United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Africa (UNDP RBA)

Special Assistant to the Regional Director, Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations Development Programme, One United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, United States

Phone : +1 2129065928 / Fax : +1 2129066310

Web site : www.undp.org/africa/

UNDP is the UN’s global development network.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP’s network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Its focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:

Democratic Governance
Poverty Reduction
Crisis Prevention and Recovery
Environment and Energy
HIV/AIDS

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all its activities, it encourages the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.

With its extensive representation and network of partners in 45 Sub-Saharan African countries, UNDP, in collaboration with regional institutions and other UN agencies and partners, is building the capacities of African governments and communities to accelerate progress toward the MDGs.