UNDP Thailand

International Partnership for Development in Thailand

Millennium Development Goals

Thailand has achieved many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at a national level well in advanced of the 2015 targets, and has set a timeline for ambitious targets that go beyond the original goals (“MDG-plus”). However, some regions and groups are being left behind, and disparities are striking.

UNDP supports Thailand in setting and monitoring MDG-Plus targets, going beyond aggregate national achievements to focus on specific regions and groups. UNDP is also helping to build a country-level coalition to promote action on the MDGs.

Current Programme

Thailand suffers from a lack of data, which sometimes makes it difficult to formulate development policy. There is also a need to develop forms of data analysis that are more participatory and reflect the needs of the country. In response, the Royal Thai Government and the UN system have a joint programme to strengthen the country’s capacity to analyse quality data.

As part of this joint programme on MDG monitoring and statistical strengthening (project brief, project document), UNDP Thailand will provide support to the National Statistical Office, including strengthening capacities of the staff, providing in-depth knowledge about methods of analysing the panel data and income distribution on projects and policies.

UNDP Thailand is also working the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security’s Office of Women’s Affairs and Family Development to strengthen Thailand’s statistics on the status of women (project brief, project document). There is a critical need in Thailand for updated data specifically on women to improve policy development and decision-making at the national and local levels, and to help Thailand meet its obligations to international commitments such as the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and Millenium Development Goals. In March 2008, the Ministry and UNDP launched Thailand’s first Gender-Disaggregated Statistics Report.

This year comes the first ever collaboration between the NSO and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security on the gender-related initiative, the Gender Statistics Report. The Report is a summary of the important indicators reflecting the gender situation in Thailand. The indicators shown in the Report not only tell the statistics but also give the analysis of Thai people in different stages of lives through the story line.

MDGs in Thailand

Read more about the status of the Millennium Development Goals in Thailand.