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What we do
As the United Nations (UN) marks its 80th anniversary, a more responsive and efficient UN system is essential. Achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires renewed commitment and bold transformation. The Pact for the Future calls for accelerated action, while the Secretary-General’s UN 2.0 vision aims to strengthen internal capabilities to better support countries. Together, these priorities guide the UN toward being more fit for purpose in a rapidly changing world.
UNSSC stands at the forefront of the UN’s commitment to building a more agile, capable, and future-ready workforce. In 2025, personnel from over 150 UN entities relied on us to advance their learning, demonstrating our ability to translate diverse UN priorities into context-specific learning solutions. Through learning, knowledge sharing, and capacity development, UNSSC empowers individuals and institutions to lead more effectively, deliver results more efficiently, and work collaboratively across mandates.
Our core focus areas—leadership and management, change and transformation, sustainable development, and peace and security—reflect the priorities of the UN system and the Secretary-General.
Building a cohesive UN leadership and management culture
Effective multilateralism depends on effective leadership. We work across the UN system to build a cohesive, adaptive leadership culture that delivers on Member State priorities. Our approach combines learning and capacity-building with advisory services, mentoring, coaching, and insights from tailored 360-degree assessments and personality profiling. This data-driven, UN-focused, evidence-based approach develops leaders, strengthens teams, drives change, and fosters innovation throughout the system in support of the 2030 Agenda.
Fostering a sustainable world
UNSSC helps the UN system translate global commitments into action. Through innovative learning tools, interactive platforms, and hands-on programmes, we build the knowledge, skills, and networks that country-level UN colleagues, teams and partners need to accelerate implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement, and other key frameworks. As the UN’s trusted interagency learning partner, we work across mandates and geographies to create the conditions for coherent, collaborative action where Member States’ commitments can deliver results.
Supporting peace and security
UNSSC supports the UN, Member States, and partner organizations in strengthening capacities to prevent conflict, sustain peace, and address evolving peace and security challenges. Through tailored, practice-oriented, and context-specific learning and capacity development, we help translate global policy commitments into operational practice across areas such as conflict prevention and analysis, mediation, climate, peace and security, Women, Peace and Security (WPS), Youth, Peace and Security (YPS), data and foresight, integrated approaches across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, and scenario-based safety and security training for personnel operating in high-risk environments. By working closely with UN entities, regional organizations, and national institutions, we strengthen analytical and operational capacities to support more coherent, evidence-informed, and people-centred approaches to peace and security.
Accelerating UN system transformation
As a centre of excellence for UN 2.0 learning, UNSSC supports the UN in building a modern, future-ready system capable of delivering global mandates. We promote learning, dialogue, and experimentation to help UN personnel navigate complexity, design for impact, and strengthen the capabilities, culture, and connections needed for system-wide transformation. Through applied learning, knowledge-sharing products, and advisory services, we work with leaders, teams and organizations to accelerate critical skills in foresight, behavioural science, innovation, data and digital transformation. As a convener and catalyst, we bring together UN entities, Member States, academia, and other partners to address emerging challenges and co-create solutions for continual transformation.
Our work with academia and partners
We build purposeful partnerships to strengthen the UN system and support Member States. Meaningful transformation requires the involvement of all relevant actors in the multilateral system. Our efforts engage international organizations, civil society, academic institutions and schools of public administration to create a collaborative space for reflecting on effective responses to current challenges.