Acronyms & Abbreviations

The following list groups 2170 acronyms and abbreviations of various origins, mainly those relating to UN and UNDP-associated programmes or organizations, multilateral organisations and frequently-used administrative abbreviations. Your support in enriching this collection would be greatly appreciated. Please send your suggestions here. Additionally, you can check:

• the United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database, which provides a very comprehensive United Nations nomenclature and special terms in all six official UN languages, and
• the UN OIOS Glossary of Monitoring and Evaluation Terms, which contains terms with definitions that are used throughout the United Nations in the context of monitoring and evaluation and results-based management.

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