Practice architecture
Figure 3. Global Programme Components • Advisory services to programme countries • Catalytic cross-country projects • Harmonization and quality across all • Knowledge facilitation levels of UNDP • Setter of corporate standards, ensuring policy coherence • South-South and inter-regional learning
Country programmes
Regional service centres
Regional programmes
Headquarter programmes
In each practice area, the Global Programme aimed to provide: (i) substantive direction, defining the strategy behind each thematic practice and broad areas of intervention; (ii) facilitation of UNDP engagement in global debate and dialogue, influencing the substantive discussion of development issues and challenges; (iii) policy development assistance, shaping global and regional funds and programmes based on country experiences by involving local programmes in international and UN system processes; and (iv) policy and programme support, defining policy options, identifying Southern solutions, building the capacities of country offices and stakeholders, offering advisory services and developing and adapting knowledge products and publications. Cross-practice and cross-cutting approach: The Global Programme supported cross-practice initiatives in order to respond to development challenges requiring multi-thematic coordination and to support coherence within the United Nations system and the broader development community. Work included strengthening the
programming interface among the areas of poverty reduction, democratic governance, environment and energy, gender, and HIV and AIDS (with an emphasis on local development approaches to achieving the MDGs), and developing strategies for addressing multi-disciplinary challenges such as food security, climate change and the rule of law. Specific outputs for supporting cross-cutting and cross-practice programming were identified in three areas: capacity development, gender equality and women’s empowerment, and SouthSouth cooperation (see Annex 3). BDP undertook a mid-term review of the Global Programme in 2011. The review found that: The
Global Programme practice architecture was working;
Global
Programme advisory services provided critical support to UNDP work at the country level;
The
Global Programme facilitated the UNDP policy leadership role on critical interregional and global issues;
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