Anchored in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to the principles of universality, equality and leaving no one behind, the UNDP vision for the Strategic Plan, 2018-2021 is to help countries achieve sustainable development by eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development and building resilience to crises and shocks.
This Strategic Plan sets out a vision for the evolution of UNDP over the next four years, responding to a changing development landscape and the evolving needs of partners. The Plan describes how UNDP plans to support countries to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals and related agreements.
“As we set our strategic directions for the next four years, we — the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWomen) — commit to working better together, characterized by stronger coherence and collaboration,” reports says.
Key areas of collaboration
The principles of leaving no one behind and reaching the furthest behind first permeate all four of the strategic plans. In direct response to the QCPR, UNDP is going to harness its respective collaborative advantage in compliance with respective mandates in below key areas:
- Eradicating poverty;
- Addressing climate change;
- Improving adolescent and maternal health;
- Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
- Ensuring greater availability and use of disaggregated data for
sustainable development; - Emphasizing that development is a central goal in itself and that in countries in conflict and post-conflict situations the development work of the entities of the United Nations development system can contribute to peacebuilding and sustaining peace, in accordance with national plans, needs and
priorities and respecting national ownership.
These areas of collaborative advantage have positive multiplier effects across the Sustainable Development Goals and require multisectoral approaches for which the diversity of the United Nations system is an asset. They also provide a basis for closer collaboration with other United Nations entities as well as other partners.
Original source: UNDP
Published on 13 July 2018
