India UNDAF 2008-2012 - UNOPS

India UNDAF 2008-2012
Management Team (UNDMT). The UNDMT is mandated to coordinate the UN System’s
response to natural disasters and to develop contingency plans for the UN
System in consultation with partners, to be implemented in the event of disasters.
Mid way in the UNDAF cycle, an outcome evaluation will be undertaken, in order to
assess the continued relevance of the outcomes as they were originally articulated,
progress of the UN in contributing to them, and to recommend any course corrections
that are needed for continued responsiveness and relevance of the UNDAF to the development
challenges of India. This evaluation will be organized by the UN Coordination
Office that has overall responsibility for the monitoring and evaluation of the
UNDAF. An M&E Task Force comprising M&E focal points from all UN agencies will be
established to carry out periodic review of progress (using the lead agency concept
with respect to specific outcomes/outputs).
Joint Initiatives for Support to Programme Implementation
Dev Info
Dev Info will be modified to include the UNDAF monitoring indicators and used system
wide to facilitate tracking progress against UNDAF Outcomes/Outputs, as well as 11 th
Plan targets. Dev Info is housed in the Department of Statistics of the GOI and UNICEF
leads the UN inter-agency team to support the development and roll-out of DevInfo.
Resource Mobilisation
Joint UN System meetings with donors will be convened by the RC to identify areas of
common interest with donors, and resource mobilization opportunities, as agreed by
the UNCT. Individual agencies will also mobilize resources for their own programmes.
Security Management Team
As the UNDAF pursues its overall objective of inclusion of the most disadvantaged
groups in India, it will continue to give due attention to issues of the safety of the
United Nations staff. The Security Management Team, chaired by the Designated Official
for Security of the UN system, will continue to review conditions and adjust its
security arrangements accordingly.
Operations Management Team
Work will continue on identifying opportunities for greater operational efficiencies in
both programme and administrative operations. The UN in India already has in place
a well functioning Operations Management Team, fully mandated by the UNCT to manage
and implement common services. The OMT will further UNDAF implementation by
supporting opportunities for common operational services and joint offices where
feasible and by harmonising cash transfer modalities of respective Agencies.
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