Regional Centre in Bangkok

Regional Centre in Bangkok: Connecting Countries to Knowledge

UNDP has established Regional Centres in Bangkok, and Colombo, as well as a multi-disciplinary Pacific Centre in Suva with focus on the Pacific Islands.

A main priority of the Regional Centres is to provide UNDP Country Offices in the Asia and the Pacific with easy access to knowledge through high quality advisory services based on global applied research and UNDP lessons learnt.

The second priority is to build partnerships and promote regional capacity building initiatives, which allow UNDP, governments and other development partners to identify, create and share knowledge relevant to solving urgent development challenges.

The Regional Centre in Bangkok mainly focuses on support to Democratic Governance Energy & Environment and Crisis Prevention and Recovery. The Centre also provide support to UNDP country offices in a number of cross-cutting areas, including capacity development, ICT for development, public-private partnerships and mine action. The Regional Centre in Colombo's primary focus areas are Poverty Reduction with an overarching effort on achieving the Millenium Development Goals and HIV/AIDS.