Partnerships
Innovative Partnerships
Joining forces to recover and advance national needs and priorities towards 2030
With an impartial coordination function and stronger capacities, Resident Coordinators showed the unique value of the UN’s convening power for the 2030 Agenda, forming effective links across all parts and levels of Government and development partners, including civil society, the private sector and academia.
Kenya
Moldova
Jordan
Nigeria
Nigeria
In Nigeria, the Resident Coordinator Office brought together the Government, UN entities, multilateral and bilateral donors, the private sector and foundations to mobilize resources for a COVID-19 Basket Fund to implement the ‘National Multi-sectoral Pandemic Response plan’ resulting in $73 million raised and support to over 14 initiatives across the country.
Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams amplified their reach through strengthened partnerships with International Financial Institutions, including to address the COVID-19 pandemic
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
In Uzbekistan, international financial institution engagement resulted in a rapid joint socio-economic assessment on the impact of the pandemic, with a strong macroeconomic focus included in the UN Socio-Economic Response Plan, and the establishment of a financial tracking mechanism for the Government on grants and loans from partners.
Flagship partnerships were also realized with the private sector to advance the 2030 Agenda
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
In Trinidad and Tobago, the UN Country Team, with critical support from both the partnership and data officers in the Resident Coordinator Office, brought together lawmakers, private sector telecommunications companies, global tech companies, data scientists and academia at the country’s first Big Data Forum, with 1.100 participants exchanging ideas and success stories.
Albania
The Resident Coordinator system is beginning to better harness the knowledge and capacities of universities and the research community at large
A partnership with Canadian universities served to launch a UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery, with universities and think-tanks from five regions.
Individual UN development system entities have also joined forces with external partners to establish innovative financing mechanisms to the COVID-19 response
UNDP and the UN Global Compact partnered with the International Chamber of Commerce to create a COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility to enlist private-sector partners in COVID-19 recovery efforts.
With Resident Coordinator coordination and UNDP technical lead, Integrated National Financing Frameworks were initiated in 69 developing countries to support SDG financing
Integrated National Financing Frameworks are a tool to finance national priorities that spells out how a country’s sustainable development strategy will be financed and implemented. Fifteen UN entities are currently involved in Integrated National Financing Frameworks support, with funding from the Joint SDG Fund.
Cuba
Cambodia
Gabon
Ghana
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
In Kyrgyzstan, the Resident Coordinator, through the Development Finance Assessment and the Integrated National Financing Framework, forged partnerships that will better leverage public and private-sector resources and enhance the UN’s role in sparking a new wave of financing and innovation to achieve the SDGs.
Partnerships across the development, humanitarian and peacebuilding communities continue to grow, through double-or triple-hatted Resident Coordinators’ leadership
Government feedback: Resident Coordinators contribute to build development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding synergies
of programme country Governments agree that the Resident Coordinator has contributed to the building stronger synergies across development, humanitarian and peacebuilding interventions
Somalia
Somalia
In Somalia, the system-wide contributions across the pillars of the Cooperation Framework (that also serves as the UN Assistance Mission’s Integrated Strategic Framework), the forthcoming Humanitarian Response Plan and the National Development Plan have helped galvanize cross-pillar collaboration for access to basic social services, resilience to climate change, food security and durable solutions.