What We Do

We work together with local and national governments, citizens and civil society organizations, NGOs and the United Nations to tackle poverty and speed up progress on the MDGs. With 128 joint programmes worldwide, the focus is on addressing inequalities and having an impact at the local level where people need it the most.

We work with our partners to strengthen public policies making them more responsive to the needs of women, youth, minority groups and children, piloting examples that can be scaled up into national policy frameworks. All our programmes are defined by national priorities and are the product of an extensive and collaborative formulation process that brings together over 20 UN Agencies with an average of 6 per programme. The result is what we call a joint programme.