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BACKGROUND

As part of its commitment to the development of UNDP's practice areas and to generate support from key partners, RBAP has prepared a Best Practices booklet to be released during the Global Resident Representatives meeting in October 2003. RBAP hopes to systematically document best practices every two years and to accumulate a database that can be used to generate knowledge and information products in the future.

This page is a first step in building this database and contains all the submissions made by the RBAP COs.

METHODOLOGY

COs were asked to scrutinize experiments and routines which have been used to influence policy, establish capacity, and improve welfare in order to identify best practices over the period 1997 - 2002.Draft SURF guidelines on identifying best practices were circulated to facilitate this selection. Those case studies ultimately submitted for consideration highlighted UNDP's work, focusing on projects, partnerships and initiatives that have produced concrete results.

A list of questions was provided to facilitate in the submissions. The following considerations were considered particularly important in deciding how and what information to include:

  • The write-ups were to be written with the purpose of demonstrating how UNDP has made a difference in the country, underlining the impact and quantifiable results of UNDP's work

  • Therefore, success was NOT be built around internal UNDP meetings, training sessions, donor consultations, roundtables and dialogues. When possible, it was requested that COs indicate who was affected by the project, communities touched, government offices affected, policies influenced, or legislation changed

  • COs were also requested to include a timeframe for the project, when the success happened, whether the initiative was still on-going, and how long the project had been in existence



 

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