Security and development: Security services, when operating in line with the human rights-based approach, underpin social and economic development, and protect sustainability efforts. Only strong and legitimate institutions can address and prevent the evolving landscape of insecurity characterized by violence, crime, and terrorism – often exacerbated by weak governance, low resilience and climate change. In that sense, human security offers an integrated and multidimensional conceptual framework that promotes a people-centered approach to security systems. UNDP is exploring ways to root this approach in its program- ming response looking at the complementarity and synergies between top-down and bottom-up approaches, managing support to state and non-state security actors, and promoting inclusiveness and local ownership.