Practice areas and cross-cutting themes: Introduction & corporate documents

This section is mainly intended for newly-appointed JPOs, but may also be of interest to those who were tasked with handling new portfolios or would like to learn more about other UN/UNDP practice areas. It provides key links to websites/documents broken down by theme. It does not pretend to be exhaustive and tends to offer links to introductory or more specialised websites.

The section is divided into eight thematic groups:

• Democratic Governance and Human Rights;
• Poverty Reduction;
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery;
• Energy and Environment;
• ICT for Development;
• HIV/AIDS;
• Gender / Empowerment and Status of Women;
• Population and Development / Reproductive Health.

The first six groups correspond to UNDP's strategic areas of focus. Gender/Women Empowerment is a cross-cutting issue for both UNDP and UNFPA, whereas the last group focuses on UNFPA programme priorities.

About DevLink

DevLink is a recently-developed site managed by the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) to provide substantive support to United Nations Country Teams (UNCT) in the implementation of the Secretary-General's reform package, particularly the Common Country Assessment (CCA) and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).

It currently covers five UNDG priority topics: Human Rights, Poverty, Gender, Girl's Education and HIV/AIDS. Each page on these topics provides UNDG policy guidance, examples of good practices, training materials, sources of additional information and links to relevant UN and non-UN sites.

DevLink is one of the major links proposed in the present section of the JPO website. In January 2002, the UNDG Support Group has agreed to further improve and expand DevLink as UNDG's website for substantive support to UN Country Teams.

General Development

id21 is a fast-track research reporting service funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and hosted by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). It aims to bring UK-based development research findings to policymakers and development practitioners worldwide.

Some corporate documents

UN System

• UN Millennium Declaration



• 2005 World Summit Outcome Document



• Delivering as one: High Level Panel Report on UN System-wide Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance, and the Environment



• Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals (Millenium Project Report)



• Report on the Implementation of the Millennium Declaration, 2003



• Welcome to the UN Stystem : an induction course
  
  This course is designed to introduce new staff members to the UN system as a whole. This includes a brief introduction to each staff member's own organisation as well as others, and to how the whole system works together.
  
  The aim of the course, ultimately, is to help create a common understanding of the UN system structure, mandate and values among all new UN system staff.

UNDP

• Human Development Report 2006
  Beyond Scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis



• 2006 Annual Report: Global Partnership for Development



• 2004-2005 Annual Report: Mobilizing Global Partnerships



• 2003 Annual Report - A World of Development Experience
  (size: 1.52 MB)



• 2002 Annual Report of the Administrator



• International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world (Human Development Report 2005)



• Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World (Human Development Report 2004)



• Human Development Report 2003
  Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty



• The way forward: update on the UNDP Administrator's Business Plans, 2000-2003



• UNDP's second Global Co-operation framework (GCF 2001-2003)



• Human Development Report 2002
  Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World



• UNDP Programming manual on-line



• Thematic Trust Fund: Poverty Reduction



• Thematic Trust Fund: Democratic Governance



• Thematic Trust Fund: Energy for Sustainable Development



• Thematic Trust Fund: Environment



• Thematic Trust Fund: Gender in development



• Executive Board of UNDP/UNFPA - website



• UNDP Speeches and Statements

UNFPA

• State of the World Population 2006
  A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration



• State of the World Population 2005
  The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the MDGs



• State of the World Population 2004
  The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty



• State of the World Population 2003



• Report 2003: Achieving the Millenium Development Goals



• State of the World Population 2002



• Annual Report 2001

UNOPS

• UNOPS corporate website