United Nations Development Programme

Founded in 1965, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works collaboratively to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality by focusing on sustainable development, democratic governance and peace building, and climate and disaster resilience. With this new award, UNDP Staff are leading an exploratory process that brings together anti-corruption practitioners, government representatives, members of professional associations, and donors to identify new collaborative anti-corruption interventions that cross geography, sectors, and professional disciplines. To give the work boundaries, the pilot effort focuses on Nigeria and West Africa and traces corruption connections to wealthy destination countries. The outputs of the project are a series of workshops and a final learning brief that outlines conclusions, promising new approaches, obstacles, opportunities, and entry points to address cross-border corruption. By the end of the project, coalition members aim to identify at least one intervention to test to reduce cross-border corruption in Nigeria and West Africa. The award is expected to contribute new information on corruption links from Nigeria and West Africa to destination countries and new knowledge to the anti-corruption field.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) began operations in Nigeria in 1960 to support capacity building and policy development for the promotion of governance, peace building, inclusive growth, and sustainable development. It is currently supporting the countries’ response capacity to the pandemic and promoting coordination in Nigeria through a COVID-19 Joint Donor Basket Fund. This award enables the UNDP office in Nigeria to support procurement of COVID-19 commodity packages and supplies for surveillance, prevention and control, and clinical management in Nigeria’s under resourced northern regions where the pandemic is likely to be more severe.

To support the mapping of human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

To support the Interagency Planning Group on Environmental Funds (over two years).

To examine aspects of global forest policy development, particularly as it relates to the conservation of forest resources.