in 2025 with a pathway to 1.5°C. To date, more than 90 governments have been consulted and tailored UN support mappings completed in 45 countries.
Partnerships have always been at the heart of the Climate Promise, as a contribution to the NDC Partnership and already bringing strong actors together within and beyond the UN System. Over 2019-2021 second NDC revision, UNDP’s Climate Promise supported 128 countries and 85% of all developing country submissions. As a result: 91% raised mitigation ambition, all with reference to energy; 93% raised adaptation ambition, many linked to National Adaptation Plans; Nearly 95% of all NDCs supported included gender equality and referenced youth; NDCs were higher quality, with better data, detailed costings, and linked to development and sectoral planning.
In 2024, UNDP joined forces across climate and SDG teams, building on the UNDP flagship publication ‘SDG Push’ and its collaboration with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures. As countries update their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the research provides foundational evidence for a concrete pathway that aligns investments in governance, social protection, green transitions, and digital infrastructure with energy equity and climate action.
Tackling biodiversity challenges with an integrated lens, in October 2023 UNDP published “Blue Economies and Nature-based solutions – for enhanced climate action in Latin America and Caribbean Small Island Developing States”, a user-friendly, practical guide on incorporating blue economy and nature-based solutions for the protection and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems in NDCs and climate policy documents.
To support countries to meet development needs, the UNDP Water Solutions Catalogue, and webpage was developed and will be launched at the CCD COP 16 in December 2024. This digital, AI driven catalogue is to support UNDP Country Offices and governments to develop tailored water portfolios based on best practices drawn from UNDP’s wide experiences in water for development. The catalogue features tested governance, capacity development, and finance approaches to adapt to climate change impacts, including floods and droughts, and emphasizes application of nature-based solutions.
6. Please provide strategies (policies, guidance, plan) and/or collective actions taken to implement the 2024 Ministerial Declaration of the Economic and Social Council and the high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the Council. Please note any challenges foreseen and provide any relevant links.
In line with advancing integrated climate-development policies to achieve global climate and SDG goals, UNDP brought its SDG and Climate portfolio together to address how evidence-based climate and SDG investments can boost human development within planetary boundaries while tailoring solutions to countries' specific needs. Anchored in the Climate Promise 2025, UNDP leverages science, technology, and innovation to support policymakers in designing integrated strategies that identify accelerators for both climate and SDG goals.
The Integrated NDC x SDG Insights initiative enhances synergies between climate and development policies and actions, going beyond traditional tracking of emissions or adaptation progress. By helping operationalize global agreements such as the Paris Agreement, the initiative uses data, AI, systems thinking, and interlinkage analysis to identify impactful policy choices that support the implementation of enhanced ambition for climate action as formulated in NDC 3.0 strategies.
This approach highlights public and private finance building the case for innovative mechanisms such as debt-for-climate swaps and SDG stimulus initiatives. It lays the groundwork for scoping INFFs enabling governments to strengthen planning processes and address barriers to financing sustainable development effectively, while further implementing the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. This futures work explores development pathways that deliver for people and planet, and will be contextualized to national and local needs and ambition.
7. What collective efforts is your entity undertaking to support countries in accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially in the areas of Goal 3 (Good health and well-being), Goal 5 (Gender equality), Goal 8 (Decent work and economic growth), Goal 14 (Life below water) and Goal 17 (Partnerships), which will go under in-depth review at the HLPF in 2025? Please note any achievements, challenges and gaps and provide any relevant links.
If your organization has been part of any initiatives or multi-stakeholder partnerships in the past year that support these goals, please copy the below table to fill out for each initiative/partnership.
Goal 3 (Good health and well-being)
Initiative/Partnership Name | #WeBelongAfrica Regional Programme
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Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, SADC, AIDS and Rights Alliance in Southern Africa, others |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3,5,10,16 |
Member States benefiting from it | Southern African Development Community |
Description (max 150 words) | Has implemented several activities related to ACHPR Resolution 275, a landmark decision affirming the rights of LGBTI+ persons in Africa. Facilitated inclusion of young key populations in HIV and SRHR policy reviews, ensuring their voices were incorporated into updated frameworks approved by SADC Ministers of Health in 2024. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | Being LGBTI in the Caribbean
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Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, regional civil society organizations, governments
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 5, 8, 10 |
Member States benefiting from it | Multiple Caribbean nations |
Description (max 150 words)
| This initiative addresses the mental health and economic challenges faced by vulnerable and marginalized populations, including transgender women and gender-diverse persons. Key efforts include providing tailored psychosocial support, vocational and academic training, and entrepreneurship opportunities. The initiative supports LGBTI-owned businesses and promotes broader inclusion and resilience in communities. |
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| https://www.undp.org/latin-america/hiv-and-health/being-lgbti-caribbean |
Initiative/Partnership Name | Health4Life Fund |
Partners (please list all partners) | WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, Scottish Government, NCD Alliance, United for Global Mental Health |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 17 |
Member States benefiting from it | Rwanda, Zambia, Kenya, Thailand, Uruguay, Mauritius, Philippine |
Description (max 150 words)
| This fund addresses NCDs and mental health through country-led initiatives. It focuses on prevention and treatment via policies, laws, and stronger health systems. Anchor funding enabled grants for Rwanda and Zambia, with strategic partnerships at global and national levels |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | Solar for Health |
Partners (please list all partners) | Global Fund, UNDP |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 7, 10, 13 |
Member States benefiting from it | Countries across Africa, Arab States and Central Asia |
Description (max 150 words)
| This initiative has powered over 1,200 health facilities with clean, affordable and reliable energy. In Zimbabwe, solar installations reached 1,044 facilities, providing 70% of energy needs, reducing CO2 emissions, and improving health service access. |
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| https://www.undp.org/energy/our-flagship-initiatives/solar-for-health |
Initiative/Partnership Name | Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP) project
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Partners (please list all partners) | Government of Japan, GHIT Fund, UNDP, WHO, TDR, PATH |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 16 |
Member States benefiting from it | Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Senegal, United Republic of Tanzania, Thailand and others |
Description (max 150 words)
| The Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP) supports approximately 60 countries in Africa and Asia to strengthen the policies, human capacities, systems and regulations that enable LMICs to access and deliver new health technologies for tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and others. That includes achievements such as rabies elimination plans in India under a One Health Framework and the scaling up of digital innovations in Indonesia for HIV, TB, and malaria programmes. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | Digital Health for Development Hub |
Partners (please list all partners) | WHO, UNDP, multiple governments |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 9, 10, 16 |
Member States benefiting from it | Multiple, e.g. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Malawi, others |
Description (max 150 words)
| This hub promotes digital public goods and infrastructure to scale support for and between countries and communities to address inequalities that drive disease and pandemics. For example in Indonesia UNDP has supported the Ministry of Health to digitise logistics and supply chain management through the SMILE digital platform which has managed the storage and distribution of 70 million HIV and STI drugs along with test kits across 10000 public health facilities. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | Climate and Health Co-Investment Facility
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Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, GCF and WHO, consulting with Global Fund, GAVI, Unitaid, GLI |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 13, 17 |
Member States benefiting from it | 15 countries in Africa Asia, and Europe |
Description (max 150 words)
| Launched at COP28, supports countries in implementing health adaptation and mitigation projects, including early warning systems, disease surveillance, and clean energy solutions. Reinforces global knowledge-sharing on climate-resilient health systems. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | Global Fund Partnership |
Partners (please list all partners) | Global Fund, UNDP, national health ministries, and various local partners |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 5, 10, 13, 17 |
Member States benefiting from it | Multiple, for example Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela, Kyrgyzstan, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and more |
Description (max 150 words)
| The UNDP-Global Fund partnership has contributed to saving 9.1 million lives since 2003 by supporting national health programs across multiple countries. Key initiatives include:
The partnership leverages innovative approaches like solar energy for health, AI diagnostics, and public health campaigns to address systemic challenges, strengthen healthcare systems, and ensure equitable access to health services globally. |
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Goal 5 (Gender Equality)
Initiative/Partnership Name | Joint programme: “Unpaid Care, Disability and Gender Transformative Approach” |
Partners (please list all partners) | UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, ILO and OHCHR through UNPRPD |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 5, 17 |
Member States benefiting from it | Colombia, Panama, Tanzania, Mozambique and Kenya |
Description (max 150 words)
| In 2024 UNDP joined with partners across the UN system to finalize and begin implementation on a multi-country joint programme on care. The programme emphasizes influencing national care and support systems, with special attention to unpaid care, to create a more inclusive and gender-transformative policy environment.
The programme aims to:
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| Unpaid care, disability and gender transformative approach - UN PRPD |
Initiative/Partnership Name | UN Systems Policy Paper: Transforming Care Systems |
Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, ILO, OHCHR, ECLAC, UN Women |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 3, 5, 17 |
Member States benefiting from it | - |
Description (max 150 words)
| In close collaboration with UN system partners, UNDP contributed to this first-of-its-kind guidance on care, key for raising awareness, ushering coherence and reinforcing ambition on transforming care systems in favor of gender equality. This UN-wide paper:
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Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth)
Initiative/Partnership Name | Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions (GA) |
Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, ILO, UNICEF, FAO, WFP, and UN Women The governments of Belgium, France, Germany, Korea, and Spain have been financially supporting the implementation of the Global Accelerator.
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | SDGs 1, 5, 8, 10, 13 and 17 |
Member States benefiting from it | 17 Member states are currently pathfinder countries of the GA, directly benefiting from the initiative. Albania, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Colombia, Indonesia, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Paraguay, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam have received financial support for the design and implementation of national roadmaps for the GA. |
Description (max 150 words) | The Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions (GA), launched in September 2021 by the UN Secretary-General, represents one of the UN system’s collective responses to addressing the multiple challenges that threaten to erase development progress.
The initiative aims to accelerate progress towards the SDGs by overcoming persistent challenges of poverty, income inequality, informal employment, global jobs gap, and social protection coverage and adequacy gaps, by increasing domestic and international public and private investments for social protection and employment outcomes and supporting the design, implementation and expansion of national social protection and employment policies.
To date 17 countries have expressed formal commitment to the implementation of the Global Accelerator.
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Initiative/Partnership Name | UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE)
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Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, ILO, UNCTAD, UNRISD, UNDESA, WHO, ECLAC, ESCWA, OECD and other organizations with an observer status.
UNCTAD and the ILO are current co-chairs.
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 13.
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Member States benefiting from it | n/a |
Description (max 150 words) | The United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) promotes the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) as a means to achieve sustainable development. SSE encompasses organizations like cooperatives, mutual societies, social enterprises, and community initiatives that prioritize social objectives over profit. UNTFSSE fosters collaboration among UN agencies, international organizations, and civil society to integrate SSE into global, national, and local policies.
By championing SSE, the Task Force addresses critical issues such as poverty reduction, decent work, gender equality, and environmental sustainability.
The UNTFSSE has recently achieved key milestones, including the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution recognizing SSE as pivotal to sustainable development, and the presentation of the Secretary-General's report on SSE's contributions to the 2030 Agenda. It has also developed a strategic action plan (2024-2026) to mainstream SSE in global development, enhance knowledge sharing, and foster supportive policies. |
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Goal 14 (Life below water)
Initiative/Partnership Name | Global Fund for Coral Reefs |
Partners (please list all partners) | Numerous partners including UNCDF, UNDP, UNESCO, CBD, ICRI, UNEP, UK, Pegasus Capital, Bloomberg Philanthropies |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 14, 17 |
Member States benefiting from it | Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia Jordan, Kenya, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Mozambique, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tanzania |
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| The Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) is a public-private coalition deploying a range of financial solutions and support for sustainable businesses to improve the resilience of coastal ecosystems, economies, and communities. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge |
Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, Sida, Norad, local, national, and regional civil society organizations, private sector |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 1, 2, 5, 6, 14 |
Member States benefiting from it | Multiple nations |
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| This initiative identifies and fosters innovations to address SDG 14, specification reducing marine pollution, sustainable fisheries, marine protected areas, and blue economy solutions. Innovations, drawn from global calls, are selected based on potential transformation to meet SDG 14 targets, replicability, scalability, potential for poverty reduction, gender mainstreaming, and livelihood creation. Selected innovators spend 6 –24 months in the OIC incubator where they receive technical and management mentoring, communications and promotions support, and connections to capital. During this time, the fulfil deliverable based contracts from $40K to $250K. Between 2021-2024 the OIC has support 36 unique innovations. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | UNDP-GEF International Waters Portfolio |
Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, GEF, IMO, FAO, UNEP, UNESCO-IOC, UNOPS, UN-Water, UN-Oceans, UNECE, local, national, and regional civil society organizations, private sector |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17 |
Member States benefiting from it | Multiple nations |
Description (max 150 words)
| Since 1991, UNDP-GEF’s International Waters Programme has been supporting over one hundred countries that share some of the world’s largest and most important aquatic ecosystems to work cooperatively in addressing the agreed priority environmental and water resource concerns facing such waterbodies. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | UNDP Blue Resilience Project |
Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 2, 14, 16 |
Member States benefiting from it | Multiple nations |
Description (max 150 words)
| The Blue Justice Initiative was launched by Norway in 2019 and aims to support the implementation of the International Declaration on Transnational Organized Crime in the Global Fishing Industry (Copenhagen Declaration). The initiative plays a crucial role in supporting countries worldwide in preventing and addressing fisheries crime, a significant threat to food security, marine resources, economies, and local communities. UNDP's Blue Resilience project is a key element of delivering on the Blue Justice initiative. The project facilitates national and regional capacity building and training in support of strengthened government institutional cooperation to this end. |
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Goal 17 (Partnerships)
Initiative/Partnership Name | Public Finance for SDGs Initiative (P4SDGs) 2025-2029 |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | Specific SDG thematic areas [Healthier Future (SDG 3), Gender/Equality (SDG 5), Climate/Environmental Action (SDG 7/11/13), Inclusive Growth (SDG 8, 9, 12) and/or improved Domestic Revenue Mobilization (SDG 17)] |
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Description (max 150 words)
| The Public Finance for SDGs Initiative (P4SDGs) will serve as a catalyst for action across UNDP's diverse public finance portfolio, bringing scalability and coherence to existing projects while establishing meta-structures to enhance overall impact. Rather than merely integrating existing work, P4SDGs will create synergies and leverage points across six key areas: domestic revenue mobilization, SDG-aligned taxation, sustainable debt management, improved public expenditures, integrated public finance frameworks, and global public finance dialogue. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | Integrated National Financing Frameworks |
Partners (please list all partners) | UNDESA, UNICEF and the OECD, with funding from the Joint SDG Fund |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
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Member States benefiting from it | Various |
Description (max 150 words)
| UNDP has supported over 86 countries, including 13 countries on the World Bank’s Classification of Fragile and Conflict Afflicted Situations, to adopt INFFs. Country-led INFF initiatives have leveraged $16 billion in new finance and aligned an additional $32 billion with sustainable development goals. Fifty countries are now reforming their public and private financing policies based on their INFFs. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) |
Partners (please list all partners) | UNDP, UNOPS, Bilateral donors, Multilaterals and CSOs |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | SDG 17.3.1. |
Member States benefiting from it | 23 member states in the Global South |
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| IATI’s flexible open data Standard provides a framework for tracking financing for sustainable development goals, which can be reported under SDG 17.3.1. IATI data is already being reported on climate action and the IATI Standard has been utilised in previous reporting frameworks, including the United Nations system-wide reporting of financial data and the Grand Bargain’s reporting of humanitarian financing. The data could also support the development or monitoring of INFFs. |
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| Using IATI data | International Aid Transparency Initiative - iatistandard.org |
Initiative/Partnership Name | Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) |
Partners (please list all partners) | Endorsed by 161 countries and 56 international organizations in 2011; Governed by a 25 Member Steering Committee and 4 Co-Chairs |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | SDG 5.c, SDG 17.15, SDG 17.16 |
Member States benefiting from it | 103 partner countries that have led the Global Partnership monitoring exercise in one or more times in collaboration with over 100 development partners and other actors |
Description (max 150 words)
| The Global Partnership convenes stakeholders around the four effectiveness principles – country ownership, a focus on results, inclusiveness, and mutual accountability – and a country-level monitoring exercise, to catalyze progress on the SDGs for people, planet, and prosperity. The flagship monitoring exercise provides new evidence on country-specific challenges to boost the effectiveness of development co-operation. A source of evidence for three SDG targets (SDGs 5.c, 17.15 and 17.16), it drives collective accountability in countries, and globally. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name | South-South Global Thinkers Initiative: Strengthening Evidence-based Policymaking for South-South and Triangular Cooperation
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Partners (please list all partners) | UNOSSC, UNDP |
Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) | 17 |
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Description (max 150 words)
| UNOSSC and UNDP initiated the second phase of the South-South Global Thinkers Project, a joint initiative to advance voices from the global South on global development challenges. Since its launch on 2016, the project has established partnerships with 11 major think-tank networks across the global South, launched an online platform to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration among think-tanks and researchers, produced over 40 research publications and policy briefs on topics critical for South-South and Triangular Cooperation, integrated perspectives from the Global South into major advocacy tools such as the Human Development Report, convened workshops and dialogues to strengthen capacities of think-tank networks from the Global South to provide evidence-driven analysis and advocacy services, and facilitated discussions at key policy forums, including the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) and South-South Global Development Expo, amplifying the voices of Southern partners in global development dialogues. |
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