UNDP programme support
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UNDP has turned to Sida to seek support for the implementation of their country program (2020-2024). The support is program based with a focus on strengthened rule of law, decentralisation reform, stabilisation of post-conflict provinces linked to the phasing out of Monusco and support to the government for aid coordination. Theses efforts correspond to Swed...
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UNDP has turned to Sida to seek support for the implementation of their country program (2020-2024). The support is program based with a focus on strengthened rule of law, decentralisation reform, stabilisation of post-conflict provinces linked to the phasing out of Monusco and support to the government for aid coordination. Theses efforts correspond to Sweden's priorities in the current strategy for development cooperation with DR Congo (2021-2025) and specifically contributes to the following strategic goals: Human rights, democracy, the rule of law and gender equality (1) Strengthened respect for human rights, democracy and rule of law, including reduced corruption (2) Greater gender equality including reduced gender-based violence Peaceful and inclusive societies (1) Inclusive processes to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts by peaceful means, including strengthened resilience to crises The contribution is expected to contribute to strengthening the rule of law, reduce impunity, increase transparency and reduce corruption. Within the framework of their country program, UNDP will provide support to DR Congo's ongoing justice and decentralisation reform. This includes work within gender equality that focuses on increasing women's autonomy, influence and participation in political processes, as well as women's and young people's participation in peace building processes. In a context where the UN peacekeeping mission Monusco is planning to downsize and phase out of certain provinces UNDP will contribute to a continuation of stabilisation interventions to ensure peace, stability and reconstruction in post-conflict areas. A special focus will be placed on the Kasai provinces and Tanganyika where Monusco first pulls out and where the international community has launched a nexus-based coordination process to increase an international presence in support of the provincial government in hopes of increasing trust between the population and the state. Through program support to UNDP, Sweden intends to support the national development plan and its subsequent aid coordination mechanisms to strengthen coordination and harmonization between development actors. The goal is for development actors to find joint solutions to the root causes of underdevelopment and conflict. Sweden has previously contributed with support to UNDP in the DR Congo through an initiative carried out jointly with UNCDF - Support for Inclusive Financing in DRC 2017-2021. The results of this contribution will be integrated and built on within the framework of Sweden’s program support to UNDP's country program.
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Result
The results below are extracted and translated from french from the UNDP annual country programme report for 2022 and the Annual review meeting presentation to Sweden in December 2023. With Swedish flexible funding and an integrated and coordinated approach, UNDP has managed to implement activities in 15 of the 26 provinces of DRC, mostly in the East. At individual level, this has enabled : - 2,500 new magistrates (835 women) were trained and have the knowledge required to provide justice services fairly and efficiently; - 46,000 members of local communities (30,820 women) are accessing financial services that will enable them to have the conditions for their financial autonomy; - 1000 victims including (35% women) had access to justice; - 8,310 community members (3,950 women) were equipped with conflict management capacities; - 5,000 young students (1,751 girls) from the provinces were equipped with the capacity to monitor the SDGs and produce citizen reports. Specifically from the 2022 annual country programme report, the following are highlighted: 1. Results anti-corruption The technical and financial support from UNDP enabled the DRC to: • Have a national anticorruption strategy; • Establish the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption and make it operational; • Provide the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) with Team Mate software in order to strengthen control. Thanks to this software, 87 cases of fraud and corruption have been documented and brought to justice among which 42 investigations are ongoing and 8 trials involving those responsible for state public services. • Access to justice for 2,586 vulnerable people, including 2 262 women thanks to the support provided to the criminal justice system through in particular judicial investigations and organized mobile hearings; • Empowerment and networking of 28 civil Society Organizations, thus allowing them to work in the fight against corruption. This allowed them to ensure the monitoring of 26 trials in matters of corruption involving heads of public services; • Installed digital tools within 24 jurisdictions and offices and in two prisons, which made it possible to detect 122 cases irregularities and fraud in the justice sector, which are currently being regularized. 2. Results decentralisation UNDP's support contributed to ensuring, for the benefit of the provinces, the development/update of provincial development plans focused on the SDGs, accompanied by Priority Action Plans and Public Investment Projects for 04 provinces (Kasaï, Kasaï Oriental, Equateur & South Ubangi) as well as local investments plans for 03 decentralised territorial entities (ETDs), concretely Bashali, Bwisha and Watalinga in North Kivu. 600,000 USD in terms of gender sensitive financing were allocated to 06 ETDs. There, 6 local mechanisms on local financial management transparency are operational in 06 ETDs. With Sweden's support to the UNDPs Country programme in DRC, in collaboration with the UNCDF, in Kasai Central, the Nganza commune has been able to strengthen its fiscal capacity and generate additional income to support the construction of the local market and supporting infrastructures, aligned to a decentralized budget and the local development plan priorities. This is part of efficient management of ETD's finances, with the support of the joint UNDP and UNCDF project, on decentralisation, gender and transparency (PADGT). In the municipality of Nganza (Kasai Central), the ETD benefited from training sessions on decentralization, local planning, budget development and public procurement management. During the 2023 budget year, support from the PADGT initiative allowed the municipality of Nganza to explore other sources of financing including revenues and taxes on agricultural activities collected from beneficiaries of agricultural credits. Through this exercise the project demonstrated that if the management of finances at local level is done in accordance with regulations, this process is able to generate substantial resources to finance the municipal budget and can constitute a lever on which the entity could rely to boost its own revenue. According to information collected from the accounts of the commune of Nganza, as of May 31, 2023, the entity mobilizes on average daily income of approximately 45,000 FC or one million three hundred and fifty thousand Congolese francs 1,350,000 CDF per month (equivalent to USD 540 dollars), which is significantly lower than the community's potential for mobilizing tax and nontax revenue. This is compared to the budgeted resources in accordance with the revenue nomenclature of decentralized territorial entities. But with the management of the public procurement process for 45 days and thanks to the sale of 21 tender files, the municipality generated 4,072,000 CDF equivalent to 1,770 USD in additional resources corresponding to double the income that the municipality generates in a month. As a result, the municipality of Nganza obtained budgetary support which now allows it to finance community investments including the construction of a pavilion, a toilet block and the construction of a borehole at the market central Nganza. Elsewhere, the own income derived from project management and taxes on agricultural area will be directed to financing other investments listed in the 2022-2027 priority investment program and which will be included in the budget of the municipality for the financial year 2024. 3. Results stabilisation In 2021 and 2022, the UNDP Office in the DRC mobilized, with the support of Germany, Sweden and Netherlands, $10 million to develop a Stabilization and Resilience' pillar. Some key results in 2022 was the establishment of a capacity building working group for the new governmental Disarmament, Demobilization, Community Reintegration, and Stabilization Programme (P-DDRCS), which strategy was adopted in March 2022 for the stabilization and securing of the eastern part of the DRC. With UNDP's support, there has been the development of a list of priority needs for strengthening capacities, identified in 6 provinces, an organizational diagnosis process of CSO partners and a process for the gender certification of partners of the Stabilization pillar. In terms of coordination, UNDP supported the development (a) of the Plan National operational plan of the PDDRCS Program and (b) three operational plans provincial POP P DDRCS, with two more in preparation. UNDP has also supported the first National Civil Society Forum organized on the P- DDRCS and the MONUSCO transition. Finally, the Pillar supported the development of the 2023 Priority Action Plan of the South Kivu Province, which integrates conflict sensitivity.
The objectives of this intervention are to support the UNDP country programme which has the following priorities (a) governance for sustainable development; (b) economic transformation and sustainable management of natural resources; and (c) support to stabilization and strengthening of the resilience of affected populations. At the end of the intervention it is expected that UNDP has contributed to: Accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development Advancing poverty eradication in all its forms and dimensions Strengthening resilience to shocks and crises The specific objectives of the four projects UNDP is seeking funding for are the following (translated from French): Decentralisation The overall objective of this support is twofold. On the one hand, it is to accelerate the process of territorial decentralisation in all its dimensions (political, administrative, and fiscal) with a view to strengthen local governance, boosting grassroots economic development, and improving the living conditions of the population. On the other hand, it is a question of supporting the central government, the provinces and the decentralised territorial entities (ETDs) to build their own capacities for planning, programming, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation of development based on the SDGs, with a view to accelerating the country's socio-economic development. The programme will also strengthen national, provincial, and local capacities for the management, governance and coordination of public policies and development assistance, as well as provide the provinces and ETDs with critical skills to support the implementation of provincial and local development plans. Justice Reform The programme contributes to reforming the rule of law in the DRC through implementation of the defined justice reform and better management and efficiency of the justice system in a way that respects human rights and meets the needs of the population with regard to justice and legal protection. This is particularly important for vulnerable and at-risk populations, with a view to stabilising and improving social cohesion through four results: Result 1: Implementation of the National Justice Reform Policy is strengthened and coordinated Result 2: The accountability of actors in the criminal justice system is improved, allowing institutions to function in accordance with the principles of the rule of law Result 3: The provision of quality justice services is improved by strengthening the institutions of the criminal justice system in the prosecution of offences, with a focus on crimes under international law and sexual violence committed in times of conflict Result 4: Demand for justice is improved for populations in intervention areas, promoting peaceful conflict resolution. Results 1 and 2 will be implemented at the central level and Results 3 and 4 at the level of the target provinces. Stabilisation The rationale for the UN joint stabilisation support programme is based on four main objectives: (i) Sustaining the ISSSS strategy and its implementation through a progressive transfer of the center of gravity of the ISSSS strategy from MONUSCO to the UNCT (ii) Supporting the roll-out of the ISSSS in different geographies where MONUSCO intervenes or intends to draw down to contribute to the transition efforts and to the nexus principles (Kasai, Kasai Central, Tanganyika in addition to the three Eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri); (iii) Bridging effectively results achieved in stabilization with longer term interventions (iv) Strengthening the DRC authorities' capacity to manage, coordinate and lead stabilisation initiatives Based on the broad goals outlined above, and in concrete terms, the objective of the programme can be formulated as follows: "Populations in conflict and post-conflict areas benefit from stabilization and peace through sustainable government-led initiatives." Fight against corruption The overall objective the programme is to contribute to strengthening of the rule of law through a significant and sustainable reduction of corruption. Three specific objectives, which contribute in a complementary manner to the achievement of the overall objective, have been defined in order to structure the assistance interventions: The population is sensitised to the consequences of corruption and trained to move from tolerance to denunciation of acts of corruption. State institutions and civil society organisations are strengthened in their mission of auditing and controlling the management of public services in order to guarantee good governance. The normative and institutional frameworks for the fight against corruption are strengthened to make them more effective in the fight against impunity for acts of corruption.
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