Aceh Emergency Response and Transitional Recovery ... - UNDP

• UNDP's Office of Audit and Performance Review (OAPR) has undertaken
a risk assessment for tsunami-related programming in Indonesia
which has provided recommendations on measures for risk mitigation,
anti-corruption, procurement and other legal and political risks.
• UNDP Office of Legal and Procurement Services (OLPS) has made
available to UNDP country offices undertaking tsunami-related procurement
support in the form of roving procurement officers who are reviewing
procurement processes to ensure and enhance efficacy and transparency.
UNDP has had a Roving Procurement Officers posted in the country
office since February.
Monitoring
An overall monitoring framework for the Aceh Emergency Response and Transitional
Recovery Programme has been established to achieve the following purposes.
• Results-Orientation: Ensure appropriate measurement and assessment of
programme performance in order to more effectively improve performance
and achieve results.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure quality in project activities supported through
ERTR to ensure best possible benefit for beneficiaries, through monitoring
programme delivery and identifying issues that need corrective action and
ensure that additional assistance is provided early.
• Accountability: Ensure accountability in the use of programme resources
through heavy emphasis on financial reviews to make sure that funds are
being appropriately used to achieve project outputs, and that the implementing
agents have sufficient controls in place to demonstrate that funds
are being used appropriately.
• Transparency: Ensure transparency in programme activities, finances,
and results to all stakeholders.
• Learning: Ensure that the programme has mechanisms to ensure learning
for purposes of improving ongoing implementation and guiding new initiatives,
and to identify key lessons learned and successes stories from programme
implementation in relation to post-crisis recovery to feedback into
planning and implementation processes of UNDP, the Government and
development partners;
The monitoring system includes on-site field monitoring, structured reporting by
partners and validation of this reporting by UNDP, financial monitoring of partner's
expenditures, and expenditure tracking. Feedback is provided to implementing
partners and contractors in order to identify issues that need corrective action,
ensure that such actions are taken early, and to improve overall quality in the implementation
of activities and provision of services.
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