Introduction

1. Introduction Executive Board retreat 21 March 2013

2. Outline • Progress and lessons learned from the Mid-Term Review • Overview • Development Results Framework • Management Results Framework • Principles and process for developing the next Strategic Plan • Implications for UNFPA of the changing external environment

3. 1.A. Overview of progress and lessons learned from the Mid-Term Review

4. Changes from the MTR • Refine UNFPA strategic focus and vision • Vision • Impact • Accountability • Achieve operational excellence • Evidence-based programming • People • Systems • Resources

5. Progress on changes introduced by MTR • Too early for a full assessment but some effects already clear: • Increased programmatic focus and quality: • Country Programme Documents now focus on an average of 4 rather than all 7 outcomes in the DRF → not doing everything everywhere • Programme Review Committee established: CPDs meeting quality standards increased from 50% in 2011 to 92% in 2012 • Strategies developed for family planning, for adolescents and youth, and for humanitarian response • Enhanced support to country programmes: • Two “clusters” established to break down siloes in provision of support • Institutional reforms, including reorganizations of Programme Division and Africa Region • Percentage of staff agreeing they have adequate support from headquarters increased from 56% in 2009 to 63% in 2012

6. Progress, continued • Initial effects from the MTR (continued): • Strengthened communications: • Organization-wide communications strategy • Partner survey: percentage of partners agreeing that UNFPA clearly communicates what it does increased from 78% in 2010 to 89% in 2012 • Improved financial management: • Strong management response to qualified audit, including through Audit Management Committee • Most recent audit unqualified and significant drops negative audits in national execution and overdue operating fund account advances

7. 1.B. Development Results Framework

8. Overview of DRF indicators • Outcome indicators: Modest progress since 2010, partly because of the short time to show changes in high level outcome indicators such as maternal mortality or contraceptive prevalence • Output indicators: UNFPA achieved almost all 2012 targets: 26 out of 29 • However, there are two caveats to this: • A number of indicators are not robust and not well benchmarked • A number of targets were poorly set, which required increasing targets initially in the MTR for 12 indicators based on 2011 results

9. Key lessons learned and implications for the next results framework • Better indicator definition: Output indicators need to be well benchmarked to determine, for instance, going beyond indicators that simply specify “ number of countries supported” to introduce quality standards • Introduction of indicators that capture interim outcomes: Between indicators of institutional or behavior change and output indicators of goods and services delivered, there needs to be indicators that capture outcomes that are more directly sensitive to the outputs; for example, outcomes indicators that measure changes in the capacity built • Target setting: Building on the experience from the MTR, target setting could be improved by a process that is more bottom up

10. DRF summary Outcome indicators Status against targets Output indicators Trends • Met target/Good progress • Stable • Missed target/Decline • Data missing

11. 1.C. Management Results Framework

12. All trends show improvements, including areas where targets are missed Status Trends • Met target/Good progress • Stable • Missed target/Decline • Data missing

13. Uneven performance against targets across the four outputs Status

14. …similar case with the trends but encouraging Trends

15. MRF Indicators: Output 1 •  

16. MRF Indicators: Output 2  

17. MRF Indicators: Output 3 

18. MRF Indicators: Output 4 •  •  •  

19. Process

20. Principles for strategic planning process • Results- and evidence-based by making extensive use of analytical work and evaluations; • Informedby key stakeholders and staff from across the organization in open and transparent ways; • Synchronized and flexible enough to dovetail with key global processes, coordinated with strategic plans of partner UN agencies and consistent with priorities in the UN reform process; and • Historically grounded but comprehensive by building on lessons learned and best practices from the MTR (and addressing gaps from it)

21. Recent consultations on the Strategic Plan 2012 2013 November December January February Global staff meeting Istanbul meeting on MICs CIDG EC Casablanca meeting on human. and frag. Bangkok meeting on results EC External Advisory Group Executive Board EC Inter-agency consultations CIDG African Group GSM Online: discussions, videos, survey, tool kit MIC webinar WEOG CIDG

22. Timeline for consultations with Executive Board August May June July Sept. April Informal Informal based on draft document Annual Report of the Executive Director Document submitted Formal session

23. Implications for UNFPA of the changing external environment

24. Implications of external environment • The next Strategic Plan unfolds in an increasingly complex development landscape: • Opportunity to position the future role of UNFPA in advancing the global development agenda • Challenge of setting parameters of the next Strategic Plan as several important international processes are under way • Review of the major implications on the Strategic Plan from the perspectives of: • Global context • Ongoing UN-led processes

25. Global context Trends Implications Target most vulnerable populations (women, youth, adolescent girls) 1. Declining poverty but not inequality (especially gender inequality) Tailor programming to populations and country settings where needs are greatest 2. Shifting demographics (e.g., youth bulge, aging, urbanization) 3. Shift of power toward emerging economies: “Rise of the South” Support new forms of cooperation (SSC); respond to calls for more upstream support 4. Technology revolution (including “big data” and social media) Adapt to increasingly dynamic world and promote innovation 5. Persistence of conflict and fragility Strengthen ability to respond in these settings Ensure population dynamics are adequately reflected in national development policies/plans 6. Increasing scarcity of natural resources; climate extremes 7. Plateauing of development assistance Explore new sources of funding, including use of market-based approaches

26. UN-led processes Trends Implications Maintain focus on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights 1. MDG 5 furthest from attainment Build flexibility into the Strategic Plan to take into account potential changes as they emerge 2. ICPD beyond 2014, Post-2015 development agenda 3. QCPR Stronger results measurement; centrality of gender; re-examination of business model including in humanitarian/early recovery/preparedness; harmonization of business practices 4. UN Reform, Delivering as One Better integrate with UN System, including more effectively leveraging the Resident Coordinator system

27. Thank you!

28. Back-up slides

29. DRF Outcome Indicators (#1-2) : Good progress  : Stable : Decline

30. DRF Outcome Indicators (#3-5) /a Not comparable with baseline due to changes to improve data collection methodology.

31. DRF Outcome Indicators (#6-7)

32. DRF Output indicators for Outcome 1 Note: DRF output indicators are cumulative unless otherwise specified. /a Provisional. /b Target value have been increased based on analysis of 2011 country office annual report data. /c Indicator is not cumulative. Values are for the year reported only.

33. DRF Output Indicators for Outcome 2 /a Values changed to include South Sudan. /b Indicator is not cumulative. Values are for the year reported only. /c Target value have been increased based on analysis of 2011 country office annual report data.

34. DRF Output Indicators for Outcome 3 /a Target value has been increased based on analysis of 2011 country office annual report data.

35. DRF Output Indicators for Outcome 4 /a Number of countries changed as number of priority countries under the UNAIDS strategy has been increased. /b Target value has been increased based on analysis of 2011 country office annual report data. /c Baseline and targets values changed as indicator definition changed. /d Values reported for this indicator refer to number of countries.

36. DRF Output Indicators for Outcome 5 /a Target value has been increased based on analysis of 2011 country office annual report data. /b Baseline value has been revised to reflect 2008-2010 cumulative data.

37. DRF Output Indicators for Outcome 6 /a Baseline value has been revised using data from 2011 country office annual report data. /b Target value has been increased based on analysis of 2011 country office annual report data.

38. DRF Output Indicators for Outcome 7 /a Provisional. /b Target value has been increased based on analysis of 2011 country office annual report data.