What are Joint Programmes/Joint Initiatives?
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Joint programme (in the guidance) is defined as, and includes the following characteristics:
A cooperation strategy.
A way to achieve a catalytic development result that depends upon the comparative advantage of two or more participating UN organizations (PUNOs) working together as a team in a highly coordinated and integrated manner.
Having a strategic intent and strong programmatic rationale: (a) contribute to one or more CF outcomes, national development priorities and related SDGs and b) focus on one or more policy levers, with the potential to catalyze systemic change.
A JP can be at country, regional, or global levels, involving two or more regions or countries.
Is guided by a programme cycle (A. Design; B. Implement & adjust; C. Learn, transition and close)with clear accountabilities and responsibilities, and quality standards.
Has assigned JP document with a results framework, work plan and budget derived from the related CF joint work plan and funding framework;
Uses one of three fund management modalities (FMM): parallel, consolidated, or pass-through.
Joint initiatives are those initiatives where two or more UN entities work together from start to finish, on design, planning, and implementation of an intervention that is agreed as part of the inter-agency workplan, without formal agreement (project document) or inter-agency agreement. For example, when three entities join forces to work on improved adolescents’ mental health, they plan the activities together, but they implement the activities under their ongoing entity-owned projects or programmes.
What is not a Joint Initiative? Please note that situations in which one agency engages another entity (e.g. through UN2N agreement) as an implementing partner to carry out specific activities, this is not considered a Joint Initiative or Joint Programme. This also applies to instances where an agency requests support from another agency to deliver training in a specific area, since activities are granular level details not captured in a JWP.
