Beyond Recovery: Towards 2030

Beyond Recovery: Towards 2030

 

Our Evolving Response 

With up to 100 million more people being pushed into extreme poverty in 2020, governments and societies face unprecedented policy, regulatory and fiscal choices as they act to save lives and set a course for a sustainable future. The choices made today, if made well, could be the tipping points that transform our societies and our planet for the better.

The next phase of UNDP’s COVID-19 crisis response is designed to help decision-makers look beyond recovery, towards 2030, making choices and managing complexity and uncertainty in four main areas: governance and agency, social protection, green economy, and digital disruption. It encompasses our role in technically leading the UN’s socioeconomic response.

A forward-looking response to COVID-19 could end an era where one third of all food produced is wasted while 1 in 10 people goes hungry, where 10 times more is spent on fossil fuel subsidies than on renewable energy, and where more than two billion people live in fragility, conflict or violence. It could transform the lives of those who were out of school, out of work, offline and off the grid, even before the virus spread.

UNDP has identified seven such tipping points, ranging from the renewed pursuit of peace encapsulated in the UN Secretary General’s call for a global ceasefire, to decisive moves to tackle exclusion, racism and gender inequalities. Taken together, they offer a pathway beyond recovery, towards 2030 - to turn the greatest reversal of human development into an historic leap forward, with the Sustainable Development Goals as our compass.

UNDP's Offer 2.0 

 

Governance

  1. Support national institutional capacities to adapt to new COVID reality 

  2. Support finalization of the first-ever Hluttaw Committee policy inquiries in 2 states/1 union level and awareness raising among MPs related to oversight of new C-19 economic recovery loans; 

  3. Launched electoral assistance support; 

  4. Support the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in developing an outreach/orientation programme for HR defenders and other stakeholders 

  5. Preparations for the national anti-corruption media campaign and training of 20 ministries on Corruption Risk Assessment (CRA) methodology completed

Social Protection

  1. Legal consultations and legal awareness through mobile legal aid clinics to continue to expand  in Rakhine and Kachin 

  2. GBV assistance  through a hotline and awareness trainings 

  3. Supported farmers and relevant officials to complete “refresher” TOT on farmer field school concept and farm agro-advisory in the Dry Zone region; work for setting up virtual extension services ongoing

Green Economy

  1. Finalize potential Green Business investment opportunities in Myanmar to inform green recovery pathways post C-19 for policy makers, private sector and investors; 

  2. Promote productive use of renewable energy and climate resilient alternate income generating activities to open up green growth pathways for poor and vulnerable households

Digital Disruption

  1. Launch early warning system crowdsourcing initiative to support government to prioritize resources in the recovery phase 

  2. Innovation challenge to support digital transformation of MSMEs and to promote e-commerce 

  3. Digital platform to allow local businesses understand and respond to market demands 

  4. Strengthening online COVID-19 information sharing mechanisms through a Chatbot developed for the Ministry of Health and Sports

  5. Setting up the Accelerator Lab 

  6. Strengthening UNDP’s internal M&E systems through developing Power Bi based dashboards

Health System Support

  1. Support state and regional governments on health supplies; support to Sittwe hospital in Rakhine for medical equipment 

  2. Support subnational government in awareness generation- extensive campaigns with wide reach conducted; necessary equipment such as loudspeakers provided to government

  3. Supported development of C-19 Chatbot for the Ministry of Health and Sports for interactive and accurate information

Socio-Economic Impact Assessment & Recovery

  1. Three Socio-Economic assessments are underway – one national and 2 geographic (Rakhine and dry zone) . This will link to making high-frequency data available through a new online data dashboard which will inform GoM in recovery efforts

  2. Support government in MSMEs digital transformation 

  3. Facilitating dialogue to ensure effective private sector involvement in recovery process; through a roundtable with private sector organized with Union of Myanmar Federal Chamber of Commerce (UMFCCI) 

  4. Supporting development of information exchange platform to better under market demands to assist local businesses

Integrated Crisis Management

  1. Support national partners in setting up e-learning platforms (civil service, training HR defenders etc)

  2. Support national partners to strengthen ICT capacities (e.g telecon equipment for HRC, ACC, Environmental Conservation Dept) and promote remote working modalities (e.g webinars and online committee meeting support for MPs, adapting HR modules for UCB) 

  3. Working with government on launching a series of challenge grants around digital transformation and promoting e-commerce.

  4. Promote innovation through crowdsourcing information to serve as warning system for potential outbreak and to assist in prioritizing national resources

Resources

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNDP Myanmar has so far committed resources for immediate response and recovery efforts as:

1. Health Systems Support: $890,150

2. Inclusive and Integrated Crisis Management and Response: $2,948,875

3. Social and Economic Impact Needs Assessment and Response: $962,225

Further resource planning and mobilization, in line with the UN Socio Economic Recovery Framework (SERF) and national priorities, is ongoing as UNDP moves to support the Myanmar Government in the recovery phase.