Ulaanbaatar, 28 November 2023 – UNDP unveiled its highly anticipated 2024 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report in Mongolia today, identifying three transformative directions for advancing human development in the region amidst the turbulent and uncertain conditions both regionally and globally. These include prioritizing people at the core of development, recalibrating growth strategies, and driving change.

The report underscores the imperative for a future-fit governance approach, emphasizing anticipation, adaptability, and agility as essential qualities to effectively address the unique development challenges and opportunities faced by countries in the region, including Mongolia.

The report also emphasizes that people and communities should not be passive beneficiaries of development but active agents who can engage fully in economic, social and political life, and in building human security – while remaining committed to a healthy environment and exercising careful stewardship of the planet for future generations.

In his opening remarks, His Excellency Munkhbaatar Lkhagva, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Mongolia and Member of Parliament, emphasized the significance of human development as a universal objective. He highlighted its broad scope, encompassing the provision of equal opportunities and choices, ensuring the benefits of growth, facilitating access to health and education services, fostering a healthy and safe environment, and eradicating poverty, unemployment, and all forms of discrimination. His Excellency stressed that such endeavors should be collective efforts, with the Asia-Pacific region, including Mongolia, actively contributing to the pursuit of these goals.