The Role of UNDP Syria
As score-keeper and chief facilitator of the MDGs, UNDP has produced tangible results with the Syrian Government and resident UN agencies. These positive outcomes are reflected through the formulation of the National Tenth Five-Year Plan, an initiative put together by the Syrian Government in an attempt to streamline the country towards achieving MDGs.The development objectives of UNDP Syria are:
- Strengthening and better targeting social protection
- Improving structures and climate for trade, investment and competitiveness
- Improving employment environment and opportunities for skill-enhancement for the under- and unemployed, especially women and youth
- Enhancing poverty alleviation programme including income generation, and improving access to extension services in rural and poor areas.
- Policy and decision-making supported by quality information and analyses.
- Accountability of executive bodies reinforced, toward the general public and in regard to committed UN conventions.
- Democratic electoral processes and civic education enhanced.
- An empowered civil society involved in the development and implementation of public policies, planning and programmes.
- Improving administrative services for citizens and courts’ administrations taking into account citizens’ rights and the needs of vulnerable groups.
- Planning and decentralization policies and structures enhanced
- Strengthened institutional mechanisms and policies for improving the legal status of women and increasing gender equality.
- National capacity strengthened for meeting obligations towards ratified environmental conventions (biodiversity, climate change, and desertification conventions; and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants – POPs) and national environmental legislation enforced with a particular focus on water policies.
- Improved environmental situation with the involvement of local communities and the private sector
- Comprehensive and coordinated gender-sensitive disaster management system in place, with national and local capacity enhanced.
Further Details of the above objectives are elaborated within the Country Programme Document (2007 - 2011) .
Implementation
The implementation of the above mentioned objectives is executed within the MDG attainment framework under the following practice areas:
- Democratic Governance
- Poverty Reduction
- Crisis Prevention and Recovery
- Energy and Environment
- Information and Communications Technology
- HIV/AIDS
Aiming to meet the Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations Development Programme (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. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. In 2000, at the Millennium Summit, world leaders pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empower women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development. UNDP’s network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these goals.
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 UNDP Resident Representative in each country office normally coordinates development activities for the UN system, helping to ensure that resources achieve the greatest impact. We also administer the UN Capital Development Fund, UN Development Fund for Women and UN Volunteers.
Our extensive advocacy work includes commissioning the annual Human Development Report and supporting hundreds of regional, national and local human development reports. These provide new measurement tools and in-depth analyses that spur policy debates on pressing issues, drawing political attention and prompting action on all levels.
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 UNDP Resident Representative in each country office normally coordinates development activities for the UN system, helping to ensure that resources achieve the greatest impact. We also administer the UN Capital Development Fund, UN Development Fund for Women and UN Volunteers.
Our extensive advocacy work includes commissioning the annual Human Development Report and supporting hundreds of regional, national and local human development reports. These provide new measurement tools and in-depth analyses that spur policy debates on pressing issues, drawing political attention and prompting action on all levels.