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A Matter of Choice: Making AI Work for Advancing Mongolia’s Human Development

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant future as it is reshaping our region and the world in real time. But will it deepen divides or unlock new opportunities for people and countries like Mongolia? That depends on the choices we make today.

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Reviving the Steppe: Mongolia’s Living Laboratory for Combating Desertification

What if the answer to desertification and land degradation was already being tested in Mongolia’s wind-swept rangelands? As Mongolia prepares to host UNCCD COP17, the world should take note of Elsentasarkhai Station - a living lab for combating desertification.

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Fewer, Stronger: Scaling Climate-Smart Herding for Land, Livelihoods, and Resilience in Mongolia

“Nature is asking us to change. It is telling us we can’t keep as many animals. We must raise fewer but better ones.” - Dolgorsuren, nomadic herder from Mongolia. See how she is building resilient herding supported by the Global Environment Facility-funded ENSURE project.

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Mongolian Herders Are Reinventing Their Future in a Changing Climate

Meet Naranbaatar and Baasanjargal—a Mongolian herder couple reinventing tradition to adapt to climate change. With support from the Global Environment Facility-funded ENSURE project, they are building collective resilience via herder groups, improved feed, and smarter pasture use.

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What we do

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, working in 177 countries and territories. UNDP opened its representative office in Ulaanbaatar in 1973 after more than a decade of successful cooperation with Mongolia. Ever since, UNDP has worked for equitable and sustainable development for the benefit of all Mongolians. UNDP is committed to helping the Government and the people of Mongolia achieve the Sustainable Development Development Goals as well as other national development priorities.

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Human Development Report 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The choices that people have and can realize, within ever expanding freedoms, are essential to human development, whose goal is for people to live lives they value and have reason to value. A world with AI is flush with choices the exercise of which is both a matter of human development and a means to advance it. Going forward, development depends less on what AI can do—not on how human-like it is perceived to be, and more on mobilizing people’s imaginations to reshape economies and societies to make the most of it. Instead of trying vainly to predict what will happen, this year’s Human Development Report asks what choices can be made so that new development pathways for all countries dot the horizon, helping everyone have a shot at thriving in a world with AI.

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About Mongolia

 

76.9%

(2020)

of Mongolian land is classified as degraded

27.1%

(2022)

of the population lives below national poverty line

25.4%

(2024)

of Parliamentarians is female.

61.1%

(2022)

of university students are female

104/193

(2025)

Human Development Index Rank

5.4%

(2024)

Unemployment rate

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