Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Our Partners

National governments are UNDP’s most important partners. UNDP supports national governments in achieving their development goals.

Civil society organizations: UNDP works closely with civil society organizations (CSOs) at all levels to promote the Millennium Development Goals and help people build a better life. As one example of its work with CSOs, UNDP launched a small grants programme to strengthen partnerships with civil society organizations in post-conflict countries, including Colombia, Liberia and Sri Lanka.

Regional organizations: UNDP is engaged with regional organizations in a number of activities such as providing technical and financial assistance, and exchanging knowledge and best practices on crisis prevention and recovery.  For instance, UNDP collaborates with the Organization of American States and other partners on the publication and dissemination of a Handbook for Dialogue Practitioners. Another example is the partnership between UNDP and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to reduce the availability of small arms and light weapons in the West African region.

Bilateral partners: In addition to providing financial assistance through UNDP’s Thematic Trust Fund for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR TTF), bilateral donors are important policy partners. UNDP actively collaborates with donors on a bilateral basis and in donor forums like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC).

UN agencies: UNDP works with a wide range of UN agencies to address disaster and violent conflict issues. These agencies include, among others, the UN Development Group (UNDG), UNICEF , UNIFEM, UN Fund for Population Activities, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UN-HABITAT, the UN High Commission for Refugees, the International Labor Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.
 
UN departments: In collaboration with the Department for Political Affairs and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UNDP partners with national actors to build capacity for conflict prevention. In the context of peacekeeping missions, UNDP works with the Department of Peace-keeping Operations and others to develop peace-building strategies; plan and implement peace operations; and set UN standards for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.

Inter-agency cooperation: UNDP is vice chair of the provisional International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Management Oversight Board. The ISDR is an initiative of UN and non-UN stakeholders including the World Bank, World Meteorological Organization, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, the United Nations Environment Programme and the ProVention Consortium.  Its main objectives are to increase public awareness to understand risk, vulnerability and disaster reduction globally and to obtain commitment from public authorities to implement disaster reduction policies and actions.

UNDP is actively involved in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Humanitarian Affairs and is leading the work on Early Recovery within the new cluster response system.

UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery hosts the secretariat for the Inter-departmental Framework for Coordination (Framework Team), the UN’s only internal mechanism for addressing long-term and early conflict prevention issues. 

Additionally, UNDP assists in the coordinated UN effort to combat avian influenza. (For more information, visit the UNDG’s page or WHO’s page on avian influenza.)

UNDP seeks opportunities to work with new institutions and mechanisms as they develop. Recent examples include the Peace Building Commission, the Peace Building Support Office and the Peace Building Fund.

World Bank: One of UNDP’s key partners is the World Bank. UNDP is actively engaged on a number of issues with the World Bank, including planning and assessment tools such as post-conflict needs assessments, transitional results matrices, and transitional plans. Other joint initiatives concentrate on peace building, repatriation, reintegration, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants. Recent collaboration is exploring access to aid, best practices in post-conflict statebuilding, and expedited loans for crisis countries. UNDP and the World Bank also collaborate in post-disaster situations, such as conducting damage and needs assessments.