In UNDP governments have a firm friend they can rely on when the going gets tough, a friend trusted enough to help them deal with sensitive problems and close enough to ask frank questions about their economic and social choices. The know-how might lie in the UN family or elsewhere in UNDP's networks. The problems of poverty are bigger than anyone can deal with alone. UNDP builds strategic alliances, harnessing the knowledge, experience and expertise of others. So every UNDP dollar is multiplied through a worldwide coalition against poverty.
Nations are unique, but they often share similar problems.
Some of what works in Bangladesh might also work in Bolivia. Empower the poor and they become the solution, not the problem.