UNDAF pilot phase countries

7. UNDAF pilot phase countries

Common country assessment and United Nations Development Assistance Framework

A. Common country assessment United Nations Development Assistance Framework

Common country assessment and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework

91. Several developing and donor countries expressed support for UNDAF.

Integrated Framework for Trade Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries

The Bretton Woods institutions are associated with several UNDAF pilot exercises, and cooperation is foreseen in preparing the UNDAF and World Bank country assistance strategy in two pilot countries.

Two UNIFEM regional programme advisers participated in the UNDAF global support team, travelling to countries in which UNDAF was being piloted.

B. United Nations Development Assistance Framework

B. United Nations Development Assistance Framework

A number of important instruments were also available to the system, such as the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).

The recently decided participation of the World Bank in two UNDAF exercises, where the relation between UNDAF and country assistance strategies will be explored, should be further encouraged.

United Nations country teams focused on common country assessments and the United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks.

The role of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) in the follow up to global conferences has been confirmed.

United Nations Development Assistance Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo

47. The areas of development needs identified by the CCA have contributed a first step towards the consolidation and rationalization of United Nations development assistance through the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) process involving the representatives of all agencies.

It may also wish to indicate that where the country strategy note exists, it should serve as the basis for the preparation of the UNDAF and should ensure compatibility with the country strategy note.

Application of the Common Country Assessment (CCA) United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) should be fully aligned with national priorities and applied only after careful analysis and dialogue with national Governments.

The CCA UNDAF process should be aligned to national and regional priorities and development frameworks and initiatives to ensure effective participation and leadership by recipient Governments.

66. In its potential to provide a consistent framework for United Nations activities on the ground, the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) is a critical part of the Secretary General s reform.

Do key policy documents such as UNDAFs and CCAs reflect gender based roles and women's needs?

Firstly, programme countries and donors alike must recognize the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) as a common frame of reference for the system's response to national needs and priorities.

The Institute has been actively engaged, also in the host country, in ensuring the inclusion of gender issues throughout the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and the Common Country Assessment (CCA) process.

Member States are generally supportive of UNDAF although they have expressed differing views about the relationship between UNDAF and the country strategy note process, and some have expressed the need for simplification.

Complementarity of the country strategy note and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework

Those who refer to UNDAF consider it premature to assess it at this time.

In addition, UNIFEM regional programme advisers are located in three UNDAF countries.

79. Perhaps the most significant innovation at the country level has been the creation of the United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks.

UNICEF participates actively in several United Nations Development Group working groups to improve the timeliness and relevance of the common country assessment United Nations Development Assistance Framework process, specifically in the areas of revision of the guidelines, the development of lessons learned and the evaluation of experiences of the common country assessment United Nations Development Assistance Framework, and strengthening of the global quality support and assurance system.

(a) The value added of UNDAF

92. However, most recipient Governments reveal little awareness of UNDAF.

A third group of countries stress the complementary role of UNDAF, the common country assessment and the country strategy note, and believe that UNDAFs should reflect the priorities identified in the country strategy notes.

of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s

They asked the secretariat to continue to strengthen its participation in United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAFs), PRSs and the preparation and monitoring of national budgets.

Countries that are in a position to do so should strive to augment their assistance in the framework of development cooperation.

33 (iii) Advise least developed countries on implementation of Integrated Framework for Technical Assistance

Nonetheless, some have expressed interest in participating during the formulation of UNDAFs in pilot countries.

The measures included incorporating the issues of crime and corruption within the United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks at the country level.

A year ago, the United Nations Development Group initiated a pilot phase to test the process in 18 countries in two pilot countries the interface between the Development Assistance Framework and the World Bank s Country Assistance Strategy is being explored with the aim of fostering a strategic partnership between the two institutions.

Efforts are needed at the national, regional and international levels to achieve the Millennium Development Goals with the full participation of indigenous communities women and men without interfering with their development paths and their holistic understanding of their needs.

It was also designed to discuss policy frameworks on or relevant to free, prior and informed consent at the inter agency level, including the Common Country Assessment and United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the Millennium Development Goals.

135. Recalls the need for country level evaluations of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework at the end of the programming cycle, based on the results matrix of the Framework, with the full participation and leadership of the recipient Government

It should become a tool for the mobilization of resources.

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