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UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.
About the UNDP
As a global development network, UNDP/Kenya has intensified its support to the Government and people of Kenya in building the human and organizational capacity needed to make the right choices and to implement the objectives and aspirations expressed in the Economic Recovery Strategy and the goals of the Millennium Declaration.
Advocating for change and connecting countries, organizations and people to critical knowledge, experience and resources has been our focus. We count amongst our most important achievements the deepening of our engagements with the Government of Kenya and with many other strategic partners in the realization of the MDGs.
They range from our chairing of various donor coordination groups such as the Environment; Monitoring and Evaluation Group, Budget Support, Decentralization, Legal Sector Reforms, Private Sector, Gender and Health Groups, to supporting the rolling out of development assistance, tools and instruments to the pilot eight districts and building capacities of communities at district, local authority and constituency levels to take charge of their own development. |
Partnerships
In pursuit of the principles and objectives of the UN reform and the Rome Declaration on Simplification and Harmonization, UNDP has continued to play its role in promoting a wide range of partnerships as required under the framework of the UN Common Country Assessment and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and has actively participated in the Kenya Harmonization, Alignment and Donor Coordination Group;
We have sought and expanded our programmatic linkages to national sectoral and thematic groups and other structures within the framework of the Kenya Coordination group and the Donor Coordination groups respectively, under the leadership of both the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank.
The proactive engagement of UNDP through these partnerships and coordination mechanisms has created the synergy required to support national priorities and to marshall the resources necessary for supporting progress towards realizing the Millennium Development Goals. |
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Areas of intervention
The UNDP programme areas of intervention in support of the Economic Recovery Strategy and the MDGs, which you find in the Results Framework Matrix and the CPAP, is a direct response to the analysis arrived at in the 2001 UN Country Capacity Assessment, and focuses on the following five interrelated issues: |
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Opportunities: so many people have so few or no opportunities to secure the basic aspirations of a decent life, they lack the opportunities to have access to basic social services |
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Empowerment: so many are marginalized from participating in decisions that affect their lives in political and social processes, women, youth and disabled are excluded from participating in their country’s socio economic transformation processes |
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Security: because of exclusion, because of lack of opportunities and lack of empowerment, so many are extremely vulnerable to human and natural disasters and emergencies including threats like HIV-AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria |
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Sustainability: increasing poverty in Kenya is also attributed to the steady erosion of the country’s long term sustainability by destruction of its water and soil preservation capabilities |
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Strategic outreach: many are suffering from lack of MDG related information, communication andeducation and lack of policy and advocacy material to promote the MDGs and deliver the ERS |
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In light of the various areas of intervention, the UNDP country office has reconfigured itself into five interrelated units: |
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Opportunities |
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Empowerment |
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Security |
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Sustainability |
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Outreach |
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Given the interrelation of issues and the need to harmonize programme and work in an integrated and holistic manner, the units hold a strategy meeting every Monday and go through their workplan for the week and discuss emerging issues and agree on the course of action to take. This is in addition to the monthly meeting of programme and operations meetings. These units are supported by the Business Service Center, which renders procurement, legal, financial, oversight and auditing services.
Best practices
We have not only supported the government’s development of, and subsequent implementation of its Economic Recovery programme, but we have been team players in the mainstreaming of the Millennium Development Goals agenda; the rolling out of the African Peer Review Mechanism under New Partnership for African Development; the civil service reform programme and especially the introduction of Results based Management in the public service, amongst other sector specific activities undertaken in collaboration with government, the private sector and civil society. |
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