BCPR | Mandate

Our Mandate

The February 2001 UNDP Executive Board reaffirmed that crisis prevention and disaster mitigation should be integral parts of sustainable human development strategies.

UNDP helps countries prevent and recover from armed conflicts and natural disasters through advocacy, capacity building, conflict sensitive development, development of tools and methodologies, gender equality, knowledge networking, strategic planning and programming, and policy and standard setting.

Our Mission Statement

Core Purpose:

To advance peace and development by strengthening capacities to prevent and recover from crisis.

Core Values:

Respect & Commitment
Integrity, commitment and respect for those with whom we work and for each other; commitment to a rapid and effective response; and dedication to peace, human security, development and human rights.
Partnership
Achievement of common objectives through partnership.
Excellence, Leadership, Innovation
Excellence through knowledge, innovation and impact; and leadership in all we do.

Goals:

For UNDP
To become a global center of excellence on crisis prevention and recovery, by attracting the best professionals, providing knowledge and quality services, responding quickly and appropriately to country-level demands, and building effective partnerships.
For BCPR
To transform UNDP into a global leader on crisis prevention and recovery.

Our Goals and Results

GOALS

The Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) has developed a 2007-2011 strategy, which identifies two outcome areas: prevention and risk reduction, and recovery. Under these areas, BCPR has identified eight specific development outcomes to which UNDP contributes.

For each outcome, a set of corresponding outputs has been identified. They represent the core set of deliverables that BCPR will promote. Outputs are owned by UNDP country offices working with national partners.

Also included in the strategy are indicative activities that BCPR may undertake in order to support the identified outputs. Through the annual work-planning process and in consultation with country offices, the Regional Bureaus, and the Bureau for Development Policy, BCPR will determine its specific activities for the next five years.

Click to see the outcomes, outputs and indicative activities for prevention and risk reduction.

Click to see the outcomes, outputs and indicative activities for recovery

RESULTS

BCPR is developing a process for monitoring and evaluating the initiatives carried out under this strategy. In addition to assessing progress toward the outcomes and outputs that make up the strategy, the evaluation system will consider BCPR’s effectiveness in supporting country offices, transparency and accountability in the use of donor funds, and efficiency and cost related to its operations and administration. BCPR will ensure that these indicators are consistent with the new UNDP 2008-2011 Strategic Plan (word doc).

Related documents:

BCPR Monitoring and Evaluation System 2008-2011, 2008 (pdf)

Report of the UN Secretary General: Progress Report on the Prevention of Armed Conflict, 18 July 2006 (pdf)

Report of the UN Secretary General: In Larger Freedom - Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All, September 2005

A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility - Report of the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, 2 December 2004 (pdf)

Report of the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Armed Conflict, 7 June 2001 (pdf)

Executive Board Decision on Role of UNDP in Crisis and Post-conflict Situations, 5 February 2001 (pdf)

Role of UNDP in Crisis and Post-conflict Situations, document prepared for the Executive Board first regular session, 2001 (pdf)

Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations - Brahimi Report, 21 August 2000

Speeches by the UNDP Administrator:

Statement by Kemal Dervis, UNDP Administrator, to the Executive Board of UNDP/UNFPA, 19 June 2006

Speech by Kemal Dervis, UNDP Administrator, at the DPA-UNDP Workshop on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention and Transformation, Istanbul, 6-8 March 2006 (pdf)