Procurement Notices

The United Nations Development Assistance Framework for Mozambique (UNDAF) 2012 – 2015 is the expression of the UN in Mozambique to support the Government in its final stretch towards the MDG timeframe of 2015. It is the second UNDAF developed under the UN Delivering as One (DaO) pilot in Mozambique but the first one applying One UN programme and One Management Structure The framework combines the efforts of the 22 UN agencies active in the country to provide focused, effective and efficient support to the Government of Mozambique. Guided by human rights instruments, the MDGs and the internationally agreed Development Goals (IADG), the UNDAF 2012-2015 strives for “Reduced poverty and disparities to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people in Mozambique by 2015” as its overall goal in support of national priorities outlined in the Government’s National Action Plan for Poverty Reduction, the PARP 2011-2014, as well as national sector policies.

 

This overarching goal is informed by three guiding principles that ensure that UN interventions in support of the government: i) culturally responsive, gender sensitive and human rights based approaches focusing particularly on women and children; ii) interweaving of HIV and AIDS issues throughout all UNDAF result areas; and iii) are substantiated by the promotion of evidence based policies and strategies for equitable and sustainable development.

The UNDAF results are organized around three focus areas:

•          The Economic area aims at tackling the economic disparities through a concentration on the rural poor, especially women and youth, improving their productive capacities, income and livelihoods, and reducing vulnerability to natural disasters.

•          The Social area aims at reducing inequality of access to services for vulnerable groups, especially women and children. Adopting the human rights based approach, the UN’s activities focus on improving the capacity of duty bearers to provide services, and on empowering rights holders, especially vulnerable people, to access and use social services for improved health, education, water and sanitation and social protection.

•          Within the Governance area, the UN concentrates, first, on deepening democracy and increasing public accountability through both strengthening the democratic and justice institutions of government and strengthening the capacity of vulnerable populations through civil society organizations and the private sector to participate effectively in policy formulation and protect their rights. Second, the UN focuses on improving governance at the local level, both strengthening government local institutions and ensuring better engagement and participation by local populations in their own development. The UNDAF is complemented by an UNDAF Action Plan (UNDAP) which operationalizes the UNDAF and explains how the UNDAF is to be implemented. The UNDAF action plan forms the basis for UN programming in the 2012 – 2015 cycle and constitutes the One programme .

The deepening and cementing of the UN Delivering as One reform are an integral part of the UNDAF management plan. Building on the original pillars of the One programme, One budgetary framework, One leader, One office and Common Services, and One Communication strategy remains central to the reform, the UNCT has since 2012 agreed to advance the reform agenda to focus on the three ’Rs’ Relevance, Results delivery and Resource utilization. A key delivery of this reform is a new joint organizational structure, Development Results Groups (DRGs) and Joint Teams (JTs), which clusters programme staff across all agencies of the UN around outcomes and focus areas of the UNDAF under the leadership of one head of agency. The purpose has been to optimize the use of UN’s technical resources, strengthen UN’s programme portfolio, relevance and effectiveness. 

Having reached the mid-point of the UNDAF, though not a mandatory requirement, the UNCT has decided that a midterm review, in form of a light, informative and forward-looking Strategic Reflection should be conducted. The Strategic Reflection, which emphasizes substantive relevance in relation to alignment with national priorities and emerging issues, and effectiveness in terms of optimizing joint delivery, intends to inform both prioritizations during the remaining UNDAF implementation period while also contributing to inform the strategic directions for the next UNDAF.