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Across the world, UNDP is engaged in taking on the toughest development challenges, helping countries fight poverty, responding to crises, and striving to build a better future. To do this effectively needs reliable funding. The most important funding is called "core" resources, provided mostly by member countries.
Here's why that flexibility matters:
- Helping the Most Vulnerable: A significant share of core funding goes directly to the countries facing the greatest development challenges, focusing on those hardest to reach and most in need.
- Fast Crisis Response: When disaster strikes or conflict breaks out, core funds allow UNDP to act immediately, providing vital support in those crucial ‘make or break’ early moments.
- Mobilizing Resources: Core funding acts like a smart investment. When UNDP can show it has a solid foundation with core money, it encourages other organizations, charities, and even businesses to pitch in with more specific funding, multiplying our work’s impact.
- Trying New Ideas: Core funding allows UNDP to experiment with innovative solutions to development challenges, like our "Accelerator Labs" that explore new approaches and solutions. It also supports important research and reports that shape global thinking on development.
- Keeping Things Running Smoothly: This flexible money also underpins UNDP's global network of offices and staff, allowing them to provide on-the-ground support to governments and work efficiently within the broader UN system. It also ensures that we can maintain high standards and be transparent and accountable in our work.
UNDP's core resources have had a profound impact on development across Asia and the Pacific, and the world.
Core Funding in Action
Learn more about how core funding accelerates development gains.
