Joint Programming & UN System Wide Action Plans (in Tanzania) Eastern and Southern Africa Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing Forum 19 to 22 July 2015 Harare,

Joint Programming &Joint Programming &UN System Wide Action Plans UN System Wide Action Plans

(in Tanzania(in Tanzania))

Eastern and Southern Africa Eastern and Southern Africa Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing

Forum 19 to 22 July 2015 Forum 19 to 22 July 2015 Harare, ZIMBABWE Harare, ZIMBABWE

Delivery as One; Background• World Summit of 2005, UN reform given

new impetus, • the Secretary-General established the

High-level Panel on System-wide Coherence in 2006.

• The HLP recommended “Delivering as one,” to strengthen the work of UN in partnership with host Governments and its focus on results

DaO elements and the ILOONE LEADERUNCT leadership based on mutual accountability, with an enhanced co-ordination function

Resident coordinator √ UN Country team √OMT – ILO is a memberCommunications Group – ILO represented

ONE BUDGETARY FRAMEWORKplanned and costed UN programme activities

Budgetary F/W – As reflected in RMSJoint resource mobilization strategy – UNJYE & Work in progressOne fund √

ONE PROGRAMMEone national development strategy/plan

UNDAP √Joint results groups + plans - 11 PWGs - ILO participates Monitoring – Mid year and annual reporting

OPERATING AS ONEoptions to build more cost-effective common operations and service support

Business Operations Strategy √ Finance and Audit × Common premises - Kazi HouseHuman Resources × Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfer (HACT) × Logistics/transport × ICT √ Procurement ×

COMMUNICATING AS ONEcoherent messaging and advocacy on normative and operational matters

Joint communication strategy √Common tools – Team Works, Website, Umoja NewsletterCommon messaging and advocacy √

UN System-wide Action Plan on YouthUN System-wide Action Plan on Youth• 12 January 201212 January 2012– The UN Secretary-General’s initiative of working with and

for young people as a priority of his Five-year Action Agenda called for the development of a UN System-wide Action Plan on Youth (Youth- SWAP).

• October 31, 2013October 31, 2013– The Tanzania Country Management Team (UNCMT)

endorsed the creation of UN Inter-agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD) • to provide strategic guidance on the UN’s response in addressing

development needs of young people in Tanzania and • to advise the UNCMT on how best to place youth rights and

development in the current and future UNDAP, including the formation of working groups and joint programs on each of the UN Global SWAP thematic areas

UN-SWAP Global Thematic Areas

UNJP - Youth EmploymentPUNs – ILO, UNIDO, FAO, UN WomenDonor – Sida USD 1,800,000

Energy Sector Transformation and Opportunities for YouthPUNs – ILO, UNDP, YUNADonor – NorwayEconomic Empowerment & Livelihoods Development for Adolescents (HIV/AIDS), PUNs – ILO, UNICEF

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UNJP - Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Nets

PUNs - UNDP, UNICEF, UNPFA, ILO and WFPDonor – SDG-F USD 176,000

Some Joint programs on the UN Global SWAP thematic areas

UN Joint Programme Youth EmploymentUN Joint Programme Youth Employment

Programme to develop an integrated strategy in addressing the youth employment challenge in Tanzania.

It manifests itself in the form of unemployment, underemployment, poor employment conditions and lack of an integrated approach and focuses on 5 impact areas; 1) sustainable enterprise development, 2) decent work for youth, 3) enhancing agriculture productivity, 4) skills development and 5) building labour market information systems.

Underlying Rationale• Under UNDAP: agencies deliver towards common

goals with shared results• Now step further: JPYE and other JPs are

thematically focused with integrated interventions by multiple actors

• Moving towards shared implementation and shared results

• Using and capitalizing on the competitive advantage of each UN agency at different project stages

Implementation Frameworke.g. agr. Value Chain

UNIDO

FAO & ILO FAO

UNIDO

Youth

Enterprise Enterprise

Youth

FAO

Youth

FAO

Farmers

Cooperatives &

Associations

ILO & FAO UNWOMEN: training and capacity building for women

Levels of Interventions

1. Upstream – Macro-level

2. Downstream – Micro-level - Value Chain Approach

• Policy and Statistics: strengthening statistical system for collection and processing of data related to employment

• To inform National policies, strategies, plans and programmes

• Different interventions along the value chain by different UN agencies in a coordinated and coherent manner

• Selected Value Chains for joint interventions and collaboration• Scaling up existing interventions and maximise impact

Opportunities at the National and UN Level

Opportunities for ILO

Challenges & Mitigation Strategy

Challenges

1. Scope of the exercise vs. Agency capacity e.g. Sufficient and qualified personnel

2. UN organizations established own specific mandates

3. Accountable, empowered leader and Country Team

4. Resources Mobilization Strategy and Sustainability of One Fund

5. Competition for funds (decentralization of funding responsibilities by PUNs)

Mitigation

1. Empowerment and support to joint programming personnel

2. capitalize on the strengths and comparative advantages of the different members of the UN

3. Effective leadership, tools, incentives and sanctions for better coordination

4. Mapping of donor priorities and approaches to financing/focus on Specific, flexible and pragmatic resources mobilization

5. Objective eligibility and performance based criteria. Link budgets to implementation and absorption capacity.

Conclusion• DaO and Joint Programming progress depends on

engagement, vision, strategies and resources.• Teams are inevitable tool both within and among PUNs• The commitment and political will of all partners, all

stakeholders at field level and at HQs is imperative.• Joint programme provides an opportunity for the UN to

leverage resources, expertise and experience• The Tanzania UNDAP has brought greater

programmatic coherence, greater synergies and • has helped the UN in responding better to the national

priorities

Asanteni SanaThanks Very Much

Tatendazikomoekele

References

UNDAP Programme Management Levels

UNCMT – UN Country Management teamPOMT – Programme and Operations Management TeamPWG – Programme working GroupOMT – Operations management teamPME – Programme Monitoring and evaluationUNCG – UN Communications Group

Heads of Agencies

Deputy Directors and Senior Officers

Technical Officers

ILO Director

UNDAP Coordinator

NPCs

DaO Challenge 1 - Scope of the exercise vs. ILO’s capacity

Management and Coordination Arrangements

Economic Growth PWG

(Led by FAO)

Outcome Level WG

Sustainable Enterprise

Development(Led by ILO)

Outcome Level WG

Decent Work for Youth

(Led by ILO)

Outcome Level WG

Agricultural Productivity(Led by FAO)

Outcome Level WG

Skills Development

(Led by UNIDO)

Outcome Level WG

LMIS(Led by ILO)

YE Technical Team (Led by ILO)

UN HoA on YE(Led by ILO)

UNJP Steering Committee

UNDAF and UNDAP: What is Different?

UNDAF Jan 2007 – June 2011 UNDAP July 2011 – June 2015

1. A framework for the UN agencies to operate within Tanzania

1. A business plan for the UN agencies in Tanzania

2. Echoes Tanzania’s development priorities to which the UN would contribute

2. Articulates the contribution of the UN agencies to the national priorities

3. Agencies developed individual plans using UNDAF as the overarching framework (out of these 9 joint programmes developed)

3. UNDAP is the plan for all UN agencies in Tanzania

4. Only joint programme reports reviewed annually (performance based fund allocations)

4. Entire UN programme reviewed annually (performance based fund allocations)