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Our Mission
UNDP is committed to help Mongolia to achieve national MDGs through capacity development, knowledge sharing, forging partnerships and policy dialogue.
What UNDP does in Mongolia
For more than three decades since opening its office in Mongolia, UNDP has worked to build the foundations of enduring equitable and sustainable development for the benefit of all Mongolians. UNDP is committed to helping Mongolia achieve its nine national Millennium Development Goals through capacity-building, knowledge-sharing, forging partnerships, and policy dialogue.
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, the 189 member states put “development” firmly at the heart of the global agenda by adopting the Millennium Declaration that espoused the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs focus on eight key areas and set clear targets for developing global partnerships to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, child and maternal mortality, environmental degradation, and gender inequality by 2015.
In 2005, the Parliament of Mongolia adopted the MDGs through a resolution and added a country-specific MDG9 to “Foster Democratic Governance and Strengthen Human Rights” focusing on three additional targets: respect for Human Rights, freedom of media, rights to information; to promote democratic values and zero tolerance towards corruption. The resolution directs the Government of Mongolia to monitor and evaluate the implementation progress of the MDGs.
In meeting its national MDGs, Mongolia faces unique challenges that require context-specific initiatives reflecting the distinctive nature of Mongolia’s cultural, social, economic, environmental and governmental landscape. UNDP focuses its efforts in the following three principal areas.
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Democratic Governance and Human rights– UNDP provides its support to the country’s ongoing democratic consolidation through promoting greater participation of men and women at all levels of governance. Upholding and mainstreaming human rights, increasing government accountability, transparency and effectiveness, improving citizens’ access to justice and decision-making are also the focus of UNDP’s interventions. In addition, it helps the Government of Mongolia develop a greater capacity at all levels of administration to deliver basic services to men and women in need.
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Human Development and Poverty Reduction – It involves a range of initiatives aimed at promoting integration of poverty reduction and human development into macroeconomic policies and strategies, strengthening capacity of local communities, bridging the growing gap between the rich and poor, and increasing the country’s trade potential to help end Mongolia’s high aid-dependency and widen the existing narrow economic base.
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Sustainable Natural Resource Management – It covers achieving a balance between environmental protection and economic development, given the fragility of Mongolia’s environment and high dependence of people’s livelihoods on nature and natural resources.
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UNDP coordinates operational activities of the UN in Mongolia. In partnership with the Government of Mongolia, civil society, academia and the donor community, United Nations Country Team developed the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Mongolia for 2007-2011, a strategic programming framework for the UN system to support the national priorities and goals of Mongolia in 2007-2011.
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Past Cooperation with Mongolia
UNDP opened its representative office in Ulaanbaatar in 1973, after more than a decade of successful cooperation with Mongolia.
Through policy advice and financial resources, all in the form of grants, we support the Government and the people with a large variety of development programmes and projects. We also administer the United Nations Volunteers Programme.
Through partnership with government, civil society, the private sector and donors, we support the attainment of Mongolia’s vision of national development.
For the past UNDP programme period of 2002-2006, US$ 29 million had been contributed on a grant basis to support development in Mongolia.
Under the current Country Programme Document and Country Programme Action Plan for the period of 2007-2011, UNDP Mongolia will contribute USD 24.6 million on a grant basis to provide support to the four UNDAF outcomes through the following five programme components:
- Achieving the MDGs and reducing human poverty
- Democracy, Accountability and Transparency
- Access to justice and human rights
- Energy and environmental sustainability
- Crisis prevention and recovery
Our Partners
Our primary national counterpart is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has overall responsibility for the Government’s relationship with the United Nations. The Ministry of Finance and Economy coordinates all international development assistance, including UNDP’s development projects. These projects are being implemented by a variety of entities, including government agencies, NGOs and the private sector.
For more information on the structures of government in Mongolia and the key Government officials, please visit the official Government of Mongolia website or for Parliament please visit the Parliament website.
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Main Development partners in Mongolia
Asian Development Bank
Contact: Mongolia Resident Mission,
MCS Plaza, Second Floor,
Seoul Street 4
Ulaanbaatar 46, Mongolia
Tel: + 976 11 329 836
Fax. + 976 11 311 795
Email: adbmnrm@adb.org
Japan International Cooperation Agency
JICA presently works in more than 155 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The JICA Mongolia Office was founded on January 1, 1997, as the 53rd JICA overseas office. Currently sixteen Japanese and Mongolian staff members work in the office.
Contact: JICA MONGOLIA OFFICE,
7F, Bodi Tower, Sukhbaatar Square 3, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia,
c/o Central P.O.Box 682, Ulaanbaatar 13, MONGOLIA
Phone: +976-11-325939
Tel: +976-11-310845
Swiss Development and Cooperation
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) started its interventions in Mongolia in 2001, responding to a joint appeal of UN and the Mongolian Government for assistance in overcoming the severe winter conditions, called “dzud”. The SDC’s activities in Mongolia have gradually shifted to Development Cooperation Programmes from the Humanitarian Assistance Programmes, which helped the worst “dzud” affected herder families, ex-herders and very poor, socially isolated individuals.
Contact: Swiss Cooperation Office Mongolia,
Consulate of Switzerland,
Diplomat Building 95,
Chingeltei District, 4th Khoroo,
Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia
Phone: +976 113 31422
Fax: +976 113 31420
E-mail: ulaanbaatar@sdc.net
Internet: www.sdc.mn
GTZ
GTZ first set up an office in Ulaanbaatar in 1999. This was followed in 2006 by a "Deutsches Haus“, a joint development cooperation office, housing the local representations of GTZ, DED and KfW development bank.
Contact: German Development Cooperation,
GTZ Office Ulaanbaatar, Sky Plaza, Olympic Street 12, C.P.O. Box 1264,
210613 Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia
Tel: +976 11 315340, +976 70115340
Fax: +976 11 315342
Email: gtz-mongolei@gtz.de
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