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Lessons Learned Review of UN Support to Core Public Administration Functions in the Immediate Aftermath of Conflict 22 May 2013

Oslo Governance Centre 2012 - A Year in Review 30 Apr 2013

Learning from the past - directions for the future 09 Apr 2013

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Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption in Development

This Practice Note helps clarify UNDP's position by building on internal knowledge mapping, as well as reflecting and refocusing UNDP's anti-corruption priorities within its mandates and with respect to new developments in this field. more

Mainstreaming Human Rights in Development Policies and Programming: UNDP Experiences

UNDP's work is based on the belief that people experience poverty not only as a lack of income but also as a lack of education or health care or as a lack of dignity and participation in a community. These dimensions of people's lives are considered so important that governments all around the more

Making the Law Work for Everyone - Vol I

Report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor Volume I more

Making the Law Work for Everyone - Vol II

The vast majority of the world economy lives in the informal or extralegal sector. This second volume of the report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor is based on outcomes of overall implementation strategies on access to justice and the rule of law, property rights, labour rights, more

Mali: Improving Governance and Anti-Corruption

This report presents the findings of the review of the project "Improving governance and fighting corruption in Mali", implemented between 2008 and 2010 with DGTTF funding. The Project has supported the implementation of the NEPAD African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and the more

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Democratic Governance

The response to the recent global economic crisis by many countries around the world, particularly developed nations, has demonstrated that the State has an important role to play in addressing critical challenges. This is also an important lesson for developing countries as public institutions must have the capacity to address these difficulties while at the same time delivering the benefits of human development.

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UNDP has decades of concrete development experience in countries ranging from fragile States to middle-income countries like Brazil and Indonesia. This, combined with our four focus areas, make us uniquely situated and qualified to answer the UN’s call for a better and more sustainable future.

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