Mister Vice-President, distinguished delegates,

It is my pleasure to update the Executive Board on UNDP’s efforts on the repositioning of the UN development system – the system that is needed now more than ever before. 

In this seventh year of implementing the UNDS reform, UNDP remains steadfast in its commitment to advancing the system’s effectiveness, efficiency, and coherence to accelerate the 2030 Agenda.

Guided by the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR), we are working to ensure that joint UN action is consistently driven by national priorities, tangible results, and system-wide accountability.

This year’s ECOSOC Operational Activities Segment confirmed that despite the funding challenges we face, the UN development system reform is yielding results. 

We must build on the gains from the reform and drive our joint action towards more impact and results on the ground.

By embedding the spirit of the UNDS repositioning, UNDP’s new Strategic Plan will help solidify the gains of the reform and continue advancing stronger coherence and collective impact.

Please allow me, Excellencies, to present briefly UNDP’s efforts for the advancement of the 2030 Agenda in the context of the reform implementation.

Despite the increasingly tight funding environment, UNDP’s contribution to the Special Purpose Trust Fund in 2024 was 18.2 million dollars. UNDP remains the largest single-entity contributor to the UNSDG cost-sharing arrangement – paid from core resources – and with non-core as part of the 1% coordination levy. 

UNDP continues to invest core resources into system-wide services provided through UNV, UNCDF, UNOSSC, and MPTFO.  At the regional and country levels, UNDP makes in-kind contributions and participates in local cost-sharing initiatives. 

UNDP remains the operational backbone of the UN development system with its well-established global footprint in 132 countries and service provision to over 70 UN entities at the global level. 

Programmatically, UNDP-led integrated solutions foster collaboration, strengthen coherence and drive complementarities within the UN development system.  

The Integrated National Financing Frameworks – currently used in over 85 countries – strengthen countries’ financing capabilities and help unlock SDG-aligned financing. 

UNDP’s flagship Climate Promise initiative is taken forward in cooperation with 30 UN entities, supporting over 90 countries on the third generation of Nationally Determined Contributions.

Working under the coordination leadership of the UN Resident Coordinators and with UN Country Teams, we continue to look for ways to scale up and innovate on our partnerships with UN entities to produce tangible results and impact at country level.

Excellencies, 
The success of the UNDS reform and adequate support to the RC system depend on full and sustained implementation of the Funding Compact, including quality core and pooled funding.  It is also critical that that all UNDS entities reach the same pace and level of reform implementation.

We firmly believe that together, through an impact-oriented vision and partnerships, we can reinforce a UN development system that delivers for people and the planet as it is also called for in the Pact of the Future. The UN80 initiative led by the UN Secretary-General provides an additional opportunity to support this endeavor. 

UNDP will continue to follow Member States’ guidance and the Executive Board’s leadership to enable the fulfilment of this promise. 

I thank you, Mr. Chair.