UNDP - The United Nations Development Programme is committed to the principle that development is inseparable from the quest for peace and human security and that the United Nations must be a strong force for development as well as for peace. UNDP helps countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and to carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment; giving first priority to poverty eradication.