The United Nations in India is led by the UN Resident Coordinator, Mr. Patrice Coeur-Bizot who is also the UNDP Resident Representative in India. The UN Resident Coordinator is the designated representative of the UN Secretary General and Chair Person of the UN Country Team. The UN Country Team, which consists of Heads of UN Agencies, steers the joint work of the UN within India.The Resident Coordinator mechanism focuses on Joint Programmes, Teams (Security, Disaster, Operations Management, Pandemic and Influenza, HIV/AIDS in the Workplace), Advocacy with national and state-level elected representatives, UNDAF planning and monitoring, joint resource mobilization, and popularizing and localizing the Millennium Development Goals.

 

The UN in India has harmonized its plan and delivery with national goals as articulated in the 11th Five-year Plan of the Government of India to facilitate ‘inclusive growth’.   Accordingly, the UNDAF India 2008-2012 focuses on delivering results to the excluded groups, especially women and girls, and was approved by the Planning Commission, Government of India in February 2007.

The UNCT Country Team in India, chaired by the UN Resident Coordinator is currently focused on the implementation of the India UNDAF (United Nation's Development Assistance Framework) 2008-2012. To this end, the Resident Coordinator System facilitates the work of 10 Thematic Clusters working on Poverty & Livelihoods, Hunger & Malnutrition, Education, Health, HIV/AIDS, Gender Based Violence, Governance, Water, Vulnerability Reduction and Convergence.

 

An important knowledge platform that is supported by the UN in India, under the leadership of the Resident Coordinator, for fostering exchange of solutions is the Solution Exchange. Currently the Solution Exchange has thirteen Communities of Practice on themes related above.

 

Joint Advocacy is facilitated through the Office of the Speakers of the Parliament and respective State Legislatures.