Minsk Region’s Blueprint

The Review highlights how strategic agility and resilient partnerships enabled the delivery of critical results across key thematic pathways:

Green Transformation: UNDP provided crucial support for Belarus’s national climate strategy, advanced biodiversity conservation and ecotourism, and launched a new South-South cooperation project for forest safeguarding.

Digital Future: The report showcases UNDP’s role in shaping the country's digital frontier by advancing the national dialogue on Artificial Intelligence (AI), supporting the creation of AI standards, and modernizing the vocational education system.

Inclusive Society: UNDP fostered inclusion through local initiatives for vulnerable groups, promoted "silver entrepreneurship," and strengthened evidence-based policymaking with new tools to measure well-being and poverty.

The Review showcases UNDP's commitment to building a sustainable, prosperous, and inclusive future for all.

Our world is facing unprecedented challenges, from sharpening inequality to rapid climate change and environmental degradation.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Belarus remains steadfast in its commitment to support the people of Belarus in their journey towards sustainable development.

In 2023, our efforts focused on forming practical solutions for a green and circular economy, climate action, waste management, public health, social inclusion, economic development, and public-private partnership, driven by innovation and digitalization. 

As we move forward, we invite you to explore the 2023 Annual Review that encapsulates contributions of all partners towards a sustainable future.

The 2023/24 Human Development Report (HDR), titled “Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world", reveals a troubling trend: the rebound in the global Human Development Index (HDI) – a summary measure reflecting a country’s Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, education, and life expectancy – has been partial, incomplete, and unequal.
Rich countries are experiencing record-high levels of human development while half of the world’s poorest countries remain below their pre-crisis level of progress.
Uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality, and stoking political polarization on a global scale. The result is a dangerous gridlock that must be urgently tackled through collective action.
The report emphasizes how global interdependence is being reconfigured and proposes a path forward where multilateralism plays a pivotal role.

Belarus ranks 69th among 193 countries in the world and belongs to the group of states with a very high level of human development. The Human Development Index for Belarus in 2022 was 0.801.

Driving the Future of Development

2023 was a year of deep disruption – the hottest year on record, a proliferation of conflicts, pervasive inequalities. In this context, UNDP stepped forward to support countries address the greatest development challenges of our time. 
UNDP delivered a record $4.9 billion in support to programme countries to tackle multidimensional poverty, promote gender equality, strengthen accountable and inclusive governance, increase energy access and build resilience to crises and climate change, maintaining the development promise to accompany countries in their journey towards a more sustainable future.