LocationsCore Funding
Why core matters?
Core (Regular) resources underpin UNDP’s operational capacity and networks, and presence at global, regional and country levels, across 170 countries and territories. This allows us to provide on-demand support to national governments as part of the broader UN System support.
Being the most flexible funding modality , core allows UNDP to lay the foundational work in programme design that will help attract more resources from other sources. This flexibility allowed us to quickly re-purpose existing core funds to directly support the needs of Country Offices.
COVID-19 is a development crisis
As the leading United Nations agency on development, UNDP is playing a key role in supporting countries, as part of UN Country Teams, to:
Rapidly respond to COVID-19 crisis
Safeguard progress on the SDGs
Leave no one behind
Transparency and accountability
The introduction of a COVID-19 Project Marker enables UNDP to report on the contribution of core resources and its impact in our integrated response.
Where the need is greatest
Low-income countries, with pre-existing vulnerabilities, high levels of inequalities and weak institutions will struggle to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNDP continues to ensure that the majority (at least 85% as mandated by its Executive Board) of Core is spent on programmes in the poorest countries, while also addressing pockets of poverty and vulnerability – including women and marginalized communities – in middle-income countries.
How flexibility helps
Across regions, UNDP is using unspent and reprogrammed core resources at the country level as catalytic funding, and to jump-start critical activities for on-the-ground COVID-19 response.
Core is key to UNDP’s long-standing relationship and trust with governments before,
during and after a crisis.