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support through their quality support and assurance role and developed regional peer support groups to improve country programming. This resulted in more strategic, coherent and result-oriented UNDAFs; • Conducted performance appraisals for all Resident Coordinators and UN country teams in 2009 and provided them with feedback; and
• Pressed the need to fully internalize the management and accountability framework at the regional and country levels to improve the quality and impact of UN-supported programmes. The teams worked to ensure that Resident Coordinators, UN country teams and other UN staff were aware of the Management and Accountability System and the issue was discussed at most Resident Coordinator cluster meetings in 2009.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) walks through the Red Square in Moscow, Russia with Vitaly I. Churkin (right), Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, and Frode Mauring (left), UN Resident Coordinator in Russia.