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EC-UNDP Partnership on Electoral AssistanceOn 28 June 2004, the EC and the UNDP entered into a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) aiming at better defining the relational focus between the two organizations. The MoU focuses on democratic governance (including elections, parliaments and governance indicators), conflict prevention and post-conflict reconstruction. In the field of electoral assistance, the EC and UNDP had been collaborating since 1995. However, in 2004 cooperation intensified extensively in the context of the joint EC-UNDP support to the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The parties of the SPA review meeting that took place in Brussels in 2007 recognized that electoral assistance has become one of the flagship services of the Partnership. In this context, the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of Electoral Assistance Programmes and Projects was signed in April 2006. Later the same year, the EC commissioned an evaluation study to an external company aimed at providing an overall independent assessment of its external cooperation with partner countries through the organisations of the UN family. It emphasized the need for specific agreements between various UN services and Commission bodies and referred to the Operational Guidelines as best practice. The Guidelines were reviewed and updated in December 2008. The value added of the Partnership and the Operational Guidelines relies on a better coordination of services among Brussels, New York and Copenhagen, which is achieved through the work carried out by the Joint EC-UNDP Task Force (JTF), coordinated by the UN/UNDP Brussels Office. The JTF’s tasks include: a) Operational guidance and implementation strategies for the management of joint EC-UNDP electoral assistance projects; b) Liaison and interactions with the different services involved, at headquarters and field level, throughout the operations cycle to ensure the application of the recommended quality standards; and c) Training, development of content and dissemination of information. EC Contributions to electoral assistance projects through the UNDP, 2007-2009.
On 1 July 2009, UNDP launched the three-year Global Programme in Support of Electoral Cycles (GPECS) initiative to help countries improve their electoral laws, processes and institutions and enhance the participation of women in electoral processes. The programme is made possible through a generous contribution from the Government of Spain, as well as the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The GPECS will support the work of the JTF to ensure that country and, in some cases, regional level projects designed through the country window of the GPECS benefit from the early collaboration of other potential partners such as donors to this Programme. GPECS will support the regionalization of the work of the JTF through expanding the reach of the JTF with additional staff and consultants based in the Brussels UN/UNDP office. A closer coordination and harmonized cooperation between the JTF and the GPECS advisors in the regional centres will also strengthen the JTF work. Due to the expertise that the JTF has acquired during the last years in the areas of resource mobilization, operational support, training activities, guidance for formulation and implementation of projects, and having in mind the overall benefits to national electoral processes from performance of JTF, the GPECS will deliver the electoral cycle support at the national level drawing on the expertise of the JTF. The Country Component will be coordinated by the Coordinator of the Joint EC-UNDP Task Force including the relevant work of the HQ Policy Specialists and Procurement Specialists. |
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