What We Do |
About usUNDP is the UN's global network, focused on helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of globalization and human development. UNDP's Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS (RBEC) serves 29 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Working under a mandate issued by the UN Secretary-General, RBEC, formerly the Directorate for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, began the process of establishing offices and programmes in the region in 1992. With its headquarters in New York, RBEC's outfit comprises 24 country offices and its Regional Centre in Bratislava. What we do UNDP works to promote sustainable human development in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals as the international community’s global development agenda, both in this region and globally. It does so by supporting UNDP’s priorities in poverty alleviation, promoting democratic governance and human rights, combating HIV/AIDS and other epidemiological development threats and promoting sustainable environmental and energy policies, as well as preventing conflict and assisting in post-conflict recovery. How we work
As in the rest of UNDP, country offices are the heart and soul of RBEC. In addition to working closely with their host governments and representatives of business and civil society, the country offices possess most of RBEC’s human and financial resources, and are vast repositories of development knowledge and expertise. The country offices are managed by UNDP’s Resident Representatives, who also coordinate United Nations’ activities in their countries and serve as UN ambassadors to their host countries. Together with the representatives of other United Nations agencies, RBEC’s country offices help government, civil society, and private sector partners to work more effectively towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the RBEC region.
 The Bratislava Regional Centre (BRC) links the country offices and the RBEC headquarters in New York. The BRC supports country offices by providing policy advice and backstopping services delivered by UNDP’s Bureau of Development Policy, as well as by RBEC’s regional specialists. The BRC also manages regional projects (conducted in at least three countries), and helps to capture and spread development successes and best practices throughout the region.The Regional Centre also manages activities in Slovakia and in those countries in the region that have no UNDP offices: Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, and Slovenia, as well as the country programme for the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where UNDP has been active since 1984. UNDP also has a very active role in fostering development in Cyprus through a bi-communal approach including Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities, with its ultimate aim to support the political objective of reunification. Last but not least, the BRC hosts regional offices of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Development Fund for Women. Why UNDP?
UNDP is helping countries reform; building capacity at all levels of government; tackling crippling unemployment in the Western Balkans; boosting regional cooperation in Central Asia; providing high-level policy advice to governments in the Caucasus and Western CIS; and assisting the communities hardest hit by the Chernobyl nuclear accident to overcome the dependency culture that is the gravest fallout of the disaster. UNDP aided the new European Union members in Central Europe and the Baltics in their unprecedented post-communist transition and is supporting their equally unprecedented transformation from receivers to givers of aid. UNDP is contributing to security and stability in Europe with its weapons collection, de-mining and sustainable returns programs in the Balkans. In Central Asia, community development and border management programmes aim to create a safe environment for human development. UNDP works with the region's emerging donors to replicate their development success. Through constructive engagement of the private sector and civil society, UNDP is indispensable in facilitating innovative partnerships to help countries realize their common aims and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Country Offices
Headquarters
RBEC’s headquarters in New York sets the Bureau’s strategic direction and helps country offices and their partners to find solutions to problems that extend beyond national borders. It places special emphasis on the development of programming involving two or more neighbouring countries, and liaises with other UN and UNDP agencies in New York, Geneva, Vienna, and elsewhere. The New York headquarters also works with the UNDP leadership to set policy for the entire organization, thereby ensuring that lessons from the region are reflected in the global development agenda.
Regional Centre
UNDP's Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS assists a remarkably diverse region that stretches from the heart of Europe to the Silk Road. These countries face a range of human development concerns, and UNDP is uniquely placed to help partners in government, civil society and the private sector to meet these challenges.