| Overview : In 2017, the Secretary-General outlined his vision of a “new generation of UN Country Teams” with enhanced capacity and skill sets at the Resident Coordinator Office to support countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Secretary-General proposed “that an integrated communications structure be formed in each country by co-locating and merging the country offices of the United Nations information centers (UNICs) with resident coordinator offices. Merging these two capabilities will generate a robust standing communications capacity within United Nations country teams, working alongside communications specialists from all entities to boost impact [of UNCTs’ work for the SDGs], while producing significant cost savings.” This consolidates the vision that a new generation of UN country teams requires a new generation of UN Communications Groups. This new generation of UN Country teams (UNCT) is led by an empowered and independent Resident Coordinator (RC). Following the UN reform, the Resident Coordinator is supported by the addition of a communications function in the Resident Coordinator Office or the integration of the UNIC) to help bring together the UNCT and its UN Communications Group (UNCG) to communicate together, with a strong UN voice. A new era of public communication has thus arrived, and as part of the UN reform process Lesotho operates under the “communicating together” approach which has the broad objective to improve the UN’s impact, coherence and efficiency. All Applications can be send to : ls.procurement@undp.org | 
