The United Nations Development Programme supports Somalis to develop strategies geared towards achieving the Millenium Development Goals. The Inclusive Growth and Development in Somalia Project will increase awareness and advocacy on MDGs, strengthen the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Planning and line ministries, and create awareness of the need for poverty monitoring. 

In the absence of a sustainable means of compiling and analysing socio-economic and macroeconomic data throughout Somalia, UNDP is attempting to fill the data gap. It supports the Somali administrations in their efforts to collate and use baseline information on income and human poverty and vulnerability to guide their work.

These data are made available to zonal administrations, Somalis at large, international organizations and the UN family.

This work also empowers Somalis at all levels, particularly in line ministries, municipalities and other institutions to administer and manage core government functions more effectively where  government functions have been lacking or nascent. 

UNDP helps Somalis attain the Millennium Development Goals through solutions for Human Development and Economics: UNDP empowers Somalis and their administrations to enhance human development; increase awareness and advocacy on the Millennium Development Goals and human development; increase poverty monitoring and reporting; and develop the capacity of institutions and individuals. For instance, UNDP is producing a Human Development Report for Somalia, focusing on the empowerment of youth. It also enhances Somali capacities to collect and share poverty and vulnerability-related data in a country where such information is scarce but instrumental to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Currently UNDPis promoting progress toward MDGs through the inclusive Development for Poverty Reduction in Somalia Project

Read:

        Progress on achievement of MDGs in Somalia

        The Eight Millenium Development Goals

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