The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. The resulting health, humanitarian, and economic crises are seriously threatening lives and livelihoods everywhere. It has exacerbated issues of fragility, crime, and terrorism and exposed inequalities.
This also jeopardizes the multilateral consensus reflected in the vision of well-being for all contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The pandemic clearly demonstrates that the challenges we face are global, and so are the solutions. We will help build these solutions by bringing countries together to share knowledge and skills and address the challenges of drugs, crime, corruption, and terrorism.
Cohesive, safe, and resilient societies are essential to fulfilling this mission. UNODC works with and for Member States, Civil Society, Academia, and other partners to promote justice and the rule of law at all levels.
The knowledge we gain from implementing projects and analyzing data and trends can help quickly identifynew trends and threats and develop policies and programmatic responses to address them.
Our interventions will pay special attention to human rights, child protection, gender equality, and the empowerment of women and youth.
To better serve people, the UN is engaged in a series of measures to improve the services we provide, to check how they are delivered, and to determine if they are reaching those in greatest need.
In the next five years, UNODC will deploy innovative methods, leveragenew technologies, and create an organizational culture based on trust, respect, and accountability.
