Our focus

Pacific Office in Fiji

Our focus

The Pacific and UNDP in action

Integrated development solutions driven by country priorities and UNDP’s new Strategic Plan.

Our Strategic Plan 2022-2025 introduces the evolution of #NextGenUNDP into #FutureSmartUNDP. More than a mantra, it is our new benchmark for success in the future of development. Building on UNDP’s 50 years of expertise across 170 countries, this new approach allows us to focus and prioritize where country demands are greatest. By working together in this way, we aim to expand people’s choices for a fairer, sustainable future, with people and planet in balance.

Our work

See how our integrated signature solutions – powered by digitalization, innovation and development financing – are accelerating impact and scale in the Pacific.

Inclusive Growth

We support country-led development efforts to implement inclusive growth policies and strategies towards increasing financial inclusion and reaching out to the poor. Working with governments and the private sector, we help strengthen business policies and initiatives to increase the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises. We also prioritize support to government-led social data collection to identify the most vulnerable as well as pro-poor interventions protection initiatives.

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Effective Governance

We convene people, build partnerships and share ways to promote participation, accountability and effectiveness at all levels. We partner with and support the Pacific Island countries in achieving long term economic and social sustainable growth for its people by strengthening its governance mechanisms to enable a more equitable distribution of public resources to grassroots communities and the marginalized.

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Resilience and Sustainable Development

Protection and conservation of the environment is becoming increasingly important because of the effects of climate change such as rising sea levels and ocean acidification. Large-scale forest logging, commercial agriculture and associated land clearing, threaten the sustainability of natural resources. Leveraging environment and climate funding help countries step up their activities in climate change adaptation and mitigation and integrating climate change and disaster risk management into national and sectoral planning.

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We also have work that support and cut across the three focus areas above.

Gender equality and women empowerment is a core commitment of UNDP. We recognize that women’s empowerment and gender equality are cross-cutting issues that lie at the heart of human development.

And the Accelerator Lab is UNDP’s new way of working in development. Together with our core partners, the State of Qatar and the Federal Republic of Germany, 60 labs serving 78 countries will work together with national and global partners to find radically new approaches that fit the complexity of current development challenges.

Gender

Empowering women and making gender equality a reality is a core commitment of UNDP. In every country across the Pacific, pervasive gender inequality remains a barrier to progress, justice and social stability. It also hinders the achievement of development goals. We recognize that women’s empowerment and gender equality are cross-cutting issues that lie at the heart of human development.

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Accelerator Lab in the Pacific

The Accelerator Labs represent UNDP’s new strategy and thinking in relation to development and advocating bolder innovation. Traditional approaches to development are struggling to keep up with today’s social and environmental challenges, therefore, the Pacific Lab based in Fiji will try to address questions such as, how do we better tackle complex and fast-moving “frontier challenges” in the region. Essentially the Lab moves innovation from the margins to the center of UNDP’s programming work.

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Data Platform for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

UNDP’s integrated approach supports Small Island Developing States to accelerate transformative development based on three pillars: Climate Action, Blue Economy, and Digital Transformation.

SIDS Data Platform

The UNDP Data Platform for Small Island Developing States, a digital tool for accelerating development in SIDS by providing policymakers, research institutions, and country offices with access to updated, standardized, and comprehensive data. As a central component of the UNDP’s SIDS Offer, the visualization and analytics features of this platform will help SIDS to respond to the SAMOA Pathway and the 2030 agenda by rising up to the urgent challenges of climate change and their green and blue transition.

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