A PostCrisis Transition Strategy

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A Post-Crisis Transition Strategy
UNICEF Executive Board Informal Consultation 5
October, 2005
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Our Transition Strategy the Rationale

• Achieving the MDGs
• Helping Women and Children in Crisis
• Contributing to preparedness risk mitigation
• Helping to Realise Peace and Security
• Respecting Human Rights to Achieve Success

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Adapting to a Changing Environment

• Peace-building Commission and Support Office
• Planning for Integrated Missions
• Humanitarian response
• Leadership Accountabilities re-defined
• Accelerated UN Reform
• Newly-emerging Financing Mechanisms
• New emphasis on Transition after Natural
  Disasters

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Country Typology

• Countries with (Integrated) Peace-keeping or
  Peace-building Missions
• Countries undergoing a post-conflict recovery /
  reconstruction phase (not included in
  aforementioned)
• Countries undergoing a post-natural disaster
  recovery / reconstruction phase
• Countries (not in transition) with increased risk
  of (renewed / escalating) conflict and/or prone
  to natural disasters

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Defining UNICEFs Role

• - Child rights endure, always and everywhere
• - Partnerships with Governments and communities
• - Presence before, during and after crises
• - Key actor in humanitarian response
• - Standing capacity for integrated response
• - Growing cadre of experienced staff

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Cluster Leadership

• Sector Coordination
• Information Management
• Work Planning
• Monitoring Reporting

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Transition the CCCs

• Consolidating gains to improve basic services
• Programming for early recovery, even during the
  emergency
• Establishing accountabilities in sectors where
  UNICEF leads
• Strengthening partnerships in advance of the
  transition
• Linking relief and recovery through integrated
  funding

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Transition the MTSP

• Focus Area 1 Young Child Survival / Development
• Responding to Child Survival through the
  transition phase
• Using Early Childhood Development as an entry
  point for a return to normalcy
• Using Early Childhood Development Centers Child
  Friendly Spaces to speed recovery
• Using ECD Emergency Kits in the post-emergency
  phase

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Focus Area 2 Basic Education Gender Equality

• Education as unique, transformative potential for
  healing, service provision and reintegration
• Principle of Free Compulsory basic education
• Safe, child-friendly spaces for learning and
  integrated service delivery
• Building in special measures to ensure quality
  educational opportunities for girls
• Addressing the needs for over-age learners to
  make up for years of deprived education
• Quality improvements in curriculum development,
  incl. life skills, mine-risk awareness, peace
  education and HIV-AIDS

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Focus Area 3 Protection

• Integrating child issues with UN/DDR standards
• Strengthening juvenile justice norms as laws are
  revised
• Improving protections for child victims and
  witnesses
• Improving all aspects of protection for separated
  children
• Establishing child-friendly spaces and providing
  psychosocial support

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Focus Area 4 HIV-AIDS and Children

• Strengthening the Knowledge Base
• Integrating HIV concerns in National AIDS Action
  Frameworks
• Improving capacity of national Aids stakeholders
• Improving communication with humanitarian actors

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Focus Area 5 Policy advocacy and partnerships
for childrens rights

• Enhance systems and tools for data collection and
  analysis on situation of women and children in
  Transition
• Systematic surveying of children and young people
  on issues affecting their lives
• Promote and institutionalize mechanisms for
  enhanced participation by children and young
  people
• Civic Education Communication strategies to
  promote gender equality, peace resolution,
  democratic dialogue and respect for human rights
• Strengthening UNICEF engagement in policy and
  budget processes

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Programming in Transition an Action Plan

• Tools methodologies
• Joint Needs Assessments
• Conflict Analysis
• Financing Mechanisms
• Innovation through Building Back Better
• Integrated Missions
• Harmonization of tools and instruments
• Technical Guidance Training
• Fully incorporate in MTSP roll-out
• Emphasis on joint initiatives
• Knowledge Acquisition Standard Setting
• New investments in Knowledge Management
• New partnership development for knowledge
  acquisition, programme excellence and policy
  leverage
• Results Based Management driven

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Monitoring Evaluation

• ME Function during Transition embedded in
  UNICEFs 06-09 Integrated Monitoring and
  Evaluation Plan
• Plan of Action developed addressing quality,
  demand for and response to Evaluations
• The Country Programme Evaluation as the standard
  tool for Transition Situations
• Enhanced focus on country programme level
  evaluation, implementation strategies and
  alignment with UNDAF and other partners.

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Partnerships for Transition

• National and Local governments
• ownership of both product and process
• UN partners strengthening the system through UN
  Reform
• Civil Society
• bottom-up approaches to conflict prevention,
  community rehabilitation and service delivery
• World Bank and Regional Development Banks
• upstream, scaling up and leverage
• Donors OECD DAC
• Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative
  innovative solutions to service delivery
• NGOs
• Spearheaded through the IASC

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Making it Work

• Management Coordination
• Human Resources
• Strengthening RC system and UNCT
• Financial Implications

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