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Transperancy
United Nations Development Programme Regional Expenditures in 2010
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has a long-standing commitment to transparency, with UNDP country offices publishing financial, procurement and programme information on respective websites for more than four years. UNDP has developed and published an
Information Disclosure Policy that makes clear our commitment to making information about our programmes and operations available to the public. The organization is also devoting considerable resources to adopting the
International Public Sector Accounting Standards by 2012 which will be a significant step towards further enhancing UNDP's transparency and accountability.
UNDP is planning on implementing the transparency standard adopted by the
International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in a phased and cost-effective approach to provide better quality information to our partners and the public on UNDP's development work. The organization is committed to publishing an initial IATI data set in time for the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, to take place between 29 November and 1 December.
Moreover, as a member of the IATI Secretariat, UNDP has led outreach efforts with partner countries to champion the new aid transparency standard and make it relevant for national development planning, public financial management, mutual accountability and other processes at country level.
UNDP, as administrative agent of multi-partner trust funds and programmes, also publishes continuously updated data on financial flows, including reports and documents, through the
Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office as part of its commitment to transparent and accountable fund administration.
UNDP's performance in aid effectiveness surveys
Performance effectiveness, accountability and transparency are critical ingredients to trusted development partnerships. UNDP has made itself readily available to outside scrutiny through the assessment tools of its partner constituencies.
The United Kingdom's Department for International Development completed a multilateral aid review March 1, 2011 that rated UNDP as satisfactory in the two key criteria. The complete results of the Multilateral Aid Review, including comments from UNDP are available
here.
In the most recent evaluation of UNDP in the Global Accountability Report, was awarded the top accountability score among 30 transnational actors surveyed.
Additional reviews and evaluations of UNDP by other partners are continuing with the shared goal of increasing aid effectiveness.
Taken together, the various assessments of UNDP demonstrate the organization's ambition to continuously enhance its efficiency, effectiveness, accountability and transparency.
Links
Transparency
Financials
UNDP financial report and audited financial statements for the biennium ended 31 Dec 2009 and Report of UN Board of Auditor
Audited Statements
Key Documents
Transparency Initiatives
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