The role of the UN Funds and Programmes
in supporting national efforts in
implementing the IPoA
Ayodele Odusola
UNDP, New York
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Background
• UNDP played a key role in supporting the LDC IV
preparatory process at the country, regional and
global levels.
• At its June 2011 annual session, the Executive
Board of UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNOPS, UNWOMEN and WFP mandated the agencies to
integrate IPoA into their programmes.
• Support to LDCs to be anchored on principles of
demand-based assistance and national ownership
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UNDP’s Role
• UNDP has been identified as a key partner to
mainstream IPoA into:
(i) LDCs’ national development plans and strategies
(ii) UN system work programmes of UN Funds,
Programmes and specialized agencies.
• UNDP is already working in all 48 LDCs to
advance sustainable human development
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Strategy of supporting the
implementation of IPoA
• Aligning MDG achievement and other
development efforts with those identified in the
IPoA
• A Corporate Task Force has been set up to
coordinate the implementation and monitoring
of IPoA
• UNDP Regional Bureaus have begun to raise
awareness among all RCs/RRs/CDs of LDCs to
ensure mainstreaming and implementation of
IPoA.
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Strategy of supporting the
implementation of IPoA
• Using the UNDP’s convening power to ensure:
– other UNDG agencies and donors align their activities
with this agenda; and
– Encourage UNCTs to continue to support nationallevel monitoring of the implementation of the IPoA.
• UNDP has systematically encouraged its country
offices and UNCTs to explicitly link their
programmatic work to the IPOA. Examples
include: UNDAF/CPD for Bangladesh, Lao PDR,
Myanmar, Nepal, Sudan, Djibouti, Guinea Bissau
and Lesotho.
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UN Agencies collaboration on IPoA
• United Nations collaborative actions are
focused in four areas:
i.
building national capacities to deliver basic
services
ii. mainstreaming the IPoA in national plans and
programmes + MDGs, Rio+20, Post 2015 DA;
iii. helping youths to develop; and
iv. strengthening resilience, including to climate
change.
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Examples of UN collaborative work
• Building national capacities
– Social Protection Floor Initiative: the Rwandan
Government with support from UNDP, UNICEF and
other United Nations agencies has established
programmes in health, education, housing, social
assistance and other sectors in order to improve
Rwandans’ living conditions
– UNFPA, in collaboration with other UN agencies, is
helping LDCs (e.g. Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone,
Madagascar and Benin) to combat child and maternal
mortality and enhance access to reproductive
services.
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Examples of UN collaborative work
• UNDP, in collaboration with UNOPS and other
UN agencies, is building capacity to implement
the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIT)
Trust Fund for trade related assistance for
LDCs, which was developed to promote
economic growth and sustainable
development.
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Examples of UN collaborative work
• Mainstreaming IPoA
– Through MDG Acceleration Framework (MAF),
UNDP in collaboration with other UN agencies are
helping Governments and development partners
to identify the bottlenecks blocking sustained and
inclusive MDG progress and devise ways to
overcome them in more than 20 countries (e.g.
Burkina Faso, Chad, Lao PDR, Mali, Niger,
Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Benin, CAR, Mauritania
and Lesotho).
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Examples of UN collaborative work
– Joint United Nations Programme to Address
Violence against Women in Bangladesh is an
example of joint action to reach the IPoA goal of
increasing the empowerment of women.
– Mainstreaming IPoA into CPDs/UNDAFs in
Guinea Bissau, Mali, Lesotho, Sudan, Djibouti, Lao
PDR, Myanmar, Nepal and Bangladesh and Joint
Vision Document in Sierra Leone
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Examples of UN collaborative work
• Helping youth develop
– At the 2011 UN Nations High-level Meeting on Youth,
more than 25 heads of United Nations entities signed a
joint statement which commits them to supporting a
comprehensive youth development agenda at the country
level
– The Regional Programme for Social Cohesion and Youth
Employment is bringing together UNDP, ILO, UNESCO and
UNIDO to help 12 sub-Saharan countries (e.g. Côte
d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Lesotho,
Malawi, Senegal and Sierra Leone) design macroeconomic
policies that promote youth employment and help youths
develop their skills.
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Examples of UN collaborative work
• Strengthening resilience
– Through the Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive
Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation programme,
UNDP, in partnership with UNIDO, UNICEF, UNOPS and
WFP, is helping more than 20 countries, including LDCs,
address climate change risks and opportunities in their
national development plans.
– In Uganda the government and the United Nations have
launched a Joint Programme on Climate Change under the
leadership of WFP and the participation of UNEP, OCHA
and UNFPA – focusing on mitigation and adaptation
planning, finance, advocacy, lessons learned and research
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Examples of UNDP support to LDC IV
Monitoring work
• UNDP has been supporting the “LDC IV Monitor”, which is a
new global Partnership Initiative for the independent
Monitoring of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA).
• Through research and analysis, policy dialogue, expert group
meetings, and other outreach activities, the group
(comprising a number of civil society and related
organisations in Asia, Africa and Europe) aims to complement
the official monitoring and review mechanism of the IPoA.
• The main output of the initiative will be the “First
Independent Review on the State of Implementation of the
IPoA”, to be published in 2013.
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Key lessons learned
• To build national service-delivery capacities
– It is important not to ignore infrastructure
– In areas with food insecurity and low rates of school
attendance, cash transfers and school feeding have
proved to be effective ways of bringing the most
disadvantaged to school.
– Good data leads to effective planning.
• To mainstream the Istanbul Programme of
Actions
– Develop the capacities of leaders and technical staff.
– Seek synergies with the MDG acceleration effort.
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Key lessons learned
• To help youth develop
– Support broad-based economic growth.
– Improve vocational training curriculums and the
facilities available for such training.
– Use local labour to carry out United Nationsassisted projects.
– Integrate social protection schemes with policies
to create jobs and stimulate inclusive and
equitable economic growth.
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Key lessons learned
• To strengthen resilience, including to climate
change
– Build on synergies between the fight against
poverty and action to address climate change
– Address the connections linking climate change,
infrastructure and communities.
– Foster the development of social protection
systems
– Ensure necessary resources are available
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THANK YOU
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