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extrabudgetary programmes. In this context the CAP will also serve as a vehicle for communicating
UNESCO’s requirements for in-kind contributions;
▪ continue its partnerships with the European Union and the Multilateral Development Banks through
annual coordination meetings, upstream policy exchanges, joint advocacy and capacity-building, as
well as the co-financing of projects, in particular at the country level;
▪ implement and refine the house-wide resource mobilisation strategy with its dual focus on enhancing
and diversifying traditional donor channels and on developing a new approach to partnerships with
the private sector;
▪ train staff to ensure the coherence of extrabudgetary activities with regular programme activities, to
improve house-wide capacity for resource mobilization and management and to increase compliance
with procedures relating to all aspects of the management of extrabudgetary programmes and
projects;
▪ pursue efforts to strengthen corporate procedures and systems for monitoring extrabudgetary
projects, including through the Sector Alert System and by optimising the opportunities offered by
SISTER to improve the qualitative monitoring of extrabudgetary programmes and projects;
▪ improve internal communication within UNESCO and external communication with UNESCO’s
partners in support of all the above efforts.
09307 BSP further leads and coordinates UNESCO’s participation in and contribution to United Nations
system inter-agency activities, in particular concerning global programme issues, and those aiming to
enhance system-wide coherence, globally, regionally and at the country levels. BSP provides guidance,
training and backstopping to all Secretariat units on common country programming exercises and
other UN reform issues and will undertake related capacity training for the staff. BSP also provides
support to field offices in the preparation of UNESCO Country Programming Documents (UCPDs).
To this end, BSP also administers the pooled portion of the 2% programme resources designated by the
Director-General to provide support and training to UNESCO field offices involved in the preparation
of common country programming exercises. BSP is representing UNESCO in the programme-related
activities and discussions of the Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), especially in the
context of its High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) and of the United Nations Development
Group (UNDG) as well as their subsidiary bodies, including the ADG/ASG-level UNDG Advisory
Group. BSP is further entrusted with the task of ensuring the full reflection of all the internationally
agreed development goals (IADGs), including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and
other pertinent provisions of the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2005 and 2010
World Summit Outcome documents into UNESCO’s programme activities. It is also responsible for
the Organization’s response to the United Nations General Assembly resolution 62/208 on the 2007
Triennial comprehensive policy review (TCPR) of operational activities for development, as well as
to the quadrennial comprehensive policy review (QCPR) which is scheduled to commence in 2013.
BSP is also charged with preparing strategic partnership agreements in the form of Memoranda of
Understanding (MoUs) with United Nations system organizations.
09308 Expected results at the end of the biennium:
Draft Medium-Term Strategy for 2014-2019 (37 C/4) and the Draft Programme
and Budget for 2014-2015 (37 C/5) prepared
Programming, monitoring and reporting functions carried out in line with
UNESCO’s results-based approach and in compliance with the strategic
orientations and the programming framework and priorities set by the governing
bodies and with the Director-General’s directives
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