Value proposition

Working to End Poverty and support Climate Action for a sustainable world By 2030.

The United Nations Development Programme has over 60 years of development partnerships in Malaysia. With beginnings in the 1950’s with on a project to project basis, UNDP has established into a key development partner for the Government of Malaysia.

UNDP is guided by its five-year Country Programme Action Plan matching technical and development assistance in stride with Malaysia’s own five-year national development plans. UNDP is currently in its 10th cycle of the Country Programme Action Plan 2016-2020: Aligned to development priorities of 11th Malaysia Plan.

For the last 6 decades UNDP’s assistance has been in stride with Malaysia’s own five-year national development plans, strategic agendas and policy priorities encompassing inclusive growth and economic development, poverty eradication, gender empowerment, promoting good governance and anti-corruption, empowering persons with disabilities, strengthening renewable energy approaches, mainstreaming environmental management and protection, science and technology for development, rationalising public sector reform, strengthening the national response to HIV/AIDS as well as promotion of South-South Cooperation for global development.

Our expertise is as an integrator and facilitator in policy advisory work through a localized lens, by bringing all relevant stakeholders together, thus ensuring an inclusive approach to policy recommendations. Furthermore, with 170 offices around the world, Regional Bureaus in each continent, six Global Policy Centres and headquarters in New York, UNDP can provide global and regional lens and expertise in a kaleidoscope of areas.

We specifically aim to assist in the strengthening of the technical and policy capacities of national institutions, providing critical medium and long-term policy inputs, piloting innovative development projects, and contributing to significant progress in promoting human development in Malaysia.


governance, poverty reduction, biodiversity, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Environment and Energy, Social inclusion and sustainable development, Human Development, Sustainable Development, sustainable development goals, Climate Change, and youth