GovernanceGovernance arrangements
National Steering Committee
Members ensure Joint Programme relevance, effectiveness and replicability by providing strategic guidance to partners and aligning programme principles with government policies and frameworks. The National Steering Committee is responsible for budgetary, approval, advocacy, and liaison tasks and effectively coordinates action at all levels to improve the relevance and effectiveness of outcomes in San Marcos.
Programme Management Committee
To maintain a dynamic and fluid relationship with local governance partners, members of the Programme Management Committee work to facilitate cross-sector and inter-municipal coordination for the Joint Programme. The Committee monitors policies and strategic guidelines; coordinates complementarity action; reviews work plans, budgets and annual and final reports; identifies good practices, and ensures local development plans and policies are gender sensitive, locally oriented, and risk sensitive.
Operational and Management Coordination Unit
A unit comprising the Programme Manager and Thematic Coordinators, its function is to implement the Annual Operational Plan, liaise with Management Committee as necessary, propose a robust intervention strategy, review operational issues, ensure compliance of report quality to donors, and monitor financial flows for Joint Programme initiatives.
Operations Unit
Members of the Operations Unit articulate Annual Operational Plan, planning and implementing actions to achieve programmatic and operational coherence, achieve greater administrative and budgetary efficiency, enhance cooperation between partners, document lessons learned, track the incorporation of gender equality, and play a role in advocating for, raising the profile, of joint actions, results, and products.
Administrative-Financial Unit
This Unit reports to the Lead Agency and support Programme Officers in providing systematized information so pertinent decisions promote successful joint programme outcomes.
Gender Officer
Ensures the gender approach is integrated across all activities and tasks, and that gender equality is practiced within public institutions that are part of the Joint Programme.
Interagency Committee
This Committee reports programmatic limitations to Programme Officers and Thematic Coordinators and provide instructions on different measures or avenues of recourse.
Administrative Agent
Recipient Organizations receive funds through the Administrative Agent, the MPTF Office. The Administrative Agent handles the receipt, administration and management of contributions from donors, disbursement of funds to Recipient Organizations, and consolidation and dissemination of progress reports to donors.
Participating UN Organizations
Programme implementation is the responsibility of each Participating UN Organization. Each organization is programmatically and financially responsible for resources received.