History
of Agency in the World and Iran
UNDP
is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting
countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
UNDP is on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own
solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop
capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and its wide range of partners. UNDP
was founded in 1965 and its Headquarters is located in New York.
UNDP
has had a representative office in Iran since 1966 and has worked closely with
its major development partners – the Government, local councils, civil society,
academic institutions, and the private sector – to promote sustainable human
development in the country.
In
each country office, the UNDP Resident Representative normally also serves as
the Resident Coordinator of development activities for the United Nations
system as a whole. Through such coordination, UNDP seeks to ensure the most
effective use of UN and international aid resources.
Priorities
Globally and in Iran
World
leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP’s
network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals.
UNDP’s focus is to help countries build and share solutions to the challenges
of democratic governance, poverty alleviation, crisis prevention and recovery,
energy and environment, and HIV/AIDS.
UNDP
helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our
activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of
women.
The
annual Human Development Report, commissioned by UNDP, focuses the global
debate on key development issues, providing new measurement tools, innovative
analysis and often controversial policy proposals. The global Report’s
analytical framework and inclusive approach carry over into regional, national
and local Human Development Reports, also supported by UNDP.
Main
projects/activities in Iran
The
UNDP Country Programme for Iran (2005-2009) focuses
primarily on strengthening capacities and capabilities for achieving the MDGs;
enhancing good governance; improving economic performance and employment
generation, as well as sustainable development, disaster management and energy
efficiency.
UNDP
has undertaken a broad MDGs initiative in Iran to mainstream the goals in the
country’s national plans, to localize successful community-based techniques,
and to institutionalize the MDGs reporting process to help the country to
achieve the goals. Work on the MDGs in Iran has resulted in, most notably, the
inception of the MDGs National Action Plan; the establishment of a National
MDGs Steering Committee (composed of the Government, the civil society, the
private sector and the UN agencies); the initiation of an extensive advocacy
campaign, and the preparation of two national progress reports on the MDGs in
2004 and 2007.
UNDP
has piloted a poverty alleviation initiative in Sistan-Baluchistan,
the poorest province in Iran, and is introducing the results of this experience
into future community empowerment activities at the provincial level.
The
organization’s mandate also includes promoting good governance and human rights
in Iran. Under a five-year project, UNDP draws on a broad range of government
and non-government partners for capacity development of human rights centres; promotion of equity with emphasis on negating all
forms of violence and injustice; promotion of freedom of thought, conscience,
and expression; and alignment and compatibility with international human rights
standards and systems. UNDP has also worked with the judiciary on greater
access to justice, and with the Majlis on
parliamentary strengthening and capacity building.
UNDP
helps Iran address its environmental challenges and meet its commitments to
international environmental conventions on combating desertification,
protecting biodiversity, reducing green house gases, reducing Persistent
Organic Pollutants and eliminating ozone depleting substances. The UNDP Global
Environment Facility/Small Grants Programme (GEF/SGP)
works to conserve the global environment through local action and local
participation.
UNDP
is also working closely with the government on reducing the impact of natural
disasters on economic and social development. It strives to strengthen national
capacities for disaster risk management and coordination and has actively
contributed to the reconstruction programmes in the
earthquake-affected areas in Bam and Lorestan.
Working
in close partnership with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria (GFATM), UNDP helps place HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria at the centre of
national development dialogue in Iran and build partnerships between
government, civil society and the private sector to coordinate an effective
response to these diseases which represent developmental challenges in this
country.
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