Democratic Governance in Europe & CIS

What we do

UNDP works with national partners to strengthen the democratic process in countries in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and help public institutions become efficient and accountable.

We track governance policy; promote knowledge sharing, innovation and leadership; and contribute to influencing regional discourse on governance.

UNDP in the region offers the latest approaches to:

• Human rights, justice, and legal empowerment: including support to national human rights institutions and ombudsmen; application of the human rights-based approach to programming and social inclusion, policy and programmatic support related to access to justice, rule of law, and legal empowerment initiatives, and engagement with United Nations human rights bodies.
• Local governance and decentralization: focusing on integrated local, community and area based development, integrating climate change into local governance, eco friendly policies, planning and budgeting, and innovative mechanisms of service delivery.
• Public administration reform and anticorruption: including policy reforms; strengthening capacity for public accountability and preventing corruption; civil service reform; public dialogue on the impact of the financial crisis from a governance perspective; facilitating the sharing of knowledge from transition countries to other countries in the region and around the world.