SESSION 1: CP CONTEXT

1. SESSION 1: CP CONTEXT

2. UN Reform, Humanitarian Reform, “new generation” UNDAF Frans Van De Ven

3. 2 main ongoing reforms, with common underlying elements Improveeffectiveness Enhance national ownership Improve accountability Culture change and changing attitudes Humanitarian Reform UN reform of operational activities for development FAO reform Doing more with what we have Enhance coherence and partnership Improve coordination More strategic country plans

4. Main areas to which FAO contributes UN Reform (“Delivering as One” and QCPR) Humanitarian Reform UN programming (UNDAF) Consolidated Appeals and Flash appeals Harmonized and simplified tools and procedures Stronger and more strategic coordination Resident Coordinator System Empowered leadership of humanitarian coordinator Joint funding mechanisms Ensure funds are spent efficiently & with greater accountability

5. FAO’s participation in the UNDAF

6. CP context – an example National Ownership and Leadership FAO CPF PRSPs, National Plans, Sector Strategies etc... UN System UNDAF (or other) IFIs (example: World Bank CAS) Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 1 Year 5 Year 5 Year 5 Year 5

7. The main features of the “Delivering as One” (DaO) approach have been flexibly incorporated in the “new generation” UNDAF One Programme: - More strategic UNDAFs - UNDAF Action Plan One Budget: - Common Budgetary Framework - UNDAFas a framework for RM One Leader and One Team: - Clearer roles & resp. - Codes of Conduct for UNCTs One set of business practices: - Common operational modalities used (ex – HACT)

8. Brainstorming1. What is an UNDAF pillar (or thematic area)?How would you define it?2. How many pillars should an UNDAF have?

9. Integrating Food and Nutrition Security into country analysis and UNDAF UNDG Guidance Note (interagency agreement): • Simple language (not for “practitioners” only, but for the entire UN Country Team) • Multidimensional nature of food and nutrition security • MDG1 as key to achieve all other MDGs • Interlinkages among agency mandates • Step-by-step guide

10. Additional info: FAO and the UN Reform intranet site

11. The five UN common country programming principles have been adopted by FAO

12. Capacity Development Results Based Management UNDG conceptual framework: 3 reinforcing normative principles and 2 enabling principles

13. UN programming principles • Gender equality – promotes equality and participation of women in agriculture • Environmental sustainability – supports major environmental conventions (climate change, biological diversity, desertification) • Capacity development – supports nationally owned and led processes to support development of capacities (organizations, individuals, enabling environment) • Human rights- based approach – Promotion of right to food, and decent work for rural people • Results- Based management

14. Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRR/M) should also be included in FAO country programming • DRR/M is essential for resilient livelihoods and sustainable food and nutrition security • Resilience is the “ability of the system and its parts to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from the effects of hazardous event in timely and efficient manner”