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Key Aspects of the Proposed 2005 Workplan

In 2005 the SPPRED Secretariat expects to lead a participatory process of preparing Azerbaijan's Ten-Year Development Programme and identifying country-specific MDG baselines, targets, and indicators that are nationally owned, costed, and embedded in the long-term programme. To accelerate this process, the UN agencies in Azerbaijan have agreed to a unified voice for the MDGs through a lead agency principle, whereby individual agencies take lead UN responsibility for advocacy and programming in regard to each MDG as follows:

MDG Lead Responsibility among UN Agencies 1. Poverty and Hunger UNDP and WFP 2. Education UNICEF 3. Gender Equality UNFPA 4. Child Mortality UNICEF 5. Maternal Mortality UNFPA 6. HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and TB UNICEF 7. Environmental Sustainability UNDP 8. Global Partnership Office of UNRC

Within this structure of responsibility, the UNCT will aim to expand participation among civil society and the public, promote the alignment of official methodologies of data collection and analysis with international norms, and promote the use of qualitative and quantitative survey results in the national policy process. National capacity building for poverty monitoring and participatory policy formulation will be central to UNCT support in 2005. Common country programming will benefit, as envisioned in the UNDAF, from the activities of the UN Theme Group on Poverty Reduction, the UN Theme Group on Health and Education, and the UN Task Forces on HIV/AIDS, communication, emergency preparedness, operations, and crisis/risk management, and the implementation of the UNDAF Monitoring and Evaluation Plan. The HIV/AIDS Implementation Support Plan and UN Learning Strategy for UN Staff will be developed. UNDPI will coordinate regular updates to the UN-Azerbaijan website and make the Azerbaijani-English Glossary of UN and development-related terminology available. The agencies of the UNDG Executive Committee will welcome and support the 2005 joint visit of the Bureaux of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA, UNICEF, and WFP to Azerbaijan. Joint programming among the agencies of the UNCT will continue and expand. In addition, environmental issues, such as deforestation caused by large displacement in the country, will be integrated in UNHCR programmes, with possible cooperation with World Bank and other UN agencies. Donor alignment and harmonization is expected through multi-donor commitment to supporting Azerbaijan's upcoming Ten-Year Development Programme. The UNCT also anticipates that the donor community will actively participate in UN theme groups and other networks for information sharing. With regard to common premises and services, the UNCT's primary objective for 2005 will be to resolve the question of permission for the construction of premises that are conducive to the safety, security, and productivity of UN staff and to begin construction accordingly. As discussed above, this will require attention from headquarters. The UN system in Azerbaijan looks forward to another productive year of coordination and mutual support for the country's progress toward MDG achievement and the reduction of poverty in all its dimensions.

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