Outcome UGA_O_2

Advancing partnerships and resourcing

The Country office revised the Resource Mobilization Strategy. While some challenges are contextual, the strategy includes a deeper analysis around the challenges of uneven growth across thematic areas and documents best practices in certain thematic areas that should be considered going forward. The Country Office continued to actively engage with donors – from traditional, non-traditional and private sector based on lessons learnt in the previous years. With these engagements, there are patterns where progress is being made and where the office needs to rethink being elaborated in the revised RM strategy. One of the challenges to the successes, is that funding is not readily flexible and there is a need to rethink a sustainability approach to other areas of work. At the CO level, there is repeated feedback from donors that their funding is for thematic areas, and they expect core funding to UN agencies to address cross-cutting capacities and mandates. Another increasing challenge is the trend of matching funding. The requirement to show agency contributions or even match 50/50 the funding for some calls/donors excludes our ability to apply. Within the UNCT however, there have been discussions on developing a joint high-level brief for donors on UN costs and efficiency measures. There have also been initial discussions with some agencies at the technical level on developing a joint proposal on funding UN coordination and normative in development and humanitarian work.

Advancing partnerships and resourcing

UN Women Uganda received USD 11,764,255 from public partners and USD 250,192 from the private sector. UN Women Uganda developed 4 partnerships to support UN-Women’s mission including in promoting Responsible Business Practices and Influencing and/or Knowledge sharing. Two partnerships signed with the East Africa Business Council (EABC) and the Private Sector Foundation of Uganda (PSFU) were primarily for promoting ethical business practices. The other two with partnerships, with Uganda Bureau of Statistics and Economic Policy Research Centre were for influencing/knowledge sharing.