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United Nations Development
Programme: Key partner in the
implementation of the Sustainable
Development Goals
The transition from the Millenium Development Goals to the Sustainable
Development Goals represents a period of flux where those engaged in
development cooperation — both within the multilateral system and beyond
— are assessing their role in the implementation of the new agenda.
As we confront implementation of the new agenda, no one has all the answers
at the outset. As countries and people strive to implement the SDGs, there will
be a process of learning and adapting to support their implementation.
UNDP has assets that place it in a strong position to support implementation,
and to continuously learn. The agenda reinforces UNDP’s long-standing advo-
cacy for a human-centred approach, recognized explicitly in the Millennium
Declaration: “On behalf of the peoples we serve, we have adopted a historic
decision on a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal
and transformative Goals and targets.” This is encapsulated in UNDP’s empha-
sis on its human development approach, which focuses on the process of en-
larging people’s cho