Botswana

UNDP in Botswana

The work of the UN system in Botswana, especially that of the United Nations Development Programme, has been greatly facilitated by good governance, democracy and prudent macro economic management that resonate as hallmarks of this nation.

Read UNDP Botswana's Resident Representative Welcome Note.

In Botswana, UNDP's goal is to continue to provide quality policy advisory services, share best practices and support government efforts to build capacity to address development challenges related to poverty, HIV/AIDS and environment management for the current programming cycle of 2003 to 2007. Issues of governance and gender arel also being factored into various programmes and projects.

Currently, UNDP Botswana supports programmes in the following areas:

• HIV/AIDS
• Environment management
• Economic/Poverty Reduction
• Governance

The partnership also seeks to fulfill the objectives of Botswana's Vision 2016 as follows:

UNDP Global

United Nations Development Programme is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries (including Botswana), working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:

• Democratic Governance
• Poverty Reduction
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery
• Energy and Environment
• Information and Communications Technology
• HIV/AIDS

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.

UNDP has 132 country offices in its six regions comprised of Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America and the Caribbean. Beyond country teams, the organization also engages in global and regional advocacy and analysis to increase knowledge, share best practices, build partnerships, mobilize resources, and promote enabling frameworks including international targets for reducing poverty. In addition, UNDP supports technical cooperation among developing Countries.