The UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. It is represented in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and its wide range of partners. World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half, by 2015. UNDP's network links and co-ordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Its focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of Democratic Governance, Poverty Reduction, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Energy and Environment and HIV/AIDS. It integrates information and communications technology for development into its work in democratic governance and poverty reduction, helping developing countries improve government accountability and service delivery. UNDP helps countries attract and use aid effectively. In all its activities, it promotes the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.