1. Role of RCO in ensuring inclusiveness and support to Delivering as One Tanzania Experience
REGIONAL COORDINATION OFFICERS’ WORKSHOP
5 to 9 September, 2016
Panari Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya

2. Presentation Rationale NRAs in Tanzania DaO Engagement
Opportunities and Challenges
Beyond NRAs Coordination

3. Rationale Global level Country level UN General Assembly resolutions
UNDG: Optimal use of expertise of UN agencies not present in the country
Country level
Govt requests for support
Change of national priorities

4. NRAs in Tanzania Presence:
23 UN agencies: 16 Resident and 7 Non Resident Agencies
Non Resident Agencies: UNHABITAT;UNEP;UNCTAD;ITC;UNODC;IAEA & OHCHR
With officers in the country: UNEP and UNODC
Event based presence: e.g. UNWATER, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Engagement:
Equal member of the country team: responsibilities and accountability
Internal criteria to guide NRAs engagement:
Is the UN Agency intending to respond to a specific new and explicit request from the Government for assistance within the UNDAP and DaO priorities;
Is the UN Agency a mandated expert (Environment, Trade etc)?

5. DaO Engagement: Represented by the RC at higher level engagements
Implementation of UNDAP through partners
Represented by respective TRG leads at UN & DPs technical engagement-where applicable:
Recipient of the One Fund: using same allocation criteria
RCO communications team and UNIC provides quality communication support
Implementing Partners representation on special events: UN exhibitions

6. Inclusive UNCT Branding

7. Opportunities Committed leadership at country level-to DaO
Assigned staff at RCO and Committed RCO staff
UNDAP and Web-based platform – RMS
Regional hubs with expertise as back-up
Comparative advantage- specialized focus with few players e.g. atomic energy for development
Raised public awareness: higher demand for their support
Changed development landscape-Trade and industrialization

8. Achievements
Better understanding, communication and coordination between resident agencies and NRAs;
Increased knowledge among participating NRAs of UN country activities;
Enhanced and sustained IP’s capacities
More inclusive UNCT- added value to UNCT support to national development process

9. Challenges Takes to understand the changing contexts Government &
within UNCT
Change of funding landscape

10. Beyond NRAs Coordination
Joint programmes Coordination support:
Coordinate the development of joint funding proposals(DRT-F and SDG-F)
Joint programme to support Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Nets (PSSN) under Social Protection –SDG-F
Joint Programme on Improving enabling environment for women’s and youth employment and economic empowerment -DRT-F
Ensure the functionality of UNDAP Teams as per the UNDAP II structure
Developing pilot Area-based Programming
Initiate sub-national coordination efforts
Coordinates the engagement of the UN agencies and the government and DPs- high level

11. Thank you