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UN Reform in Viet Nam:Towards More Coherent and Effective
UN Support to Viet Nam
TNTF Meeting – 25 April 2007
John HendraUN Resident Coordinator
Luu Quang KhanhDeputy Director General
FERD/MPI
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Overall Context
• Vietnam model case of successfulsuccessful development resultsdevelopment results - sustained high levels of economic growth translated into impressive progress re MDGs
• UN a traditional trusted and close partner of the GoV
• Strong UN Support to Achievement of MDGs through Policy Support, Capacity-Building, Benchmarking and Advocacy
• While Priorities remain MDGs 6 & 7 and achievement MDGs throughout Viet Nam, like all Partners UN needs to re-UN needs to re-positionposition itself to help address current and emerging development challenges (post-WTO) in context of increasing national ownership.
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Some Key Development Challenges
• Economic Change: Sustaining rapid growth and avoiding financial crises
• Social Change: Promoting equity and strengthening social cohesion
• Governance: Arriving at a Vietnamese approach to democratic citizenship
• Environment: Managing energy and other resources and limiting the negative impact of pollution
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• Sustaining growth: Many countries have moved from ‘lower’ to ‘lower middle’ income; only a few to ‘middle income’ or above and stayed there (<3%).
• Building economic institutions: financial sector, fiscal and monetary policy, exchange rate management, tax code and compliance, commercial and bankruptcy law, transparency and corporate governance…
• Increasing international competitiveness and finding a role in today’s highly concentrated and vertically integrated global business systems
• Joining the knowledge economy: Education, training, research, technology policies
Economic Change: Growth Challenges
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• Large movement of people from rural to urban and from self to wage employment
• Increasing economic inequality across social classes, regions, ethnic groups and urban and rural areas
• Unequal access to basic services and the commercialization of education and health
• Gender inequality including the gender division of labour, wages and burden of domestic work
• Young population with increasing competition for educational and employment opportunities
• HIV/AIDS and stigma and discrimination against PLWHA are threats to social cohesion
Social Change:Challenges to Social Cohesion
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• Moving toward democratic rights in citizenship
• Moving to the rule of law
• Maintaining stability while building/increasing authority of representative institutions and diversifying forms of participation
• Controlling corruption
• Creating more space for citizens outside of the structures of the state
The Governance Challenge
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• Avian Influenza and other infectious diseases are a major challenge to human health and development progress
• Natural disasters claim the lives and livelihoods of many people in susceptible regions
• Energy and minerals create opportunities but also social and political challenges
• Urban and industrial pollution impose massive costs on society, particularly the poor
• Agro-ecological systems are under strain under increasingly intensive production
• Management of natural resources including forests does not give sufficient voice to the poor
The Environmental Challenge
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Changing Needs & an Evolving Aid Effectiveness Agenda
• Changing financing landscape: ODA – one among many financing sources
• Changing ODA: greater national ownership and increasing aid effectiveness
• Ha Noi Core Statement/ Five Principles:
1) Ownership; 2) Alignment; 3) Harmonisation & Simplification; 4) Managing for Results and 5) Mutual Accountability
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“One UN Initiative” – Rationale(precedes the HLP)
• The needs of Viet Nam are changing. The UN needs to change with them.
• The harmonization and aid effectiveness agendas challenge the UN to deliver better.
• High Level Panel (HLP-November 2007) recommends to deliver as One UN at country level with one leader, one programme, one budget and harmonised business practices and one office where appropriate
• Gov’t leadership and ownership of the UN Reform process critical - Viet Nam requested to become a Pilot country for High Level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence
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“One UN Initiative” - The Five Ones
1. One Plan
2. One Plan Fund
3. One Leader
4. One Set of Management Practices
5. One UN House
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One Plan
• UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNV, UNAIDS and UNIFEM currently participating in the One Plan (other Agencies joining in 2008)
• Consolidation of results plans (e.g. CPAPs) of participating Agencies with associated budget
• Increased programmatic synergies; builds on UN’s comparative advantages and core UN mandate; reduction in transaction costs
• Second draft of One Plan just finalised for circulation across Government and presentation at today TNTF meeting.
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One Plan Fund and One Leader
• Support the coherent mobilisation, allocation and disbursement of resources to the One Plan
• New pooled fund mechanism to finance the One Plan and strategic initiatives responding to emerging needs and more coherent UN support
• Enhanced authority and accountability for the Resident Coordinator in Viet Nam. Lead on operationalization of the UNDAF (and One Plan) in line with the HCS
• One Leader – One Plan – One Plan Fund nexus
• All participating Agencies adhere to the RC Note
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One Set of Management Practicesand One UN House
• Second draft of Harmonised Programme Management Guidelines (HPMG) for ExCom Agencies under preparation
• Common Services for UN Country Team overall
• Cost Norms work of PGAE (EU and UN)
• Cost-effective proposal to build and/or renovate space for all resident UN Agencies under preparation
• Four options for sites now being reviewed by UN and Gov’t.
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UN Joint Programmes
• Joint Programmes developed as an inclusive mechanism (all UN Agencies) for greater UN-wide coherence and enhanced UN impact
• With most Agencies indicating desire to join “One UN Initiative” including One Plan in 2008, JPs reflected in One Plan1. Avian Influenza (USD 23 million )
2. Kon Tum/Ethnic Minorities (USD 5 million)
3. M&E of SEDP (USD 3 million)
4. Joint Social Policy (USD 6 million) (finalisation stage)
5. HIV (finalisation stage)
6. Gender Equality (formulation stage)
7. Youth (formulation stage)
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One UN Communications Team& One UN Policy Team
• Ensuring More Coherent UN-wide Policy Position and Advocacy (“One Voice”)
• Matrix Management and Dual Accountability to UN-wide Team and to Individual Agency
• UN Communications Team – UNICEF, UNFPA and UNDP units co-located in UNICEF and under single Workplan
• UN Policy Team
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Key Milestones Ahead for “Five Ones”
• Government and Donor Consultations on One Plan (second draft) scheduled for mid to late May 2007
• Finalization and Launch of One Plan and One Plan Fund for implementation (June 2007)
• Finalization of One Leader Accountability Note
• Letter of Intent for those Agencies wishing to join “One UN Initiative” (Apr – May 2007)
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• Development of Key Results Frameworks of SAs for One Plan Revision
• Finalization HPMG (June 2007)
• Finalization Plan for One UN House
• Revision One Plan (2008)
Key Milestones Ahead for “Five Ones”
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Ownership:
“One UN” and the Five Principles of the Ha Noi Core Statement
• “One UN” reinforces Govt’ leadership and national ownership
Alignment:• One Plan facilitates greater UN alignment to
SEDP/Policy framework and implementation of GoV’s international commitments
• HPMG facilitates greater UN alignment to key national processes/procedures (procurement; financial management; programme management; decentralized management ODA)
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“One UN” and the HCS
Harmonization:• One Plan – 6 into 1
• Reduced transaction costs in Programme Frameworks; programming processes; reviews etc.
• More coherent mechanism for mobilization and allocation of resources (One Plan Fund)
• Harmonized common services in one location (One UN House)
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Managing for Results:
“One UN” and the HCS
• All UN programmatic work around 5 key priority outcomes in results-based framework
• Enhances programmatic synergies, inter-Agency collaboration and strategic UN approach to emerging issues going forward
• Overall results-based M&E Framework to better measure overall impact
Mutual Accountability:• Joint Ownership of One Plan as Key Framework• Joint ownership of HPMG towards alignment with
Gov processes• Greater transparency on UN support to national
priorities; potential areas for greater collaboration