Governance
Joint Steering Committee
The Joint Steering Committee, co-Chaired by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and the Resident Coordinator, will provide strategic guidance to the One UN Programme and strategic leadership of the One UN Fund including making decisions on available fund allocation (with documented process and rationale for these decisions) and monitoring of the overall programme implementation and its annual review. It consists of the representatives of the Government, appointed by the Chief Secretary, the representatives of the United Nations Country Management Team ("UNCMT") agreed by the UNCMT members and a representative of Development Partners. The Joint Steering Committee will be responsible for providing strategic guidance to the One UN Programme as well as monitoring and evaluation of overall programme implementation including annual reviews; providing strategic leadership of the One UN Fund on the basis of the One UN Programme; and making decisions on available fund allocation (with documented process and rationale for these decisions) in accordance with the agreed criteria and procedures.
UN Resident Coordinator
The Resident Coordinator co-chairs the Joint Steering Committee and facilitates strategic guidance, leadership and decision of the Joint Steering Committee. He provides strategic guidance to the One UN Programme among the Participating UN Organizations in consultation with the UNCMT and strategic leadership of the Tanzania One UN Fund on the basis of the One UN Programme among Participating UN Organizations in consultation with the UNCMT. Furthermore, he recommends available fund allocation to the Joint Steering Committee based on the agreed recommendation at the UNCMT meeting and provides strategic focus to the consolidated reports, including analysis of progress and lessons to be learned for future programme implementation. He also holds Country Directors/Representatives/Heads of the Participating UN Organizations accountable for programme implementation, utilization of the funds allocated from the One UN Fund and their organization's components of the results achieved, and is accountable for the overall management of the One UN Fund and the utilization of the funds in the One UN Fund Account.
Representatives/Country Directors/Heads of Participating UN Organizations
The Representatives/Country Directors/Heads of Participating UN Organizations are responsible for programme implementation, utilization of the funds allocated from the Tanzania One UN Fund and their organization's components of the results achieved, and for providing relevant reports and statements defined in the MOU to respective Managing Agents and Administrative Agent.
Managing Agent
The Participating UN Organizations appoint one of the Participating UN Organizations as the Managing Agent for each of the Joint Programmes to be responsible for the administration of the funds and for supporting the national partners in the management of the Joint Programme activities set out in the Joint Programme Document. The Managing Agent accepts this appointment and assumes full programmatic accountability for the results of the Joint Programme and financial accountability for the funds disbursed to it by the Administrative Agent. Participating UN Organizations assume financial accountability for the funds disbursed to them by the Administrative Agent on the instruction of Managing Agents and the Resident Coordinator based on the fund allocation decisions of the Joint Steering Committee.
Administrative Agent
The UNDP MDTF Office has been appointed the Administrative Agent of the Tanzania One UN Fund. Its responsibilities include the receipt, administration and management of contributions from Donors; disbursement of such funds to the Participating UN Organizations in accordance with the approved Annual Work Plans/Programmatic Documents; and provision of consolidated reports, in accordance with the MOU, on the Tanzania One UN Fund to the Resident Coordinator based on reports of the Participating UN Organizations.
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