Although the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) ostensibly exists to reduce poverty around the world, a recent UNDP internal document reveals that the agency has "only remote connections with poverty."
Moreover, the document says that even where the agency does act to reduce poverty, the actions are frequently "disconnected" from any kind of overarching plan.
Because of this, even when UNDP projects were done with the right kind of planning in mind, assessments of whether the projects actually reduced poverty were "often unclear."
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