¿Qué es el Fondo para el logro de los ODM?

The MDG Achievement Fund aims to accelerate progress towards attainment of the MDGs in select countries by:

• Supporting policies and programmes that promise significant and measurable impact on select MDGs;
• Financing the testing and/or scaling-up of successful models;
• Catalysing innovations in development practice; and
• Adopting mechanisms that improve the quality of aid as foreseen in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

A number of principles will guide the activities of the Fund and the way in which its country-level interventions will be designed:

- First, in line with the Paris Declaration, the Fund seeks to support programmes anchored in national priorities. The Fund’s activities will be aligned with national strategies and policies. National participation in the elaboration of applications, an ongoing role in the oversight of supported programmes and active participation by national partners in implementation and evaluation processes are considered a sine qua non for support by the Fund;

- Second, the Fund seeks to ensure the sustainability of its investments. Applications to the Fund for country level support will need to explicitly address how national capacities will be built through the intervention and how these will be sustained beyond the life of a grant. Reflecting this commitment to capacity-building, the Fund will welcome applications of up to three years in length. Programmes of less than one year duration will not normally be considered for funding;

- Third, the Fund seeks to apply the highest standards in quality of programme formulation, monitoring and evaluation within a management framework oriented towards results and accountability. Concept Notes and especially full programme design documents will require elaboration of a base-line situation, with indicators, which allow for the measurement of the initial situation, progress and quality throughout the implementation phase, as well as expected outcomes. The Fund will similarly require the establishment of robust mechanisms for substantive monitoring, and both intermediate and final evaluations, with a focus on incorporating lessons-learned. The Fund is committed to wide dissemination of results.

Preference will be given to innovative development programmes which do not repeat objectives or replicate mechanisms targeted by existing UNDP/UN/Spanish initiatives and which promise concrete, transformative results for target-beneficiaries.

- Fourth, the Fund seeks to consolidate inter-agency planning and management systems at the country level. Applications on the part of UN Country Teams should be aligned with the UN Development Assistance Framework. In addition, interventions will be designed, typically, around a Joint Programming model. This dimension of the implementation strategy is also important in distinguishing the MDG-F from other Trust Funds already supported by the Government of Spain with many individual UN entities.

- Fifth, the Fund seeks to minimize the transaction costs associated with administering the Fund. To this end, the Fund aims to keep bureaucratic procedures as light as possible, with a two-stage application process whereby detailed programme design work follows only after a preliminary, positive review of the initial concept. In addition, the Fund will restrict itself to programmes in excess of USD$1 million (and not more than $4 million) per annum in projected expenditures. Download the framework document.

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