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| Annex 2. Good Practices in Coordination. Country Programming Linkages between the MDGs and the SPPRED (PRSP) |
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Through a joint MDG Project, the UNCT is supporting the efforts of the SPPRED Secretariat of the Ministry of Economic Development to align the SPPRED and MDG processes. With this support, the SPPRED Secretariat published the world's first integrated MDG/PRSP annual report-Azerbaijan Progresses Toward the Achievement of the MDGs: Annual Report 2003-and drafted a second integrated MDG/SPPRED Report for 2004. The Government's integration of the MDGs into its poverty reduction programming is also evident in its use of a single government body-the SPPRED Secretariat-as its focal point for both the SPPRED and MDG processes. The MDG/SPPRED Report served as a stimulus for the Government's re-thinking of the national poverty reduction process, with the result that a Ten-Year Development Programme is scheduled for preparation during 2005 to serve as a long-term framework for poverty reduction and MDG achievement in the period 2006-2015. In a 2004 Report on Joint Programming to the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board, the UNDP Administrator and UNFPA Executive Director highlighted the success of the UNCT-Azerbaijan in fostering the linkage between the MDGs and the SPPRED: "In Azerbaijan, a multi-agency effort led by the Office of the Resident Coordinator, which included a cost-sharing contribution from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and parallel financing from UNDP, UNFPA and the United Nations Department for Public Information (UNDPI), seeks to assist the State Programme for Poverty Reduction and Economic Development (SPPRED - the country's PRSP) secretariat and its poverty monitoring unit to improve and systemize the indicators to measure MDG targets. A critical output will be an annual MDG report incorporated into the annual SPPRED/PRSP report. The integration of both reports will help to position the PRSP as a step towards realizing the MDGs, thereby increasing government ownership of the MDGs, linking it to their poverty reduction strategy. It will also work to increase public knowledge of the MDGs." | |
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