Regional MDG Quick wins initiative

							Regional MDG Quick Impact
         Initiative
      Emerging Donors Workshop
       6 March 2007, Budapest
            Parviz Fartash
      Senior Programme Adviser
       UNDP, RBEC, New York
             Gaps in Achieving the MDG in
                  Lower-Income CIS
                                          Gender
                   Income     School      equality at   Child       Maternal               Water
Countries\Goals    poverty    enrolment   school        mortality   mortality   HIV/AIDS   access
Lower income CIS
Azerbaijan

Georgia

Moldova

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan




                   unlikely               maybe                     likely                 no data
      Rationale for the proposal
• Extension of UNDP’s emerging donor
  initiative
• MDG as a priority framework
• An opportunity to pool funds for achieving
  the MDGs
• A tool to harmonize ODA and increase aid
  effectiveness
              Selected countries
• Three of poorest countries in Central Asia and Caucasus
  region – Georgia, Moldova and Tajikistan;
• These countries have worked on aligning their National
  Development Strategies on achieving the MDG;
• Projects identified in the course of MDG based needs
  assessments;
• The projects focus on community development,
  rehabilitation of schools, irrigation systems, access to
  drinking water, and other areas related to the
  achievement of MDGs;
• Quick impact criteria: results in a short period of time,
  prospects for scaling up at the national level.
                  Georgia
• Five projects selected in two regions -
  Abkhasia and Zugdidi;
• Rehabilitation of an irrigation canal and its
  banks, restored access to drinking water;
• Rehabilitation of two schools;
• Total budget: 610,000 USD
                Moldova
• Four projects selected, including:
• Ensuring access to safe drinking water in
  the village of Trebujeni – 50,000 USD
• Modernizing local administration in Rezina
  through e-governance tools – 50,000 USD
                Tajikistan
• A pilot dedicated to MDG planning and
  implementation at the local level;
• Establish a resource center in one
  Municipality – Rudaki, to mobilize the
  community and manage micro-finance
  activities;
• Total budget: 150-200,000 USD
  depending on size of fund for micro-
  finance activities.