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The UN - Working as One in Sierra Leone

 

 

United Nations Development Programme
UNDP

United Nations Population Fund
UNFPA

United Nations International Children's Fund
UNICEF

 World Food Programme
WFP

 Food and Agriculture Organisation for the United Nations
FAO

 World Health Organisation
WHO

 

 International Organisation for Migration
IOM

 United Nations High Commission for Refugees
UNHCR

 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNAIDS

UN Women
UN Women

 United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
UNIDO 

African Development Bank
 AFDB

World Bank
 World Bank

 

 
UNOPS


ILO


UNEP

UNESCO
UNESCO

UNODC

         

 

Back in December 2008, UNIPSIL, along with UN Agencies, Funds and Programs working as the UN Country Team (UNCT) in Sierra Leone, adopted a Joint Vision under which they agreed to combine their efforts to further the consolidation of peace. UNIPSIL and the UNCT established common facilities and services such as joint regional offices, a multi-donor fund, a joint strategic unit, a medical facility, security services and a vehicle repair shop in order to enable the UN to deliver as one by maximizing synergies and avoiding duplication and overlapping of interventions. 

UNIPSIL’s approach to bring together the political, humanitarian and development mandate of the various UN Agencies, Funds and Programs whilst at the same time sharing of joint facilities and services with the members of the UNCT, made UNIPSIL unique among the United Nations’ peacebuilding offices around the world. 

UNIPSIL together with UN Agencies, Funds and Programs in Sierra Leone recognized their joint responsibility for a fully integrated peacebuilding mission as called for by the UN Security Council. Therefore they agreed to combine their efforts and resources behind this Joint Vision in support of the Government of Sierra Leone and the people of this country. In this Joint Vision for Sierra Leone, the UN organisations in Sierra Leone, which have organised themselves in the UN Country Team (UNCT) as the main common co-ordination body in country, defined the common priorities that guided the common activities. In this Joint Vision the UNCT set out a number of joint planning, implementation and coordination mechanisms with the aim of enhancing the impact of the United Nations’ assistance as part of the international communities’ efforts of consolidating peace and promoting sustainable development in Sierra Leone.

 
The Joint Vision defined the UNCT’s contribution to implementing the Government’s Agenda for Change, to accomplishing the mandate given to the UN organisations in Sierra Leone by the Security Council and to supporting the goals and work of the UN Peacebuilding Commission. The Joint Vision covered the initial period from 2009 to 2012. 

Members of the UNCT included:

 

Agency

Name

Title

UN

Mr. Jens Toyberg-Frandzen

ERSG/RC/RR

AfDB

Dr. Yero H.J. Baldeh

Representative

DSS

Mr. Andrei Bobylev

UN CSA

FAO

Mr. Gabriel Rugalema

Representative

ILO

Mr. Munya Hove

Programme Manager

IMF

Mr. Francis Kumah

Representative

IOM

Mr. Sanusi Savage

Head of Office

OHCHR

Ms. Fernanda Guimaraes

Representative

UN Women

n/a

n/a

UNAIDS

Dr. Job Sagbohan

Country Coordinator

UNCDF

Dr. Neil Webster

Regional Technical Advisor

UNDP

Mr. Sudipto Mukerjee

Country Director

UNESCO

Mr. Tirso Dos Santos

Regional Representative

UNFPA

Mr. Bannet Ndyanabangi

Representative

UNHCR

Mr. Jean Bosco Rushatsi

Representative

UNICEF

Mr. Roeland Monasch

Representative

UNIDO

Mr. Kelleh Mansaray

OiC Head of Operations

UNODC

Mr. Marco Teixeira

Programme Coordinator

UNOPS

Ms. Jeanne Diokh Sadio

Officer in Charge

WFP

Mr. Gon Myers

Representative

WHO

Dr. Teniin Gakuruh

O.I.C

World Bank

Mr. Francis Ato Brown

Country Manager