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During your reading, you will notice the frequent use
of the word cooperation, and its etymology means to
act together in order to reach a goal. UNDP is inviting all
of you for this fight!
HISTORy OF THE COMMITTEE
Since ancient times, people have been suffering consequences
from poverty in many ways. After two world
wars, countries have joined the idea of building together
a world in peace, which would attend to human beings
and to their needs. Over this idea, the United Nations
was created.
The UN is composed by many programs which intend
to achieve different goals, but all of them take
regard to an important issue: the promotion of human
rights. Twenty years after its creation, 1965, it started
to pass through some institutional updates in order to
face better prepared the new challenges presented by
the underdevelopment of the majority of the Member
States. In November of 1965, the United Nations Program
for Development was founded. In the beginning,
its goal was to coordinate the United Nations Program
for Technical assistance, founded in 1949. Later, by 1971,
it merged completely under the UNDP. Its main goal is
“bringing development everywhere and thus eliminating
poverty”. It was created to bring together all the
already effective existed decisions and actions toward
development.
It works as the technical assistance program which
seeks to support countries to do the right investments
seeking development. There is a branch office in each
member country and a UNDP Resident Representative
works as a coordinator of development activities as well.
Through this coordination, which represents the whole
UN system in each country, UNPD seeks to ensure the
most effective use of the UN, its principals and resources
and international aid resources.
It needs to be stressed that UNPD does not execute
the programs it supports; it is responsible for opening
a debate on key development issues, providing new
measurement tools, innovative analyses and often
controversial policy proposals. It attracts and distributes
aid, coordinates and evaluates projects which will
be executed by others. UNDP can be explained as the
physical space where all the issues concerning development
find a place to merge and work over common
problems towards reaching effective resolutions. In addition
to that, having governments as members, UNDP
also works alongside private companies and the global
society.
The United Nations Development Program was idealized
on 1965 during a UN General Assembly meeting
where Member States decided to merge the United Nations
Special Fund and the Expanded Program of Technical
Assistance. Therefore, its creation resolution was
approved on 1966. Annually, the Program produces reports
on life conditions all over the world. Trough these
reports, the concept of Human Development and its Index
was created. Among the UNDP duties, we can find
the UN Volunteer Program, Human Development Fund
for Women and also activities related to habitations,
constructions, health, transportation and more. Lately,
the organ has risen the Millennium Development Goals
flag, believing that all member states would be committed
to meet the following goals:
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