United Nations Development Programme
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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 the largest agency within 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 former Administrator, Mark Malloch Brown is now Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary General. On May 5, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly, representing 191 countries, unanimously confirmed Kemal Derviş, a former finance minister of Turkey and senior World Bank official, as the next Administrator. Derviş started his four-year term on August 15, 2005. The UNDP Administrator is the third-highest ranking official in the U.N., after the Secretary-General and the Deputy Secretary-General.
It was formed in 1965 to combine the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance and the United Nations Special Fund. Since 1990, the UNDP has annually published the Human Development Report, based on the Human Development Index. UNDP is also one of several Implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
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Functions of UNDP
- To provide economic project to the member countries
- To provide capital at the member countries to have national development
to help the developing nations to make better use of thier natural resources, to expand productivity, to improve the living standard and to contribute to world economy; against this background.
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