Country team was Ministry of Agriculture SWAP is not working There seems to be no established by the sector because of the planning between the working group with WFP, duplication of resources. stakeholders. SWAP also established were Natural Resources Reps Lack of communication Economic melt- down Howard Mbuyisa from the PM office, between the sectors. seems to be have MECD and Agriculture. Lack of understanding of impacted heavily on the This team seems to be SWAP by the sector. progress and proper working together Lack of training for critical implementation of downstream with the SWAP staff SWAP. goal of producing food for the nation. Swaziland Women Creation of a Strategy for Trying to create some UNWOMEN UNWOMEN has no MOU As a result of Economic Empowerment the registration of women capacity building with UNDP and the anomalies UNWOMEN Trust (SWEET) this was in informal cross border activities for the ministry of Commerce. project is closing down Women in informal Cross an initiative to create a trade. Creation of a Structurally. Reporting December 2013. Border Trade microfinance entity for website to allow the structures are not A steering committee women to bank and loan women to advertise their was supposed to be Mduduzi Kunene Priorities at UN Women money from. products and services. created to help with Reporting at present have changed following Data collection to see guidance and reporting goes to UNWOMEN the leadership change and what contribution to the issues. Funds for this SME and then UNDP. hence no more funds will GDP the women are were never allocated. be allocated to this making. initiative. There seems to UNWOMEN does not be a breakdown in Budgeting was done very have a country office and relations between UNDP poorly and as a result has relied on the UNDP and UNWOMEN. very few activities were to execute their mandate. Apparently UNDP was completed. supposed to provide support but this did not happen. Should the project continue there is a need for a coordinator? As a recommendation maybe
Country team was established by the sector working group with WFP, also established were Natural Resources Reps from the PM office, MECD and Agriculture. This team seems to be working together downstream with the goal of producing food for the nation. Ministry of Agriculture SWAP Howard Mbuyisa SWAP is not working because of the duplication of resources. Lack of communication between the sectors. Lack of understanding of SWAP by the sector. Lack of training for critical SWAP staff There seems to be no planning between the stakeholders. Economic melt- down seems to be have impacted heavily on the progress and proper implementation of SWAP. Swaziland Women Economic Empowerment Trust (SWEET) this was an initiative to create a microfinance entity for women to bank and loan money from. Creation of a Strategy for the registration of women in informal cross border trade. Creation of a website to allow the women to advertise their products and services. Data collection to see what contribution to the GDP the women are making. Trying to create some capacity building activities for the A steering committee was supposed to be created to help with guidance and reporting issues. Funds for this were never allocated. Budgeting was done very poorly and as a result very few activities were completed. UNWOMEN Women in informal Cross Border Trade Mduduzi Kunene UNWOMEN has no MOU with UNDP and the ministry of Commerce. Structurally. Reporting structures are not Reporting at present goes to UNWOMEN the SME and then UNDP. UNWOMEN does not have a country office and has relied on the UNDP to execute their mandate. As a result of anomalies UNWOMEN project is closing down December 2013. Priorities at UN Women have changed following leadership change and hence no more funds will be allocated to this initiative. There seems to be a breakdown in relations between UNDP and UNWOMEN. Apparently UNDP was supposed to provide support but this did not happen. Should the project continue there is a need for a coordinator? As a recommendation maybe