UNDP has also launched a new Insurance and Risk Finance Facility to work with industry and governments in at least 50 countries over the next four years. We would not be here without your strong financial backing. In 2022, 120 countries and 35 partners are now part of the Climate Promise, the worlds largest offer of its kind. 75. The cross-cutting nature of the COVID-19 crisis showcased UNDPs comparative advantage in extending integrated solutions to multi-dimensional challenges, and as the operational backbone for the UN and its partners. Support 800 million people to participate in elections, many for the first time. We look forward to the leadership of Egypt, UAE and partners from across the region in preparing for these crucial climate milestones. %PDF-1.7 I invite you to read the Plan itself and learn more. 70. These contexts are not just humanitarian situations. While we manage the impacts of that today, the future is for the making. We are not pursing new paths alone. These facilities serve over three million Afghans, half of them women and a third of them children. In December, the GEF Council took note of the findings of a 3rd Party Assessment of UNDPs compliance with GEFs Fiduciary standards and acknowledged the significant organization-wide effort to meet a high bar in standards. In the same spirit, UNDPs new Strategic Plan reflects the new mandates arising from the 2020 Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) resolution. The first cohort graduated 21 young women from 20 African countries. These new digital platformswillhelp to provide the basis tofurtherunlockthe power of UNDPs knowledge, as the forthcoming Knowledge Strategy will set out. As part of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus and under the Humanitarian Response Plan, UNDP has put forward programmes to work on durable shelters for returnees and Internally Displaced Persons, provide access to energy to vulnerable groups, stabilize livelihoods through cash for work programmes, and enhancing the protection of civilians in Darfur and other hotspots. The 2021/22 Human Development Report will focus in on this challenge. But this is also a moment of choice: an opportunity to learn from our experience, to do things differently, to aspire to greater shared goals. I am pleased that this extensive work on our support to the RC system and UNDPs COVID-19 response were positively recognized and highly rated in an external assessment of UNDP led by the OECD-hosted MOPAN (Multilateral Organization Performance Assessment Network), which was presented to Member States on the 28th of January 2022, under the leadership of the United Kingdom and Switzerland. On finance, we are supporting governments to get integrated financing strategies in place, identify opportunities, and crowd in investment, including through innovative instruments. 34. Compounded by a climate emergency, political polarization and challenged multilateralism, continued conflicts and forced displacement, the number of people living in poverty rose in 2020 for the first time since 1998 by an estimated 119-124 million. To give a sense of the scale of work, in 2021, 88,852 vendors were created across the five regions, resulting in the standardization of the vendor management process. In Iraq, UNDPs work under the Funding Facility for Stabilization (FFS) has continued to have a tremendous impact on stabilizing the areas liberated from ISIL through rehabilitating and restoring basic infrastructure and services. In the Listening to Leaders 2021 report, for example, UNDP was ranked 9th in terms of influence out of over 70 bilateral and multilateral partners, with only WHO from amongst the UN family ranking higher. Prepare more intentionally for a decarbonized, digital future. The establishment of the Sustainable Finance Hub was an important step in coalescing all of UNDPs work on finance and private sector, enhancing our scale and presenting Country Offices with more clear tools and products, while positioning UNDP as a partner of choice to governments and investors, including becoming the secretariat of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group. 24. Twelve other UN agencies have joined the ABADEI strategy to date, and UNDP has surged critical staff capacity from all around the world to the Country Office to support this expanded response. UNV has deployed over 10,000 UN volunteers for the first time in its history, serving with more than 55 entities across the UN system in 2021. More countries face historic levels of debt with less fiscal space for the Sustainable Development Goals, and while richest economies in the world are likely to bounce back this year, dozens of countries are facing a reversal of fortunes for the first time in two decades: per capita income in 70 per cent of developing countries is now growing slower than in advanced economies. */, 2022 United Nations Development Programme, Executive Board: First regular session 2022, Executive Board: Second regular session 2021, Executive Board: First regular session 2021, Executive Board: Second regular session 2020, Executive Board: First regular session 2020, Executive Board: Second regular session 2019, Executive Board: First regular session 2019, Executive Board: Second regular session 2018, Executive Board: First regular session 2018, Executive Board: Second regular session 2017, Executive Board: First regular session 2017, Executive Board: Second regular session 2016, Executive Board: First regular session 2016, Executive Board: Second regular session 2015, Executive Board: First regular session 2015, Executive Board: Second regular session 2014, Executive Board: First regular session 2014, Executive Board: Second regular session 2013, Executive Board: First regular session 2013, Executive Board: Second regular session 2012, Executive Board: First regular session 2012, Executive Board: Second regular session 2011, Executive Board: First regular session 2011, Executive Board: Second regular session 2022, Official Document System of the United Nations, Decisions adopted at the first regular session 202, https://unsdg.un.org/resources/executive-board-documents-sessions, Progress updateon the Implementation of General Assembly Resolutions 72/279, Background note onResponse to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and Sexual Harassment (SH), An integrated approach towards sustainable investment in People and Planet: Leaving no one behind(LNOB) as a principle for Climate Action to ensure a transformative path for the most vulnerable, Annex: Key Data, Observations, and Examples, Provisional agenda, annotations, list of documents and workplan, Item 5. 58. This helps to make our funding more predictable, which is tremendously important. 1 0 obj We look forward to releasing new socio-economic insights ahead of the PGA event and supporting countries with sub-national, hyperlocal insights so that no one is left behind. I am pleased to note that the quality of decentralized evaluations is improving, although there is still more to do. Together, our contribution must be at scale if we are to support our national partners to mend fraying social contracts, protect human rights, expand civic space and inclusion, and build social cohesion. We have since moved from being "reform ready to delivering results and impact, including in fast-changing and unpredictable contexts. At the same time, UNDP will continue its drivetowardsbeing adigitally nativeorganization, as part of anew,2022 2025 Digital Strategy,withfit-for-purpose digital systems, processes, tools, and data, and a digitally competent workforce. UNDP, and I personally, will not tolerate any conduct that undermines our credibility, trust and ability to deliver in support of programme countries and the wider 2030 Agenda. This will include through working together to support progress on the recommendations emanating from the Our Common Agenda report where, in a quest to uplift the international communitys commitment to multilateralism, the UN Secretary-General has laid out his strategic vision on the future of global cooperation. The world must keep pushing forward, and that is what UNDP is committed to do. Our research in Myanmar from the first household survey with national coverage since the military takeover on 1 February 2021 - finds that poverty is likely to return to levels not seen since 2005. Our Gender Social Norms Index exposed how social beliefs obstruct gender equality in areas like politics, work, and education, offering insight on where to focus to make a difference. In 2021, the MPTFO portfolio grew both in terms of contributors and contributions: 54 Member States, the EU, foundations and the private sector together contributed more than $ 1.8 billion to UN pooled funds managed by MPTFO, the highest ever level of contributions since the Office was established in 2003. */ Our work with local and international partners in the Sahel, the Lake Chad Basin, Iraq and in Afghanistan illustrates the different ways in which this can manifest. It explains how UNDP will develop our six signature solutions powered by digitalisation, innovation and development financing for greater impact. We saw this ability to pivot during the pandemic, where UNDP engaged with a range of partners to mobilize robotics in Rwanda, 3D printing in Tanzania and drones in Cte d'Ivoire, local artisans in Togo and even seamstress associations in Ecuador to slow the spread of the virus and create more than a million masks when the global supply chain was at a standstill. This shows how we can go beyond mere targeting to advance womens agency, and that sustainable energy is an important entry point. /*--> UNDPs reports on the war in Yemen showed that more people are dying from hunger and disease than from conflict-related violence. This combination will help UNDP continue to deliver on what it does best: integrated development solutions driven by country priorities. 48. We will strive to: 85. 16. These three challenges which are reflections of our Strategic Plans three directions of change on leaving no-one behind, building resilience, and structural transformation -- shape our immediate next steps. These are still experimental, but we are learning. 35. More broadly for UNDP, thanks to the visionary support of Germany and Qatar, the UNDP Accelerator Lab Network was able to create new capabilities to reimagine and help drive development for the 21st Century. It sought to address the root causes of complex human resources challenges, puttinginplace a comprehensive and integrated talent management system. Todays development challenges are dynamic, interconnected puzzles of multidimensional risk that require systemic solutions. offer a preview of UNDPs results and learnings from the last Strategic Plan cycle, with a full review to follow in our Board meeting in June 2022, and; lay out important areas of change that will be necessary to make this new Strategic Plan work for which we will depend on your co-creation and support. Expand capabilities, so that 100 million people get out of multidimensional poverty. We also responded to gaps in progress towards our social protection commitments, and in our work to support women in conflict and crisis settings. These areas are not enough to deliver on the ambition of this Strategic Plan. I would like to leave you with three things that will be critical to making that a success: how we programme, how we partner, and how we are funded. 77. Now we are fully ready and confident to continue this focus, especially on the partnerships it will take to make markets work for the SDGs. Our Strategic Plan puts out a $1 trillion moonshot with our commitment to playacatalyticrole in promoting the alignment of existing public and private sector resources with the SDGs. Through the ABADEI strategy for community-level support and area-based development -- which we launched as part of the UN systems overall crisis response with the Multi-Partner Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan -- nearly 45,000 days of temporary employment have already been created in less than 90 days. Specifically, the evaluation says that unless UNDP finds more predictable and flexible ways to fund integrated country programming, it will be difficult to resource the systemic transformation needed for the integrated approaches.. More broadly with respect to LDCs, which face a unique set of entrenched challenges in structural transformation, UNDP is fully committed to supporting a smooth transitional phase for sustainable graduation.