UNDP Regional Centre serves 36 countries in 24 country offices of Asia and the Pacific. A main priority of the Regional Centre is to provide UNDP Country Offices in the region with easy access to knowledge through high quality advisory services based on global applied research and UNDP lessons learnt. The second priority is to build partnerships and promote regional capacity building initiatives, which allow UNDP, governments and other development partners to identify, create and share knowledge relevant to solving urgent development challenges.