United Nations Office for Project Services Executive Director2026-02-262026-02-262024United Nations Office for Project Services Executive Director. (2024). Implementation of the restated UNOPS strategic plan, 2022-2025 : report of the Executive Director for 2023. United Nations.https://doi.org/10.60682/cmdw-xq10Strategic planThis report provides an update on implementation of the restated strategic plan, 2022-2025, endorsed by decision 2023/16. It encompasses realization of ambitions for impact and achievement of operational and management results, and presents lessons learned and areas for improvement. The report illustrates contributions that fill implementation gaps to help people in need and support countries in accelerating achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. It shows how the UNOPS role of expanding implementation capacity through cost-effective project services is essential to other actors’ efforts to strengthen development policy and financing. By the end of 2023, UNOPS employed 5,226 personnel implementing a portfolio of about 1,100 projects across more than 80 countries. In 2023, it expanded capacity for some 180 partners from the United Nations and beyond, providing project services amounting to $2.7 billion. It procured about $1.6 billion of goods and services from more than 5,500 suppliers; managed over $510 million in grants for more than 2,300 implementing partners; and recruited 3,726 personnel for UNOPS and its partners. It signed more than $3 billion in agreements with partners, including 300 new engagements. UNOPS worked with actors across peace and security, humanitarian and development efforts. Almost two thirds of the response was in countries in special or fragile situations. Goal 3, ‘good health and well-being’, and Goal 16, ‘peace, justice and strong institutions’, accounted for about half of UNOPS activities. Demand for Goal 13, ‘climate action’, and Goal 7, ‘affordable and clean energy’, has yet to materialize to the extent envisaged. External thematic evaluations substantiate UNOPS contributions to Goals 3, 7, 13 and 16. The evaluations confirmed that UNOPS reporting on outcomes and impact should be based on contribution, not attribution. They identified causal pathways for direct and indirect contributions filling implementation gaps. The evaluation of contributions to Goal 16 showed that they draw on capability to operate in fragile contexts, and on expertise in public procurement and infrastructure capacity development.enOther