About UNDP

Transparency

UNDP's commitment to transparency and accountability

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has a long-standing commitment to transparency, with UNDP country offices publishing financial, procurement and programme information on respective websites for more than four years.  UNDP has developed and published an Information Disclosure Policy that makes clear our commitment to making information about our programmes and operations available to the public. The organization is also devoting considerable resources to adopting the International Public Sector Accounting Standards by 2012 which will be a significant step towards further enhancing UNDP’s transparency and accountability. 

UNDP is planning on implementing the transparency standard adopted by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in a phased and cost-effective approach to provide better quality information to our partners and the public on UNDP's development work.  The organization is committed to publishing an initial IATI data set in time for the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, to take place between 29 November and 1 December.

Moreover, as a member of the IATI Secretariat, UNDP has led outreach efforts with partner countries to champion the new aid transparency standard and make it relevant for national development planning, public financial management, mutual accountability and other processes at country level.

UNDP's performance in aid effectiveness surveys

Performance effectiveness, accountability and transparency are critical ingredients to trusted development partnerships. UNDP has made itself readily available to outside scrutiny through the assessment tools of its partner constituencies. 

The United Kingdom's Department for International Development completed a multilateral aid review March 1, 2011 that rated UNDP as satisfactory in the two key criteria. The complete results of the Multilateral Aid Review, including comments from UNDP are available here.

In the most recent evaluation of UNDP in the Global Accountability Report, was awarded the top accountability score among 30 transnational actors surveyed.

Additional reviews and evaluations of UNDP by other partners are continuing with the shared goal of increasing aid effectiveness.

Taken together, the various assessments of UNDP demonstrate the organization’s ambition to continuously enhance its efficiency, effectiveness, accountability and transparency.

Legal documents

UNDP Legal Framework for Addressing Non-Compliance with UN Standards of Conduct (.pdf)

Duties and Responsibilities, Workplace Harassment, Sexual Harassment & Abuse of Authority (.pdf)