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The United Nations Development Assistance Framework

The UNDP Country Programme likewise represents the UNDP contribution to the achievement of the outcomes of the 2007-2011 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Jamaica. The UNDAF seeks to focus on the areas where the United Nations as a whole can most effectively help address national priorities.

Based on the analysis of the country’s situation from the CCA, the United Nations Country Team, in close cooperation with key Government agencies, has identified five national thematic priority areas and five corresponding United Nations outcomes to be achieved in the period 2007-2011:

  • Education (UNDAF Outcome 1): By 2011, the quality, relevance and equity of all levels of education improved and learning achievements of children increased.
  • HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care (UNDAF Outcome 2): By 2011, have a sustained, coordinated multi-sectoral national response to the HIV epidemic to ensure universal access.
  • Environment and Poverty (UNDAF Outcome 3): By 2011, national capacity to ensure equity and equality strengthened, and the population of targeted vulnerable communities enabled to reduce poverty, improve their livelihoods and better manage hazards and the environment.
  • Health (UNDAF Outcome 4): By 2011, national capacity at all levels strengthened to improve quality of life through promotion of healthy lifestyles and the delivery of equitable, integrated quality health services.
  • Security, Peace and Justice (UNDAF Outcome 5): By 2011, increased capacity of Government and targeted communities to attain a more peaceful, secure and just society.

Crosscutting issues throughout the UNDAF include good governance, gender, cultural identity, disaster risk reduction, human rights, capacity development, the application of ICT to priority areas of development, and the capacity for emergence of a global partnership for development.

Through our Country Programme, UNDP particularly contributes to UNDAF Outcomes 2 (HIV/AIDS), 3 (Environment and Poverty) and 5 (Security, Peace and Justice). We also are in a unique position to use our crosscutting role and mandate to contribute substantively to all priority areas through the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs.