The UNDP mission is to support countries to accelerate progress on human
development. This means that all UNDP policy advice, technical support, advocacy, and
contributions to strengthening coherence in global development finance must be aimed at
one end result: real improvements in people’s lives and in the choices and opportunities
open to them. UNDP has championed this integrative approach to human development
since the 1990s, using the Human Development Reports, launched under the leadership of
the late Mahbub ul-Haq with Amartya Sen, as important tools in this advocacy. Central to
the human development approach is the concept of human empowerment. In addition to
income, it treats access to education and health care, freedom of expression, the rule of
law, respect for diversity, protection from violence, and the preservation of the
environment as other essential dimensions of human development and wellbeing.
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