Each of the 21 United Nations Agencies working in China has its own areas of expertise, and is supporting China in these areas. Details of what individual Agencies are doing can be found on their own websites, which you can find here . However, many of the most important challenges facing China require a response that brings together experts from several fields. For example, helping China find ways to improve the lives of its large migrant worker population is best done by combining...

The China Climate Change Partnership Framework (CCPF) brings together the work of nine UN Agencies in close coordination and partnership with their ten government counterparts. It is the first Joint Programme of its kind on climate change in China and was the only programme under the Spanish MDG Achievement Fund which was granted the maximum funding allocation (USD 12 million) possible. Within the Framework, there are some exceptional opportunities for the UN and international community ...

China has the world's biggest ethnic minority population (106 million people), and this population is disproportionately poor, including 56% of China's entire population still in extreme poverty. China owes much of its cultural wealth to the unique diversity of its 55 recognized ethnic minority groups, yet these minorities risk becoming increasingly vulnerable without the capacity and opportunities to access the benefits of China's overall development. China is strongly committed to lifti...

China’s internal migrants of approximately 150 million moving from rural to urban areas represents the largest movement of people in modern history. These young men and women have contributed to the fast paced economic development of the country. However, while doing so many of them confront challenges including ending up in poor working and living conditions. They have a lack of access to social protection and social exclusion which compounds their vulnerability. The Chinese Government at...

As one of the world’s largest developing countries with half of its population being women, improving the socioeconomic status of women is vital to China’s development and to the progress of the world. Thus, promoting gender equality is an important objective for the Chinese government in its 11th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development 2006-2011. Since ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1980, the Chi...

According to a 2002 survey conducted by the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF), 24% of 270 million households in China have experienced domestic violence (DV), with women being victims in 90% of the cases. Although DV occurs in families of all social classes, it is reported that there is a disproportionately high incidence of DV in poor, rural areas and that some ethnic minority groups tend to accept DV as traditional norms. While some provinces have anti-DV regulations and judicial guide...

The UN Joint Programme on AIDS in China (UNJP) was formally endorsed in June 2007 by the UN system and government counterparts. It provides strategic guidance to the efforts of 9 UN agencies in the support of the national response to AIDS, engaging multi-sector government counterparts and civil society partners to enhance the efficiency and accountability of strategic and operational aspects of the UN and China’s joint efforts on AIDS, and to strengthen support to the national AIDS respo...

While China's progress on eradicating poverty and hunger is widely acknowledged to be among the world's best, it is estimated that there are still approximately 120 million Chinese people undernourished and that 7.2 million of the world's stunted children (4%) live in China. With the participation of eight UN agencies and more than 10 national partners, the joint programme on "Improving Nutrition, Food Safety And Food Security For China's Most Vulnerable Women And Children"(CNFS) will suppo...