Questionnaire: GA Resolution 63/223. Development cooperation with middle-income countries
Questionnaire: Development cooperation with middle-income countries
Name of the country/region:
UNCT focal point contacts:
RDT focal point contacts:
Name of agencies which participate on your UNCT:
Please indicate if the agencies are resident or not resident.
Name of the agencies which participate on your RDT:
Please indicate
1. What is the size of the estimated annual operational budget of the entity (agency/
UNCT1/RDT) in this country? How is it funded?
2. Please specify if your agency has any graduating criteria for reducing activities in the host
country/region? If so, what are they?
3. In which of the key development areas is your UNCT/RDT engaged in the host
country/region? (Please indicate: 1=Top priority, 2=High priority, 3=Moderate priority,
4=Low priority, 5=Very low priority, 6=No priority at all).
The Millennium Development Goals
In particular:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
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For the UNCT, please use the annual operational budget (estimate) of the UNDAF (including joint
programmes)
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Questionnaire: GA Resolution 63/223. Development cooperation with middle-income countries
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
Other components of the Millennium Declaration such as treaty obligations or other
development areas (please specify):
4. In which of the key policy areas is your UNCT engaged in the host country to provide
policy advice (Please indicate: 1=Top priority, 2=High priority, 3=Moderate priority,
4=Low priority, 5=Very low priority, 6=No priority at all).
a. Trade policy
b. Macroeconomic policy
c. Infrastructure planning
d. Social policy
e. Governance
f. Energy
g. Technology (ICT etc)
h. Agriculture
i. Decentralization and local development
j. Discrimination and social rights
k. Conflict prevention
l.
Disarmament
m. Natural disasters
n. Other. Please specify
5. In which of the key policy areas is your UNCT engaged in the host country/region to
provide capacity development (Please indicate: 1=Top priority, 2=High priority,
3=Moderate priority, 4=Low priority, 5=Very low priority, 6=No priority at all).
a. Trade policy
b. Macroeconomic policy
c. Infrastructure planning
d. Social policy
e. Governance
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Questionnaire: GA Resolution 63/223. Development cooperation with middle-income countries
f. Energy
g. Technology (ICT etc)
h. Agriculture
i. Decentralization and local development
j. Discrimination and social rights
k. Conflict prevention
l. Disarmament
m. Natural disasters
n. Other. Please specify
6. With which key players is your UNCT engaged (Please indicate: 1=Top priority, 2=High
priority, 3=Moderate priority, 4=Low priority, 5=Very low priority, 6=No priority at all).
Government agencies
Foreign Ministry
Economic and development Ministry
Trade Ministry
Central Bank
Finance Ministry
Social sector Ministries
Presidency/Parliament
Judiciary
Other Government agencies (please specify)
Business sector:
Non-profit organizations:
NGOs:
7. How does the UN engage differently than other partners in middle-income countries?
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Questionnaire: GA Resolution 63/223. Development cooperation with middle-income countries
8. Which approaches do you find most successful in your engagement? (Please indicate:
1=Top priority, 2=High priority, 3=Moderate priority, 4=Low priority, 5=Very low
priority, 6=No priority at all).
Advocacy
Policy and legislation advice
Normative
Capacity Development of public officials
Capacity development of non-state actors
Convening actors across sectors to implement plans and policies
Monitoring policy implementation and/or global commitments
Other. Please specify
9. How well do you think your UNDAF/RDT work plan meets the host country’s/region’s
needs? (Please indicate: 1=Highly effective, 2=Effective, 3=Moderately effective,
4=Moderately ineffective, 5=Ineffective, 6=Highly ineffective)
Why?:
If ineffective or worse, do you have any proposals for delivering better programming
to the host country?
10. What is the perception of your host country/regional bodies of the role of the United
Nations in the host country/region in general? (Please indicate: 1=Highly effective,
2=Effective, 3=Moderately effective, 4=Moderately ineffective, 5=Ineffective, 6=Highly
ineffective)
11. Is there significant potential for and commitment to channelling any form of development
assistance by the host country to other countries (e.g. South-South cooperation or other
peer to peer exchange platforms)? If so what are the geographic and thematic interest
areas of the country?
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Questionnaire: GA Resolution 63/223. Development cooperation with middle-income countries
Please provide examples:
12. How significant is your UNCT/RDT support for such cooperation between the host
country/region and other countries/regions? (Please indicate: 1=Top priority, 2=High
priority, 3=Moderate priority, 4=Low priority, 5=Very low priority, 6=No priority at all).
Please provide examples:
13. What are the major challenges specific to middle income countries that your host
country/region needs to overcome?
14. What are the major achievements your UNCT/RDT has made in development cooperation
with the host country/region (if possible, please attach separate materials, such as UNCT
or RDT reports, if necessary)?
15. How could your UNCT/RDT become more responsive to needs of host countries/regions
in meeting their development commitements as middle-income countries? (Please attach
separate material if necessary)?
16. Are there any specific challenges or opportunities related to individual agencies when
considering work of the United Nations in middle-income countries/regions?
17. Given the advanced level of development achieved in certain middle-income countries,
have there been any requests from the Government for a UNCT exit strategy or closure of
in-country presence at a defined point in time in the future? If so, please provide more
details on the nature of the request and the UNCT response.
18. Does your UNCT have any other suggestions?
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