Annual Work Plan 2016

PROGRAMME FOUR: SUPPORT TO SOUTH AFRICA’S REGIONAL & GLOBAL ROLE

6.1 Programme Scope:

UNDP will support the South African Government in its role in the regional and global development agenda to advocate for South-South cooperation and raising Africa’s voice on development through expanding development exchange, sound analytical work and dialogue to inform good practices on sustainable development, development in post-conflict and peace-building, collaboration with respective research institutes, and UNDP Bureaus on critical issues such as migration, reconstruction and economic recovery.

6.2 Envisaged Programme Results

Strengthened South African Government’s role in the regional and global development agenda

6.3 Output One: Peace & Development Exchange

Description: The project is envisaged to contribute to efforts on enhancing South Africa’s regional and global role in peace, security and development through the promotion of development exchanges between UNDP Country Offices, collaboration between think-tanks and academic institutions with policy makers. Provision of neutral forum for debate and exchange of information and publication of knowledge products (reports, policy briefs and training)
Activity 1: Support Government to enhance Development Exchange between South Africa and Global Arena
Description/Purpose: UNDP’s specific focus will be to strengthen the coordination and knowledge sharing on the development discourse on areas that can support a better South Africa, and regional and global good practices. This will be undertaken through a Development Exchange –or knowledge hub – researching, consolidating and sharing possible solutions to development issues. UNDP will draw upon its global development network and expertise to provide technical advisory support and key development issues impacting on the national development agenda and regional/global priorities outside of the core focus of the programme, including peace-keeping, migration and conflict mitigation, reconstruction, and regional programmes. The Development Exchange will be a flexible facility for a deeper engagement with the Global South and offer a range of options for engagement from which South Africa could choose its preferred approach. Collaboration will be across a number of departments and key institutions in South Africa.
Targets 2016

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  Interagency support programme developed
  
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  Project document on the Peace Mission Training Centre Phase II developed
  
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  Joint UN support to the national Gender Summit on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment to review 20 years of democracy from a gender and women empowerment perspective
  
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  South-South visit for the Association of South African Women judges to Kenya to enhance knowledge exchange on women in the judiciary.
  

6.4 Output Two: BIOFIN South Africa

Description/Purpose: To develop a methodology for mainstreaming biodiversity into national development and sectoral planning and to address the biodiversity financing gap.
Activity 1: Review the positive and negative trends of Policy and institutions in biodiversity in SA.

Purpose: To identify and analyse barriers created by policies and institutions

2016 Targets

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  Draft report: Policy and Institutional review of root cause analysis
  
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  Final report: Policy and Institutional review of root cause analysis
  

Activity 2: Review current biodiversity expenditure

Purpose: To generate data/knowledge product on expenditures affecting biodiversity

2016 Targets:

Draft private sector engagement strategy, complete private sector elements of datasheets, and draft report on private sector biodiversity expenditures

Activity 3: Costing of the NBSAP and the finance gap

Purpose: To generate a knowledge product on biodiversity financing in South Africa

2016 Targets: NBSAP costing report and financing gaps

Activity 4: Develop a resource mobilisation strategy

Purpose: To ensure financial sustainability of the project

2016 Targets: Resource mobilisation strategy for biodiversity conservation in South Africa

6.4 Output Three: Switch Africa Green

Description/Purpose: To support 6 countries in Africa to achieve sustainable development by engaging in transition towards an inclusive green economy, based on sustainable consumption and production patterns, while generating growth, creating decent jobs and reducing poverty.

Activity 1: Provide policy support

Purpose: To establish enabling policy environment, and platform for strategic guidance and oversight

2016 Targets:

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  Inception and implementation report
  
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  Partnership matrix report
  
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  Validation workshop report
  
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  3 National Technical Coordination Committees (NTCC) meetings
  

Activity 2: Green business development

Purpose: To build capacity of MSMEs to initiate and upscale green business opportunities related to SCP, and institutionalise project management and establish network platform to share experiences

2016 Targets:

Monitoring and evaluation framework and reports

6.5 Output Four: ORASECOM
Description/Purpose: This is a regional project for supporting the Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM) and its member states (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa) to implement a selected key priority activities identified in the ORASECOM Strategic Action Programme (SAP) and associated Action Plans for all riparian countries. The project will have three components (excluding project management), namely:

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   Institutional and policy reform and technical capacity building towards enhanced transboundary basin planning and joint management;
   
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   Reducing stress on water resources quality; and
   
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   Addressing changes to the hydrological regime through the application of the source-to-sea concept.
   

Activity 1: To develop a full size project document for Phase II

Purpose: To facilitate a process to develop a project Document which will contribute to institutional and policy strengthening as well as the remediation and prevention of environmental degradation in the basin.

2016 Targets:

Full-size Project Document for Phase II developed

Activity 3: Networking facility

Purpose: To distil and disseminate information: lessons learnt and best practices on SCP to create broader awareness, increase understanding, facilitate buy-in and uptake of GE and SCP concept among key stakeholders in private, government and consumer sectors.

2016 Targets:

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  1 SCP research report
  
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  Training material developed
  
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  1 study tour mission undertaken
  

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