United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Institutional Support 2019-2020

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 is used to support core functions and the implementation of the UNDP's 2018-2021 Strategic Plan. As the UN’s development agency UNDP supports country-led efforts to implement the Agenda 2030 and achieve the sustainable development goals. It works on multi-sectoral integrated approaches to help countries eradicate poverty accelerate structural transformation for sustainable development and build resilience to crises and shocks. UNDP's focus is on providing development solutions adapted to country needs that help to: keep people out of poverty strengthen effective accountable and inclusive governance enhance prevention and recovery for resilient societies promote nature-based solutions for a sustainable planet close the clean energy gap and advance gender equality.

The expected results for this project described by the United Nations Development Programme in its 2018-2021 Strategic Plan include: (1) 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.