The National Planning Commission and the United Nations Country Team in Nepal published the approved United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for 2013 -2017 on 11 September 2012.


The UNDAF lays out a common development strategy for the UN Country Team in Nepal for the next five years. The US$ 685 million package involving 24 individual UN agencies spans interventions aimed at assisting vulnerable groups better access development progress, activities aimed at protecting Nepal’s development gains to date, and support aimed at facilitating Nepal’s international cooperation. The strategy has been under preparation for over one year, in the process, involving hundreds of local and international subject-experts and officials.