UNDP Funding Windows 2021 annual report : Switzerland's contribution
The Funding Windows are UNDP’s primary vehicle for thematic non-core funding which enables UNDP to deliver on its Strategic Plan and support countries to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In 2021, Switzerland contributed US$5 million to the Funding Window of Governance, Peacebuilding, Crisis and Resilience.
December 16, 2022
The Funding Windows are a critical complement to UNDP’s regular resources, framed around four key thematic areas; Governance, Peacebuilding, Crisis and Resilience, Poverty and Inequality, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, and Nature, Climate and Energy. The windows allow partners to contribute to global priorities while giving UNDP the flexibility to invest in areas based on needs, catalytic value to mobilize additional resources and potential to bolster an integrated approach within the UN development system.
Build the long-term resilience of communities in crisis
The pooled resources provide catalytic funds to countries to respond to emerging development priorities and to pilot, scale up and accelerate initiatives in support of those most in need. The multifaceted initiatives developed by the Funding Windows deliver the UNDP Strategic Plan and the 2030 Agenda, in order to bring immediate support to some of the world’s most vulnerable. 24 least developed countries (LDCs) benefitted have from these interventions in 2021, worth $23 million.
The 2021 Funding Windows in numbers:
35K
people assisted to strengthen livelihoods
13K
short-term jobs created in 13 countries
24
countries have been equipped with digital solutions
800
public infrastructures built or rebuilt
7
countries in crises setting have been provided with solar solutions
11
countries assisted on access to justice
18
countries supported with durable solutions to IDPs, migrands, and host communites.
5
countries supported to hold inclusive and transparent elections in 2021
Within the Crisis Response subwindow, Switzerland’s contribution to the UNDP Funding Windows has enabled:
The improvement of the rule of law and dispute resolution in Chad, including enhancing the effectiveness of criminal justice institutions, improving authorities' conflict management practices and expanding legal aid;
The enhancement of the reach and efficiency of security and justice authorities in Central Mali, with the construction of a police station and a district court in Djenné. The deployment of security and justice actors was accompanied by capacity-building and the establishment of 12 additional regional and communal security advisory committees for a total of 26 functional committees that contribute to rebuilding the confidence of the population with security actors;
The unlocking of the two-year political gridlock on the electoral framework and timeline in Somalia, by supporting the highest-level political dialogues that culminated in an Agreement on Election, critical to a smooth future transfer of power;
The establishment of preventive and response mechanisms to resolve land, cultural, religious and chiefdom conflicts, enabling the future conditions for peace and stability in Burkina Faso;
Women’s participation in peacebuilding in Ethiopia. Multi-ethnic communities and families have been reconciled; properties have been returned to their rightful owners; various community-based organizations have resumed normal operations; and peaceful social interaction has returned.
Within the Crisis Response subwindow, Switzerland’s contribution to the UNDP Funding Windows has enabled:
The cushioning of the socio-economic impact of the February 2021 military coup, prolonged conflict and COVID-19 by providing urgent livelihood support in Myanmar;
The safeguarding of development gains in Timor-Leste, where UNDP reached 5,441 people with food and cash- for-work opportunities to remove debris and repair infrastructure in 42 flood-hit villages and 21 beaches and hillsides;
The provision of five essential vehicles to conduct field assessments in conflict sites in Mozambique to enable the government to provide critical assistance to communities, and deploy more actors on the ground and more frequently, thereby increasing the speed and scale of the response where no other humanitarian and development actors were present at the time;
The rehabilitation of housing for 39 families after conducting 2,932 site habitability assessments of housing damages and needs in Guatemala, which dealt with floods, landslides and mudflows after tropical storms Eta and Lota in 2020;
The safeguarding of energy supply following the explosion in Lebanon, by installing 214 solar water heaters and 80 electrical water heaters in Karantina households, along with 14 solar street lighting poles, 6 large solar water heater systems and a solar-powered system for Beirut’s fire brigade.
Access the Funding Windows Annual Report for 2021 here.
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