As part of its commitment to transparency and its mandate to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and build resilience to crises, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched its new COVID-19 page on the UNDP Transparency Portal. It provides key financial and project information on the organisation’s COVID-19 response work to partners and the wider public. 

“We are already hard at work, leading the socio-economic response of the United Nations to the pandemic. UNDP offers a pathway beyond recovery, towards 2030,” said UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.

The new COVID-19 page allows users to see how UNDP is channelling its resources and addressing the pandemic in three areas: supporting the health response including the procurement and supply of essential health products, strengthening crisis management and response and addressing critical social and economic impacts.

The UNDP also remains the most transparent UN agency and ranks as the third most transparent development organization in the world according to the 2020 Aid Transparency Index. Increasing its rating by 1.2 points since the index was last published in 2018, UNDP continues to be among the leaders in transparency with a score of 96.6.

This is the seventh full Index report, which this year assessed 47 of the largest donors of aid and development finance. UNDP, which has remained in its highest category - “very good” - since 2013, is the only development organization that is not a finance institution among the top five in the Index ranking.

“We congratulate the rising number of organizations demonstrating their commitment to transparency,” said Achim Steiner. “UNDP is proud of our continued improvement in overall performance and are reaffirmed in our leading role to continue encouraging progress towards aid transparency.”

For more information, please contact the UNDP Communications Office in Kazakhstan by e-mail: undp.kz.media@undp.org or tel. +7 705 261 1494.

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