Welcome to UNDP Eritrea

In its Global Cooperation Framework, UNDP provides a range of services to governments and to United Nations country teams in the areas of Democratic Governance, Poverty Reduction Strategies, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Environment and Sustainable Energy, HIV/AIDS.

These are geared to engage in global advocacy and analysis to generate knowledge, alliance building and promotion of enabling frameworks on key issues, policy advice and support for national capacity building, and knowledge networking and sharing of good practices.

What UNDP does in Eritrea

Inline with the Eritrea’s development priorities, UNDP aligns its work along with a selected number of service lines. The areas addressed are tailored to meet some of the challenges raised in Development Plan.

The UNDP’s activities are divided into five categories called Practice Areas, each of which is subdivided into a number of Service Lines.

Democratic Governance
UNDP in Eritrea is involved in several democratic governance projects. For instance, the Eritrean legal system has been in a constant review and modification since the Country's liberation in 1991...more

Poverty Reduction
The Government of Eritrea, with the assistance of UNDP and Capacity 21, has prepared a draft Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) and a Food Security Strategy (FSS). ...more

Crisis Prevention and Recovery
The UNDP Recovery Unit has also been closely involved in crisis prevention planning, and has participated and provided input in the development...more

	Energy and Enviroment In 1998 the Government of Eritrea initiated a partnership with the Global Environment Facility and UNDP Eritrea to conceive the Eritrean Coastal Marine and Island Biodiversity Project. to protect the biodiversity of its coastal and marine areas....more
	HIV/AIDS UNDP in collaboration with UNAIDS and other UN agencies is working to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and reduce its impact in Eritrea....more

Women’s Empowerment
As the advancement of women and promotion of gender equality is one of the main UNDP development concerns, UNDP Eritrea has been working with NUEW since 1998....more

Official Documents and Agreements
Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP)	Country Programme Document (CPD)	Joint Programme Documents: (HIV/AIDS, Gender, SEB of Red Sea, IDPS)
CPAP Results and Resources	Standard Basic Framework Agreement (SBAA)	National Execution Guidelines (NEX)
Resident Coordinator Annual Report 2007*	UNDAF, CCA, MDG Eritrea Report