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Preparations for the 2012 quadrennial comprehensive policy review (QCPR)
of the General Assembly of UN operational activities for development

In the Fall 2012, the General Assembly will give new policy directions to improve UN system support to developing countries. It will do so as a result of its quadrennial comprehensive policy review (QCPR) of UN operational activities for development. etc. The QCPR is the mechanism through which the General Assembly assesses the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and impact of UN operational activities for development and establishes system-wide policy orientations for the development cooperation and country-level modalities of the UN system in response to the evolving international development cooperation environment.

2012 QCPR preparations

• Mandates
  • GA resolution 62/208
  • GA resolution 64/289
  • ECOSOC resolution 2011/7

• Brief background information
  • One-page brief on 2012 QCPR (October 2011)
  • Diagram of QCPR preparations
  • Strategic framework for QCPR preparations

• Surveys

  a).Survey of programme country governments on UN operational activities for development

  • One page brief on survey

  b).Survey of UN Resident Coordinators and country team members
  Preparations for the 2012 QCPR will include a survey of UN Resident Coordinators and country team members on selected priority issues relating to UN development operations at the country-level.

  c).Survey of UN Operations Management Teams
  This survey will examine progress in harmonizing and simplifying business operations of UN entities at the country-level.

  d).Survey of civil society organizations
  Preparations for the 2012 QCPR will include a survey of a sample of Civil Society Organizations that work with the UN system at country level on selected priority issues relating to UN development operations at the country-level. The survey will be administered through collaboration with the Better Aid CSO network.

• Analytical preparations

• Overview of analytical preparations

Substantive preparations for the 2012 QCPR will include a series of analytical studies which findings will be synthesized into the Secretary-General’s report on the implementation of GA resolution 62/208 on the TCPR. In addition, the Secretary-General will submit the annual report on funding for UN operational activities for development.

Here below are brief descriptions of the respective analysis/studies:

Analytical studies


• Funding analysis             
  


• Harmonization of business practices
  


• Desk review       
  


• UN Resident Coordinator system      
  


• UNDAF process  
  


• Emerging issues
  
  
• Results-based strategic planning and management (forth coming)

Studies in partnership with others

• Support to countries in transition from relief to development (UNDG/DOCO Transition Team)


• Gender equality and women’s empowerment (UN Women)


• Joint programmes and their impact on MDG achievement (MDG Task Force, UNDG/DOCO)


• Lessons learned from MDG-Achievement Fund (MDG-F Secretariat)   (The input from the 6 selected evaluators is part of a larger exercise to prepare an MDG-F evidence based paper. The evidence based paper is based on 4 years of experience of the MDG-Fund acknowledging that there still remains about 18  months of programme implementation.)


• Stakeholder consultations

Member States

• Consultation with Member States (5 December 2011)
• Consultation with ECOSOC (8 February 2012)
• Briefing to Group of 13 (28 October 2011)
• Briefing to European Union (10 November 2011)
• Briefing to WFP Executive Board (6 December 2011)
• Briefing to Group of 77 and China (16 December 2011)
• PGA/FEF 3 seminar series on QCPR
  • Seminar on emerging issues (Summary)
  • Seminar on critical mass of funding (programme)
  • Seminar on future of UN development cooperation (8-9 June 2012)
• Consultations with Member States (UNIDO HQ, Vienna, 1 March 2012)
• Briefing to EU delegation (16 April 2012)
• Utstein donor group annual consultations (23 April 2012)
• Briefing to G77 (7 May 2012)

UN system

• Inter-agency briefing (6 September 2011)
• Inter-agency briefing (2 November 2011)
• Inter-agency briefing (17 November 2011)
• UNDAF Programming Network briefing (1 December 2011)
• Resident Coordinator Induction Meeting (5 December 2011)
• MDG Task Force briefing (15 December 2011)
• UNDG-ECHA Working Group briefing (15 December 2011)
• UN Resident Coordinator System WG briefing (16 December 2011)
• Joint Funding and Business Operations Network briefing (20 December 2011)
• Inter-agency briefing (13 January 2012)
• Consultation with UNDG Joint Funding task team (13 January 2012)
• Retreat on UNDAF study with UNDG UNDAF programming network (26 January)
• Briefing to UNDG Gender Network (16 February 2012)
• Inter-agency meeting to discuss progress in improving results-based strategic planning and management (17 February 2012)
• UN Strategic Planning Network (22 February 2012)
• UN Resident Coordinator Working Group special meeting on QCPR RC study (24 February 2012)
• Inter-agency meeting (UNIDO HQ, Vienna, 1 March 2012)
• Interagency briefing (15 March 2012)
• HLCP  briefing on QCPR (WMO HQ, Geneva, 20 March 2012)
• UNDG Principal's Meeting (12 April 2012)
• UNDG Advisory Group meeting (17 April 2012)
• Interagency meeting on business practices (26 April 2012)
• Briefing to UNDG Joint Funding and Business Operations Working Group (4 May 2012)
• Briefing to UNDG UNDAF Programming Network (14 May 2012)
• Briefing to DESA Inter-regional Advisors (17 May 2012)

Civil Society Organizations

• Briefing to NGOs (23 January 2012)

Training / Workshops / Events

a) UNITAR training programme (4 November 2011)

Presentation by Navid Hanif
Presentation by Kristinn Sv. Helgason

b) Six module course series

• Module 1: Funding for UN operational activities for development: key trends and issues
  • Programme and presentations
• Module 2: Functioning of the UN development system
  • Programme
  • Presentation 1: UNDAF process
  • Presentation 2: RC system
  • Presentation 3: Harmonization of business practices
• Module 3: UN System in a changing development cooperation landscape
  • Programme
• Module 4: Perspectives from the field: Findings of surveys of key stakeholders
  • Programme
  • Surveys of Governments, UN country teams, and civil society organisations (CSOs) in programme countries
  • Simplifying and Harmonizing Business Practices at the Country Level Global Web-based Survey

Country missions

• Thailand, Lao PDR (1-6 March)
• Ethiopia (5-7 March)
• Bolivia (14-16 March)
• Peru (19-22 March)
• Turkey (4-6 April)
• Georgia (10-12 April)

Review of existing institutional framework for system-wide evaluation

Terms of reference

Workplan

Final report

Consultations
Briefing to Member States on progress in review of existing institutional framework for system-wide evaluation of UN operational activities for development (5 October 2011)

Briefing to UN entities on progress in review of existing institutional framework for system-wide evaluation of UN operational activities for development (5 October 2011)

Consultation with Member States on the draft report of the review of existing institutional framework for system-wide evaluation of UN operational activities for development (17 April 2012)

Independent evaluation of lessons learned from delivering-as-one

Other resources