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Contribution to the United Nations Development Programme

The purpose of the program is for the US government to participate in United Nations activities to promote development. The US belongs to the 36-country Executive Board that oversees UNDP. UNDP programs assist developing countries' economic and social development, including reducing poverty and promoting democracy.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program is well-managed. For example, program managers created a long-term goal and related annual measures that focus on crisis prevention and recovery and use it to guide program decision-making.
  • Using the most recent data, UNDP met or exceeded the US government's efficiency goals. For example, in 2004 UNDP's operational support costs as a percentage of total costs was 10.9%, 0.6% below its target.
  • The Programme has met or exceeded US government's impact goals. For example, in 2004 UNDP exceeded its goal of increasing capacity for public administration reform and anti-corruption by 28%.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Promoting results-based management in UNDP meetings, especially to get country data in addition to overall global data, and monitoring progress toward the goals and targets in the performance plan.
  • Justifying requested funding for the program on the basis of achieved results.

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