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Coherence, Effectiveness and Relevance (CER):Capacity Assessment for COUNTRYUNCT Kickoff MeetingTEMPLATENOTE:1. This tool/guidance has been developed based on the experiences of the DaO Pilot countries. 2. Presentation should be delivered to UNCT either by external party supporting the capacity assessment, or by GCMST support.
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Proposed agenda items
• Introduce the mission team & team structure
• Confirm a shared understanding of the goals of the engagement
• Review proposed approach and work plan
• Identify key challenges and discuss plans for avoiding / mitigating risks
• Present immediate next steps for the engagement
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Role
• Project director ....
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Team member
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Capacity assessment team
ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
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Project role Responsibilities
• Provide overall direction for the project• Provide information and viewpoints to the project team• Review interim and final outputs• Discuss findings, develop options and make decisions on
actions
• Drive the engagement and carry out the tasks• Develop and document outputs through interim and final
reports to oversight group• Work with staff liaisons to help gather information and
provide guidance on key issues
Reference Groups• Heads and staff of agencies in COUNTRY
• Provide perspectives on future plans and capacity needs • Provide data and information on current capacities
Team structure
Support Team• GCMST• External team
Project Steering Group• …
UNCT• Resident Coordinator• Representatives from other UNCT agencies• Day-to-day project coordinator
• Provide direction for the project• Arrange the involvement of in-country staff in process and
provision of documents to the team• Provide feedback on interim and final outputs
ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
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Proposed agenda items
• Introduce the mission team
• Confirm a shared understanding of the goals of the engagement
• Review proposed approach and work plan
• Identify key challenges and discuss plans for avoiding / mitigating risks
• Present immediate next steps for the engagement
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Context: Purpose of study (from ToR): Expected deliverables:
• UN COUNTRY has developed a new Operational Plan for years X to Y
• Includes results to be realized through implementation of xx joint programmes
• Also includes plans for “UNDAF or common programming tool”, “Resident Coordinator”, “common budgetary framework”, “common services and harmonized business practices”, and, where relevant “common premises”
Assess the capacity of the UNCT to successfully implement CER, prepare for new UNDAF or common programming tool, and long-term needs of COUNTRY by...
• Determining required capacity (demand) by profiling person hours and skill sets required to implement UNDAF or common programming tool and operations changes, and long-term needs of COUNTRY
• Identifying key characteristics of the supply of existing capacity
• Mapping characteristics in capacity supply & demand
• Developing plans for addressing difference
• Characterisation of required capacity (intervention types, subject / sectors of focus)
• Outline and characterisation of existing capacity
• Identification and description of capacity difference that may impact achievement of delivery objectives
• Presentation to UNCT on key findings about capacity difference
• Facilitation of UNCT’s development of options to fill the differences
• Summary of UNCT’s options for addressing differences for integration into change management strategy
Context, objectives, expected deliverables
ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
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1, 2, & 3. Analysis of capacity requirements & assessment of current capacities
4.Gap analysis
5 & 6.Develop plans for addressing capacity differences
STEPS• To conduct baseline study and an in-
depth review of the capacities available within the UN system to coherently implement the Outcomes of the UNDAF or common programming tool including the capacities to establish programmatic synergies and the additional inter-agency reform instruments as developed.
• To assess the operational capacities of the UN system in country
OBJECTIVES FROM TOR
• To identify critical capacity gaps and technical requirements for current and future requirements that will need to be urgently filled, if the UN is to move forward in an effective and coherent manner in the implementation of the UNDAF2006 – 2010, with a result-based management and rights based programming approach.
• To present clear recommendations to the UNCT that can be taken up as part of an overall change management strategy.
KEY ELEMENTS• Identify all CER and non-CER UN planned
activities• Identify needs for new UNDAF or
common programming tool and future role of UN in COUNTRY
• Assess/characterize the type, number, intervention types of roles required
• Identify and quantify current roles for all agencies
• Compare available capacities against list of required and quantify capacity differences
• Assess which roles are strategically important to keep in-house vs. other arrangements
• Synthesize set of key capacity differences to present to UNCT with the quantitative information
OUT OF SCOPE• Will not review
individual performance or assess individual competence
• Will not recommend areas of focus or prioritization of roles and competencies
• Will not recommend allocation of capacities or intervention types among UN agencies
• Facilitate discussion of options for bridging differences and outline high-level implementation plan
• Will not estimate costed approach
Approach
ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
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• Identify focal points for data needs
To provide specific data from both programme and operations sides of each agency
To provide answers to data specific questions
To direct questions to appropriate individuals within agencies
• Facilitate communications with staff
Ask / raise questions of concerns for team to address
Communicate responses, documents, and progress updates provided by team to staff and staff associations
• Approval of draft staff survey and encourage response
Review of draft staff survey to be sent to determine existing allocation of staff time to various job-related tasks
Encourage widespread staff response to survey in timely manner
Ways that UNCT could help to facilitate progress
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Proposed agenda items
• Introduce the mission team
• Confirm a shared understanding of the goals of the engagement
• Review proposed approach and work plan
• Identify key challenges and discuss plans for avoiding / mitigating risks
• Present immediate next steps for the engagement
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Review agreed CER objectives and associated activities
3)Conduct baseline study to identify required intervention types and subject matter expertise
6)Prepare implement-ation and communic-ation plans
2)List current demand and supply of intervention types and subject matter expertise
4)Identify capacity differences through gap analysis
5)Develop and prioritise options for closing differences
Analyze characteristics of existing capacity
Identify capacity requirements
Compare requirements
to existing capacity
Develop an implementation and
communication plan for addressing capacity
difference• Interviews with
Heads of Agencies (R & NR), Government & Donors
• Interviews with OMT, PMT, and Staff Associations
• JD analysis• NR Capacity
Analysis• Staff Survey
• Workshop with UNCT• Final report summarizing all findings and UNCT
decisions (target date to be confirmed)
Key Steps
Key Tools / Approach
A weeksTimeline (est)
Overview of methodologyB weeks C weeks D weeks E days
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ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
Today
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Subject matter groupings
Type of intervention
Category Description / definition
Intervention types include:•Advisory - Policy •Advisory - Technical Assistance •Advocacy •Programme Communications•Development Partner Coordination•Inter-Agency Coordination•Direct Service•General Management •Monitoring and Evaluation
•Operations - Facilities•Operations - Finance•Operations - General Administration•Operations - Human Resources•Operations - ICT•Operations - Logistics•Media/Public Information•Operations - Management•Operations - Procurement
Examples could include:• Human Capital
• Health• Education
• HIV and AIDS • Gender
• Economic development• Agriculture• Industry & Trade• Energy & Minerals• Natural Resources & Tourism• Infrastructure
• Governance• Public Financial Management• Environment• Macroeconomic
Management• Development Policy• Emergency Preparedness• Other
ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
Proposed framework for assessing capacity
•Operations - Protocol•Operations - Security•Operations - Transport•Other Interventions•Programme Management•Research•Resource Mobilization
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Proposed step-by-step process for applying key assessment criteria
Step 1: Obtain job descriptions from each agency
• Read each job description in full before beginning assessment
• Attempt to determine what the job description requires the individual to do on a day-to-day basis
Step 2: Assess job description for subject / sector area of focus
Step 3: Assess job description for a maximum of 3 types of intervention
Subject area 1
Subject area 2
Health
Education
• Assess job description for up to 3 subject areas of focus
Advisory – Technical Assistance
Programme Management
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General Management10
Intervention Type%
• There may be xx intervention types including the following high-level groupings: Advisory, Advocacy, Programme Management, and Operations
• Each job description would be allowed 3 different types of intervention with 100% of job allocated across 3 intervention types
ILLUSTRATIVE
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Potential output is a high-level mapping of capacity characteristics
ILLUSTRATIVEDUMMY DATA
40%
Operations
60%
Programme
Percentage of Funds in UNDAF or common programming toolN = x total “project” staff identified(not the total number of such staff)
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100Agency 1
Agency 2
Agency 3
Agency 4
Agency 5
Agency 6
Agency 7
Agency 8
Agency 9
Agency 10
Agency 11
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Workshop preparation and objectives
Discussion items• Develop and prioritise options to address capacity differences• Decide on most suitable optionsOutputs from workshop• Agree high-level plan for implementation• Prepare key messages about capacity change plan to government, staff and
donors
Preparation
Objectives
Team responsibilities• Analyze and identify key characteristics of available capacity• Process results from staff survey including comments on culture and processes
and systems conducive to ‘CER’• Develop presentations for findings on key capacity differences – across
programmes and operations, covering both short and long-term needs
UNCT responsibilities• Validate own agency job description analysis• Validate capacity needs findings
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Proposed agenda: Day 1Activities
Breakfast
Agenda, introductions and workshop objectives
Presentation and discussion of current capacity
Coffee Break
Discussion of capacity differences and decision on solutions – ‘CER’ Operational Plan / UNDAF or common programming tool for 200x – 200y
Lunch
Discussion of capacity differences and decision on solutions – Programme in the longer term
Coffee Break
Discussion of capacity differences and decision on solutions – Finance, HR (both 2008/9 and longer term)
Discussion of capacity differences and decision on solutions – Procurement, IT, other Operations (both 2008/9 and longer term)
Timing
08.00-08.30
08.30-08.45
08.45-10.30
10.30-10.45
10.45-12.15
12.15-13.15
13.15-14.45
14.45-15.00
15.00-16.30
16.30-18.00
ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
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Breakfast
Discussion of required generic skills sets and organizational culture / behaviours for “CER”, and development of solutions to address them
Discussion of barriers from processes and systems/incentives, and development of possible solutions to address them
Coffee Break
Development of draft implementation plan
Preparing draft communication to staff and external stakeholders
Lunch
Review and refine draft implementation plan and communications
Wrap up – Next steps
08.00-08.30
08.30-09.30
09.30-10.30
10.30-10.45
10.45-12.00
12.00-13.00
13.00-14.00
14.00-15.00
15.00-15.30
Proposed agenda: Day 2ActivitiesTiming
ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
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Proposed agenda items
• Introduce the mission team
• Confirm a shared understanding of the goals of the engagement
• Review proposed approach and work plan
• Identify key challenges and discuss plans for avoiding / mitigating risks
• Present immediate next steps for the engagement
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• Insufficient data is made available to the project relative to needs and/or the data requirements specified by the team do not match the real needs further down the project
• Real current roles are likely to be significantly different from job descriptions for current posts; actual intervention types may differ substantially from those listed in job descriptions
• Key decisions may have not yet been discussed or fully agreed (e.g., actual content of joint programmes, or how far to go towards harmonization on the different parts of CER)
• Project issues raised are not resolved within an appropriate timescale (particularly with regards to the field visit) and/or data is not provided in good time
• Concerns of agencies cause work or key meetings to be postponed
Potential project / methodology risks (1/2)• Clarify data expectations on both sides at beginning
of the project and identify potential bottlenecks
• Share draft analysis of current capacity based on job descriptions with Heads of Agency (and others as needed) to identify differences between job descriptions and real roles and competencies
• Consider possibility of a staff survey to identify differences between real and stated roles
• Agree with UNCT from the outset that such issues will have to be raised with them quickly
• Clarify time expectations on both sides at beginning of the project and identify potential bottlenecks
• Plan frequent two-way communications with agencies, including on the methodology and interim findings as well as the final findings; Also seek input on methodology from Inter-Agency Task Team
Potential risks Possible risk mitigation actions
Team unable to identify differences reliably
Work takes much longer than envisaged
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• Agencies are not be able to agree on a common methodology and toolkit
• Key project stakeholders do not agree that the findings are valid
• Agencies are not be able to agree on a common approach to closing differences
• There will be insufficient resources to carry out the change management plan, and too much expectations on what agencies’ headquarters can deliver to countries
• Engage agencies in COUNTRY and on Inter-Agency Task Team to get agreement on the methodology
• Get agreement to the methodology up front; Seek feedback on pieces of analysis (e.g., categorisations of jobs for given agency); Plan interim communications where questions about validity of findings can be raised and addressed
• Engage with agencies actively and in a joint setting (workshop) to identify potential solutions, plans and how different activities will be done throughout the process
• Agencies’ headquarters to identify team members to support implementation and country teams to provide resources required to deliver on country-specific plans
Potential risks Possible risk mitigation actions
Findings about differences are not accepted
Solutions to closing differences are not developed/ accepted by the UNCT or not implemented
Potential project / methodology risks (2/2)
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Proposed agenda items
• Introduce the mission team
• Confirm a shared understanding of the goals of the engagement
• Review proposed approach and work plan
• Identify key challenges and discuss plans for avoiding / mitigating risks
• Present immediate next steps for the engagement
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Suggested date
Meeting with Meeting objective
UNCT Kick-off discussion of methodology, plans for key people to interview, and changes to inception note
UNCT Progress review on data gathering and analysis
Project Steering Group
Progress review
UNCT Presentation of findings and facilitation of workshop to identify ways to address capacity gaps
Proposed dates for meetingsILLUSTRATIVE –
TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
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In-country capacity Non-resident capacity
Organigramme JDs Staff lists List of missions
Agency 1
Agency 2
Agency 3
Agency 4
Agency 5
Agency 6
Agency 7
Agency 8
Agency 9
Agency 10
Agency 11
Agency 12
Agency 13
Agency 14
ILLUSTRATIVE – TO BE ADAPTED TO COUNTRY
Status of data request