The United Nations Development Program | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Development_Programme


00:01:56 1 Founding
00:03:30 2 Budget
00:03:44 2.1 Funding information table
00:04:28 3 Functions
00:05:00 3.1 Democratic governance
00:05:37 3.2 Poverty reduction
00:07:12 3.3 Crisis prevention and recovery
00:08:03 3.4 Environment and energy
00:09:47 3.5 HIV/AIDS
00:10:08 3.6 Hub for Innovative Partnerships
00:10:30 3.7 Human Development Report
00:10:49 3.8 Evaluation
00:11:19 4 Global Policy Centers
00:11:41 5 UN co-ordination role
00:12:03 5.1 United Nations Development Group
00:13:11 5.2 Resident coordinator system
00:14:01 6 Controversies
00:14:10 6.1 NSA surveillance
00:14:40 6.2 Allegations of UNDP resources used by Hamas
00:15:34 6.3 Criticism
00:16:02 6.4 Disarmament and controversy
00:16:27 7 Administrator
00:17:55 7.1 Associate Administrator
00:18:22 7.2 Assistant administrators
00:18:47 8 Goodwill Ambassadors
00:19:25 8.1 Global Ambassadors



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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network.
Headquartered in New York City, UNDP advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. It provides expert advice, training and grants support to developing countries, with increasing emphasis on assistance to the least developed countries. It promotes technical and investment cooperation among nations. The status of UNDP is that of an executive board within the United Nations General Assembly. The UNDP Administrator is the third highest-ranking official of the United Nations after the United Nations Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General.To accomplish the SDGs and encourage global development, UNDP focuses on poverty reduction, HIV/AIDS, democratic governance, energy and environment, social development, and crisis prevention and recovery. UNDP also encourages the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women in all of its programmes. The UNDP Human Development Report Office also publishes an annual Human Development Report (since 1990) to measure and analyse developmental progress. In addition to a global Report, UNDP publishes regional, national, and local Human Development Reports.UNDP is funded entirely by voluntary contributions from member nations. The organization operates in 177 countries, where it works with local governments to meet development challenges and develop local capacity. Additionally, the UNDP works internationally to help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP was one of the main UN agencies involved in the development of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
UNDP works with nations on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and its wide range of partners. However UNDP offers to help only if the different nations request it to do so.