Outcome HND_O_3

Advancing business transformation

UNWOMEN has presented its business case to HQ on December, 2023 to the BRC to be a Small Office according to the new arquitecture of UNWOMEN Offices, the final answer is still pending (find attached the Business Case) UNWOMEN received new and update of process and procedure from HQ. This year the office trough Human Resources participated in the exercise to stablish the new scales of the transition of contracts Service Contracts to National/Internacional Professional Agreement N/I-PSA

Advancing business transformation

UN Women has complied at all levels with the requirements with donors, Responsible Parties, personnel, Government, Civil Society, International Cooperation and Private sector. Reporting to donors were presented in a timely manner. All this actions led by UNWomen were supported in the framework of our mandate (employees/10 and consultants/8 and UNV/1), all of them have been implemented this period with high ethical and leadership standards. One of the most common modalities requested by donors are Partner Agreements (PAs), this allows UN Women to have action startegic support in the field, strengthening CSOs and Government in the areas of influence of the projects. How is these organizations strengthened through improvement and innovations initiatives? Within the framework of the implementation of Partner Agreeemnts, UN Women Honduras compiled formats in editable versions for use by counterparts at the level of procurement processes, recruitment and selection of consultancies, especially finance for these inputs for effective control and monitoring of the resources of the agreement (expenditure controls, bank reconciliations, requests for budget changes), which are socialized in a start-up training with counterparts. This type of training and templates are applied in several of the CSOs, strengthening their policies and their administrative-financial manuals. In compliance with the mandatory courses of INFOSECURITY, ANTI-FRAUD and PSEA, the capacities of the programmatic and administrative staff of the PAs are strengthened, and organizations that do not have a policy based on preventing labor and sexual harassment, are supported to generate these manuals, oriented to those of UN. UN Women Honduras has a file structure, which are standard for OEEF and DRF that allow information from the Donor Agreement, when a project starts, monitoring reports, procurement processes, payment processes, budget reviews, signed PAs and their respective follow-up support documents, project evaluations, policies and procedures updated, etc. All this within the reach of all office staff, avoiding loss of information when colleagues leave the organization, lack of tracking of a file when someone on the team is Annual Leave or Sick Leave, as well as having inputs on hand for internal reports, audits inputs, or simply maintaining a historical memory in a systematic order. The Honduras Office receives policy updates in all areas such as asset, Finance, Procurement, partner agreements, travel, etc. and tries and frames its actions in compliance with these, in these there is no room for innovation since they are instructed by HQ and RO.

Advancing business transformation

UNWOMEN Honduras actually is a Non Physical Presence, but the office is still documentating the Business Case to the transition to Country Office, in its operation try to be innovate, espcially with the partner agreements that represents around the 60% of the budget and the streghntened of NGOs trough manuals, templates and training of them by our agency.