UN Participating Organisations Briefing

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MDG Achievement Fund

• UN Participating Organisations Briefing
• January 2009

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Background

• Agreement signed between Spain and UNDP on 18
  December 2006
• Euros 528 million 90 million (24 Sept. 2008)
• Supporting national priorities through joint UN
  efforts towards the implementation of the MDGs
• Supporting the implementation of the Paris
  Declaration
• Administrative Agent UNDP

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Fund Structure

• The Global Account US 24 million disbursed to
  select UN agencies as core voluntary
  contributions in 2007
• The Delivering as One UN Account
• Includes contributions to the Coherence/One UN
  Funds in the pilot countries (to date US 32.5
  million)
• Expanded multi-donor Delivering as One funding
  window launched 24 Sept. 2008 (Spain, UK, Norway,
  and Netherlands)
• The Country Account Majority of funds (US 714
  million) go towards joint programmes in 8
  thematic windows

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Progress on Delivering as One Account
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Thematic Windows

• Environment and climate change
• Gender
• Economic governance
• Culture and development
• Youth, employment and migration
• Conflict prevention and peace building
• Children, nutrition and food security
• Development and private sector

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Eligible Countries
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UN Participating Organizations
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UN Agency Budget Share
Other refers to UN Agencies with less than 4
and includes IFAD, IOM, UNAIDS, ESCAP, ECLAC,
WB, UNCDF, UNEP, UNHCHR, UNHCR, UNHABITAT,
UNIDO, UNOPS, UNODC, UNRWA, UNV, UNIFEM and UNWTO
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Progress

• All eight windows closed
• Final decisions awaited for last two windows
• 75 approved joint programmes for almost 420
  million to date
• 54 signed joint programmes
• 37 joint programmes with released funds

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Thematic Windows to Date
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Concept Notes

• 396 (includes last two windows) submitted with 93
  approved with one withdrawn
• Quality of Concept Notes has increased
• Online system in question

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Joint Programmes

• Quality is still an issue (about 50 return rate)
• Why?
• Sharing between countries vs. lack of
  communication between JPs
• National ownership vs. weak Steering Committee
• RBM and ME savvy vs. lack of understanding re
  concepts
• JP implementation
• Lag in recruitment
• Lead agency
• Joint implementation and joint management

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Monitoring and Evaluation

• Draft strategy ready and being discussed with
  UNEG
• Principles
• UNEG and DAC/OECD standards
• Learning and accountability
• Evidence-based
• Simple
• Built on an aggregation scheme
• Measure, describe, analyze understand the object
  of study and use results to improve programme and
  policy performance
• Elements
• Monitoring indicators, field visits, evaluations,
  meta-evaluations, desk review, and data
  collection and analysis
• Report products Quarterly, annual, field,
  mid-term evaluation, country evaluations,
  meta-evaluation/analysis, and MDG reports

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Knowledge Management

• Draft KM strategy under development
• Electronic platform
• Document repository and assessment
• Participant profiles
• Thematic dialogues
• Mapping of interventions
• All partners included
• Agency KM
• Convenor agencies take the lead
• Case studies, analysis, lessons learned etc.

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Communication

• Overall Goal
• Accelerate progress on the MDGs by raising
  awareness, strengthening broad-based support and
  action and increasing citizen engagement in MDG
  policy and practice.
• Objectives
• Increased awareness and support for the MDGs and
  the Fund work with media, civil society and
  UNCGs
• Leverage joint programmes for increased MDG
  results strengthen citizen participation and
  voice, highlight promising cases using to
  facilitate learning, scaling up and advocacy.
• Achieve greater accountability and transparency
  clear and consistent information/communication
  about MDG-F and its activities to all
  partners-citizens, Governments, Donor and UN
• .Based on partnerships

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UN Participating Agency Issues

• Dispersal of funds from HQs to the field
• Participation of non-resident agencies
• Working jointly vs individually

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Thank You
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