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UN development assistance to continue until 2021
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ UN Development Assistant Framework (UNDAF) for 2017-2021 for Mongolia was signed on Friday by L.Purevsuren, the Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Beate Trankmann, the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Mongolia.
This document reflects the UN assistance and support for Mongolia, projects and programs to be implemented by the UN in Mongolia. The implementation ways, expected results and the realization monitoring are elaborated in the document as well.
The UNDAF is designed to support Mongolia in translating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the objectives of the Sustainable Development Vision-2030 (SDV) of Mongolia into actions. It is a result of the intensive consultations with participation from different national stakeholders including line ministries and civil society. The GoM and the UN Country Team in Mongolia, pledge to foster cooperation, coordination and partnership, in order to implement this UNDAF”, Minister Purevsuren acknowledged during the official ceremony.
UN Resident Coordinator Beate Trankmann highlighted that “the new UNDAF is an excellent opportunity for the UN system to facilitate an early take off of the SDGs in Mongolia and closely align its support behind the core aspirations of the SDV. The SDGs are ambitious and complex and require all of us including the UN to think and do development differently. We will need to work across sectors and groups in an all-of society effort. And we will need to find new ways of partnerships with the private sector as an engine of job creation and innovation and with the government to create new financing models for development,”
In accordance with the new UNDAF, the UN will give the developmental assistance of USD 79 million to Mongolia over a five-year period to promote inclusive growth and sustainable management of natural resources, to enhance equitable access to quality social services, and to foster voice and accountability.
In the scope of the development assistance, specific projects and programs will be co-implemented by the government of Mongolia and the UN system organizations in Mongolia.
