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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. Its current Administrator is Mark Malloch Brown.


UNDP is also one of several Implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility (GEF).


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UNDP Globally (542 words)
UNDP's specific role is to support countries to build capacity to eradicate poverty, using targets set nationally, regionally and globally through the UN sponsored global conferences.
UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication.
UNDP resident representatives normally serve as resident coordinators of the operational activities of the United Nations system, supporting at the request of governments the coordination of development and humanitarian assistance.
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