UNDP : Did You Know?
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is 50! An Anniversary Ministerial Meeting will be held on 24 February 2016 to celebrate UNDP’s past, and chart a course for the future of global development.
To celebrate UNDP at 50, The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has compiled various online resources relating to UNDP and its work.
Creation of UNDP
In 1965, the General Assembly adopted A/2029, which merged the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance and the UN Special Fund into the United Nations Development Programme. The resolution came into effect on 1 January 1966.
Establishment of the United Nations Development Programme (UN Yearbook, 1965)
General Assembly resolution 304 (IV) of 16 November 1949, “Expanded programme of technical assistance for economic development of under-developed countries”
70 Years, 70 Documents : 1958 - A special fund becomes the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP First Session Documents
United Nations Development Programme : Report of the Governing Council, 1st Session (10-21 January 1966)
UNDP Governing Council Decisions 1st Session TEXT January 1966 (Archive of official UNDP documents)
The first session of the 37-member Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 1966 (UN Photo/ Yutaka Nagata )
Library Print Collection
United Nations Development Programme and System (UNDP) / Stephen Browne.
Post-2015 UN development : making change happen / edited by Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
More books on and relating to the UNDP can be found by searching the Library’s catalogue, UNBISnet.
Library Electronic Resources
Subject specific databases can be searched by Topic. See what resources are available under Development.
Clockwise: In India, a woman demonstrates how to use a solar dish for cooking, 2009 ( UNDP Picture This/Kailash)/ A young Jordanian takes part in UNDP's month-long vocational training programme, 2014 (Photo: Alessandra Blasi/UNDP)/ A teacher and her students holding chalkboards and small earth globes,2010 (UNDP Picture This/Supriya Biswas)/Lebanese grains vendor stands in the middle of his kiosk at the UNDP-supported market in the village of Marj, east of Lebanon, 2014 (Photo: Dalia Khamissy/UNDP)