The UNDP Programme in 2005

Annual Review MeetingDecember 19, 2005

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Content

• Portfolio Overview

• Results

• Lessons Learnt

• Challenges

Areas of UNDP work

• Democratic Governance

• Poverty Reduction

• Crisis Prevention and Recovery

• Energy and Environment

• HIV/AIDS

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Achieving MDGs and Reducing Human Poverty

•Joint programme in support of strategic policies

• Policy Studies report

• National Human Development Report

• Building internal capacity for gender-sensitive programming

• Support for Programme Development and Resource Mobilisation

Fostering Democratic Governance• Support to the Parliament• Implementation of the National Human Rights

Action Plan• Improving the Administration of Justice• Centre for Prevention of Trafficking in Women• Strengthened Capacity to Fight Corruption• Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Actions on Drugs• Border Control Management• EU Border Assistance Mission• E-Moldova Strategy Implementation• HIV/AIDS in Armed Forces/Life Skills Education

Environment

• National Capacity Self-Assessment

• Integrated and Sustainable Land Management

• Implementation of the Refrigerants Management Plan

•Local Agenda 21 in Moldova•Sustainable Tourism Development•Habitat Agenda (Mesmerizing Moldova)•Better Opportunities for Youth and Women

Local Development

Initiatives with the Private Sector

• Study on Corporate Social Responsibility

• Growing Sustainable Businesses regional project

• Global Compact initiative

Partners at central level

Legislative

The Parliament The Center for

Human Rights

The Ombudsman

ExecutiveThe Government OfficeMinistry of Economy and TradeMinistry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Ministry of Justice Ministry of Interior Ministry of DefenseMinistry of Information

Development Ministry of Culture and Tourism Ministry of Ecology and Natural

ResourcesBorder Guards Service Customs Service Agency for Regional

development Center for Combating

Organised Crime

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Judiciary

The Supreme Court of Magistrates

The Prosecutor’s Office

Courts

Partners at local level

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Civil Society Partners

• Think tanks, resource centres, national level organisations (CISR, CLSP, Expert-Group, Adept, IPP, SIEDO, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, LADOM, IRP, Transparency International, Lawyers for Human Rights, etc.)

• Local level organisations (appr. 100 direct partners and over 250 involved in our activities)

Private Sector Partners

• Over 40 companies participated in our initiatives this year (Corporate Social Responsibility Study, Growing Sustainable Business project, Global Compact initiative)

Key principles

• Support national development frameworks (EGPRS, EU-Moldova Action Plan)

• Support essential elements of a sustainable development process (national ownership, an enabling policy environment, national capacities, partnerships for results, gender equality)

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How our support contributes to more effective development?

• Dialogue on policies and development options, supported by analysis and studies, has intensified

• A common national monitoring and evaluation system for tracking development results is developed

• The institutional reform (in separate institutions, and across the Government) is gaining momentum and is aiming towards EU best practices and standards

• Strengthening national capacity for managing development assistance

Our Support for Partnerships

Domestic partnerships: between local authorities, civil society and private sector:

• Centres for youth• Local development centres• Centres for provision of social services & referral

system• Agro-tourism• Human Rights projects• Public-private partnerships and Global Compact

Partnerships (2)East-East Partnerships:

• Border Guards Service & Customs Service: study visits to Lithuania, Slovenia, Hungary, Latvia, Romania; 2 collaboration protocols signed with Latvia and Romania

• PAR Unit: study visits Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, contacts established with counterparts in these countries

• E-governance: training in Estonia• Regional networks, seminars

Lessons learnt

• Flexibility of UNDP assistance is valued by the Government

• Donors coordination and collaboration is very important – increasingly led by the Government

• Combination of international and national expertise is the best solution

• Expertise from New Member States (EU-10) is cost-effective and particularly relevant to Moldova

• Local level partnerships are key for the success of the project

Challenges• The Government reorganisation affected

projects’ work• Limited national capacity for carrying out

institutional reforms• Need for a long-term vision of reform at initial

stage is a must• Government plans to improve the mechanisms

and substantive dialogue on development assistance with donors – challenge to make it happen.

Challenges

• Work can be affected by too tight and changing deadlines

• Communication among central public institutions needs to be further developed

• NGOs still not participating in many policy-making exercises; the participation in service delivery is not regulated by standards/functioning mechanisms

• Persistence of several development agendas – need to further focus in medium term

Thank you!

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