Research - material, sources, cases

1. CEB - Delivering as One

http://www.unsceb.org/ceb/priorities/system-wide-coherence

System-wide Coherence

Overview

In the Outcome document of the 2005 World Summit, Heads of State and Government recognized the importance of the unique expertise and resources that the United Nations system brings to bear on global issues. The global leaders commended the various development-related United Nations organizations for their important contributions to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and other broader development objectives. They also recognized the need to build on ongoing reforms aiming at a more effective and coherent United Nations at the country level.

System-wide Response

In 2006 the UN Secretary-General established a High-level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment. The 15-member panel, co-chaired by the Prime Ministers of Pakistan, Mozambique and Norway, carried out a study aimed at further strengthening the management and coordination of United Nations operational activities so that they can make an even more effective contribution to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals.

The panel members held consultative meetings with intergovernmental fora (the General Assembly and ECOSOC), as well as smaller briefings for regional groupings (the Group of 77 and China, the European Union, the African Group and the Latin America and Caribbean Group). Panel members also took into account the United Nations system's own experience and aspirations, meeting with United Nations system organizations, through CEB, as well as smaller groupings of organizations, and the regional commissions.

The High-level Panel submitted its report, "Delivering as one", to the Secretary-General in November 2006. The report included extensive recommendations to consolidate and improve the effectiveness of UN operations.

A series of intergovernmental discussions on the recommendations of the High-level Panel have since taken place during the 61st, 62nd and 63rd sessions of the General Assembly. The latest milestone in the process is General Assembly resolution 63/311, adopted on 14 September 2009. The ongoing consultations, which are being co-chaired by Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations, and Ambassador Ghazi Jomaa, Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the United Nations, focus on five key areas:

(i)   Strengthening the institutional arrangements for support of gender equality and women's empowerment;
(ii)   Strengthening governance of operational activities for development of the United Nations system;
(iii)   Improving the funding system of operational activities for development of the United Nations system;
(iv)   "Delivering as one"; and
(v)   Harmonization of business practices.

Delivering as one - Report of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence (A/61/583, 20 November 2006)

/ceb/mtg/hlcm/200703/A-61-583.pdf/

Beispiel für Interaction SG und UN system:

High level side event at UNFCCC COP15 // Copenhagen

The United Nations Secretary-General and the Executive Heads of several UN system organizations will participate in an interactive discussion with the audience on the UN system's efforts.

Attendance is open to all interested COP15 delegates and observers, and the public at large.

http://www.ilo.org/integration/events/events/lang--en/WCMS_119198/index.htm

Example for an operation:

Common ICT activities to support "Delivering as One UN" Initiative in Tanzania

http://www.wfp.org/content/common-ict-activities-support-%E2%80%9Cdelivering-one-un%E2%80%9D-initiative-tanzania

For an initial investment of US$439006, which includes running costs for the duration of the Project, the ICT WG will establish the required technical foundation to achieve the ICT system-wide coherence and enhanced productivity. The project will bring country-level benefits such as:

support for Staff mobility - you can work anywhere from any UN office, access to Virtual office and fostering a culture of One-UN;
consolidation of telecommunications services - cost savings are realized by leveraging economies of scale for Internet and broadband satellite services;
provision of technical services to all agencies - better-equipped agencies can share technical services such as telecommunications to other agencies;
provision of business continuity services - telecommunications and access services are provided with redundant facilities;
provision of collaboration space and UN-wide common directory;
definition of a sustainable operational framework.

http://one.wfp.org/operations/current_operations/project_docs/108320.pdf

Results / Evaluation: States Discuss Evaluation of "Delivering as One"

http://www.reformtheun.org/index.php/eupdate/5053

In 2007, in response to a call from the High-level Committee on Programs (a body established by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006) and the UN Evaluation Group (chaired by the UN Development Programme) came up with "parameters and process for the evaluation of the pilots, and requested to be kept fully and regularly informed of progress."

In a briefing for Member States on 8 June, the chair of the UN Development Group, Helen Clark, described the experiences of the pilot countries from 2007 to the present, including the progress and challenges highlighted in the above reports.

Knowledge Management

In its report on the Thematic Evaluation of Knowledge Management Networks in the Pursuit of the Goals of the Millennium Declaration (24 March 2006), the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services recommended, among other things, that the Secretariat Task Force on Knowledge Sharing develop a Secretariat-wide knowledge sharing strategy to promote the role of knowledge networks in strengthening knowledge sharing within the Secretariat and with external partners as well as to develop a model and methodology for how those networks can best work.

To help staff understand this new Secretariat-wide endeavor, Linda Stoddart, Chair of the Task Force on Knowledge Sharing will give a presentation on "Knowledge Management: What is it? Will it really make us effective?". This will be followed by an interview with Bruce Strong, an expert in Knowledge Management, on the impact of knowledge sharing initiatives in a variety of organizations. The event will take place on Wednesday, 6 September 2006, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at 11 a.m.

Bruce Strong was instrumental in revamping the knowledge management programs of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Bank, and has led the effort to develop strategies in this area for several prominent organizations.

Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the thematic evaluation of knowledge management networks in the pursuit of the goals of the Millennium Declaration E/AC.51/2006/2, 24 March 2006

ECOSOC Committee for Programme and Coordination

http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/285/55/PDF/N0628555.pdf?OpenElement

Contacts

Linda Stoddart

http://ce.columbia.edu/Information-and-Digital-Resource-Management/Linda-Stoddart-Biography?context=1249

Andere Beispiele: UN Global Compact

The role of learning networks - Ruggie: The Theory and Practice

of Learning Networks - Corporate Social Responsibility and the Global Compact

http://demo10.wizzy.co.uk/content/pdfs/jcc05rugg.pdf

"Under the leadership of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the United Nations has played an active role in promoting corporate social responsibility as one means to respond to the challenges of globalisation. The Global Compact has been Annan's major initiative in this domain. It has explicitly adopted a learning approach to inducing corporate change, as opposed to a regulatory approach; and it comprises a network form of organisation, as opposed to the traditional hierarchic/bureaucratic form.

These distinctive (and, for the UN, unusual) features lead the Compact’s critics to seriously underestimate its potential, while its supporters may hold excessive expectations of what it can deliver. Because organisational issues of this sort will continue to confront the search for viable global governance mechanisms for many years ahead, this paper spells out both the advantages but also the inherent limitations of the ‘learning networks’ approach."

John Gerard Ruggie is Evron and Jean Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. From 1997 to 2001, he was Assistant Secretary-General and senior adviser for strategic planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in which capacity his responsibilities included the Global Compact.

u Kennedy School of Government,

Harvard University, Cambridge,

MA 02138, USA

! john_ruggie@harvard.edu

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SG and CoPs

Public administration and development Report of the Secretary-General

A/60/114, 12 July 2005

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan021179.pdf

Progress made in the implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society at the regional and international levels

Report of the Secretary-General A/63/72-E/2008/48, April 2008

http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/a63d72_en.pdf

CoP example: Hurilink http://hurilink.org/tools_resources_2.php

UN and Lessons Learned

http://www.peacekeepingbestpractices.unlb.org/PBPS/Pages/Public/Home.aspx

The Policy, Evaluation and Training Division was established on 1 July 2007. The Division - comprising the existing Peacekeeping Best Practices Section (PBPS) and the Integrated Training Service (ITS), and small new teams for Evaluation and for Partnerships - provides an integrated capacity to develop and disseminate policy and doctrine; develop, coordinate and deliver standardized training; evaluate mission progress towards mandate implementation; and develop policies and operational frameworks for strategic cooperation with various UN and external partners.

The Division provides support to both DPKO and DFS thus providing a common platform for policy, guidance material, training and evaluation at Headquarters and in the field.

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