2006 Annual Report

Developing capacity, creating opportunities

UNDP supports training programmes to help Afghans seize new opportunities presented by information and communication technology. Until four years ago, the internet was banned in Afghanistan.

UNDP works to strengthen the capacity of national partners to manage their own development effectively. This means empowering people and giving them tools to chart their own course and working to establish the larger institutional frameworks that will help to transform societies. It also means targeting developing countries' abilities to deal with regional and global issues, enabling them, for example, to respond to threats such as avian flu, and to benefit from a more development-oriented world trading system.

UNDP helps strengthen national capacity through its interconnected development practices: democratic governance, poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery, energy and environment and HIV/AIDS. Many of our interventions are pilot exercises, designed to increase capacity in ways that may be replicable on a larger scale elsewhere. And all of our capacity strengthening work can draw upon our global development network, where a lesson learned, for example, in Brazil, may be applicable to a development challenge in Mozambique or Bangladesh.

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