Hon. Mustafa Mkulo. Dar Es Salaam 29/09/2009 – Finland, Ireland, Norway, Spain, and the UK have made an additional $23 million available to the UN in Tanzania through the UN One Fund. These funds will be used, in cooperation with the government, for better development results in Tanzania.
The One Fund is part of the Delivering as One pilot initiative in Tanzania which aims to improve development results delivered by the UN and its partners through increased programme coherence, harmonising business practices and communication amongst UN agencies, and increasingly working with government, through its systems.
The Joint Steering Committee, on Thursday 24
th September, approved the release of funds for the One UN Programme financial year 09/10. The Joint Steering Committee is co-chaired by the Permanent Secretary from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, the government’s lead ministry on UN reform, and the UN Resident Coordinator, the highest ranking UN official in the country. This is the first year the UN has aligned its programming cycle to the government fiscal year - part of its effort to become a more effective development partner to the government.
The funds allocated will be spent on a number of the Joint Programmes which are part of the One Programme. These include:
· Wealth creation employment and economic empowerment
· Maternal and newborn mortality reduction
· Support to national HIV/AIDs response
·
Capacity strengthening for development management
· Capacity building support to Zanzibar
· Managing transition from humanitarian assistance to sustainable development in Northwestern Tanzania
· Strengthening National Disaster preparedness
· Education
· Environment and Climate change.
This new allocation of funds is in addition to the $40 million the One Fund has contributed to development in Tanzania since its inception in 2008 through contributions from the above donors, as well as Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
The Joint Steering Committee is the core decision making body of the Government-UN and Development Partner governance structure. It oversees the implementation of the United Nations Delivering as One pilot in Tanzania.
Tanzania was among the eight countries in the world first selected to pilot of the Delivering as One reform initiative at country level. Albania, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, Uruguay and Viet Nam were the other seven. For more background information on UN Reform and coherence go to http://www.undg.org/.
The One Fund is part of the Delivering as One pilot initiative in Tanzania which aims to improve development results delivered by the UN and its partners through increased programme coherence, harmonising business practices and communication amongst UN agencies, and increasingly working with government, through its systems.
The Joint Steering Committee, on Thursday 24
th September, approved the release of funds for the One UN Programme financial year 09/10. The Joint Steering Committee is co-chaired by the Permanent Secretary from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, the government’s lead ministry on UN reform, and the UN Resident Coordinator, the highest ranking UN official in the country. This is the first year the UN has aligned its programming cycle to the government fiscal year - part of its effort to become a more effective development partner to the government.
The funds allocated will be spent on a number of the Joint Programmes which are part of the One Programme. These include:
· Wealth creation employment and economic empowerment
· Maternal and newborn mortality reduction
· Support to national HIV/AIDs response
·
Capacity strengthening for development management
· Capacity building support to Zanzibar
· Managing transition from humanitarian assistance to sustainable development in Northwestern Tanzania
· Strengthening National Disaster preparedness
· Education
· Environment and Climate change.
This new allocation of funds is in addition to the $40 million the One Fund has contributed to development in Tanzania since its inception in 2008 through contributions from the above donors, as well as Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
The Joint Steering Committee is the core decision making body of the Government-UN and Development Partner governance structure. It oversees the implementation of the United Nations Delivering as One pilot in Tanzania.
Tanzania was among the eight countries in the world first selected to pilot of the Delivering as One reform initiative at country level. Albania, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, Uruguay and Viet Nam were the other seven. For more background information on UN Reform and coherence go to http://www.undg.org/.
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