UNDAF

To support the efforts needed to become a modern, democratic and European state, the United Nations Country Team (UNCT), in close cooperation with the Government of Ukraine, non-resident UN Agencies, civil society stakeholders, academics and the international community, has prepared a United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Ukraine.  The UNDAF establishes a common strategic framework for the United Nations system in Ukraine over the period 2006-2010 and is a collective, coherent and integrated response by the United Nations system, both to the national priorities set out in the government's action programme ‘Toward the People' endorsed by Ukraine's legislative body, the Verkhovna Rada, on 4 February 2005, and to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the commitments, goals and targets of the Millennium Declaration, and international conferences, conventions and human rights instruments of the UN system. 

The UNDAF applies a human rights approach to development issues, providing a greater coherence among programmes, along with increased opportunities for joint initiatives that utilize the UN's comparative advantages.  The UNDAF translates the key priorities identified in the Common Country Assessment (CCA) for Ukraine, completed in October 2004 and reinforced by the government's action programme, into a common operational framework for development activities. Individual UN Agencies, funds and programmes will formulate their County Programme Documents and Annual Work-plans for the five-year period 2006-2010 in a manner which supports and reinforces this UNDAF.

Priority Assistance Areas, expected UNDAF Outcomes, and Country Programme Outcomes

The UN system in Ukraine has selected the national priorities and goals, and the four UNDAF Outcomes, as the focus of its contribution to development in Ukraine for the period 2006-2010.  In each of the four defined priority areas, UN Agencies support the State and the people of Ukraine to achieve national priorities and goals, and to meet the commitments, goals and targets of the MDGs, Millennium Declaration and UN human rights instruments.  The UNDAF uses a results-based management approach to link national goals and the government's priorities with specific UNDAF outcomes in each of the four UNDAF priority areas.  Each UNDAF priority area also includes a set of key Country Programme Outcomes.  Measurable progress toward these specific Country Programme Outcomes is required in order to achieve the overall UNDAF objective.  The specific country programme outcomes within each UNDAF objective are often the shared results of two or more UN Agencies, working in collaboration with the government and other key stakeholders.  There are a series of Country Programme Outputs within each Country Programme Outcomes.  These elaborate concrete and measurable products, services, skills, and/or abilities will be delivered by specific UN Agencies working in partnership with identified organizations and utilizing resources mobilized to deliver specific outputs.

Assistance area 1: Institutional reforms that enhance outreach, to enable all people to fulfil their human rights.

UNDAF outcome by the end of the programme cycle:

Government institutions at national and local levels function on a transparent, accountable and participatory basis that ensures the human rights of all people in Ukraine. 

Country Programme Outcomes:

1. Human rights based, gender sensitive and participatory policies, legislation, regulations and practices are in place at the national level.
2. National capacities strengthened to promote, protect and monitor human rights through greater accountability of public institutions.
3. Strengthened transparency of people-centred, public governance operations, frameworks and mechanisms.

Assistance area 2: Civil society empowerment to enable all people to access services and enjoy their rights

UNDAF outcome by the end of the programme cycle:

All individuals in Ukraine are empowered to claim and enjoy their rights consistent with international standards through the strengthening of civil society, with a focus on protection of women and other disadvantaged groups.

Country Programme Outcomes:

1. Civil society organizations strengthened and supported to promote, protect and advocate for all human rights of people and to participate in decision-making processes, with an emphasis on vulnerable groups.
2. Key civil society partners strengthened to respond to HIV/AIDS-related discrimination.

Assistance area 3: Health care and health services with a special focus on raising quality and accessibility

UNDAF outcome by the end of the programme cycle:

By 2010, increased equitable access to quality medical assistance and health services with emphases on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and mother & child health that ensures the right of people in Ukraine to enjoy the highest attainable standards in the area of health.

Country Programme Outcomes:

1. Strengthened national response with a gender-based approach to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and mother and child health needs, especially for vulnerable groups, ensuring the right to prevention, treatment and control of diseases, consistent with international standards.
2. Increased access to and use of quality treatment and medical services by mothers and children, people affected by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, youth and vulnerable populations that ensures their right to quality health services.

Assistance area 4: Prosperity against poverty, reducing poverty through balanced development and entrepreneurship

UNDAF outcome by the end of the programme cycle:

Poverty reduced by 50% through equitable, area-based economic growth and targeted provision of inclusive social services.

Country Programme Outcomes:

1. Pro-poor frameworks and strategies for sustainable economic development adopted and extended to rural and economically- and socially-disadvantaged areas, communities and groups, in a manner consistent with safeguarding these groups' political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights.
2. Strengthened system for provision of social services and assistance functioning on an equitable and inclusive basis.