UNESCO. General Conference; 36th; 36 C/5: volume 1: Draft ...

New partnerships with various stakeholders, including the private sector, to
promote gender equality and the empowerment of women established and
implemented
Indicators
Benchmarks
▪ Visibility of UNESCO actions promoting gender
equality and the empowerment of women,
especially at the country level, increased.
– one additional GE specific partnership
Chapter 3 – Strategic planning, programme monitoring
and budget preparation
Unit responsible: Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP)
09301 The Bureau of Strategic Planning (BSP) is the Secretariat’s central focal point for all strategic,
programmatic and budgeting issues, as well as for cooperation with extrabudgetary funding sources
and public-private sector partnerships, and it provides advice to the Director-General thereon. Under
the authority of the Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning (ADG/BSP), the Bureau is
composed of the Division for Programme and Budget (BSP/PB), the Division of Cooperation with
Extrabudgetary Funding Sources (BSP/CFS), the Section for Foresight (BSP/FOR) and two teams
dealing with UN reform and strategic programme issues, and with programme management support.
So as to strengthen the link between strategic programme planning and resource allocation and to
prepare the C/5 document in its entirety, BSP has been reinforced with staff from the Central Analysis
and Planning Section of the previous Bureau of the Budget. The integration of BSP/CFS has further
enhanced the coherence of the overall programming and budgeting process and the alignment and
synergies between regular and extrabudgetary programme resources, including through the preparation
of the Organization’s Complementary Additional Programme (CAP).
09302 In the area of programming and monitoring, principal responsibilities of the Bureau include:
▪ the preparation, in close cooperation with all Secretariat units, of the next Medium-Term Strategy
(37 C/4) and the biennial Programme and Budget of the Organization (37 C/5), ensuring compliance
with pertinent regional priorities, the guidance provided by the governing bodies, the Director-
General’s directives and the principles of results-based planning and programming. Responsibility
for the preparation of documents C/4 and C/5 entails, inter alia: preparing the preliminary proposals
of the Director-General; analysing replies thereto from Member States, Associate Members, IGOs
and NGOs; drawing up plans and guidelines for the preparation of the Draft Medium-Term
Strategy and the Draft Programme and Budget; providing advice; and assisting sectors/bureaux/
offices in devising strategies and in articulating expected outcomes for the C/4 and expected results,
performance indicators and associated targets/benchmarks for the C/5. These efforts must also take
duly into account the results of evaluations and audit recommendations;
▪ the mobilisation of extrabudgetary resources from traditional and new donors, with emphasis on
thematic programme support;
▪ the preparation of the Complementary Additional Programme of Extrabudgetary Resources,
containing, inter alia, proposals for sectoral and intersectoral thematic programmes for funding by
donors;
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