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Expanded “Delivering as one” funding window for
achievement of MDGs
JPO Workshop, Maputo, May 2009
Francesco Galtieri
UN Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO), New York
BACKGROUND & CONTEXT
• GA resolution “….continuing and deepening intergovernmental work of the
GA on system wide coherence focusing exclusively and in an integrated manner
on ‘Delivering as One’ at country and regional levels, harmonization of business
practices, funding, governance and gender equality and empowerment of women”
• TCPR “recognizes that strengthening the role and capacity of the United
Nations development system to assist countries in achieving their development
goals requires continuing improvement in its effectiveness, efficiency, coherence
and impact, along with a significant increase in resources and an expansion of its
resources base on a continuous, more predictable and assured basis”
BACKGROUND & CONTEXT
• Delivering as One initiative
• Response to the need for additional, un-earmarked,
more predictable funding
• Reduction of transaction costs associated with
separate funding mechanisms
What it is:
• Addressed to LICs
• Expanded MDGaF, aiming at complement funds for the whole
IADGs
• Participant donors: Spain, UK, Norway
• Aims at supporting One Programme (or equivalent)
• It is un-earmarked
• It is meant to complement funds mobilised at the country level
therefore there is a need form UNCTs to first make all
efforts to raise funds locally
FRAMEWORK
UNDP-Spain MDG ACHIEVEMENT FUND:
2 funding windows
• “Thematic” Window – supports UN collective
efforts in selected sectors
• “One UN” Window – supports the
implementation of DAO: addressing funding
gaps of ‘One UN Programmes’
EXPANDED DAO FUNDING WINDOW
expansion of “One UN” window
under UNDG governance mechanism
What it is:
• Addressed to LICs
• Expanded MDGaF, aiming at complement funds for the whole
IADGs
• Participant donors: Spain, UK, Norway
• Aims at supporting One Programme (or equivalent)
• It is un-earmarked
• It is meant to complement funds mobilised at the country level
therefore there is a need form UNCTs to first make all
efforts to raise funds locally
Who’s elegible:
- DaO pilot countries
- Countries who have already committed in moving towards a
greater coherence/cohesiveness of UN programmes (indicated by
RDTs)
-UNDAF countries (from 2011)
Criteria:
- Nationally owned and led process for UN coherence
- Clear link btwn UN programme and national priorities (NDS)
What needs to be in place in the country:
an integrated UN Programme
→ results framework (down to activity level – multi-year
operational document),
→ budgetary framework,
→ “country fund” with allocation and management mechanisms,
→ management arrangements and governance structure,
→ M&E framework,
→ RC/UNCT mutual accountability framework and working
relations
A detailed description of the package to be submitted will be available
in the guidance note to UNCTs.
Allocation criteria (according to availability of total funds)
- country needs;
- unfunded gaps after external resource mobilisation;
- number of donors in the country or funding activities in the
country;
- UN programme volume;
- UN past delivery/absorption capacities
- “floor” of 500.000 USD
- “ceiling” calculated on the basis of unfunded gap and past
past expenditures
Reporting
The same mechanism of the reporting for the UN Country
Fund will be used for the Expanded window (that will be
treated as one of the sources of the country fund)
GOVERNANCE
RC and UNCT – setting up nationally led process, ultimately
responsible for the quality and delivery of results under ‘UNDAF
Strategy and Action Plan’, management of ‘Country Fund’
RDTs – recommending eligible countries for ’09 -’10, regular quality
support, assurance and oversight functions
Steering Committee for Exp. DAO Funding Window – overall
leadership, strategic direction and decisions, including on allocations;
will comprise of officials at Director level - members of the AG
Consultative Group – inputs to the key strategic directions, feeding
back to donors and programme countries on forward plans and
expectations; will comprise of 3 donors and 3 programme countries
Secretariat (DOCO) – operational coordination unit, management of
funds, technical support to countries
TIMELINES (TENTATIVE)
2009:
• RDT recommendation on ‘09-’10 eligible non-pilot
countries: letter to RDTs - 30 April, response - end
May
• Communication message to all countries: by 15 May
• Submission of RFFs by eligible countries: end June
• Allocations to ‘Country Funds’: end July
2010 – onward:
• Submission of RFFs – first week of February
• Allocations to ‘Country Funds’ – first week March
• Reports – as per UNDG agreed terms
THANK YOU