UNCDF Around the World
Country Offices
Around the world
Around the world
Around the world
Learn More About...
Follow us on Facebook 
Who We Are
UNCDF is the UN's capital investment agency for the world's 49 least developed countries.
It creates new opportunities for poor people and their small businesses by increasing access to microfinance and investment capital. UNCDF programmes help to empower women, and are designed to catalyze larger capital flows from the private sector, national governments and development partners, for maximum impact toward the MDGs.
What We Do
UNCDF provides seed capital and technical assistance to promote sustainable, inclusive growth in the least developed countries.
Financial Services for the Poor UNCDF increases access by poor people and small businesses to financial services including savings, credit, insurance and remittances.
KNOWLEDGE SHARING and ADVOCACY
IN FOCUS
No front page content has been created yet.
Global Programmes
CleanStart
A global facility to increase access by poor households and small businesses to sustainable, low cost energy, via appropriate financing schemes.
GELD
A UNCDF-UN Women initiative to align local policy planning, budgeting and public expenditure with women's priorities.
MAP
MAP is a diagnostic and programmatic framework to support expanding access to financial services for individuals and micro and small businesses.
MicroLead
A USD 58.5 million global facility to promote access to financial services, particularly savings.
MM4P
Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P)
PFIP
Find out about UNCDF latest innovations to address the challenge of limited access to financial services.
ITP
A UNCDF-supported training programme for local government officials in southern and eastern Africa.
LOBI
A cross-border initiative to strengthen cross-border governance in the West African region.
LFI
Development in the LDCs of the private sector and local economic development is critical to poverty reduction and job creation.
LoCal
A global UNCDF-UNDP-UNEP programme to enable local governments develop and invest in plans designed to mitigate the effects of climate change.
LOGFIDD
An approach and a tool for the effective functioning of the local government.
YouthStart
Expand access to financial services for 200,000 low-income youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.
WHAT'S NEW?
May 8, 2013
May 7, 2013