UNDP as the United Nation's global development network, advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. In the Pacific, UNDP has an office in Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and a recently established sub-office in the Solomon Islands. The Fiji Multi-Country Office serves the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Republic of Marshall Islands, Palau, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Tonga, Kiribati, Nauru and the Solomon Islands. The Samoan based Multi-Country Office serves Samoa, Niue, the Cook Islands and Tokelau. The Pacific Centre based in Suva, serves the three UNDP Multi Country Offices based in Fiji and Samoa, the Country Office in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Through this network of offices, the Pacific Centre provides support to the 15 Pacific Island Countries.

In this new period of assistance, UNDP Fiji has produced a Multi Country Programme Document (MCPD) 2008-2012 which have been endorsed by the 10 countries following wide stakeholder consultation with governments, civil society, regional organizations and development partners. The MCPD is aligned with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), country priorities as reflected in national development plans, the Pacific United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2008-2012 and the Pacific Plan for regional integration and cooperation. The MCPD seeks to assist countries in achieving the MDGs through building resilient and inclusive societies based on four key outcome areas : Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals, Good Governance and human rights, Crisis Prevention and recovery and Environment and sustainable management across the ten countries.

Cross-cutting themes and Joint Programmes

UNDP programming will address the linkages between these four objectives, and mainstream into country-specific priorities. This includes the promotion of human rights and protecting the dignity and integrity of all people; gender equity, guided by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Pacific Platform for Action on the Advancement of Women and Gender Equality 2005-2015; and promoting volunteerism. Joint programmes will support national development, linkages and cohesion in the areas of HIV/AIDS, young people, national planning for MDG achievement, support to civil society, and, subject to inter-agency agreement, environmental and disaster risk management.

* Outcome 1 - Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals - more detailed info
* Outcome 2 - Good governance and human rights - more detailed info
* Outcome 3 - Crisis Prevention and Recovery - more detailed info
* Outcome 4 - Environment and Sustainable Management - more detailed info

(Majuro, June 16, 2009) - The head of the Fiji based United Nations agencies; Mr Knut Ostby today met and presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Honourable Litokwa Tomeing. Also present at the event were members of the RMI Cabinet.

Representing 10 countries in the region including RMI and in his capacity as the new UN Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Mr Ostby's visit i...

June 9, Suva, Fiji - The United Nations Development Programme and the Australian Agency for International Development have agreed to jointly fund an aid management and coordination project in Tuvalu. The aim is to enhance effective and efficient assistance to Tuvalu to ensure that it is fully in line with the country's development priorities.  

The cost-sharing arrangement will help to reduce transaction costs for development assistance and will further cement the two partn...

HONIARA, 26 May - The Ministry of Development Planning and Aid Coordination today concluded a two-year agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to enhance the coordination and management of international aid to Solomon Islands.

Today's agreement will assist the Government in meeting its commitments under the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, under which the Solomon Islands committed to take the lead in coordinating aid at all levels.

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