This website benefits from the continuous support of Online Volunteers. - 22 million unsafe abortions were averted. It has already become clear that reforms are needed. It is regrettable that the UN and UNOPS have allowed these allegations to damage its credibility in such a public manner and deflected requests and opportunities to provide a full accounting to the Executive Board and the public. This evolution will allow us to pursue new opportunities and drive financial inclusion and mobilization of SDG financing at greater scale. First, one central element of UNCDFs investment finance work is our deployment of loans and guarantees to private and public SDG investments in LDCs, with the aim to catalyze additional financing. First, in the context of ensuring the Office of Audit and Investigation is appropriately resourced to undertake its work in a comprehensive and timely manner, we would like to hear more about the impact of the staffing shortages due to turnover and the significant increase in planned assignments over the year. During the year, we also made solid progress towards our objective of enhancing financial inclusion, through support for inclusive digital economies and digital financial services. Thank you for giving me the floor madam Chairperson, Ambassador Brandt. Like others, the EU is currently taking an, At the same time, I would also like to stress here that there is, We are looking forward to the adoption of the, Let me close by emphasizing that the COVID-19 pandemic may have jeopardized global progress made towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is the official website of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. We thank Interim Executive Director, Jens Wandel, for his humility, sincerity, and proactive communication in engaging the Executive Board since taking on his role. The Executive Board ensures that UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS remain responsive to the evolving needs of programme countries. We note particularly the increased number of investigations, with 330 carried over into 2022, and would appreciate further clarity about the nature and length of the more complex cases on your books, as well as any barriers (such as linguistic or technical capability) that should be addressed. This is central in order to reach and engage new groups, not least young people. An initial allocation of $8.8 million will provide concessional loans for coral reef protection and restoration in five countries. The EU remains committed to multilateralism and cooperation with the UN agencies and we will continue to be firm in our commitment to the 2030 Agenda as our roadmap to ensure that no one is left behind and that the world will be better equipped to weather systemic shocks in future.

And finally, we have further built capacity and commitment at country level by establising a network of Country Relationship Managers. As of early 2022, six member states and development institutions representing Canada, the United States, Norway, Luxembourg, Sweden and the Nordic countries through the Nordic Development Fund, have committed $55 million of risk capital into the Fund. The Executive Board seeks solutions that avoid a situation where issues within UNOPS exacerbate UN efforts to deliver on its development commitments in an increasingly complex global environment. We completed a total of 390 local investments, mainly in small infrastructure projects, which contributed to create 42,000 jobs and build climate resilience that benefited more than 12.5 million people. Nordic statement in the Executive Board of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Annual session 2022, UNFPA Segment, June 7 2022.

Together we all must make sure that human development goes alongside with decreased planetary pressures. The statement was delivered by Ambassador Martin Herman from Denmark's Mission to the UN. Third, we have expanded our support to mobilize finance for municipal SDG investments. At the same time, I would also like to stress here that there is no hasty termination of programmes, which would come at the expense of beneficiaries. Just to highlight a few of the data and statistics: - Over this period, 199,000 maternal deaths were averted. This shortfall limits our ability to act as a more strategic and innovative partner to countries and the UN system. Ambassador Chris LuU.S. We warmly welcome the annual report to the Executive Board, which analyses the cumulative progress made in achieving the results of UNFPAs strategic plan 2018-2021 as well as UNFPAs response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also confirms that our hybrid business model combining development and investment activities is based on the principle of creating added value. We expect these actions to strengthen and improve management within UNOPS and enable a smooth, effective, and constructive transition to a new Executive Director. Like others, the EU is currently taking an internal look at its contractual relationships with UNOPS, as clarity and reassurance on the protection of EU funds managed by UNOPS is important. Fund, which made its first investment in 2021 . Mme. New Zealand Foreign Affairs & Trade | Manat Aorere, 195 Lambton Quay, Private Bag 18 901, Wellington 6160, New Zealand, Joint statement delivered by New Zealand Permanent Representative, H.E. You can select what type of cookies to allow. Second, the BDO review last year suggested that a combined review be undertaken of OAI, the Ethics Office and Human Resourcing, to ensure that investigations involving individuals who claimed whistleblower status were managed in a fair and expeditious way. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from. Our five top overall contributors were the Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, the European Union, the governments of Sweden and Switzerland, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The analysis and indicators of the HDR are important tools in taking a more sustainable and inclusive direction. We hope to see further exploration of metrics measuring pressures on the planet, to enhance the understanding of countries material consumption and carbon footprints. The Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office was our largest source of funding with $28 million, demonstrating our expanded collaboration with the wider UN system. Another externally managed fund we have set up is the International Municipal Investment Fund, which provides equity financing for cities and local governments in areas such as transport, clean energy and waste management. Representative for UN Management and ReformNew York, New YorkJune 6, 2022. We have had clean audit opinions over the past nine years, demonstrating our ability to manage resources in an accountable manner. Associate Administrator, Such metrics provides us with a reality check of where we stand. We are currently populating the new results matrix with baselines and targets and we expect to share an updated results matrix in the second half of the year. Thank you, MrAssociate Administrator, for your introduction and your and the Administrators commitment to volunteerism and your strong support to the United Nations Volunteers programme. This has been very useful, and could be even more so if the reporting were shared with this Executive Board independently and simultaneously vis--vis the management. We furthermore like to take this opportunity to underscore the importance of whistle-blower protection.

Because we share the belief that UNFPAs three transformative results cannot be achieved without effective humanitarian interventions. In this regard, the EU insists that all measures are taken to recover the funds; that individual responsibilities are clearly established; and that appropriate legal procedures are launched. In this respect, we would like to draw your attention to some of the key issues for the Nordic countries in the coming years: With UNFPAs mandate comes a responsibility to advance and stand guard of the human rights granted to women and girls, including their sexual and reproductive health and rights and their skills, knowledge and education, including comprehensive sexuality education. We seek full support from UNOPS and the Executive Board to address this set of issues comprehensively, all of which is being considered in Executive Board decisions that seek to address and eliminate the root cause and vulnerabilities that enabled these mishandlings within UNOPS. So let me give you a snapshot of some main results we achieved in 2021. We welcome the raised ambition to have even more intensive and inclusive consultations, dialogues and partnerships, not least with civil society, that have been part of the drafting process of this coming report, helping to identify the development challenges of today. We would like to welcome Acting Executive Director UNOPS, Jens Wandel, and we thank him for taking up this role in these challenging times. We rely on his expertise and reform-minded approach to facilitate our efforts to move forward in the spirit of mutual respect and partnership, with full transparency and accountability for what has transpired.

In partnership with the Gambia River Basin Development Organization and the Government of Switzerland, we are preparing the issuance of an innovative blue peace bond, which will fund projects that will serve up to 7 million people in The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Senegal. 1 Dag Hammarskjld Plaza #35New York, NY 10017(885 2nd Avenue, between 47th and 48th Street), Phone: +1 (646) 430-7510Fax: +1 (646) 430-7591E-mail:delun@mfa.no. How are UNDP and the HDRO contributing to the work of the High-Level Panel, and how do you envisage drawing on the MVI in your future work? Least Developed Countries Investment Platform, Multinational Financial Service Corporations, Regional and International Financial Institutions, UNCDF and the International Development Agenda.

Statement of Ms. Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary, UNCDF at the Annual Session 2022-UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board. We support UNFPAs intention to strengthen its normative work everywhere where UNFPA is present. For example, over the last few years we have helped 2.3 million micro-merchants in Bangladesh to benefit from digital payments, micro-insurance, and e-commerce solutions. Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. Horizon scanning, looking beyond averages and mapping patterns and trends helps us better understand and address poverty, inequality, including gender equality, and exclusion. Joint Statement at the Annual Session of the UNOPS Executive Board, Remarks at a UN General Assembly Meeting Following Russias Veto of a UN Security Council Resolution on the Syria Cross-Border Humanitarian Mechanism, Statement for presenting the draft decision in ECOSOC on bringing NGO applications to a vote in the EOCOSC Management Segment, Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Syria, Remarks by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield at a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing on the Global Food Security Crisis and the U.S. In 2021, we issued nine new loans that benefited enterprises in the energy, financial services, agriculture and blue economy sectors in Burkina Faso, Malawi, Myanmar, Uganda and Fiji. Madame Associate Administrator, Is the HDRO aware of any concrete adjustments in UNDS entities work or priorities? We hope that the Executive Boards instructions leave no doubt as to our expectations and we hope you will continue to seek clarification and guidance from the Executive Board, as needed. Statement of UNV Executive Coordinator on the occasion of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board, Statement of UNV Executive Coordinator on the Strategic Framework 2022-2025, Introductory statement of the Draft Strategic Framework of the United Nations Volunteers 2022-2025, Remarks by Olivier Adam, Executive Coordinator, at the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board, At Executive Board meeting 2018, Member States applaud UNV for enhancing its ability to deliver.

President, Members of the Executive Board, These are only some of the impressive results that are included in your annual report.

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Our focus on small but high impact investments fills a gap in the development finance architecture that no one else is addressing. Madame President, Members of the Executive Board, Excellencies, colleagues, and friends.

- And almost 570.000 girls were saved from Female Genital Mutilation. BUILD became fully operational and made its first investment in 2021. Let me close by emphasizing that the COVID-19 pandemic may have jeopardized global progress made towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To support womens economic empowerment, we helped create instruments that unlock finance for women in several countries. Over the last four years we have consistently increased our delivery from a base of $64.2 million in 2018. In total we have now issued 30 loans and guarantees. However, our regular resources remained stagnant at $14.7 million, making up only 10.7 per cent of total revenues well below the Funding Compact target of 30 percent. How has UNDP adjusted its work to take account of the adjusted human Development Index (PHDI) last year? This statement focuses on UNDP audit and investigation functions. This will improve UNCDFs engagement with UN system processes, governments, and donors to make more effective the representation of UNCDFs offer as a whole.

MadamePresident, Excellencies, Distinguished Board members. We also continued to support our pioneering third-party managed BUILD Fund, a blended impact investment vehicle with a target capitalization of $250 million to finance SDG-positive small businesses. We look forward to future engagement with the office and its staff. These resources will now help to attract private-sector investors to the fund. Is there any cooperation between the UNDP and the World Bank Group the other big thinker in the development realm on these annual reports that both organizations publish. MrAssociate Administrator, This will allow us to provide more efficient implementation support, continue to enhance delivery, and ensure oversight.

Confidential briefings, designed so as not to interfere with due process or privacy, would give member states greater confidence by helping to monitor and understand how changed systems and processes are taking effect, and identify risks and red flags in reporting to the Board. We also welcome the efforts to spread the knowledge and products of the HDRO, for example through advancing online communications and data visualizations. The European Union values the long-standing partnership with UNOPS in project implementation at the local level in the common endeavour to support partner countries in achieving the SDGs. The release of the OIOS investigation report as soon as possible. With our established and tested loan and guarantee policies and procedures and a dedicated team of investment professionals, we are able to deploy and manage loans and guarantees in a transparent, effective and accountable manner. We especially see significant potential to increase collaboration with other UN partners in these areas. In Senegal, we assisted the countrys sovereign wealth fund to set up and manage a Womens Economic Empowerment Fund, the WE! We remain deeply concerned about how UNOPS leadership allowed mishandling of the Sustainable Investment in Infrastructure Initiative (S3i) to jeopardize the reputation of the organization and the wider UN development system. I am honoured to present the Strategic Framework of UNV for 2022-2025. On the resource side, the overall picture is encouraging. Explore our work in the different regions of the world.

We count on your continued support as we move forward to deliver on our mission as the UN catalytic financing entity for the LDCs. However - as impressive as they are - when we look at the data and statistics, it is clear that the world will be unable to achieve the transformative results by 2030 unless our work and progress substantially accelerates. More positively, revenues from other resources increased by 84.8 per cent, from $66 million in 2020 to $122 million in 2021. Fourth, in response to demand from country and UN partners, we are strengthening our support in the areas of financing for womens economic empowerment; climate, energy and biodiversity finance; and sustainable food systems finance. Growth is stalling, debt burdens soaring and tens of millions of people in the LDCs have been pushed into extreme poverty in the past two years. Together with our portfolio of $5.8 million in loans, our investments helped unlock some $89 million in additional financing. Ambassador Mr. Silvio Gonzato, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, at the Executive Board of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Annual Session 6-10 June 2022: UNOPS Segment. LoCAL is also referenced in the Doha Programme of Action for the LDCs as a key effort to step up capacity development and finance for climate adaptation.

I am delivering this statement on behalf of the Nordic countries: Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and my own country, Denmark. How can the important information collected throughout this process, and the analyses produced, be known to an even larger audience? Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment 2022: Millions affected by conflict, hunger and climate change, UNFPA Executive Board - Annual session 2022.

I am pleased to introduce this session presenting the new Strategic Framework 2022-2025 for the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Programme. It is of the utmost importance to get to the bottom of the case. We supported national financial inclusion strategies in a total of 14 countries. reported irregularities, including weaknesses in oversight and loss of funds in S3i projects. By United States Mission to the United Nations | 6 June, 2022 | Topics: Remarks and Highlights, United States Mission to the United Nations. UNV is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Our investment operations have recently been audited and received a satisfactory opinion. More broadly, we deployed our Inclusive Digital Economies Scorecard in 25 countries to help define policy priorities to accelerate digital transformation that benefits all people. This capability was not fully developed and exploited six years ago. Documents of Executive Board sessions, informal briefings, and other meetings in 2022: Opportunities for NGOs to address the Commission, UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, sa Regnr, Deputy Executive Director for Policy, Programme, Civil Society and Intergovernmental Support, Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director for UN Coordination, Partnerships, Resources and Sustainability, Contract templates and general conditions of contract, Macroeconomic policies and social protection, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Women, peace, and security in the work of the UN Security Council, Preventing violent extremism and countering terrorism, Economic empowerment and skills development for young women, Action on ending violence against young women and girls, Engaging boys and young men in gender equality, Flagship programme: Making Every Woman and Girl Count, UN Women Global Innovation Coalition for Change, High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, Gender Focal Points and Focal Points for Women, Training for gender equality and women's empowerment, International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response, Generation Equality Action Pack, March 2020, Generation Equality action pack, January 2020, Generation Equality action pack, December 2019, Generation Equality action pack, October 2019, International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples, In Focus: Climate action by, and for, women, Financing: Why it matters for women and girls, World survey on the role of women in development, Orientation for the new members of the Executive Board / Annual update on UN-Women activities with Executive Board membership, Pre-Session in advance of the First Regular Session & Informal briefing on evaluation, Protection Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment Update on the implementation of recommendations in the independent victim-centred review of UN-Women policies and processes on tackling sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment, Orientation on the Oversight Mechanism of UN-Women, Pre-session in advance of the Annual Session & Informal briefing on annual report of the Executive Director on the implementation of the Strategic Plan, 2022-2025, Informal briefing on update on implementation of UNGA resolution 72/279, Informal briefing on update on implementation of resolution 72/279, Informal briefing on audit and investigation, Informal briefing on UN-Womens role in advancing gender parity across the United Nations, Joint meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP, Closed informal briefing on the independence of the Independent Evaluation and Audit Service, Informal briefing on UN-Women's Ethics function, Pre-sessionin advance of the Second Regular Session & Informal briefing on Structured Dialogue on Financing, Speech: Our ability to fulfil the SDGs promises depends on our decision to put women and girls at the centre, Speech: Looking forward to a future of gender equality, Speech: Pushing boundaries, together with our partners, The post-COVID world must not just build back better it must build forward differently, says UN Women Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General Anita Bhatia on her first official visit to Kazakhstan, UN Women Deputy Executive Director sa Regnr reiterates commitment to advancing gender equality and long-term cooperation during first official visit to Georgia and Albania, Comisin sobre la Condicin Jurdica y Social de la Mujer, Commission on the StatusofWomen.

The Nordic countries therefore welcome the focus of UNFPAs new Strategic Plan for 2022-2025 on accelerating the achievements of the transformative results and we look forward to supporting you in its implementation. We have three short requests on audit and investigation matters. We thank the UNDP Office of Audit and Investigation for its report to the Executive Board.

In Tanzania, we supported the preparations for issuing municipal bonds on the domestic stock market, with an initial $23 million water municipal bond, expected to close in 2022. I am pleased to join you today for the 2022 annual session of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board. During 2021, we remained steadfast in pursuing our development objectives and provided a total of $37 million in catalytic grants to support financial inclusion and local development.

Our flagship initiative for local climate adaptation finance, LoCAL, continued to expand and is now being implemented by over 320 local governments in 29 countries, where we provide capacity building and financing for climate resilient investments. 1st meeting - Annual Session 2022 of the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS, Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit (MALU), Adoption of the agenda and work-plan for the session, Adoption of the report of the first regular session 2022. Response, Remarks at a UN Security Council Open Debate Debate on Children and Armed Conflict, US State Department Bureau of International Organization Affairs. Dataskyddspolicy fr utlandsmyndigheterna.

Thank you for giving me the floor madam Chairperson, Ambassador Brandt. The, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations in New York, First Committee Disarmament and International Security, Second Committee Economic and Financial, Third Committee Social, Humanitarian and Cultural, Fourth Committee Special Political and Decolonisation, Fifth Committee Administrative and Budgetary, Press and information team of the Delegation to the UN in New York, EU Statement - Executive Board of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS: UNOPS Segment.