UNDP in Asia and the Pacific delivers country and regional programmes in 36 countries through 25 UNDP Country Offices and the Bangkok Regional Hub to help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

We help our partners in identifying relevant solutions to today’s complex, trans-boundary development challenges. We support them to design and implement large scale development initiatives that deliver lasting social, economic and environmental improvements in countries across the region.

The priority of the Regional Hub is to provide UNDP Country Offices in Asia and the Pacific with easy access to knowledge through high quality advisory services based on global applied research and UNDP lessons learned.

UNDP is working with government and industry to protect people, economic activities and ecologies in Asia-Pacific. Our initiatives incorporate insurance and risk finance solutions in policy frameworks, stimulate insurance innovation and reinforce enabling environments, build financial resilience for small businesses and smallholder farmers and ...

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The 2024 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report Making our Future: New Directions for Human Development in Asia and the Pacific, argues that unmet aspirations, heightened human insecurity, and a potentially more turbulent future create an urgent need for change.

2025年3月4日 · UNDP is working with partners—including governments, communities, businesses, and international donors—to support the energy transition. As Kanni Wignaraja, UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, explains, "It's about rethinking who actually gets access to energy, at what cost, and with what impact on health and climate change. It ...

As COVID-19 affects all human development dimensions, UNDP realigned programmes and budgets to address immediate emergency needs, without losing sight of longer-term aims like pulling people out of poverty, strengthening accountable and inclusive governance, building resilience, promoting solutions for a sustainable planet, and fostering ...

Recent estimates by UN Women suggest that monetizing women’s unpaid care and domestic work could add $3.8 trillion to the Asia-Pacific economy. UNDP has worked with national governments on policies that provide the regulations to protect and provide legal identity and hence pay for the Care Economy, such as in Malaysia and Cambodia, and ...

Since 2017, UNDP and the Government of Japan, through the regional Tsunami Project, have worked to expand Japan’s tsunami preparedness principles across Asia-Pacific. By engaging with students, teachers, officials, and community members, the project fosters a culture of preparedness, empowering children with the knowledge and skills to ...