Progress Report Quarter 2 2011 - UNDP Afghanistan

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(CDTF) being set up by NSGP for the office of Administrative Affairs (OAA) in the office of
President. NIBP also provided inputs to the Capacity Development Review Mission of the
World Food Programme (WFP) on CD initiatives of UNDP Afghanistan and also on the
linkages between the various key capacity development programmes currently being
implemented in Afghanistan.
As part of CD Cluster activities, NIBP supported capacity development in Independent
Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG). Important results / outputs / activities included:
Training material for Procurement and Financial Management trainings for PGOs
(Provincial Governor Offices) & DGOs (District Governor Offices) were standardized
and completed for the purpose of enhancing capacities of PGO & DGO staff in these
areas.
A learning session was conducted for the trainers of the Capacity Development Unit
(CDU) of IDLG to develop amongst them a comprehensive understanding of
processes related to Capacity Development such as how to conduct a structured and
relevant (to the organization) capacity assessment. This resulted in enhanced capacity
of CDU trainers to conduct capacity assessment of PGOs.
An analysis of the past training programmes conducted by the training unit, CDU was
completed.
A Training Plan for the staff at sub-national level in Eastern, Northern and Central
regions was finalized.
A concept paper on developing training coordination mechanisms was prepared for
use by IDLG to better manage training programmes in the provinces. Strategic goals
of the learning and training unit in alignment with the national priority programme
goals for IDLG were developed.
Policy Analysis and Development (PAD)
The UNDP Afghanistan has been supporting the ministries / agencies of GIRA in setting up
units for policy analysis and development. Such capacity development strengthens the
enabling environment. Given the nature of the activities that strengthens the institutions,
effective 1st April 2011, the activities of PAD were merged with NIBP and the residual
activities of PAD were taken over by NIBP in the following ministries / agencies:
1) Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock
2) Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB)
3) Ministry of Mines (MoM)
4) Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA)
The funds available with these ministries / agencies for implementation of PAD were also
transferred to NIBP which were included in the NIBP Annual Work Plan (AWP) as a separate
activity 5.
III.
Implementation Arrangements
The Project is implemented through the Direct Implementation Modality (DIM) of UNDP. The
IARCSC is the Government Cooperating Agency for the Project. The IARCSC is the
governmental unit directly responsible for the government‟s participation in the Project. A
Letter of Agreement (LoA) between the IARCSC and UNDP as per UNDP programming
Quarterly Project Progress Report | April to June 2011