Delivering as One UN
The ‘Delivering as One UN’ agenda 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.
PEI is working with the UN Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams to promote a ‘One UN’ approach by influencing UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF), UN Developmment Plans (UNDAP) and MDG-Fund activities – 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.
Examples of the PEI contribution to the "Delivering as One agenda":
- The PEI Joint Programme on Poverty-Environment in Botswana has been designed in order to contribute to relevant objectives articulated in the UNDAF (2010–2016), the Government of Botswana-UN Programme Operational Plan (UNPOP 2010–2014) and the UNDP Country Programme (2010–2014).
- In Kyrgyzstan, the national PEI team has influenced the UN Country Team decision to have poverty reduction and environment under one joint pillar in the new UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF 2012–2016). In the previous frameworks, these were listed as two separate pillars.
- PEI Lao PDR is jointly delivering its programme components through the existing UNDP Country Office’s Poverty Unit to ensure pro-poor environmental issues are integrated in national policies. Furthermore, the PEI is fully integrated in Governance Unit projects (e.g. a joint support programme to an effective Lao National Assembly), and with UNEP’s under the UN Development Account project on ecosystem services valuation study of different land use options.
- In Malawi poverty-environment issues have been integrated in the draft UNDAF for 2011–2016 and in the draft new UNDP Country Programme Document. As a result, PEI Malawi is a core part of the UNDP Malawi Environment, Climate Change and Energy Cluster work programme, along with climate change, energy and pro-poor and disaster risk reduction; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a formal partner in its implementation.
- As a result of the PEI’s involvement in the UNDAF process and country programme development in Mozambique, Outcome 3 of the economic chapter has an increased sustainable environmental mainstreaming approach.
- In Nepal, poverty-environment issues are fully integrated into UNDAF outcomes. PEI support is channelled through UNDP Environment, Energy and Climate Change, and Poverty and Governance Units and through the UN Capital Development Fund for joint delivery.
- The PEI played an important role in the development of Tanzania’s first United National Development Assistance Plan 2011–2015, which is Tanzania’s new One UN programme. A key PEI output on mainstreaming environmental issues in national policies, strategies, budgets and monitoring systems is included under the plan’s Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Cluster.
- In Uruguay, PEI support has proven instrumental in the effective integration of poverty-environment mainstreaming into the work of the Un Country Team within the framework of the One UN in Uruguay. As a result, the UNDAF explicitly mentions the PEI’s role within the package of UN support to this country and how this is coordinated with other UN agencies such as UN-Women or UNDP.
