Priority Themes

For Switzerland it is important that Multilateral Organisations (MO) with a mandate to provide development support and humanitarian aid deliver results and that their efforts are leading to improved outcomes. In this context the following topics are of particular importance for SDC:

Multilateral Organisations Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN). MOPAN has become an important body which produces assessments on the organisational and development effectiveness of the major MOs. The main objective ahead is to make MOPAN findings more effectively used by MOPAN members in the dialogue with the MOs.

Multilateral Evaluation and Results Management. Since 2009, MfDR and evaluation partnerships with UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank and IDB were launched to improve selected MfDR-areas and evaluation capacities. The encountered main challenge: Since MfDR affects a broad range of issues, financial resources are limited and the need for assistance remains high, any support for capacity building needs to be selective and targeted.

Independent System-Wide Evaluation (ISWE). The UN ISWE approach was facing a number of challenges. With the adoption of the policy for ISWE by ECOSOC in July 2013 an important first step into the right direction was made, and the momentum has to be used to promote and contribute to the policy’s full implementation.

Annual Multilateral Performance Assessment (AMPA). SDC directorate identified the need for an annual stocktaking of the performance of Swiss priority MOs to respond to the following objectives: 1) Improve performance reporting on MO effectiveness to SDC directorate; 2) Improve rele-vance of up-to-date information on MO effectiveness and performance; and 3) Consider MOs performance and effectiveness for SDC medium term multilateral financial planning.

Core Contribution Management (CCM)-Process. In 2009, the internal CCM-process was introduced in SDC and Seco, and since then has been applied to all 18 multilateral priority MOs. The main challenge today is to make the CCMs an even more effective management tool for planning, monitoring and reporting purposes.

Focus and Contribution from the SDC UN & MDB Section

• Remain an active partner within MOPAN, namely as institutional and/or country lead and promote more user-friendly assessments which respond to Switzerland’s multilateral per-formance assessment needs and provide an evidence-based platform for the exchange with MOs and the CCM;

• Implement the concept for SDC multilateral evaluation and results management support and enter into evaluation function and results management support partnerships with selected UN&MDB priority institutions;

• Promote the implementation of the independent system-wide evaluation policy in the UN operational development system;

• Implement AMPA to assess the annual performance of the 18 Swiss priority MOs and to provide a link to the core contribution allocation process
  

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