Past Projects

INT/09/X72: Support to ICT Strategic Planning in the SADC Parliaments

Main Expectations: 1. A clear and concise Vision, Statement on ICT in parliament developed and owned by each parliament of the SADC region; 2. A comprehensive Strategic Plan developed and owned by each parliament that links and operationalise the regional and global frameworks; 3. A well formulated Development Programme Document for ICT in Parliament (for each parliament) that will include all the projects that are prioritized and planned; 4. The establishment of a self-sustaining community of practice on ICT strategic planners in the SADC region; 5. The Strengthening of the ICT Parliamentary Committees of each parliament to guide the Parliament’s participation in the regional and national e-strategy processes and the development of an equitable information society Main activities
1. Aregional capacity-building Workshop;
2. Technical Assistance Missions aimed at stakeholders awareness, training of strategic planners and support to the formulation of strategic plans;
3. A Manual for senior parliamentary staff on developing ICT Plans and Strategies;
4. A Handbook on the role of parliamentary ICT Committees.

Objective/Purpose of Project: Overall objective: Promote transparency, accountability, democratic participation and good governance in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) by empowering the SADC Parliaments to better fulfill their democratic functions and contributing to their institutional strengthening through ICT.

Specific objectives: Assist parliaments in the establishment of a vision for ICT in parliament; assist parliaments in the development of strategic plans for ICT in parliament and a Development Programme for ICT in Parliament; encourage parliaments to develop in-house strategic planning skills and to consolidate these skills through the establishment of a community of practice; strengthening of the ICT Parliamentary Committees.

Cooperation Partners: Southern African Development Community (SADC)-Parliamentary Forum
Time Frame: February 2010 – June 2012
Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$ 1,302,801
Division: PACB

INT/09/X71: Support to ICT Strategic Planning in Caribbean Parliaments

Main Expectations: 1. a Vision for ICT in parliament developed and owned by each parliament;
2. a Strategic Plan for ICT in parliament developed and owned by each parliament;
3. a Development Programme Document for ICT in parliament based on the Strategic Plan for submission to donor community;
4. a regional community of practice of trained ICT strategic Planners in parliaments.
Main activities:
1. a regional capacity-building Workshop;
2. Technical Assistance Missions aimed at stakeholders awareness, training of strategic planners and support to the formulation of strategic plans

Objective/Purpose of Project: Overall objective: The overall objective of the proposed action is to promote transparency, accountability, democratic participation and good governance in the Caribbean nations of the ACP Group of States by empowering the Parliaments to better fulfill their democratic functions and contributing to their institutional strengthening through ICT.

Cooperation Partners: European Community, African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group) and the Caribbean Center for Development Administration (CARICAD)
Time Frame: February 2010 - June 2012

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$1,308,543
Division: PACB

GLO/10/X01: 5th Internet Governance Forum, Vilnius, Lithuania

Main Expectations: Pursuant to the Tunis Agenda, among others: build on the existing structures of Internet governance, with special emphasis on the complementarity between all stakeholders involved in this process, meet periodically in order to facilitate and foster discourse on Internet Governance issues.

Objective/Purpose of Project: Overall objective: The IGF mandate is described in paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda as a meeting of a new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue. The mandate of the Forum includes, among others:
Discuss public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance, facilitate discourse between stakeholders, interface with appropriate inter-governmental organizations and other institutions, facilitate the exchange of information and best practices, advise all stakeholders in proposing ways and means to accelerate the availability and affordability of the Internet in the developing world, strengthen and enhance the engagement of stakeholders in existing and/or future Internet governance mechanisms, identify emerging issues, contribute to capacity building, promote and assess, on an ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS principles in Internet governance processes, discuss issues relating to critical Internet resources, help to find solutions to the issues arising from the use and misuse of the Internet. All this in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet.

Key Accomplishments: The IGF has held annual meetings in Athens, Greece, from 30 October to 2 November 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 12 to 15 November 2007, Hyderabad, India, from 3 to 6 December 2008 and Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 15 to 18 November 2009. During meetings, participants representing all stakeholder groups attended the main sessions, workshops and other events. It is generally felt that the annual meetings have been a success and had been well run, providing a space for constructive and inspiring discourse on a multitude of public policy issues related to Internet governance. Several commentators emphasized the importance of the multi-stakeholder approach. It is generally felt by participants that the most successful aspects of the IGF is the opportunities that people are offered to work together on specific issues of Internet governance. In 2008 and 2009, there has also been a spread of national and regional IGF initiatives that fed into the annual IGF meeting. There is clear support for the multi-stakeholder processes and many participants have commented on how dialogue in the IGF, freed from the constraints of negotiations and decision-making, allow for ideas to be freely exchanged and debated.

Cooperation Partners: The IGF cooperates with all stakeholders with an interest in the Internet public policy discourse. These include governments; intergovernmental organizations and UN sister organizations such as UNESCO, ITU, WTO and the EU, Council of Europe, League of Arab States, OECD; the private sector; civil society, academia and the Internet community.
Time Frame: September 2010 - September 2010

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$515,479
Division: DMB

BAH/10/001: ATLAS 00058375 Knowledge Based Society-Support to the creation of the Arab Centre for eContent Development

Main Expectations: Increase the capacity and knowledge of e-Government across Government Istitutions and Agencies.

Objective/Purpose of Project: To provide advisory services throughout the phase of the project to support the creation of the Arab Centre for eContent Development.
The following activities are envisaged:
1. Provide substantial support in developing a strategy to delvier to set goals of the Centre;
2. Participation in the recruitment of the Project professional staff;
3. Provide inputs to the strategic direction and vision of the Centre;
4. Participate in the meetings as deemed necessary by UNDP and the government counterpart (eGA);
5. Provide inputs to develop strategies to improve Arab e-COntent under the Project;
6. Provide inputs in developing customer satisfaction survey;
7. Assist in identifying e-government capacity gaps in government institutions within the mandate of the project.

Cooperation Partners: E-Govt Authority
Time Frame: November 2009 – December 2011
Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$ 62,100
Division: DMB

DJI/09/001: Appui à la Justice et Promotion des Droits de l’Homme / Support to Justice and Human Rights Promotion

Main Expectations: 1. Revising Civil code of laws and Civil Procedure Code of laws in Djibouti Republic;
2. Capacity Building to judicial sector staff (magistrates, clerks of the courts, prosecutors..);
3. Elaboration et Publication of CIDH periodic reports.

Objective/Purpose of Project: Making the law (i) more appropriate to Human Rights; and (ii) conducive to development and to Djibouti people culture.

Key Accomplishments (to-date): 1. Two mission reports have been issued for reviewing the Civil Code of laws.
2. A commission for reviewing the civil code of laws has been set up and is operational.

Cooperation Partners: UNDESA, UNDP and Djibouti Government
Time Frame: June 2009 - December 2011

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$79,568
Division: PACB

SAU/09/001: Support for Policy Analysis and Strategic Planning, Phase III

Main Expectations:
(a) Maintained strategic planning, macro and sectoral policy analysis, regional socio-economic planning and development, and plan monitoring;
(b) Continued process of operationalizing the Institutional Support Facilities; and (c) Capacity development programme updated and implemented.

Objective/Purpose of Project: This is the third phase of a six-year capacity building programme for the Ministry of Economy and Planning. The major objectives of the six-year programme are (a) to build the capacity of the Ministry in economic and social policy analysis, sectoral and strategic planning, regional and decentralized planning and social policy analysis, and plan monitoring and implementation; (b) to integrate the various capacity building and support initiatives into the institutional and organizational setting of the Ministry; and (c) to conduct a staff training programme for Saudi nationals through the medium of special technical support facilities in the selected areas.

Key Accomplishments (to-date): (a) Finalization of the texts of the 9th National Development Plan (2010-2014) for the sections on energy, science and technology, macroeconomic modeling, regional development, population, and social development;
(b) technical capacity of the Ministry’s staff through conducting a series of training workshops and on-the-job training by the UNDESA-recruited experts.

Cooperation Partners: UNDP/Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Economy and Planning of the Government of Saudi Arabia. UNDESA
Time Frame: April 2009 - December 2011

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$3,454,545
Division: DMB

TOG/09/001: Projet d’appui au développement des capacités pour

Main Expectations:

1. Support the finalization and the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy;
2. Support the design of a monitoring and evaluation mechanism for the Proverty Reduction Strategy;
3. Support the elaboration of various reports: National Human Development Report; MDG monitoring Reports, etc.;
4. Training on various development issues.

Objective/Purpose of Project: This project is designed to support UNDP and the Government of Togo by providing high caliber international consultants and technical cooperation services for the finalization of the Poverty Reduction Strategy and its implementation for the achievement of the MDGs.

Key Accomplishments (to-date):
The project has just started and will be implemented through 2010.

Cooperation Partners: UNDP Togo
Time Frame: March 2009 - December 2010

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$39,000
Division: DMB

GLO/09/X01: 4th Internet Governance Forum, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Main Expectations:
Pursuant to the Tunis Agenda, among others: build on the existing structures of Internet governance, with special emphasis on the complementarity between all stakeholders involved in this process, meet periodically in order to facilitate and foster discourse on Internet Governance issues.

Objective/Purpose of Project: The IGF mandate is described in paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda as a meeting of a new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue. The mandate of the Forum includes, among others:
Discuss public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance, facilitate discourse between stakeholders, interface with appropriate inter-governmental organizations and other institutions, facilitate the exchange of information and best practices, advise all stakeholders in proposing ways and means to accelerate the availability and affordability of the Internet in the developing world, strengthen and enhance the engagement of stakeholders in existing and/or future Internet governance mechanisms, identify emerging issues, contribute to capacity building, promote and assess, on an ongoing basis, the embodiment of WSIS principles in Internet governance processes, discuss issues relating to critical Internet resources, help to find solutions to the issues arising from the use and misuse of the Internet. All this in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet.

Key Accomplishments (to-date):
The IGF has held annual meetings in Athens, Greece, from 30 October to 2 November 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 12 to 15 November 2007, Hyderabad, India, from 3 to 6 December 2008 and Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 15 to 18 November 2009. During meetings, participants representing all stakeholder groups attended the main sessions, workshops and other events. It is generally felt that the annual meetings have been a success and had been well run, providing a space for constructive and inspiring discourse on a multitude of public policy issues related to Internet governance. Several commentators emphasized the importance of the multi-stakeholder approach. It is generally felt by participants that the most successful aspects of the IGF is the opportunities that people are offered to work together on specific issues of Internet governance. In 2008 and 2009, there has also been a spread of national and regional IGF initiatives that fed into the annual IGF meeting. There is clear support for the multi-stakeholder processes and many participants have commented on how dialogue in the IGF, freed from the constraints of negotiations and decision-making, allow for ideas to be freely exchanged and debated.

Cooperation Partners: The IGF cooperates with all stakeholders with an interest in the Internet public policy discourse. These include governments; intergovernmental organizations and UN sister organizations such as UNESCO, ITU, WTO and the EU, Council of Europe, League of Arab States, OECD; the private sector; civil society, academia and the Internet community.
Time Frame: January 2009 - December 2009

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$133,474
Division: EGB

MLI/08/001: Projet Appui a l'Observatoire du DHD et de la Lutte Contre la Pau

Main Expectations: 1. Provide guidance to the Poverty Observatory regarding the overall direction of its work;
2. Support the poverty observatory regarding substantive work, studies and researches for the attainment of the MDGs;
3. Enhance the capacity of the poverty observatory by training its members;
4. Provide overall assessment and evaluation of the work of the poverty observatory.

Objective/Purpose of Project: In Mali, the project is supporting the establishment of Poverty Observatory (PO) as a tool for both the Government, civil society organizations and the international partners to follow-up the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) and the monitoring, evaluation and consultation processes of the MDGs. DPADM role is to supervising the Poverty Observatory of Mali.

Key Accomplishments: The Poverty observatory organized in April 2009 a successful training workshop on the measurement of Human Development that brought together more than 200 people from Mali, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, and Rwanda, and help clarify how the index is being calculated, where the data are coming from, etc. By the end of the workshop, there has been more understanding by participating countries on how this index is elaborated. Other achievements of the project in Mali are: Various studies that help better understand poverty dynamics; Publication regularly of Human development reports; Surveys on Poverty and Human Development issues; Management of a database on human development indicators; Training workshops and sensitizing activities in relation to Human development.

Cooperation Partners: UNDP Mali
Time Frame: October 2008 – December 2011
Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$ 160,000
Division: DMB

ZAI/08/002: Gouvernance administrative du programme de gouvernance 2008-2011/ Administrative Governance as integral part of Governance Programme 2008-2011

Main Expectations: Seven administrative areas have been targeted to strengthen governance as far as Public Administration is concerned in DRC:
1. Restructuring public sector organizations while redesigning working procedures along with the re-profiling of Human Resources considered as civil servants
2. Civil Service Rightsizing and sound management of state employees’ salaries
3. Review of civil service legal framework
4. Ethics and Integrity Promotion with implementation mechanisms throughout the public Administration
5. ICT Promotion and setting up E-government
6. Establishment of sound public communication within public administration including the links with judiciary and parliament Branches as well as with decentralized public institutions
7. Capacity Development of decentralized Administration.

Objective/Purpose of Project: Support for a new Public Administration with a special focus on an effective and efficient civil service working in a modernized and appropriate environment and taken into consideration decentralization as a priority orientation of the Government.

Key Accomplishments (to-date): As for December 2009 two key accomplishments can be underscored:
1. A Table with aggregate activities related to the new foundations of Public Administration standing for Public Administration Reform in DRC
2. A proposed new general Civil Service Code has been developed.

Cooperation Partners:DRC Government, UNDP, UNDESA, United Kingdom Cooperation-DFID (Trust Funds), Belgium Cooperation
Time Frame: May 2008 - December 2011

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$153,454
Division: PACB

GLO/08/E01: E-Government Initiative in Africa-Ghana

Main Expectations:
This project will be the enhanced integration and collaborative operational process among the six institutions where the Certified Email System (CEM) will be deployed. The project will also strengthen the capacity of the government personnel, within the six institutions where the CEM will be installed, to use and manage the system.

Objective/Purpose of Project: The situation in all ministries is that the majority of government officials use private email addresses, such as yahoo and gmail. The government does not have a central email database that allows government officials to easily identify an email recipient. The government of Ghana uses drivers to physically deliver mail from one ministry to another. This manual approach is time consuming, costly, does not guarantee a secure method of communication, and reduces the effectiveness of government.

This project will address this challenge by supporting the implementation of a certified email system that, in turn, will enable a better electronic document workflow and records management. The resulting facilitated access to relevant information and the improved flow of information at all process stages, as well as the optimised process workflows, will strengthen the internal capacity of the government to use ICT for a more effective service delivery and for improved service outputs.

Key Accomplishments (to-date):The UN Procurement Unit has initiated an Expression of Interest for potential vendors to implement the project both internationally and locally. 16 prospective vendors have expressed their interest to bid on the project. A request for proposal will be send out to all qualifying vendor.

Cooperation Partners:Ministry of Communications, Government of Ghana
Time Frame: November 2008 - December 2010

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$597,300
Division: EGB

ZAI/08/001: Gouvernance économique: Planification du développe

Main Expectations:

1. Work with the government to design a methodology for the National Long Term Vision;
2. Elaborate a strategic note;
3. Specify the methodology and the different steps, as well as the institutional setting;
4. Train national counterparts on the methodology;
5. Support the elaboration of the National Long Term Vision

Objective/Purpose of Project: This project is designed as an interim project to work for the design of another project with UNDP Congo in the field of Economic Governance. In this regard, the project is mainly supporting the Government of Congo for the preparation of a National Long Term Vision (prospective study) for the country. The National Long Term Vision will set the overarching goals for the development of the country, particularly for the achievement of the MDGs.

Key Accomplishments (to-date):
The project successfully elaborated the methodology for the study in 2008, as well as the strategic note, that have been approved by the government. The project also drafted the institutional setting for the conduct of the study.

Cooperation Partners: UNDP DR Congo, Government of Congo
Time Frame: May 2008 - December 2010

Funding: XBTC
Proposed Budget: US$85,000
Division: DMB