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Today, the world faces the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War. Two billion people — a quarter of the world’s population — live in places affected by such conflict. At the same time, the world faces an increase in extreme weather events linked to climate change, with the cost increasing nearly eight-fold globally since the 1970s.
UNDP spends 50% of its resources in fragile contexts, investing in all 60 countries defined as fragile by the OECD – boosting recovery, building resilience and bringing hope to the most fraught parts of the world.
Most recently, in response to the Gaza War, UNDP supported critical health and municipal waste management workers and installed solar-powered desalination units for 85,000 people. We are preparing a comprehensive early recovery programme with our partners to respond as soon as security conditions allow. Since its establishment, UNDP’s Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP) has delivered more than $1.7 billion across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Our Crisis Offer puts the humanitarian-development-peace nexus into effect. We work with local, national and international partners to address the root causes of crises; prioritize conflict prevention; promote social cohesion; and invest in lives and livelihoods in tandem with humanitarian and peace operations.
The Crisis Offer also supports governments at all levels to mainstream disaster risk reduction to reduce vulnerabilities to natural hazard-related shocks and strengthens disaster preparedness and recovery capacities. Promoting gender equality is also at the centre of our Crisis Offer.
Recovery on every level
Devastating rains, floods and landslides in 2022 impacted more than 33 million people across Pakistan, displacing 8 million and damaging 2 million homes. UNDP's Flood Recovery Programme continues to benefit households through cash for work, resilient infrastructure, livelihood revival, women's training, and water, sanitation and hygiene services.
Highlights of our current and future work
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Early recovery and reconstruction
Ukraine
- Energy-generating equipment kept energy supplies stable for 6 million people
- Clearance and safe disposal of more than 150,000 tons of rubble from homes, hospitals, and schools
- National demining personnel fully equipped to enhance the safety of 8.5 million people – over 20% of today’s residents of Ukraine
- Since 2022, 21 million Ukrainians accessed crucial digital services, including IDP registration, pension services, and monetary support for veterans
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Stabilization
2 Regional Stabilization Facilities
Lake Chad (Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria) and Liptako Gourma (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger)
- Mobilized over $300 million since 2019
- Through large-scale rehabilitation and reconstruction in 46 total localities, nearly 300,000 people have access to quality health care
- More than 400,000 formerly displaced people have returned to their homes. Community perception surveys show that 1.1 million people, including 600,000 women, now feel safe and secure
- More than 53,000 people, mostly women and youth, have directly benefited from livelihood support
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Area-based approaches, working directly with communities
Afghanistan
- UNDP and partners have supported over 16.8 million people since 2021
- Small grants and training for 75,000 women-owned enterprises, with 900,000 jobs created by the enterprises
Myanmar
- Working in 77 townships across the country, UNDP reached 2.1 million vulnerable people, half in Rakhine, from 2021 to 2023, addressing urgent basic needs and supporting livelihoods for vulnerable people
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Development solutions to forced displacement
In 2023, UNDP helped create jobs for 500,000 Syrian refugees and host community members, and trained almost 40,000 civil servants in Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt as part of the Regional Refugee Resilience Plan (3RP), which UNDP co-leads with UNHCR. Over the past six years, the 3RP has invested $1.6 billion in strengthening national public institutions
Mozambique
- UNDP, in partnership with national and local authorities, has helped to re-establish state presence and restored livelihoods and essential services, allowing the safe return of over 500,000 internally displaced people
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Disaster management
Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru
- Established a Regional Risk Mechanism with governments to enhance climate risk monitoring, information management and forecasts projection for prevention and preparedness actions related to El Niño
Nepal
- Helped rebuild infrastructure and bolster disaster risk management following the major earthquakes of 2015 and 2023, helping to reduce lives lost from 9,000 to 154
Afghanistan, Myanmar, Türkiye
- Conducting joint post-disaster needs assessments and the development of recovery plans in 2023 under the EU-UN-World Bank partnership, with ADB in Afghanistan too