About Company

We focus on four connected areas: creating prosperity for everyone, strengthening how countries are governed, building crisis resilience, and ensuring a healthy planet. We accelerate progress in these areas through digital technology and AI, advancing women’s rights and equality, and mobilizing sustainable finance. Everything we do is grounded in human rights and a commitment to reach those left furthest behind.

UNDP brings partners together across the UN and beyond. We stay and work in the world’s toughest places, connecting relief efforts with long-term development. We help countries fight poverty, support fair elections, tackle climate change, and expand digital access by tapping into knowledge, resources, and practical solutions that improve people's lives.

History

The Charter of the United Nations came into force in 1945. UNDP was established in 1965 by the UN General Assembly, building on the merger of two earlier UN programs for technical assistance and development funding.