Senior Consultant - Annual Report Of The Administrator 2013

The Annual Report on the Strategic Plan is a key document in UNDP?s interaction with the Executive Board. Executive Board proceedings and recent decisions are indicative of the increasing focus and demand of stakeholders for an ever more rigorous approach to how UNDP demonstrates and communicates results. This demand goes hand-in-hand with heightened scrutiny of efficient and effective performance, accountability and transparency.

In its decision on the Cumulative Review and Annual Report of the Administrator for 2013, the Executive Board further encouraged UNDP ?...in future reports, to continue to improve its results reporting systems to ensure more evidence-based information on the achievement of expected results at an aggregate level, include an analytical narrative on the development contributions of UNDP, as well as on challenges identified?.
In its decision on Annual Report of the Administrator for 2012, the Executive Board further encouraged ?UNDP to continue its efforts to enhance its reporting in order to make it more focused, explicit and illustrative? and to ?include a clear narrative on the UNDP corporate-level contribution to the achievement of development results in the multi-year analysis of  the implementation of the strategic plan and in future annual reports? and further  to ?give more prominence in future annual reports to important findings from the results analysis, such as risks and challenges, lessons learned, programme success factors, and the reasons for not achieving agreed objectives?.

This year, mindful of the fact that a cumulative review of the 2008 ? 2013 Strategic Plan was submitted in 2013, the Annual Report will present a review and analysis of the final year of the 2008 ? 2013 Strategic Plan and combine this with a forward-looking assessment of the degree to which UNDP is aligning itself to deliver on the new Strategic Plan 2013 ? 2017.   It is proposed that the analysis of the last year of the old plan be structured so as to provide a bridge to the new plan.   The four goals and associated outcomes of the old plan will thus be reviewed and analysed through the framework of the three new areas of work that define the focus of the 2013 ? 2017 Strategic Plan, viz, (i) Sustainable Development Pathways, (ii) Inclusive and Effective Democratic Governance, and (iii) Resilience Building.  

The Results Oriented Annual Report (ROAR) format has been amended for the reporting year to facilitate data collection on seven bridging themes that will help structure the performance reporting and lessons learned analysis in this transitional year.  These themes are: 

Employment and livelihoods; Social protection; Natural resource management (including biodiversity and ecosystems management); Participation in political processes (elections); Justice, security and rule of law; Sustainable growth; Urbanization.

The ROAR will, as in the previous year, collect systematic data on programme outcomes (mapped against the 2008 ? 2013 SP) as well as the four output dimensions of (a) awareness raising, (b) planning and assessments, (c) implementation for inclusive development, (d) building resilience across all country offices.  The ROAR will additionally, as before, collect country office data for all outcomes with a high gender marker rating, and report on south-south cooperation exchanges that have been supported, as well as influential evaluations.  

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