Report of the UNSDG Chair
on the Development Coordination Office
Partnerships
Innovative partnerships
Partnerships
Innovative partnerships
A full-time dedicated Resident Coordinator – and a new cadre of dedicated
partnership officers— has helped improve partnerships for innovative programmatic results.
Scaling up Partnership efforts in countries and regions
More UNCTs are collectively engaging in scaled-up, ambitious, strategic
partnerships.
The UN-World Bank partnership is evolving around CCAs and Cooperation Frameworks.
Lebanon
In Lebanon, the two organizations are jointly conducting the CCA and the Systematic Country Diagnostic to define common understanding of strategic engagement on the 2030 Agenda. This is an initial step towards aligning the future Cooperation Framework and the first national development plan in three decades.
Coordinating a collective approach to partnership
DCO plays an important role in cultivating an environment that enables
partnerships
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Works closely with UNOP, the Global Compact and DESA
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Supported the UNSDG in developing common minimum standards for multi-stakeholder engagement in the Cooperation Framework
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Supported the UNSDG in shaping the first common approach to research and due diligence for business sector partnerships
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Partnered with UN OCHA and UN PBSO to support humanitarian and peacebuilding interventions, with a focus on prevention in joint analysis, planning, and data sharing, including through information management systems of humanitarian and development partners.
Number of UNCT partnerships by type of partners
80%
Civilsociety
UNCT partnerships increased with all different types of partners during 2019,
especially partnerships with civil society, which grew by 80% compared to 2018
Number of Partnerships by SDG
The thematic disaggregation of partnerships shows that partnerships increased in all SDGS. Gender
Equality remains the SDG addressed by the most engagements.
In 2019, there was a 10% increase in the number of UNCTs building external partnerships for the SDGs
(109 UNCTs compared to 99 UNCTs in 2018).
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61%
The number of UNCTs facilitating UN-led investments to support national SDG achievement surged from 61 in 2018 to 98 in 2019, a 61% increase.