Iran is one of the developing countries most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Within 15 days of the first recorded case, confirmed COVID-19 cases had already been identified in all 31 provinces...
RASER is a joint initiative between VP for Women and Family Affairs, Ministry of Jihad Agriculture, Ministry of Labour, Cooperatives and Social Welfare (MCLSW) and UNDP Iran to combat...
14,000 farmers from provinces in east and west Azerbaijan are participating in a joint initiative between the governments of Iran and Japan and UNDP to restore Lake Urmia through...
COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last...
Iran is among the 10 largest emitter of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the world, and the residential and commercial building sectors are the main contributors of this challenge. UNDP has partnered with the…
UNDP remains the most transparent UN agency and ranks as the third most transparent development organization in the world...
UNDP's Nature, Climate and Energy practice spans 137 countries, with a portfolio directly benefiting 86 million people. Our support to Governments focusses on enabling an inclusive, resilient, green recovery by: building competency to accelerate access to sustainable energy and climate and nature-positive policies and finance; scaling capacity to ensure No One is Left Behind...
Support to the National Response to contain the impact of COVID-19
The UN system in Iran has developed a Crisis Preparedness and Response Plan (CPRP) to help with a coherent and integrated response of the COVID-19 pandemic on the vulnerable populations and communities. UNDP has launched a sub-national 'Rapid Socio-Economic Response’ initiative to support micro and small enterprises – including women entrepreneurs manufacturing personal protective equipment – and catalyze effective emergency cash transfer measures. It will provide immediate income relief to vulnerable, and severely impacted households (including women headed households), technical support and seed funding for the government in the design and roll-out of COVID-19-sensitive social protection and livelihood instruments. UNDP, in addition, is also procuring PPEs for health facilities, medical labs and frontline health workers, as requested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
UNDP Annual Report 2020
The 2020 Annual Report features UNDP’s global ideas and research on building forward better, which we tabled in 2020 to lift the ambition of global policy responses. These ideas range from introducing a temporary basic income for all people living in poverty to launching a new, planetary pressures-adjusted Human Development Index – part of UNDP’s 30th anniversary look at The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene.
2020 Human Development Report
The 2020 Human Development Report (HDR) doubles down on the belief that people’s agency and empowerment can bring about the action we need if we are to live in balance with the planet in a fairer world. It shows that we are at an unprecedented moment in history, in which human activity has become a dominant force shaping the planet.
The climate crisis. Biodiversity collapse. Ocean acidification. The list is long and growing longer. So much so that many scientists believe that for the first time, instead of the planet shaping humans, humans are knowingly shaping the planet. This is the Anthropocene – the Age of Humans - a new geologic epoch.
What we do
On the ground in about 170 countries and territories, UNDP works to eradicate poverty while protecting the planet. UNDP has had a representative office in Iran since 1966 and has – during all this time –worked closely with its major development partners to promote sustainable human development in the country.
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About Iran
Over 80 Million
Population
85%
Adult Literacy Rate
$5,430
GNI Per Capita (2017)
0.783
Human Dev. Index (2019)
