About Us
The United Nations Development Programme Pacific Centre (UNDP PC) specializes in the three UNDP practice areas including Achievement of MDGs and Poverty Reduction, Crisis Prevention and Recovery and Democratic Governance. There are also new supporting projects in Financial Inclusion and Support for Civil Society Organizations. Human Rights and gender equality represents a crosscutting concern.
The Pacific Centre advocates for nationally owned solutions and helps ensure their effectiveness, bringing governments, civil society organisations and donors together to coordinate their efforts. It specifically advocates for the protection of human rights and promotes the role of women in development. Services include strategic policy advice, programme development and technical backstopping, capacity development and training, and knowledge services. Several regional programmes undertake trans-national research, pilot initiatives and advocacy relevant to the MDGs, from pro-poor macroeconomic and human development policies, to democratic governance, gender equality and crisis prevention.
The UNDP Pacific Centre became operational in early 2006 and was officially opened in July 2006. It is a Centre specifically for the Pacific Island Countries while the other two Regional Centres in Bangkok and Colombo are for the entire Asia Pacific region. In this regard, the Pacific Centre serves the three UNDP Multi Country Offices based in Fiji and Samoa, the Country Office in Papua New Guinea and the recently established sub-office in the Solomon Islands. Through this network of offices, the Pacific Centre provides support to the 15 Pacific Island Countries.
The UNDP Pacific Centre builds on the ongoing dialogue countries have with the UNDP offices in the region and in doing so strengthens the support already provided by UNDP through its country-based activities. It also adds value to UNDP’s presence in the Pacific by providing regional technical support with international experience in the design and management of UNDP activities implemented at both country and regional level as well as being able to respond to specific policy advisory requests that can be delivered flexibly outside the normal project modality.
The foundations of the work of the Pacific Centre are:
The Pacific Centre advocates for nationally owned solutions and helps ensure their effectiveness, bringing governments, civil society organisations and donors together to coordinate their efforts. It specifically advocates for the protection of human rights and promotes the role of women in development. Services include strategic policy advice, programme development and technical backstopping, capacity development and training, and knowledge services. Several regional programmes undertake trans-national research, pilot initiatives and advocacy relevant to the MDGs, from pro-poor macroeconomic and human development policies, to democratic governance, gender equality and crisis prevention.
The UNDP Pacific Centre became operational in early 2006 and was officially opened in July 2006. It is a Centre specifically for the Pacific Island Countries while the other two Regional Centres in Bangkok and Colombo are for the entire Asia Pacific region. In this regard, the Pacific Centre serves the three UNDP Multi Country Offices based in Fiji and Samoa, the Country Office in Papua New Guinea and the recently established sub-office in the Solomon Islands. Through this network of offices, the Pacific Centre provides support to the 15 Pacific Island Countries.
The UNDP Pacific Centre builds on the ongoing dialogue countries have with the UNDP offices in the region and in doing so strengthens the support already provided by UNDP through its country-based activities. It also adds value to UNDP’s presence in the Pacific by providing regional technical support with international experience in the design and management of UNDP activities implemented at both country and regional level as well as being able to respond to specific policy advisory requests that can be delivered flexibly outside the normal project modality.
The foundations of the work of the Pacific Centre are:
- The Pacific Plan to Advance Regionalism
- The UNDP Strategic Plan 2008-2011
- The UNDP Asia Pacific Regional Programme
- UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAFs) and Country Programme Action Plans (CPAPs) for Fiji, Samoa, and PNG UN Country Teams
