Through the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals the world is addressing the many dimensions of human development, including halving by 2015 the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. UNDP advocates for countries to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs and priorities. UNDP's work on poverty reduction is governed by several internationally agreed frameworks such as the Millennium Declaration, the MDGs, and the International Development Goals.
Our core services to support national efforts to reduce poverty and inequities involve: (1) Policy advice and technical support; (2) Strengthening capacity of institutions and individuals (3) Advocacy, communications, and public information; (4) Promoting and brokering dialogue; and (5) Knowledge networking and sharing of good practices.
As a Net Contributing Country, with a GDP of over US$10,000 per capita, Libya does not suffer from cases of extreme poverty. Nevertheless, the country has been overly dependent on its oil reserves. UNDP has worked with government of Libya towards economic diversification, in its attempt to lessen the country’s reliance on non-renewable resources, and benefit from an emerging market-oriented economy. Planned UNDP initiatives focus on building national and local capacities, introducing micro-finance initiatives, and raising awareness of economic opportunities, particularly for women and youth.
Project List
Upgrading the Benghazi Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled & The Prosthesis Production Workshop
The project aims to upgrade the Centre and the Workshop in Benghazi to enable them to provide better services and treatment both to persons disabled by mines from the Second World War and to acute-stage patients. Through the provision of training (technical and managerial), equipment, and infrastructural modernisation, the project hopes to create a specialized facility for the disabled which will operate at levels that are compatible with international standards.
Agricultural Research and Experimental Centre in the Butnan Region
The project aims at establishing an agricultural research and experimentation centre for agriculture, with particular focus on dry land territories. The overall objective of the centre is to contribute to the achievement of the principle goals of national policy, vis-à-vis food security, through the enhancing the already available agricultural capacity and improving productivity.
Support for Development of Curricula for Higher Vocational Institutes
This project supports the immediate and short term needs of the technical and vocational education and training system to complete the updating of the curricula for all disciplines offered at the Higher Vocational Institute .
Industrial Research Centre: Laboratory Accreditation Programme
The objective of this project is to provide the required assistance to the Industrial Research Centre’s laboratories to meet the criteria and requirements for international accreditation. The project is also facilitating human capacity building by training laboratory experts in quality Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and certifying their competence in operational and application aspects of sophisticated equipment and specialized technical issues.
Mapping Of Natural Resources for Agricultural Use and Planning
In order to improve the planning base for agricultural and rural development, the project will reorganise all natural resource data in a geographically referenced computerised database, and improve information access for enhanced natural resources and monitoring and agricultural land use planning.
The Rehabilitation of Ghadames is a comprehensive project that will revive the natural water source for the desert city and the water distribution system that provides water for homes, sanitation, and agriculture. Further, the project will bring in and install adobe laboratory equipment and train local workers in using and operating adobe materials, thereby repairing and rebuilding damaged buildings, historic canals, passageways, and major streets.
Centre of Research and Experimentation Applied to Zootechnics and Fodder Culture in the Sirte Region
The aim of the Centre is to define production and transformation technologies in the cow, sheep, and goat milk sector, as well as establish useful elements for the definition of regional strategies in the field of stock farming. It also seeks to promote training and technical assistance in the local area. This project will provide the Centre with all the necessary infrastructures for experimentation in the various fields, as well as assist and train local personnel, field technicians and farmers of the region.
Promotion of Opportunities for Women's Economic Empowerment (POWER)
The POWER project aims to increase the capacities of the General Peoples' Committee for Social Affairs staff through the development and pilot testing of an innovative training programme for gender economic empowerment whereby GPCSA staff will be able to advocate economic empowerment of women, host relevant seminars, and act as local focal points for women’s economic empowerment in the Shabiyaat of Libya.
Agricultural Research and Experimental Centre in the Butnan Region
A key pillar of UNDP’s work in Libya is supporting the achievement
of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the
overarching goal of eradicating poverty by 2015. The MDG’s represent
a concerted response to the world’s main development challenges, and
UNDP has pledged to work to promote poverty reduction, education,
maternal health and gender equality, as well as combating child
mortality, AIDS and other diseases. The current economic and social
revitalization in the Jamahiriya has provided UNDP Libya with a
renewed opportunity to enhance its drive to achieve the MDGs.
Provided that these efforts continue, Libya stands in good stead to
meet its MDG targets. To this end, UNDP Libya has been working with
its national partners to form a coalition for change and is looking
to build up local capacities for the monitoring, introduction and
implementation of the MDGs in Libya.
This project aims to build capacities within the Cloud Seeding Research division of the Libyan National Meteorological Centre (NMC). Building on previous cooperation between UNDP, the NMC and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) the project will train NMC staff in Cloud Seeding Techniques, as part of research programme to that seeks to address climate change, biological diversity, and desertification control.
Modernising and Upgrading the Meteorological Services of the Great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
This project seeks to upgrade and modernise the Libyan National Meteorological Centre's technical facilities and enhance its staff's capacities in order to help it better respond to its international commitments to the United Nations convention on climate change, biological diversity, and desertification control.
Capacity Building to Support the Demining Association and the
Government of Libya in its Demining Activities
The overall objective of the capacity building project is to develop
and modernize the national structures and standards of the Libyan
Government and the Anti-Mines Association already in place in order
to better address the risk posed by landmines and ERW in Libya.
A particular focus of the project will be on providing support to
enhance the coordination and management of mine action activities in
Libya as well as to ensure that mine clearance of priority areas are
undertaken in accordance with International Mine Action Standards.
An added value of a successful joint programme is foreseen to be
enhanced and strengthened international peaceful cooperation between
not only Libya and the UN, but also Libya, neighbouring countries
and the wider International Community.
The expected end of project outcome is that the Government of Libya
1) will achieve a practical knowledge of the extend and impact of
the landmine problem
2) will have the necessary structure and systems in place to manage
and coordinate mine action in accordance with International
Standards and best practices and
3) will benefit from and contribute to international cooperation in
mine action..
development, including halving by 2015 the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. UNDP advocates for countries to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs and priorities. UNDP's work on poverty reduction is governed by several internationally agreed frameworks such as the Millennium Declaration, the MDGs, and the International Development Goals. 
