Asia-Pacific Regional Centre

Asia-Pacific Regional Centre: Connecting Countries to Knowledge

UNDP has established the Asia-Pacific Regional Centre as well as a multi-disciplinary Pacific Centre in Suva with focus on the Pacific Islands.

A main priority of the Regional Centre 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 Asia-Pacific Regional Centre mainly focuses on support to Democratic Governance Energy & Environment, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Poverty Reduction with an overarching effort on achieving the Millennium Development Goals and HIV/AIDS. The Regional Centre also provides support to UNDP country offices in a number of cross-cutting areas, including capacity development, ICT for development, public-private partnerships and mine action.