The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is the largest global development network advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
Its headquarters is in New York City but the organization has national offices in 166 countries where it works to help local government meet development challenges and develop local capacity. The organization also helps local governments to achieve the Millennium Developing Goals (MDG), with the overall aim of cutting poverty in half by 2015. You can read more about the millennium goals here.

UNDP provides expert advice, training and grant support to developing countries with increasing emphasis in assisting the least developed countries. To accomplish the MDGs and encourage global development UNDP focuses on poverty reduction, democracy governance, crisis prevention and recovery, energy and environment and HIV/AIDS.

UNDP publishes annually the Human Development Report (HDR) which focuses on global development issues where each report concerns a special topic from the key development debate. The HDR features the Human Development Index (HDI) which is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standard of living for countries worldwide.

HDR 2007-2008 – Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World

HDR 2006 – Beyond Scarcity, Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crises 

HDR 2005 – International Cooperation at Crossroads: Aid, Trade and security in an unequal world