The United Nations Development Programme, one of the largest U.N. agencies responsible for reducing poverty and inequality, is backing a redesigned, “future-focused” plan that is necessary to face the world’s changing development and political challenges, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner told Devex.

This is the moment where member states and management of UNDP must also ask themselves: what is the future role of the U.N.'s development program? And I deliberately use the U.N.'s development program because it's not just about the organization.

UNDP rolled out its new strategic plan for 2018 through 2021 and is now working to persuade member states to match its revamped strategy with an 11 percent growth in available resources, from about $23 billion to more than $25 billion over the next four years.

The new strategy provides another layer to the 2030 development agenda, which stresses a universal approach that leaves no one behind. It also sets the stage to respond to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres system-wide reform agenda, which remains in the works but has called for greater synergy between U.N. agencies.

Read the source article by the United Nations Development Programme Amy Lieberman at Devex International Development