38 UNDP projects are reported to have started in April 2025, for a total budget of ~$28m and average duration a little under 2 years.
(source: UNDP Transparency Portal as of 9th June 2025; Photo by Mathias Reding)
Largest project by budget: Solar for Strengthening Health Sector Service Delivery in Zambia
Zambia’s “Solar for Health” project, supported by the Global Fund, UNDP and the Zambian Ministry of Health for a budget of $8.9m, responds directly to chronic power outages affecting rural healthcare facilities. Specifically, the project aims to:
- Install solar photovoltaic systems in over 400 rural healthcare facilities, significantly reducing reliance on unreliable grid power and costly diesel generators.
- Enhance critical healthcare services, including maternal and neonatal care, emergency response, vaccine storage, and diagnostics.
- Develop a sustainable financial framework through public-private partnerships and carbon credit mechanisms to ensure long-term operation and maintenance.
Digital solutions promote sovereignty, resilience and innovation
- Pakistan electoral support: $1.6m budget for “inclusive, credible, and accountable electoral processes”, with one specific output defined as delivering “enhanced digital information security and inclusiveness in political processes and social environment to ensure safe and responsible digital practices.”
- Two projects to enhance cyber resilience in Europe, in Serbia ($400k budget) and Moldova ($450k), with the latter linked to the war in Ukraine affecting the Republic of Moldova
- Accelerating the digital transformation of institutions in Guinea-Bissau ($800k) and Turkmenistan ($100k)
- Fostering innovation in South Africa by modernising the informal economy ($400k)
Continued focus on climate action and early warning systems
- Indonesia Blue Carbon: $2.3M budgeted across two marine protection projects
- Advanced Early Warning System in the Maldives ($1.6m)
- Delivering on climate promises in Kazakhstan ($570k)
- Consolidating and managing a set of pipelines to materialize funding opportunities on climate change, energy and environment initiatives in Viet Nam ($230k)