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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 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 they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and its wide range of partners.
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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.
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.
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UNDP IN BELARUS
UNDP is present in Belarus since 1992. UNDP’s mandate in Belarus is determined by the Agreement between the Government of Belarus and UNDP of 24 September 1992, which requires UNDP “to support and supplement the national efforts at solving the most important problems of its economic development and to promote social progress and better standards of life”.
The UNDP focus is helping Belarus build and share solutions to the challenges of:
How UNDP helps Belarus to get access to the knowledge, experience and resources
available through the UN’s global development network?
 UNDP supports the preparation of National Human Development Reports (NHDRs) in Belarus, which review and analyze the nation’s development policies and highlight the key problem areas that need to be addressed. The NHDRs are broadly publicized and distributed to policy makers, the academia, aid agencies. The most recent NHDR for 2004-2005 titled “Belarus: Addressing Imbalances in the Economy and Society” discusses a broad range of issues related to Belarus’ integration into the global economy, the improvement of living standards based on sustainable growth, ways to ensure environmental safety, and priorities among institutional and economic reforms. It identifies structural, economic, social, and regional disproportions and summarizes policy recommendations.
In the framework of the joint EU/UNDP Programme of Assistance for the Prevention of Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking in Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova (BUMAD) the National Drug Abuse and Illegal Drug Trafficking Report was prepared and published. It provides an analysis of the drug situation development in the country for the past 10 years. The document presents a comprehensive research on Belarus and its regions. The Report authors also deal with drug related crimes, and make an analysis of the national policy on the fight against drug trafficking and abuse.
One more example of how UNDP helps Belarus to get access to the knowledge, experience and resources is implementation of the “Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Belarus” project, which is the largest international healthcare project in the country. Providing HIV-infected people with access to up-to-date diagnostics and treatment is the most important outcome of the project realization. Due to the project, the national healthcare system needs in antiretroviral medicines for HIV/AIDS treatment have been fully met; advanced laboratory equipment for diagnosing HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections as well as medicines for opportunistic infections for people living with HIV/AIDS and means of medical personnel protection from HIV professional infection have been purchased.
The first phase of the HIV project (which is really one of the most successful in this area in the region) was completed by the end of 2006. Its achievements have been highly appreciated by the donor – the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This has assured the second phase of the project, completed at the end of 2009. The success with implementation of the US$ 17 million grant has created an opportunity for continued funding of HIV/AIDS prevention activities in Belarus beyond the year 2009 for an additional 6 years, based on continued successful performance, until 2015.
The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNDP and the Government of Belarus also signed the agreement in accordance with which Belarus receives a grant for US$ 14.2 million to fight tuberculosis. The grant will be used for creation of an advanced system of diagnostics and registration of detected incidents of tuberculosis, and for establishment of a national reference-laboratory to conduct quality and efficient TB diagnosing. The TB-project envisages training of over 2,500 medical personnel engaged in anti-TB service, sisters of mercy of the Red Cross, lab-assistants, and medical staff of the penitentiary system in application of advanced methods of diagnostics, treatment and care of TB-diseased. The grant will provide an opportunity for more than 7,000 people (civil healthcare patients and inmates of correctional institutions of Belarus) to undergo treatment with up-to-date first line anti-TB drugs. It is quite a comprehensive project and its main impact will be shown in reduced TB mortality and improved TB treatment in Belarus.
The project “Preventing, Fighting and Addressing the Social Consequences of Trafficking in Human Beings in the Republic of Belarus” funded by the European Union, UNDP and UNICEF was launched in July 2009. The project aims to enhance the national capacities in fighting human trafficking through preventive measures and better protection and rehabilitation of victims of trafficking. In 2009, the project conducted a series of study visits, trainings and a round-table aimed at enhancing the capacity of the state agencies and non-governmental organizations in preventing human trafficking and rendering assistance to the victims based on best international standards and practices.
By the end of 2009 the UNDP/GEF “Renaturalization and Sustainable Management of Peatlands in Belarus to Combat Land Degradation, Ensure Conservation of Globally Valuable Biodiversity and Mitigate Climate Change” project contributed to restoration of hydrological regime at 12 project sites with total area of 25.717 ha. Three more territories: depleted peatlands Poplav Mokh, Scherbinsky Mokh and Zhadenovsky Mokh in the Vitebsk Region are to be rewetted by the end of the project. Total area of the restored mires in Belarus, including project sites, is 50.000 ha, including these 28.207 ha rewetted within the project.
UNDP activities focusing on post-Chernobyl recovery have been given a new impetus. The Government of Japan approved a USD 1.5 million allocation from the UN Trust Fund for Human Security to finance a new project on ensuring safe livelihoods in the Chernobyl affected areas of Belarus. Another two projects of the European Commission and the UNDP funded Action “Combat the negative effects of the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus” – “Establishment of International Scientific and Practical Center of Thyroid Diseases” and “Area-Based Development of the Chernobyl Affected Regions” with a total budget of Euro 2.6 million – were launched in 2009 together with a USD 2.5 million new regional programme on the development of the International Chernobyl Research and Information Network (ICRIN) designed to meet the information needs of Chernobyl-affected communities in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. This three-year initiative aims to translate the latest scientific information on the consequences of the accident into sound practical advice for residents of the affected territories.
In 2009, UNDP programme expenditures in Belarus exceeded US$ 11.5 million (for reference: US$ 10.6 million was delivered in 2008, 17 million – in 2007, 10 million – in 2006, and 7.3 million – in 2005).
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