Transcript Project Management Training Day 2

UN Reform
Implications for UN’s work at
field level
JPO workshop, Havana - Cuba, April 2005
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Will we be ready for success?
If the UN secures in 2005…
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More resources
A development oriented trade round
Reform in aid procedures
Wider & deeper debt relief
Reforms in developing countries
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UN reform and the JPO?
• What is my future in a changing UN?
• Where will I fit … if anywhere?
• How do I prepare?
• In small groups describe the best possible,
realistic achievement of reform in three years
time: One UN, One Voice
• You have 20 minutes
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UN’s operational activities
MDBs
Political Missions
UNDG
e.g. WHO,
Development
Security /
“Peace-keeping” Assistance
“Politics/Power”
“Participation”
UNESCO, FAO
e.g. UNICEF,
UNDP, UNFPA
e.g. DPKO
Humanitarian Aid
“Neutrality”
e.g. WFP
e.g. HCR
e.g. OCHA
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Areas of UN reform
Governance
/ Representation
Programme
Management
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UN Operational Activities
at Country Level – Four Scenarios
1. More efficient, effective synergies between
independent agencies
2. Strategic UN alignment with operational
hosting
3. Most agencies end country operations
4. Merger into one UN at country level
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Why UN Reform?
• To achieve better impact
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Ease burden for partner governments
Lower transaction costs
Holistic vision
Country level - MDG’s as indicators
• Why now?
– As ODA is increasing, UN share is not increasing
proportionally
– 14th IDA – $34 billion in resources during the next
three years for development assistance
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What are the key challenges?
Global trends:
• Changing face of development
• Not sufficient resources for the MDGs
Letting process triumph over strategy:
• Moving at the speed of the slowest and consensual nature of
decision making
• UN agencies Governing bodies not aligned
• Operational issues such as proprietary policies, systems & tools
• Reform initiatives not always aligned
Agency mandates and identity:
• Afraid of losing visibility - and $$
• Not really thinking together as “one UN”
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Key reports / declarations
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Millennium Declaration
SG’s Reform Agenda
Greentree Agenda
Paris (and Rome)
Declarations
• Triennial Comprehensive
Policy Review
• Volcker Report
• MDG driven development agenda
• “In larger freedom” – overhaul UN
system
• Donor commitment
• National ownership and alignment
to national plans, UNDAF
• Harmonization among the donors
• Manage for results
• Targets and reporting on
implementation of reform
initiatives
• Combat country-level
fragmentation and competition
• Accountability framework
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Quotes
“…at every stage of UN’s activities, the senior UN official
present in any given country (SRSG, RC, HC) should
have the authority and resources necessary to manage
an integrated UN mission or ‘country presence’ so that
the UN can truly function as one integrated entity….”
Kofi Annan
“To bring the Country Team together, we need Resident
Coordinators who are empowered with greater
resources and oversight powers, so they can better
coordinate programming and implement joint UN
programmes to support progress toward the MDGs.”
Mark Malloch Brown
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Reform in action
• Common framework – MD/MDG
• Focus on country level results
– Aligned with national priorities & linked to MDGs
• Common assessment & planning
– UNDAF = joint UN/Gov’t response
– CCA can be integrated with PRSP
• Harmonized and simplified implementation tools
– Including joint programming, results matrix, CPAP, AWP …
• Harmonized programme cycles & procedures
– Flexible cycle, 3-6 yrs
– Cash transfer framework
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Reform in action
• RC system
– Thinking and planning together for national priorities
– Accountability
– Managed by UNDP; Guided by UNDG; Led by empowered &
properly resourced RCs
• Rationalizing UN presence & Reducing transaction cost
– 58 UN houses, Hosting arrangements, Joint Offices
– Common services, Harmonize agency policies in operational
areas
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Country level UN planning
National Priorities
National budgets, plans, priorities, strategies – including PRSP
CCA(/PRSP) – Common analysis and assessment
Analysis around key national issues among MD & MDGs and Global Conferences
UNDAF - The UN Strategy in support of national plans
• 3-5 MDG linked outcomes Reflecting UN System’s comparative advantage
• Management of UN Agency contribution to UNDAF results
UNDAF-based Country
Programmes of UN agency
UNDAF-based Country
Programmes of UN agency
Joint programmes
UN projects
UN projects
UN projects
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Accountabilities – Joint Office
Agency
Mgmt
UNICEF
UNICEF
RD
UNDP
UNDG
UNDP
RD
Ex-com
WFP
UNFPA
RD
UNFPA
WFP
RD
UNCT
RC
JO Head
Other
agencies
UNICEF
SPO
UNDP
SPO
Regional
Team
UNFPA
SPO
WFP
SPO
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