Pilot Countries

One United Nations, the framework that has been elaborated for greater UN coherence - of one programme, one leader, one budgetary framework and one office – expresses the need for unified strategies.

UNESCO fully supports the creation of One UN at the country level, because:

It helps all UN organizations, funds and programmes to make collective, strategic contributions in response to national and international development priorities and internationally agreed development objectives, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

It lets Member States to draw on the full range of resources, knowledge and sectoral expertise, which often resides in the Specialized Agencies.

It helps maintain the linkage between the global normative, policy, advocacy and monitoring functions, and operational activities of the Specialized Agencies: normative work should be done in a response to on-the-ground experiences, which in turn need to inform the normative work on universal principles and guidelines.

This is why UNESCO is determined to strengthen its field orientation, increase its involvement in UN Country Teams and contribute to UN common country programming exercises and reform initiatives at the country level. UNESCO is committed to the One United Nations approach enabling the UN system to “deliver as one” and to fully participate in the eight 2007 pilot countries. These pilots serve as experiments for trying out different modalities, in particular as concerns the One UN concept – One Leader, One Plan/Programme, One Budgetary Framework and One Office-, drawing lessons and learning from mistakes.