Reports - United Nations Development Programme

4. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT RESULTS AND UNDP’S CONTRIBUTION
gender and the fight to contain natural and man-made
disasters. The UNDP has contributed to progress in key
areas, most notably by:
Putting a spotlight on Turkey’s important human
development challenges and advocating for change
through the NHDRs
Building local capacity for participatory governance
under the LA 21 programme
Converting regional infrastructure programmes in lessdeveloped
regions into programmes that comprehensively
address Turkey’s regional disparities in human
development in the context of the GAP programme
Raising environmental awareness, building
Government and CSO capacity, and funding with
the GEF many small projects in the area of
environmental protection
Raising awareness on and building national capacity
to address important gender issues
Responding promptly to national disasters and crises
by assuring the effective coordination of UN support
to national crises responses.
In the implementation of these and its other programmes,
the UNDP faced many challenges from which important
lessons can be learned for the future. These are:
To be selective and focused in programme initiation,
ensuring that the UNDP works in areas of its
relative strengths
To secure Government and other national
stakeholders’ ownership of the programmes initiated
with UNDP support – some potentially important
programmes were not completed due to lack of
ownership by the implementing agencies
To ensure that the successful programmes are
sustainable and can be scaled up for lasting results
and wide-ranging impact
To monitor all programmes, whether successful or
not, and evaluate their results for lessons learned on
which future initiatives can be built
In addition to these challenges, the UNDP also
confronted issues of resource mobilisation and operational
modalities. These will be explored in the next chapter.
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