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Basic Summary of the “Delivering as One” Process in Uruguay
In 2004, the Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review (TCPR) called for efforts to enhance the
coherence and effectiveness of the United Nations System (UN System). Later on, in 2005, the World
Summit invited the Secretary General to foster a process to improve management and coordination of
UN activities. As a result of the TCPR mandate, in November 2006, the High Level Panel for the
Reform of the United Nations System submitted its report containing a series of recommendations; the
report’s discussion is being conducted through an inter-governmental process.
One of the recommendations featured the implementation, through 2007, of pilot programmes called
“Delivering as One” to be implemented parallel to the report’s inter-governmental discussion process.
These pilot programmes were implemented in countries that represent a broad range of development
situations and from which lessons can be drawn – at the end of the pilot period – that can be
disseminated and implemented in other developing countries.
Uruguay, a middle-income country, applied as one of the eight pilot countries and is the only one from
the Latin America and Caribbean region; the other pilot countries are Albania, Cape Verde,
Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Vietnam. This reform process was undertaken by the
Uruguayan Government and will be under the responsibility of the United Nations Resident
Coordinator (RC) in Uruguay, as leader of the UN Country Team (UNCT).
The Government is willing to organize and focus its work on the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) and has therefore expressed the need to foster inter-institutional and inter-agency work as set
forth in the underlying principles of “Delivering as One”. Accordingly, this reform process at the
country level aims to improve the strategic programming, coherence, and coordination of the national
priorities. Likewise, it aims at improving efficacy and efficiency of the cooperation provided by the
UN System in Uruguay by operating within a framework of enhanced coherence1. This pilot will
receive technical support from the UN System and financial support from different donors whose
support will be channeled through the UN System. In addition, civil society organizations will be
consulted to secure their insights and contribution to the process.
Four basic pillars support the implementation of the “Delivering as One” pilot in Uruguay; they are:
• “One Programme Framework” of the United Nations in Uruguay based on the strategic priorities identified within the 2007-2010 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).
• “One leadership”;
• “One Budgetary Framework”, whereby already available resources — as well as those to be mobilized by this pilot — are optimized;
• “One Office”, understood as a set of shared practices that allow for enhanced efficiency in managing resources by reducing input costs and/or engaging shared services.
Country Resources
On 17th December, the Coherence Fund Steering Committee of the One UN Programme, integrated by high-level representatives of the Government and the United Nations System in Uruguay, approved a new joint project on civil society to be financed to the One UN Coherence Fund.
Valued at USD 295.000, it is the 11th joint project that is being implemented as part of the “One UN Programme” in Uruguay. It is titled “Strengthening the capacities on Civil Society Organizations in Uruguay,” and it will be implemented by UNDP, UNESCO and UNFPA.
Press Release - Steering Committee
Presentation to Neuchatel (July 2007)
Country News
Reform Times in Uruguay Issues
March 09 in English and in Spanish, February 09 in English and in Spanish; January 09 in English and in Spanish; December 08; November 08; Sept./Oct. 08; June 08; April 08
