United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Institutional Support 2021

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the United Development Programme (UNDP). UNDP uses these funds along with other donor funding to achieve its mandate. Canada’s annual contribution supports core functions and the implementation of the UNDP Strategic Plan for the period 2021. As the UN’s development agency UNDP supports country-led efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda and achieve the sustainable development goals. It works on multi-sectoral integrated approaches to help countries eradicate poverty and leave no one behind accelerate structural transformation for sustainable development and build resilience to crises and shocks.

The expected results for this project described by the UNDP in its 2018-2021 Strategic Plan include: (1) integrate the 2030 Agenda Paris Agreement and other international agreements integrated in national development plans and budgets; (2) increasingly inclusive effective and accountable governance processes and institutions (constitution-making electoral parliamentary rule-of-law human rights and public service); (3) government functions and inclusive basic services for post-crisis stabilisation and return to sustainable development restored; (4) women and other marginalized groups empowered to access basic services and assets for productive and sustainable livelihoods; (5) gender-responsive and risk-informed development investments for crisis response and recovery; and (6) gender-responsive legal and regulatory frameworks policies institutions and financing frameworks that address conservation sustainable use and equitable benefit-sharing of natural resources.