Joint programming

C. Joint programming

JOINT PROGRAMMING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

JOINT PROGRAMMING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

2005 10 Report on joint programming

2005 10 Report on joint programming

Table 9. Status of joint programming funds 2004

Field level collaboration included joint assessments, monitoring and programming.

Joint programming should be tailored to each country's situation.

Joint programming was also being extended across countries and themes.

Adopted decision 2005 10 of 28 January 2005 on joint programming

A key challenge was how to manage funding for joint programming.

They are recorded under joint programming' in the balance sheet. In 2004, 20 donors had contributed 632 million (20 per cent of other resources) towards joint programming activities in Iraq and Sudan.

UNICEF will continue to pursue opportunities for joint programming at all levels.

Several delegations questioned the desirability of pooling funding mechanisms for joint programming.

H. Follow up to Executive Board decision 2004 8 on joint programming

Contributions received under joint programming funds are not recorded as UNDP income.

Requests, therefore, that the Executive Director, in cooperation with the other agencies of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) in implementing joint programming, ensure that joint programming, including joint programmes where appropriate, results in improved development impact, including where appropriate to

through the UNDG management and programming groups developing the remaining tools to ensure a common country programming process, including simplified cash transfer modalities and further work on joint programming

They noted that lessons learned from joint programming and previous UNDAF exercises would be collected to improve joint programming guidelines, originally developed in accordance with the first recommendations of the triennial comprehensive policy review.

His Government supported the report's emphasis on joint programming, coordination and inter agency cooperation.

Through joint programming, common results and the modalities for supporting programme implementation are identified.

Resources are needed for training and building capacity, and for joint programming on gender equality.

They noted potential joint programming costs and overlapping agency roles, which could blur accountability and transparency.

On United Nations reform, delegations asked for more information on joint programming, joint premises and the UNICEF contribution to monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals.

Joint programming was being discussed in areas of common interest such as marginalized populations and urban slums.

And although there had been progress since 2001, much remained to be done by way of harmonizing and simplifying the programming and management instruments and procedures, including the expansion of joint programming, increased use of common services, and establishment of common premises and joint offices.

That programming improvement must be accompanied by a joint effort to reduce the length of the draft resolutions.

Joint programming at the field level had great potential for delivering assistance and formulating a comprehensive development approach.

WFP and UNICEF raised US 950,000 from a corporate foundation for joint programming in school based interventions in Nicaragua.

It is based on coordinated programming for the essential package and in some cases, preparation of joint proposals for funding.

Joint activities in times of specific needs may therefore lend themselves more to such an approach than normal programming issues.

One delegation noted the organization's progress in joint programming, especially in the training of staff and the dissemination of guidelines.

The President reminded the delegations that in Executive Board decision 2004 8 on joint programming, adopted at the annual session of 2004, the Board took note of the secretariat's report on joint programming (E ICEF 2004 10) and deferred a decision on the subject to the first regular session of 2005.

Reiterates the need to maintain the institutional integrity and organizational mandate of each United Nations agency during the process of joint programming

UNICEF will complement and build on the work of other United Nations agencies and technical assistance partners through joint planning and programming.

Reiterates the need to maintain the institutional integrity and organizational mandate of each United Nations agency during the process of joint programming

Reiterates the need to maintain the institutional integrity and organizational mandate of each United Nations agency during the process of joint programming

Takes note of the report on the assessment of the UNICEF experience of joint programming contained in document E ICEF 2004 10

In joint programming, two or more United Nations organizations and national partners work together to prepare, implement, monitor and evaluate programme activities.

Should United Nations funds and programmes be able to move from harmonized programming to joint programming in the future, the application of the negotiated replenishment modality to their joint programmes would have the advantage of targeting a larger critical mass of resources, thereby saving transaction costs in what is typically a lengthy negotiation process.

Requests the Administrator and the UNFPA Executive Director to report on joint programming and joint programmes in the annual reports of UNDP and UNFPA, respectively, to the Executive Board at the annual session 2005,

This dictates a radical change in mindset a change from bureaucratic turf protection to teamwork, and from narrow departmentalization to interdepartmental (joint) programming.

Under the joint programming, the plan, subject to the availability of funds, is to return some 10,000 more displaced persons to their homes.

Requests the Administrator and UNFPA Executive Director to submit to the Board, for its consideration at its annual session 2006, a comprehensive report on the implementation of joint programming, as outlined in this decision, and on the UNDG joint programming guidelines, including information on experiences and an analysis of resources allocated to the three options of fund management for joint programmes, and the resulting benefit in development impact or efficiency gains.