ISTANBUL — The United Nations Development Programme is adapting its approach to engaging and working with the private sector — and it is in the process of finalizing and implementing a new strategy to guide that work.
The new policy reflects a changing development landscape and a growing role for the private sector and public policy to work together in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner told Devex in an interview.
“We live in an age where increasingly the way that public policy and the private sector can interact will determine whether we can actually make these transitions, these quantum leaps,” he said. “The realization that public policy and the private sector need to act in at least cohesion if not unison clearly is more and more visible.”