UNDP Turkmenistan

Welcome to UNDP Turkmenistan

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. UNDP is on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As countries develop their 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
• 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.

Latest news

International Women’s Day and UNDP at the Commission on the Status of Women – Beijing + 15

The gender-specific implications of climate change, the economy, HIV/AIDS, and post-conflict recovery were the subjects of panel discussions hosted by UNDP and partners during the first week of the 54th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The 2010 CSW, which continues through March 12, is focused this year on a 15-year review since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were adopted at the landmark Fourth United Nations World Conference for Women in Beijing in 1995... more

Statement by Helen Clark Administrator of the UNDP on International Women’s Day Statement by UNDP Administrator Helen Clark on International Women’s Day

8 March 2010 – Right now, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is gathering in New York to review progress towards gender equality since the groundbreaking Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995... more

Rehabilitation Centre for Drug Addicted Convicts Inaugurated in Turkmenistan

Tedjen (Turkmenistan), 26 February 2010 – The EU-UNDP Central Asia Drug Action Programme (CADAP) handed over a refurbished and equipped building of the rehabilitation centre at the Labour and Treatment Facility in the city of Tejen to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan... more

UNDP’s focus areas in Turkmenistan

UNDP Country Programme focuses on three areas – Democratic Governance, Environment and Sustainable Development, and Poverty Reduction and MDG Achievement under the UNDP Strategic Plan for 2008-2011. Gender and human rights related initiatives are also included in the country programme and mainstreamed across all other programme components.