UN Reform

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UN Reform

• Implications for UNs 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
• 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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UNs operational activities
MDBs
Political Missions
UNDG
Development Assistance
Security /Peace-keeping
e.g. WHO,UNESCO, FAO
Participation
Politics/Power
Humanitarian Aid
e.g. UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA
e.g. DPKO
Neutrality
e.g. WFP
e.g. HCR
e.g. OCHA
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Areas of UN reform
Governance / Represen- tation
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
• Ease burden for partner governments
• Lower transaction costs
• Holistic vision
• Country level - MDGs 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

• 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

• Millennium Declaration
• SGs Reform Agenda
• Greentree Agenda
• Paris (and Rome) Declarations
• Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review
• Volcker Report

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Quotes

• at every stage of UNs 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/Govt 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 Systems
  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
Ex-com
Agency Mgmt
UNICEF
UNDP UNDG
UNFPA
WFP
Regional Team
UNICEF RD
UNDP RD
UNFPA RD
WFP RD
UNCT
RC JO Head
Other agencies
UNICEF SPO
UNFPA SPO
WFP SPO
UNDP SPO