The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the largest multilateral source of grant technical assistance in the world. Headquartered in New York City and part of the United Nations, this voluntarily funded organization provides expert advice, training, and limited equipment to developing countries, with increasing emphasis on assistance to the least developed countries. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... A developing country is a country with low average income compared to the world average. ... The category of least developed countries is a social/economic classification status applied to 51 countries around the world by political scientists and economists through the United Nations. ...

Its current Administrator is Mark Malloch Brown. On May 5, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly, representing 191 countries, unanimously confirmed Kemal Derviş, a former finance minister of Turkey and senior World Bank official, as the next Administrator. Derviş, presently a member of Turkey’s parliament, is expected to officially start his four-year term on August 15, 2005. Mark Malloch Brown (born 1953), a British official, is chief of staff to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, appointed 3 January 2005. ... May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kemal Dervis was the Minister of State responsible for economy in Turkey during Bülent Ecevits last government. ... The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means of financing states. ... The Grand National Assembly (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi in Turkish) is the unicameral parliament of Turkey which carries out legislative functions. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

UNDP is also one of several Implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established by donor governments in 1991 to pre-empt politically more radically alternative models of conservation finance proposed at the Rio Earth Summit, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that are claimed to protect the global environment. ...

See also

• UN Human Development Index

The UN Human Development Index (HDI) measures poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, and other factors. ...

External link

• Official UNDP web site (http://www.undp.org/)