UNESS Information Session

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UNESS Information Session
Findings of Pilot UNESS Evaluation and the Way
Forward
ED/PFS/ESS
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UNESS PILOT EVALUATION WORKSHOP

• Organized at HQ from 27 to 29 September 2006
• By the Division of Country Planning and Field
  Support (Re Blue Note on ED Reform), its Section
  for Education Support Strategies (HQ UNESS Team)
  
• Two expected outputs
• 1. Improve the draft UNESS guidelines, both on
  the process and the content
  
• 2. Preliminary strategies for UNESS rollout by
  region
  

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LIST OF PILOT UNESS COUNTRIES

• Initial list of 11 pilot UNESS countries
• Angola, Bangladesh, Egypt, Guinea, Morocco,
  Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
  Tanzania and Viet Nam
  
• Draft UNESS presented and discussed
• Angola, Bangladesh, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco,
  Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania and Viet Nam
  
• Not presented and discussed
• Guinea, Senegal and Sierra Leone
• Beirut Offices own initiative for Lebanon
  ADG/EDs agreement with Abuja Office for Nigeria
  
• All under the Dakar Cluster Office, who didnt
  come

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WHO PARTICIPATED

• The meeting was opened and closed by ADG/ED
• Attended by Directors and Education Staff of
• 2 Regional Bureaux (Bangkok and Beirut, but not
  Dakar and Santiago)
  
• 9 Field Offices Abuja, Bamako, Cairo,
  Dar-es-Salaam, Dhaka, Hanoi, Islamabad, Rabat,
  Windhoek
  
• 4 Institutes (IIEP, UIS, UIL and IBE) and HQ
  Divisions
  
• All invited, but Dakar Office preferred not to
  come Santiago with no pilot countries in LAC

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ADDED-VALUES OF UNESS ACCORDING TO FIELD OFFICES

• One country, one plan (for UNESCOs cooperation
  in education with MSs)
  
• A tool to ensure consistency, coherency and
  effectiveness of our cooperation with Member
  States
  
• A holistic repository of information and
  reference framework for UNESCOs in-country
  projects/programmes
  
• A matching tool between UNESCOs global
  programmes, and countries needs/priorities
  
• A tool for bottom-up and evidence-based planning
  for C/4 and C/5
  
• A enabling factor for UNESCO in CCA/UNDAF
• An action framework for in-country implementation
  of GAP-EFA

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UNESS OUTCOME MATRIX

• Product of analytical investigations of needs,
  priorities, donor mapping, lessons learnt
  
• The Outcome is national plan, as reviewed in
  light of our normative mandate
  
• Challenges are the national ones, as reviewed in
  light of international goals
  
• Limiting to 5 outcomes as a way of streamlining
  (in line with ED Reform)
  
• Inclusive of not only RP, but also exploring
  extrabudgetary
  
• Not yet a workplan, but will provide
  evidence-based framework for it
  
• 6-year perspective (C/4) and 2-year action plan
  (C/5)

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SOME KEY ISSUES RAISED

• For Participants, UNESS is challenging
• First time of any analytical work for planning
  cooperation with MSs
  
• an excellent, essential tool for ensuring the
  effectiveness of UNESCOs cooperation with Member
  States,
  
• but issues remain, inter alia
• Usefulness of UNESS an Upstream Planning or
  Downstream Implementation?
  
• Matching priorities through UNESS
• Alignment and synchronization
• Time and resource constraints
• Staff capacity development

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USEFULNESS OF UNESS

• i.e. an Upstream Planning or Downstream
  Implementation?
  
• A shared dual-phased vision
• UNESS will first of all serve as the planning
  tool for UNESCOs medium term and biennial
  programmes and,
  
• once these overall programmes are adopted by
  UNESCOs Governing Bodies, it will then
  constitute the basis for building evidence-based
  and demand-driven workplans by concerned FOs.
• Questions
• How to make sure that UNESS documents are
  reflected in next C/4 and C/5 despite short
  time?
  
• Re DGs Blue Note, UNESS Could be a basis for
  an implementation contract between RB and FOs?

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MATCHING PRIORITIES THROUGH UNESS

• How national priorities and UNESCOs global
  programmes can be reconciled?
  
• How competing national priorities can be
  reconciled?
  
• How UNESCO priorities will be aligned within
  UNDAF, CAS, re the One UN programme in-country?

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ALIGNMENT AND SYNCHRONIZATION

• UNESCOs position with regard to the Paris
  Declaration (harmonization and alignment around
  government procedures, priorities, budget
  support, etc.)?
• Is UNESS still needed in countries where SWAps
  are in place? UNESCOs normative role?
  
• Synchronization between UNESS (proposed by ED)
  and the Country Programming Document (CPD,
  proposed by BSP)?
  
• Will UNESS be synchronized with 34 C5/C4,
  CCA/UNDAF, OR national policy frameworks?

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TIME, RESOURCE STAFF

• Capacity of FOs to develop UNESS on top of the
  already heavy workload of the field staff?
  
• Developing UNESS in countries where there is no
  FO?
  
• Will Institutes and ED Divisions contribute to
  UNESS design processes and how?
  
• Relating the staff (FOs, HQ) capacity development
  to UNESS?
  
• Improving the quality of needs/gaps analysis,
  policy positioning and coordination for EFA?
  

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UNESS ROLL-OUT IN REGION

• Revised UNESS Guidelines (Guidance Note)
• UNESS developed for 60-100 countries by end-2007
  
  
• Different strategies across regions
• All 4 regions having regional meetings on UNESS
  and C/4 C/5 in Nov Dec 2006
  
• The role of Institutes/ED Divisions?

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PREPARATION OF 6-YEAR ED SECTOR STRATEGY ITS
1ST BIENNIUM (ED Reform)
Two years before C/4 cycle
EXB Spring Session
EXB Spring Session
EXB Fall Session
EXB Fall Session
General Conference
Deadline draft C/4 and C/5
Deadline Preliminary Proposals
MS Consultation process
Jan Feb March April May June July Aug.
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Jan Feb March April May June July Aug.
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Step 1 ED Sector Strategic Framework
Step 6 Finalization of workplans for the first b
iennium
Step 2 Identifying national priorities, needs a
nd strategies (UNESS UNESCO Country Program
me Document)
Step 4 Regional Consul- tations (budget)
Step 5 Education Programme Review by MLA
Step 3 Elaborating the structure of MP I

• UNESS
• UNESCOs support strategy at the country level
  6-year perspective with corresponding 2-year
  action plans including budgetary projections and
  staffing needs for 1st biennium
• Biennial review and update to inform 2nd and 3rd
  C/5 within 6-year cycle
  
• Respond to Education Sector Strategic Framework
  and UNESCOs comparative advantage vis-à-vis
  other partners at the country level and within
  regular budget frameworks normally allocated
• Identify gaps for resource mobilization beyond
  UNESCO regular programme assistance validation
  of UNESCOs priorities and strategies for
  fundraising
• Identify areas for operational intersectoral
  cooperation
  
• Two-year action plans to become the C/5 biennial
  workplans.

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IN SUM, UNESS IS A TOOL FOR ...
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UNESS CAN HELP