Programme
Support and Management
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Establishment of the PSM Programme was first envisioned in the Joint Issues Paper prepared for the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the Fifth Country Programme (CP V) (1993-1998), and adopted as part of the consensus decisions made by the MTR meeting of October 1996. A subsequent Request for Resources for Advanced Programming submitted by UNDP/Pakistan to RBAP included, inter alia, a preliminary outline of the PSM Programme.
The first CCF for Pakistan (1998-2003) addresses the issues of poverty eradication and SHD by focusing UNDP cooperation on three substantive programme areas: governance; gender, and sustainable livelihoods. Each of these thematic areas will have four elements: capacity building, alliance building, resource mobilization and support to advocacy activities. The PSM Programme, as outlined in paragraphs 14 and 32, will underpin this Programme structure of the CCF with two distinctive objectives: (1) complement and strengthen the programming and management of UNDP cooperation in the three focus areas, and (2) create joint mechanisms for goal-oriented United Nations system collaboration.
Designed in full consultation with the Government counterpart agency, the Economic Affairs Division (EAD) of the Ministry of Finance, the PSM Programme will consist of inter-related operations under a cluster of projects, each aligned with the PSM Programme's above-cited two objectives.
Reinforcing Programming Capacity
An ongoing OPS-executed Programme Development Support (PDS) project will: (i) enable UNDP and EAD to retain strategic consultancy services aimed at reinforcing the capacity to mobilize non-core resources; (ii) support an initial range of efforts for building the capacity of national project personnel and UNDP in Pakistan for national execution (NEX) of operational activities; (iii) draw upon high-level international expertise to lay an institutional foundation for applying a participatory Project Cycle Management (PCM) approach to the formulation and implementation of all new projects; (iv) sponsor a multi-year "Performance Indicators for SHD" exercise to enable UNDP/Government to gauge and report on the emergent impact of LJNDP cooperation activities throughout the CCF period; and (v) offer a flexible rapid-response mechanism to address ad hoc needs.
Recently approved, the Programme Implementation Support Project (PISP) is a flagship initiative of UNDP/EAD designed to underpin the increasingly decentralised implementation of UNDP cooperation in the country, while taking an initial step towards supporting the UN Resident Coordinator system at the provincial level. Thus, the PISP will (i) strengthen, on a pilot basis, (and drawing on the ground work completed under the PDS project), UNDP/Pakistan's capacity to support national execution of UNDP supported development programmes at federal and provincial levels; (ii) provide, on a trial basis, decentralised management of the GEF and LIFE Small Grants Programmes; and (iii) strengthen the capacity of UNDP/Pakistan to support the Resident Coordinator system at the provincial level, particularly with regard to disaster response. Launched as a one-year Preparatory Assistance, the PISP will prepare a full scale project for implementation support during the CCF's full six-year period.
TCDC and TOKTEN, both carried forward from the CP V, will henceforth re-align their objectives to focus respective activities on complementary support to the CCF's three focal areas. For example, under TCDC, special efforts will be made to promote Pakistan's south-to-south cooperation with its Asian, especially South Asian, partners. Likewise, under TOKTEN, a systematic search will be made internationally to mobilize relevant expertise to reinforce local capacities, human and financial, needed to scale-up community-based poverty alleviation efforts in urban areas sponsored under the CCF's Sustainable Livelihoods Programme.
2. Strengthening the Resident Coordinator System
Approved recently, the project for UNAIDS in Pakistan will be co-funded initially by UNDP, UNFPA, UNAIDS and the Government of Norway. It will support the National AIDS Programme through a set of strategic initiatives ranging from nation-wide awareness-building campaigns to capacity building of NGOs and CBOs and their networking, and to applied research. Its activities are under the oversight of a theme group with its chair rotated amongst its contributing members.
Now close to final approval, the UN Development Studies Programme will establish a Pakistan-based research programme to support the nation's broad-based up-stream policy debate on topical developmental issues. Conceived as a means to provide an intellectual contribution by the UN system to the achievement of SHD in the country, the programme will fund studies, reports and workshops under the overall guidance of an Academic Committee. The programme will thus offer a focused channel for strengthening the advocacy role of the UNDP Resident Representative / UN Resident Coordinator. While UNDP has floated the programme with an initial funding contribution, it is hoped that other UN and bilateral donors will decide to co-sponsor it.
All interventions under the PSM Programme's first objective are designed to be strategic in nature being cross-programmatic and mutually reinforcing. Together, they seek to enhance the internal coherence of the CCF's subsidiary Programmes and projects in the three areas of focus while paying special attention to the need to strengthen national ownership, management, and accountability for the CCF in its entirety. The PSM Programme second objective, reinforcing the UN Resident Coordinator system, will be managerially anchored in the InterAgency Support Unit (IASU) which was established in 1993 and recently upgraded staff capacity made possible by UN agencies' cost-sharing.
- A robust system of methods, tools and procedures for enhanced national execution, supported by UNDP/Pakistan, including a Project Cycle Operations Manual,
- An established process of broad-based participation at all stages of the programme cycle, including accountability anchored in the Local Programme Advisory Committee (LPAC)
- A coherent system of impact assessment through clear performance indicators established at project, programme focus area, and CCF level, thus facilitating yearly programme review and triennial independent evaluation of the CCF;
- A full functioning multi-donor supported UNAIDS programme
- A series of UN-sponsored studies and workshops on strategic development issues
- Other mechanisms for goal-oriented and cost-shared joint UN System Programmes
The PSM Programme will require $US 4.3 million in TRAC funding. In addition, it is expected that $US 0.4 million will be mobilised from non-core funding.
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Additional Information
Additional Information about the Programme Support and Management area in UNDP Pakistan may be obtained from the Operations Division in the office of the United Nations Development Programme, as below:
Office of the United Nations Development Programme,
10th Floor,UN Offices, Saudi Pak Towers,
F-7, Jinnah Avenue, Islamabad, Pakistan.Tel.(92-51) 279082,822072-79 Fax: (92-51) 279080,279083