Fifty years from now, the United Nations Development Program might look more like a knowledge-dealing think tank than the “face of the U.N.” on the ground around the world. But it has a few tasks to tackle before then.
UNDP will work on strengthening transparent governance that benefits all of society and helping countries adapt to the behemoth challenge of climate change, UNDP Administrator Helen Clark told Devex in New York ahead of the agency’s 50th anniversary ministerial meeting last week.
Since its creation in 1966, UNDP has been charged with leading the U.N.’s “global war on want.” But underneath the ambitious axiom, the agency has been engaged in the tough grind of examining changing drivers of poverty — and iterating on its original mission in order to address them.
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Kelli Rogers has worked as an Associate Editor and Southeast Asia Correspondent for Devex, with a particular focus on gender. Prior to that, she reported on social and environmental issues from Nairobi, Kenya. Kelli holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, and has reported from more than 20 countries.
