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Feb 4, 2013
Joint Meeting of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS,
UNICEF, UN Women and WFP Executive Board on Operationalization of the
decisions of the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review On February
4th, 2013
"Mr. President,
Deputy Secretary General, Heads of Agencies,
Germany
highly appreciates this timely opportunity to discuss the
operationalization of the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review.
In
our assessment, the QCPR process has shown that there is a broad desire
in the UN membership to further strengthen the UN Development System by
enabling it to reform and improve the way it works, both at
headquarters level and in the field.
Mr. President,
For
today's meeting, I am going to focus my remarks and questions on the
following elements, to which we attach special importance:
The
first element is the need for agencies to improve the way they work
together. The development of the next strategic plans provides an
opportunity to sharpen the focus of the respective agencies and to
ensure that the UN system is organized in a way that brings out the
comparative advantages of the individual agencies and ensures
complementarity while reducing duplication.
I
would appreciate to hear from the respective heads of agencies about the
mechanisms you use in order to align the next strategic plans among
agencies.
This brings me to my second point, the
request for a better results orientation of the UN development system.
This includes the call for the development of results frameworks which
contain complete results chains with indicators at the output, outcome
and impact level when developing the next strategic plans. It will be
important that the frameworks currently under development will ensure a
comparability among UN agencies.
Thirdly, let
me emphasize the importance we attach to the decisions taken with regard
to institutionalizing and strengthening the Delivering as One approach.
In our opinion, Delivering as One is clearly the way we expect the UN
to follow in the future. We therefore attach high importance to the
development of the standard operation procedures for the implementation
of Delivering as One in countries which decide to join the approach in
the future. I would appreciate to hear from the Heads of Agencies where
the process of developing these standard operation procedures stands at
the moment.
Fourthly, the QCPR contains a
strong call for a further harmonization of business practices. If
implemented properly, this should allow the UN development system to
reduce the costs of doing business and free much needed resources for
programme activities. In this context, I would be interested to hear
from the Heads of Agencies, in which areas and when your are expecting
the realization of first efficiency gains? Lastly, let me underline the
importance we attach to continued attention of the entire UN Development
System to gender equality and women's empowerment. In this regard, we
strongly encourage Heads of Agencies to :
- ensure full and swift implementation of the UN System-wide action plan on gender equality and the empowerment of women,
- to increase investment in and focus on outcomes and outputs relating to gender equality and the empowerment of women and
- to make full use of gender scorecards and gender markers.
Thank you, Mr President."
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