UNDP India

Our focus

India and UNDP in action

Integrated development solutions driven by country priorities and UNDP’s new Strategic Plan.

Our Strategic Plan 2022-2025 introduces the evolution of #NextGenUNDP into #FutureSmartUNDP. More than a mantra, it is our new benchmark for success in the future of development. Building on UNDP’s 50 years of expertise across 170 countries, this new approach allows us to focus and prioritize where country demands are greatest. By working together in this way, we aim to expand people’s choices for a fairer, sustainable future, with people and planet in balance.

 

Our work

See how our integrated signature solutions – powered by digitalization, innovation and development financing – are accelerating impact and scale in India

 

Gender cuts across our focus areas mentioned below

Gender equality and women's empowerment is a core commitment of UNDP. We recognize that they are integral to sustainable development and cut across issues that lie at the heart of human development.

SDG Acceleration

UNDP executes the Indian model of localisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by establishing a network of Co-ordination Centres, in partnership with State Governments for expanding, building, planning, implementation and monitoring capacities. The Sustainable Development Goal Coordination Centres (SDGCCs) and other UNDP State Offices, in collaboration with NITI Aayog and State Planning Departments, help integrate the Global Goals into sub-national plans, policies, budgets and programmes aiming to address the social and spatial gaps. UNDP also promotes evidence-informed decision-making and monitoring by investing in availability and use of timely, quality and disaggregated data (such as by gender, age, disability and location) including subnational composite indices on the Goals and multidimensional poverty.
Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

UNDP’s programmes are designed to achieve integrated development solutions driven by India's priorities. They aim to secure livelihoods through skills trainings, support protective legislations and access to entitlements, provide policy research and evidence, build capacity, and promote South-South cooperation to eradicate poverty, and ensure government's anti-poverty policies are more inclusive.

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Health System Strengthening

UNDP promotes strong institutions that can progressively deliver universal access to basic services. In India, UNDP's work is anchored in the national priorities of e-governance, Digital India, citizen-centric service delivery, effective implementation and justice delivery. In order to fast track implementation of government programmes, states and local governance institutions can be supported through systems strengthening. Systems strengthening is essential to achieve last mile impact, and UNDP aims to build on its vast experience to expand its systems strengthening expertise further into national institutions, missions and programmes in support of delivery of core services.

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Action for Climate and Environment

UNDP is committed to promoting low carbon, climate resilient and inclusive development with a focus on natural resource management. We support the Government of India in meeting national development objectives along with commitments under key multilateral environment agreements by providing leadership support, fostering South-South cooperation and creating innovative partnerships with the public and private sectors.

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