📋 Tender Overview
For their 4th annual meeting, the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services have met at United Nations Headquarters in New York for a special High Level interactive session.
With the participation of all UN member countries, the Equatorial Guinean delegation was headed by Anatolio Ndong Mba, Ambassador Permanent Representative of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations Organization in New York.
Under the motto "development pathways out of crises and UNDP support for national development policies", Achim Steiner highlighted the concept of "disruption" as a backdrop to global development, which in 2022 took the form of " polycrisis" and uncertainty, creating a deep sense of insecurity throughout the world.
Despite this, UNDP published the best results of the previous ten years and invested $4.8 billion. Amid the ongoing hardships and socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, UNDP mobilized $2.6 billion in additional reprogrammed and reallocated funds for COVID-19 response and recovery activities. Steiner highlighted the role of UNDP in assisting developing countries in the field of development financing, investment for the 2030 Agenda and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular through the UNDP accelerator labs and development solutions and alternatives based on global good practices.
Concerning the update on UNDP collaboration, the delegations welcomed the cooperation between United Nations organizations and international financial institutions, for the sake of a more effective and efficient global development system, while calling on strengthen collaboration, in particular through innovative financial instruments such as the Sustainable Development Goals and blue and green bonds.
Organizations were urged to fill gaps and obstacles to joint initiatives and Member States have been asked to advocate for enhanced partnerships between United Nations organizations and international financial institutions through governing bodies of said institutions and existing alliances with them. In the same vein, donors were urged to maintain financial support, in particular through regular funding.
Other issues with special attention throughout this interactive High-Level dialogue have been the follow-up to the meetings of the UNAIDS Coordinating Board, Protection against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, the report on human development and the programs for different countries on related matters.
In the second session of this special high-level sit-in, the Equatorial Guinean delegation was represented by Juan de Dios Edjo Memba, third secretary in the permanent mission of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations Organization in the city of Nueva York.
