The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Strategic Plan 2026-2029
Practical solutions to deliver action on the ground – where it’s needed most.For over 30 years, UNOPS has been a driving force in delivering practical solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.
Working closely with the UN family and our partners, we have supported humanitarian action, responded to development needs, and enabled critical peace and security operations. Through this work, we have helped advance prosperity and equality, and accelerated progress on climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals.
UNOPS Strategic Plan 2026-2029 builds on this experience – guiding our efforts to help our partners scale up and speed up impact through practical solutions.
In today’s global context, UNOPS Strategic Plan 2026-2029 underlines our commitment to scaling up and speeding up practical solutions for a more peaceful, fair and sustainable world.
Action at scale
As the world faces a growing number of complex, interconnected challenges, the need to deliver coordinated impact at scale is more crucial than ever.
UNOPS is focused on expanding the implementation capacity of the UN and our partners – providing agile, efficient and cost-effective services in infrastructure, procurement, project management, human resources and financial management.
We are also committed to enabling efficient and cost-effective multilateral partnerships that are instrumental to advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and activating the Pact for the Future.
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Multilateral partnershipsWe believe addressing the world’s most complex challenges requires strong and effective collaboration – across sectors, borders and communities.
UNOPS provides the practical solutions needed to enable multilateral partnerships and initiatives to deliver impact at scale.
We bring our agility, cost-effectiveness and reach to manage and support multilateral platforms and initiatives that are helping accelerate sustainable development and climate action.
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Responding to needs, expanding implementation capacityImplementation is where policy, intent and financing converge in practice. It’s about achieving tangible outcomes for communities around the world.
With our focus on practical solutions, UNOPS is committed to expanding the implementation capacity of our partners – to help shape a more peaceful, fair and sustainable world.
United to deliver
UNOPS is committed to helping drive efficiencies and sharpen impact across the UN system – ensuring that together, the UN family is well-equipped to meet growing global challenges in efficient and cost-effective ways.
Our Strategic Plan supports UN system-wide efforts to achieve greater integration, cost-effectiveness and collaboration. Drawing on our experience as a self-financed, demand-driven UN entity, as well as our focus on providing practical solutions, UNOPS works closely with the UN family to streamline and enhance processes, strengthen capacity, and ensure we deliver impact at scale.
How we contribute
We believe the comparative advantages of UNOPS practical solutions complement the mandates of other entities across the UN system, and can be a powerful means for scaling up collective action.
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Agile, efficient and cost-effective services – with global reach We help bridge implementation gaps, advance national development priorities, and support response efforts in complex crises.Connecting public and private partners for implementation Around the world, including in fragile and conflict-affected situations, UNOPS brings its partnership expertise to address implementation needs across humanitarian, development, and peace and security efforts.Enabling global multilateral partnerships Our unique hosted partnerships model works to enable and advance networked multilateralism – delivering impact in areas like health, climate and sustainable development.Professional management of projects, programmes and portfolios – guided by UN values We support our partners with sustainable, resilient and inclusive implementation by providing the technical discipline to organize the delivery of activities across the spectrum of scale – from project-sized units all the way up to global portfolios.Efficient global support services We provide innovative, efficient and cost-effective global shared services for our UN partners – including flexible and scalable human resources, global e-Commerce solutions, and supply-chain management.Technical advice for public implementation capacity Working with governments and partners, UNOPS provides technical assistance and capacity development that enhance the management of public infrastructure and procurement projects in contexts of market failure.Integrated solutions with partners in the UN and beyond With a focus on complementarity and collaboration, UNOPS responds to global, regional and country-level implementation needs, working across multiple sectors and contexts to deliver effectively with the UN family and our partners.Managing for impact and value for money UNOPS is committed to the transparent, efficient and cost-effective use of resources, based on a fee-for-service, demand-driven model with full cost recovery.
Our vision
We envision a world where all people have access to human rights, peace and sustainable development, supported by sustainable, resilient and inclusive infrastructure and effective and transparent use of public resources in procurement and project management.
Our mission
We’re driven by our mission to help people build a more peaceful, fair and sustainable world.
Values & mandate
In everything that we do, UNOPS is guided by UN values and human rights.
Our Strategic Plan reaffirms UNOPS commitment to values of respect, integrity, professionalism and accountability. We will remain true to our mandate, and uphold the highest UN standards. Building on UNOPS reforms, we seek to increase agility, trust and transparency, and to further optimize operational efficiencies.
