Results-Based Management Capacity Building Tag: Efficiency In addition, the IRRF contains a number of shared indicators. OPERATIONALIZING THE GENDER EQUALITY STRATEGY. The strong focus of UNDP support towards emergency livelihoods in countries affected by crisis is important to long-term recovery/development and poverty reduction. All business units have completed the baseline, milestone and target (BMT) setting exercise, based on which they reported annual results through the IRRF and ROAR. Peace Building Although the value of learning, particularly from failures, is recognized, it is not easy in an organization with financial constraints, where staff fear that reporting failures may lead to further cuts. Thus, baselines and actuals for the year of 2016 are the same for this indicator.23 2016 contexts: Colombia, Guatemala, Iraq, Jordan, Liberia, Somalia.24 2017 contexts: Central African Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Jordan, Somalia, Kosovo [1].25 2018 contexts: Central African Republic, Guatemala, Guinea (Conakry), Haiti, Iraq, Jordan, Somalia, Kosovo [1].26 2019 contexts: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central African Republic, Guatemala, Guinea (Conakry), Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Ukraine, Kosovo [1]. UNDP also regularly engages at the Geneva Peace Week and is an institutional partner of the Paris Peace Forum since its creation in 2018, which gathered 7000+ participants, 30 Heads of States and 12 Heads of International Organizations last year. Jobs and Livelihoods. Anti-corruption x\[o~/G{0K=@6hAf{~I8-3|b5,'+jUNvY5?W\b5ZWo^d $E T"UXT/&8>SB)7" O,%*]qH_u-#e2I$,!"IN,LDO_qwoD52JE2kxa>5ut Country led measures accelerated to advance women's economic empowerment, 17. Finding 19. Health Sector International Financial Institutions Country Government UNDP contributions have been important in facilitating local access to public information, particularly through initiatives that facilitated citizens use of information to engage in localplanning and governance. UNDP also hosts and funds the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), a UN system-wide unit to promote SSC and TrC. Disaster Risk Reduction Donor Output 5.3. Finding 52:Fulfilling the ambitious targets of the UNDP Strategic Plan requires robust partnerships, for both funding and programme purposes. 6. Parliament This strategy aims toallow the organization to leverage its resources in a more effective and cost-efficient way. Risk Management Output 1.2. Global Fund Partnership andHealth It also helps to ensure the continuation of UNDPs universal presence and the continued financial sustainability of country offices, including those that are not self-sustainable. Bilateral partners Policies & Procedures Finding 63. They aim to promote regional public goods based on strengthened regional cooperation and integration. Evidence: GPN business plan October2019: https://undp.sharepoint.com/teams/gpn/gov-board/ Recommendation 4: UNDP should strongly emphasize its climate change adaptation capabilities and services in the next strategic plan. The United Nations Office of South-South Cooperation, hosted by UNDP, brought together 200 Southern think tanks to foster dialogue and research on development solutions. This section assesses UNDPs approach to partnerships at corporate and country level, and some of the factors that facilitate and constrain partnerships. This includes improving project planning, design, monitoring and evaluation; leveraging knowledge of the similarities and differences between countries; and translating that knowledge into evidence-based insights for effective, adaptable development solutions. Pandemic Conflict Finding 8. Tag: Disaster Risk Reduction Capacity Building In order to meet the request of the Executive Board to demonstrate how results link to resources and present information on financial gaps and projections as they relate to specific results of the Strategic Plans, UNDP conducted the Costing for Results exercise in Q1 2020. The global staff survey also showed lower levels of openness and trust, and less favourable results regarding workplace innovation, performance management and work-life balance. UNDP is the top recipient of financing from the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF). Some $104 million of PBF expenditure (40% of the total) went through UNDP in 2018-2019. UNDP enabled countries to access over $1 billion from vertical funds in 20182019, leveraging an additional $1.2 billion of private and public finance for 91 countries. Effective institutional, legislative and policy frameworks in place to enhance the implementation of disaster and climate risk management measures at national and sub-national levels, 23. Multi Donor Trust Funds Contributions to improving agility and adaptability include the launch of a delivery acceleration package; consolidation of policy functions; clustering of operational functions; streamlining of some policies and procedures; the new BMS integrated management services delivery model; empowering of regional bureaux; and strengthening of the regional presence. Finding 53. Most acknowledged that restructuring or change management was inevitable, but that it was implemented with limited consultation. Social Protection. Partnership Capacity Building. Evidence for this discussion comes especially from the series of evaluations the IEO has carried out. The transfer of responsibility and risk has not been smooth. The Strategic Plan envisages a role for UNDP in working with governments and non-State entities to facilitate knowledge, enable capacities in SouthSouth and triangular cooperation, and support nationally driven development exchanges. In the Poverty and Livelihoods area, vertical funds cover 4 percent of expenditures; in Environment and Climate Change, GEF funding alone accounts for 45 percent of total expenditures. SDG Integration. Public administration reform, ACCESS TO JUSTICE, COMMUNITY SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS. Technical Support. Agenda 2030 The Strategic Plan 2022-2025 describes how UNDP intends to work together with our partners to deliver whats required of us in these extraordinary times. Water resources Country Government A corporate "leave no one behind" methodology for tracking excluded groups, targeting and access support to development benefits will be integrated in all results and resources frameworks for programmes and projects. In 2020, the Portfolio Analysis Dashboard included the Project-based Portfolio Analytics using supervised machine learning of project data. Starting with the first regular session 2021 of the Executive Board of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, to facilitate the review of draft CPDs presented to the session, the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (finalized or drafts) will be made available on the UNSDG website accessible via the following link:https://unsdg.un.org/resources/executive-board-documents-sessions. Output 6.4. In the corporate reporting system, please click on your country, then on the Programme Climate change governance To better analyze resources invested and results achieved, UNDP will establish a close link between the IRRF indicator targets and the resource plan in the Integrated Budget, which will enable the organization to analyze investment gaps and facilitate dialogue with stakeholders. On average GP-V supported 74 staff positions during the Strategic Plan period (largely P4 and P3 positions for the years 2015 and 2016). Crisis Response Natural Disaster Parliaments, constitution making bodies and electoral institutions enabled to perform core functions for improved accountability, participation and representation, including for peaceful transitions, 6. Advise on approaches for connecting output level results measurement to outcome level changes and impact measurement at the corporate level. Country Government A complete roll-out of an upgraded knowledge sharing infrastructure; and the relaunch of the UNDP pubic library of knowledge products along with new mechanisms to measure their quality, reach and impact also took place within this strategic plan timeframe. During the 20142017 period there was a fundamental change in UNDPs organizational structure. At the same time, the understandingof climate risk has grown, and there is an urgent call for response to what the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has described as the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945, with more than 20 million people in four countries at risk of starvation and famineThis includes a food crisis that is a complex blend of natural and man-made factors most of which were foreseeable and foreseen. Finding 20. From the humanitarian phase after crisis, early economic revitalization generates jobs and other environmentally sustainable livelihoods opportunities for crisis affected men and women, 28. 6.1PROGRESS TOWARDS HIGHER QUALITY PROGRAMMING THROUGH RBM. As the Executive Board noted in several decisions, UNDP has made significant progress in strengthening its analytical capacities. Results Oriented Annual Reports (ROARs) add qualitative evidence to monitor the organisation's support to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Finding 7. Assisting countries to play an active role as global citizens ? The global programme was no longer included as a specific budget line in the 2018-2022 Integrated resource plan and integrated budget. Prepare an inception report that describes how the consultant understands the objectives of the assignment and the approach the consultant proposes to use to deliver against those objectives. Knowledge management Resource mobilization The strength of the UNDP programme management was well recognized in the results-based management audit conducted by OAI in 2016, which rated the system satisfactory, the highest rate possible and the first to have been received for results-based management. Local Governance The programme guide is available in attached. Reflecting the pivotal significance of gender equality and womens empowerment ? Global Environment Facility fund Partnerships with other UN agencies at the country level have evolved and been strengthened. This is underscored by the IASC assertion that recovery should bebuilt into all aspects of humanitarian response from the start. Efficiency Number of countries with UNDP-managed Global Fund grants varies each year. BPPS/Sustainable Development Unit As in disaster response, there is a lack of explicit use of the Eight-Point Agenda. RBAP: The new Regional Program Document 2018-2021 was developed and fully aligned with the 2030 agenda and was approved by the Executive Board in 2018. it was appraised as "highly satisfactory" for its quality in the HQ PAC. Environment Policy Tag: Climate Change Adaptation The creation of the new Global Policy Network (GPN) represents UNDPs effort to reposition UNDP as the lead development agency for the SDG era, as this is the first time that a UN entity has organized itself specifically to provide holistic, contextualized support for the 2030 Agenda and SDGs. Quality Assurance As part of its Integrated Results and Tag: Challenges While joint programming involving UNDP and UN-Women has shown good results, the two organizations have yet to develop agreements and operating procedures to clarify their respective roles and reduce competition. Bilateral partners Women's Empowerment A key component of the mandate of this facility is the provision of risk capital and advisory services to country offices to test new approaches to solve development problems. Communication Project and Programme management, CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMENS EMPOWERMENT. Tag: Business Model UNDP has recently developed a due diligence policy to safeguard the integrity of its public-private partnerships. Multiple processes arrive with mistakes: 40 percent arrive with incomplete supporting documents and 20 percent with system errors, with high fall-out statistics, indicating there is no learning or improvement. UNDP has not fully embraced adaptations to its mandate and business model to remain relevant and continue to add value in middleincome countries. Output 1.1. 4 0 obj Tag: Crisis Mitigation UN Agencies 3 Baseline Contexts: Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Iraq, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tunisia. Output 3.4. Gender equality and womens empowerment are cross-cutting aspects of all UNDP programming. The evaluation examines the processes and effects of this reorganization through collaborative work undertaken with the UNDP office of Audit and Investigations, and also looks at the results that have been delivered during this challenging period. Insufficient resources, staffing and competence to support M&E undermine UNDPs ability to move beyond just proving resultsto focus on improving results. for cancellation is required. 5 2017 contexts: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea (Conakry), Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia. BPPS in consultation with regional bureaux. The current Strategic Plan states that UNDP will assist programme countries to design and implement development pathways that can tackle the connected issues of poverty, inequality and exclusion while transforming productive capacities, avoiding the irreversible depletion of social and natural capital and lowering risks arising from shocks. At country level, 63 UNCTs received funding from the Joint SDG Fund for INFFs, UNDP is leading in 56 countries and providing technical support to UNCTs in implementation across the board. Staff supported by the GP-V comprised approximately 15 percent of the total advisory and programme support staff at global and regional levels and in the global policy centres (about 500 staff positions). UNDP has also developed a new SSC marker to be able to better track, analyze and support SSC capacities and initiatives. Scaled up action on climate change adaptation and mitigation across sectors which is funded and implemented, 4. It is conceived in three pillars, associated with three interrelated management results, and this evaluation has set out an evaluation question corresponding to each pillar: ? Tag: Global Fund Structural change was needed for UNDP to implement the QCPR recommendations, create new cost recovery policies, reduce cross-subsidization within the organization, and deliver effectively, responsively and with greater cost efficiency. Its a pleasure to be here to partake in the launching of POETComs 2021-2025 Strategic Plan titled Growing Our Future. Crisis Response Operational Efficiency The designations employed and the presentation of material on maps within this website do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations or UNDP concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city, or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Development effectiveness: RBM standards and practices for programming. Efficiency Justice system Progress will be reported through a strengthened Gender Steering and Implementation Committee and the annual report to the Executive Board. The GSSC also faces challenges in getting policy owners in BMS to clarify standard operating procedures and secure resources and support. Recommendation 15: UNDP should increase the involvement of the Office of Human Resources in strategic decision-making, especially in future institutional restructuring. The inclusive governance area, represented by initiatives on democratic institutions, voice and accountability, comprised 27 percent of the spending. The Strategic Plan set out several measures for UNDP to improve the management of human and financial resources. [CDATA[>*/ Finding 50. Efficiency Tag: Vulnerable Project Marker Guidance Note Global Environment Facility fund Stronger systems of democratic governance are considered critical to respond to citizen expectations for voice, development, the rule of law and accountability. UNDP management agrees with this recommendation. 3 0 obj This analysis draws partially on the Joint Assessment of Institutional Effectiveness conducted by the IEO and Office of Audit and Investigations (OAI) in 2016 and presented to the UNDP Executive Board in June 2017. The regional hubs have a complementary mandate to provide technical support and policy advice to the UNDP country offices to enable them to better to respond to development challenges. Output 2.3 Capacities of human rights institutions strengthened, 8. In 2016 UNDP adopted a new corporate strategy on SSC and TrC. Direct measures to reduce corruption, such as the establishment of anti-corruption commissions, had limited outcomes. Gender Equality Output 2.4. Conflict Finding 34. UNDP sought to lift its performance and ensure that it is fit for purpose. Output 3.1. It will start at the country level with programmes and projects and will expand to regional and corporate levels over time. The strategic planning process was influenced by the 2007 Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review of United Nations development activities.7 The Strategic Plan approved in 2008 included an addendum containing development and institutional results frameworks.8 At the annual session of the Executive Board in June 2009, a decision was made to extend the Strategic Plan to 2013.9 The same decision aligned the UNDP global and regional programmes with the Strategic Plan time frame. Co-led by UNDP and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the mechanism brings together the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other United Nations entities to facilitate joint planning and programming and resource mobilization in service of the whole system. There have been improvements in the management of human resources in UNDP. Project and Programme management Partnership Develop measurements or proxy measurements for the directions of change, 15 working days (including consultations with UNDP), Measurement framework report certified by Strategy Lead, Strategy and Futures Team. Finding 66. Gender Mainstreaming UNDP CO, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It describes the results architecture accompanying the 7 2019 contexts: Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Colombia, Guinea (Conakry), Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Lebanon, Nepal, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, State of Palestine, Sudan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Yemen, Kosovo [1]. /*-->*/. performance that provides an overview of development results. Target completion date is December 16. Human and Financial resources Election Staff engagement levels at headquarters and regional offices have dropped due to restructuring, resulting in loss of colleagues, posts, institutional knowledge and job security. The UNDP Strategic Plan, 20182021 highlights South-South and triangular cooperation as an essential instrument to support implementation of the 2030 Agenda. IRRF reporting through the corporate system, and this should the cumulative number Coherence In response to the growing demands to support climate action and DRR, UNDP has already scaled up and expanded assistance to countries to integrate climate change adaptation and DRR into their subnational/national policies, plans, and strategies. https://www.sdgintegration.undp.org Output 7.4. The UNDP national and subnational scope of service; capabilities for urban and rural development planning, governance and risk assessment; experience managing multi-partner trust funds; and decades of environmental protection and disaster risk reduction and recovery work provide a platform from which to ably assist national and subnational governments to meet this global development challenge. Approximately $84 million was spent on activities related to gender equality and womens empowerment during the Strategic Plan period. Improved transparency has generated a proliferation of overly demanding, even counter-productive, compliance monitoring and reporting tools and requirements. Policies & Procedures There were concerns about managements insufficient engagement with the rest of staff. Resources Framework. XB pooling has helped regional hubs to better assess funding gaps and strengthen country offices where necessary. Judith Karl Director, Operations Support Group UNDP Executive Office. b) Difference between percentage of UNDP-managed Global Fund grants Policies & Procedures South-South Cooperation. South-South Cooperation, 6.2 PROGRESS TOWARDS GREATER ORGANIZATIONAL OPENNESS, AGILITY AND ADAPTABILITY. Human and Financial resources SDG Integration. The use of credible evidence to demonstrate progress has improved in UNDP reporting, but there is limited evidence of reporting being used for improved learning, course corrections and knowledge management to enhance results and effectiveness. Human rights Institutional effectiveness is a specific component of the UNDP Strategic Plan. It played a prominent role in regional and global policy debates on global climate change in support of countries preparing for and then responding to the 2015 Paris Agreement. Impact Finding 21. UNDP strives to be proactive in supporting sectoral governance approaches and to be persuasive in promoting democratic governance reform, while fully recognizing that its support for reforms is based on requests from national Governments in line with national contexts and priorities. SDG Integration. Procurement Green Economy Finding 17. Finding 40. The platform will also use machine learning and Artificial Intelligence to connect users with relevant projects from across the world, expertise and knowledge to help turn UNDP into a more connected learning organization. UN Country Team, Chapter 2 CONTEXT FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN 20142017. Citizen expectations for voice, development, the rule of law and accountability are met by stronger systems of democratic governance. BPPS and Articulation of Territorial Networks Initiative Green Climate BPPS/DIG Policies & Procedures UN Agencies, 4.2FACILITATING SOUTH-SOUTH AND TRIANGULAR COOPERATION. It will bring together data and learning on operations and programming for more holistic decision making. Over the same period, and culminating in the Commitment to Action at the World Humanitarian Summit, the previous linear model of progression from humanitarian to development assistance in the aftermath of a crisis has been replaced by the concept of the humanitariandevelopment nexus. UNDP is in the process of piloting and applying the UN-WB CGF diagnostic assessment in a number of countries, including Libya, Central African Republic, Myanmar, South Sudan, Mali, and Liberia, with its CGF partners at various stages depending on political context and security conditions on the ground. All regions provide support to COs in developing CPDs that are closely aligned with national UNDAFs, and incorporating leaving-no-one behind narrative and targets. UNDP restructuring combined three practice areas into a Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Cluster. Tag: Disaster Risk Reduction The GES is approved by UNDPs Executive Board. All 50 country offices consulted expressed concern about losing direct control of this reserve and the freedom to maneuver and invest funds they had generated. Rule of law Rec 15.3 UNDP Leadership Development Overview and Evaluations 2016-2019.pptx, Set baselines, milestones and targets for IRRF indicators by linking BMTs with the corporate resource plan, BPPS/DIG, BMS/Office of Finance and Resource Management (OFRM), Executive Office. Rule of law Communication The GP-V channels evidence, knowledge and expertise gained by UNDP through its countryand regional- level support in providing advisory and support services and in global policy engagement, including for furthering multilateral agreements and frameworks. Recommendation 6: Analysis of institutional capacities at the national level should guide UNDP governance programming in countries affected by conflict. UNDP has successfully established its niche as a trusted and reliable intermediary and neutral convener on democratic governance issues. It also handles immediate crisis response, working through a whole-of-UNDP approach (using standard operating procedures etc. International Financial Institutions N1911379-1 Annual report of the Administrator 2018.docx, Develop and roll out a support package to strengthen national capacities to access and expand South-South cooperation based on country typologies, BPPS DIG in consultation with regional bureaux. UNDP will continue to expand its roster of experts to deliver adaptation services at global, regional and national levels. One notable improvement is the establishment of a single entry point (one-stop shop) in the BMS directorate for solutions requiring cross-functional consultation and coordination, such as legal, finance, human resources, IT, security and procurement. Knowledge management UNDP Independent Offices Quality Assurance Demand for facilitation of global development exchanges between countries is growing in the South. Other factors hindering agility include the need to re-engineer processes and procedures to further cut down on bureaucracy and repetition; a lack of trust in leadership and the management model of consensus decision-making; and poor IT systems integration. Civic Engagement South-South Cooperation. Security Engagement is a challenge particularly at regional and headquarters levels, where staff are increasingly expected to do more with fewer resources. Project and Programme management Civic Engagement MDGs Efficiency As part of that engagement, UNDP in 2016 developed SDG-Ready, the UNDP offer on Sustainable Development Goal implementation in fragile situations. 4. Jobs and Livelihoods. It is intended to help UNDP programme units meet the organizations goals and follow its programming principles. The global and operational context of early recovery has changed significantly during the Strategic Plan period. Finding 3. The analysis of UNDPs target groups has served as critical inputs to the Annual Report of the Administrator and Midterm Review of the Strategic Plan. SDG Integration. Governance support needs to be targeted to critical government functions that are essential to stability. Review UNDP technical expertise against the priorities identified in the new strategic plan and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and develop an action plan for training and learning to address any gaps in capacity arising. Business Model By speeding up investment in distributed renewable energy Joint UN Programme There are signs of improvement in UNDPs openness, agility and adaptability, though they are yet to be translated into improved harnessing of knowledge, solutions and expertise. endobj Green Economy Sustainability Evaluation question: Has UNDP improved planning, design, monitoring and evaluation through RBM and delivered higher quality programmes?
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