The ‘Delivering as One’ pilot initiative is testing how the UN family can deliver in a more coordinated way at the country level.  The objective is to ensure faster and more effective development operations and accelerate progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.  In short, a UN development system that delivers more and better for the poorest and most disadvantaged.

PEI is a joint UNDP-UNEP programme and aims to promote the objectives of ‘Delivering as One’.  PEI is committed to the ‘One UN’ process and by working at the headquarters level, the regional level and at the country level, PEI aims to ensure that joint management is ‘vertically integrated’ throughout PEI’s implementation, thus contributing to the One UN process

One UN Pilots
The “One UN” pilot initiative, launched in 2007, builds on the existing UN reform agenda and efforts to improve the coherence and effectiveness of UN development assistance.  The Governments of eight countries have volunteered to become “One UN” pilots and have agreed to work towards a common UN presence in their country while capitalising on the strengths and comparative advantages of the different members of the UN family.  Through the pilot, the eight countries will look at establishing common elements such as ‘One Programme’, ‘One Budgetary Framework’, ‘One Leader’ (the UN Resident Coordinator) and ‘One Office’. The eight pilot countries are: Albania, Cape Verde , Mozambique , Pakistan , Rwanda , Tanzania , Uruguay ,Viet Nam.

PEI is supporting poverty-environment mainstreaming programmes in four of the One UN pilot countries: Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Viet Nam.  This presents a unique opportunity to build on the UNDP-UNEP PEI partnership by working with the UN Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams to promote a ‘One UN’ approach through a practical programme which supports poverty-environment mainstreaming within the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and UN country operations – and by working with donors to pursue a more coherent and coordinated approach by pooling funds at the country level to support the UN’s work.

The tools and lessons learned from PEI in mainstreaming environment in PRS/MDG implementation have already been useful in relation to UNDAF and the UN Country Team’s policy dialogue with Governments.