B. Resident coordinator system and United Nations country teams

The resident country team and the resident coordinator should make it a priority to ensure that all the capacities of the system were geared towards responding to country requirements.

United Nations. Common Country Assessment. Suva Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator.

In some cases resident coordinators might be relieved of their role as head of a UNDP country office.

While the management of the resident coordinator system should remain with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is our principal development institution, the broader United Nations Development Group (UNDG) should guide resident United Nations country teams, led by properly resourced and empowered resident coordinators.

The Development Section would comprise the United Nations country team and the Office of the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator.

A strengthened resident coordinator system and a rationalized United Nations country presence were crucial in that regard.

More than one delegation mentioned the important role played by the resident coordinator system in the country.

One of the prerequisites for an efficient and coordinated United Nations presence at the country level was a strong United Nations country team headed by a resident coordinator.

India is the only country that has an official acronym for its expatriates NRIs, or Non Resident Indians.

This conversation was between Professor Anderson, an American citizen, with one of the Saudi students that are resident in his country.

The competency assessments of Resident Representatives and Resident Coordinators should include knowledge of gender.

Resident

Responding to a comment about strengthening the roles of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, the Resident Coordinator and United Nations country teams, the secretariat said that UNICEF supported an enhanced role for the Resident Coordinator and the strong participation of country teams, and would continue to collaborate with United Nations partners.

The RCF was largely prepared internally within RBAS headquarters with relatively limited discussion even with Resident Representatives and country offices.

61. Requests that, when raising funds, resident coordinators concentrate on raising funds for the whole of the United Nations at the country level

Mr. Banner consulted his mistress, Ms. Chung, a national and resident of country Youngland, about the matter, and Ms. Chung proposed the following

Resident auditors

Resident Representative

In countries with large programmes or complex post conflict situations, there should be a division of labour between the resident coordinator and the UNDP country director, which would give the resident coordinator the latitude and time more effectively to coordinate the United Nations country team and enable him to focus on effective management of joint programmes.

Resident coordinators must ensure cohesion and assist all agencies including non resident ones.

Accountability of the system would be greatly enhanced through a common assessment by all members of the United Nations country team of the performance of resident coordinators.

(c) All resident coordinators should in their annual reports inform CEB and UNDG of the United Nations country teams' responses to allow for appropriate discussion

UNDG organizations should include in the performance appraisal system for the resident coordinator and United Nations country team an assessment of teamwork and horizontal cooperation.

Resident coordinator system

However, it is also suggested that merely changing the institutional affiliation of the resident coordinator would not automatically lead to changes in the perception of bias and could, at worst, weaken the capacity of the resident coordinator to raise funds for the whole United Nations country team.

The resident coordinator system should have a powerful country office and a single development strategy with shared objectives, attributes that were currently lacking.

CEB members are furthermore of the view that the initiative of the UNDP Administrator to appoint UNDP country directors is generally not sufficient to clearly distinguish the roles and responsibilities of the resident coordinator from that of the UNDP resident representative whenever both designations apply to the same person.

(Resident Coordinator Humanitarian Coordinator)

The United Nations Development Group will finalize the strategy and workplan on strengthening the role of United Nations special representatives, resident coordinators and humanitarian coordinators and the resident coordinator system and country based coordination systems by January 2006, for review by CEB (ibid., para. 169, fourth bullet).

Resident Coordinators, Resident Representatives and their deputies are not held accountable for gender mainstreaming, and Resident Coordinators' competency assessments and annual performance reviews (RCAs) do not mention it.

Delegations generally shared the view that, at the country level, the United Nations should be seen as operating as one team under the leadership of the Resident Coordinator.

The package provides guidance to humanitarian and resident coordinators and United Nations country teams and sets out a road map for implementing the collaborative response.

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c Excludes the Office of the Resident Auditor.

Naseer, a Kabul resident writes

The Resident Coordinator (RC) System

Strengthening the resident coordinator system

Ms. Rivington (Canada) asked how specialized agencies or non resident agencies without the will or the capacity to establish a country or regional presence could participate more effectively in the process at the country level.

In addition, he will retain his current functions as the United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative.

Although Morocco is primarily a Muslim country and although it's only the second week of December, Christmas is apparently in the air at least for Morocco's foreign resident bloggers.

In those emergencies and some 27 others, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is providing support to United Nations country teams through the resident and humanitarian coordinators.

Encourages the Fund to support strengthened and coordinated action on gender equality at the country level, in collaboration with the resident coordinator system, including by advocating and building the capacity of gender theme groups within United Nations country teams

In that connection, it was encouraging to learn that Habitat programme managers were assigned to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) country offices to assist resident coordinators.