administrative overheads, human resourcing has been combined with other International Labour Organization projects in some country offices. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime and Interpol implement the Protection Pillar of Project Childhood. An external review of the project implementation plan in 2011 revealed that the office was struggling to deliver the project to AusAID quality standards, particularly in the areas of gender and monitoring and evaluation. This indicates that there are not sufficient resources to deliver some key areas of development work. AusAID has delivered the message that program quality will need to improve and that gender and monitoring and evaluation expertise must be engaged to ensure the program is equipped with the right systems and tools to make an impact and measure results. The United Nations Office of and Crime is also the multilateral partner that implements work under the HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Program within Burma and Lao PDR. Delays in work plan delivery and implementation on the part of United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, combined with delays due to internal government consultation and restrictions, have resulted in significant bottlenecks in implementation, underspends, and a lower than expected fund disbursement rate in Burma and Laos. The contract for work in Laos ends in July 2012 and will be extended for six months until December 2012 as we go through the transition to country support units. This will ensure that there is no disruption to harm reduction service delivery and to the peer educatory network. The contract will not be renewed beyond this period given the establishment of new Laos implementation arrangements for the program by January 2013. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime contract for work in Burma ends in December 2012 and a transition plan for HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Program services will be submitted to AusAID by end of June 2012. An independent review of the program in Burma will be completed in 2012 to assess previous implementation and inform AusAID of existing gaps to be addressed from 2013 to 2015. Management consequences previous year – The following progress has been made to address the previous year’s program management issues. An appropriate engagement between the ASEAN Committee of Permanent Representatives and senior AusAID officials has been established. The Joint Cooperation Committee met for the first time in October 2011 with a focus broadly on development cooperation between AusAID and ASEAN. This will enable the ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation Program Phase II Joint Program Review Committee to focus on program matters. Senior AusAID officers continued to develop and foster relationships with senior officials in ASEAN and APEC through attendance at key regional senior official and ministerial meetings.
administrative overheads, human resourcing has been combined with other International Labour Organization projects in some country offices. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime and Interpol implement the Protection Pillar of Project Childhood. An external review of the project implementation plan in 2011 revealed that the office was struggling to deliver the project to AusAID quality standards, particularly in the areas of gender and monitoring and evaluation. This indicates that there are not sufficient resources to deliver some key areas of development work. AusAID has delivered the message that program quality will need to improve and that gender and monitoring and evaluation expertise must be engaged to ensure the program is equipped with the right systems and tools to make an impact and measure results. The United Nations Office of and Crime is also the multilateral partner that implements work under the HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Program within Burma and Lao PDR. Delays in work plan delivery and implementation on the part of United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, combined with delays due to internal government consultation and restrictions, have resulted in significant bottlenecks in implementation, underspends, and a lower than expected fund disbursement rate in Burma and Laos. The contract for work in Laos ends in July 2012 and will be extended for six months until December 2012 as we go through the transition to country support units. This will ensure that there is no disruption to harm reduction service delivery and to the peer educatory network. The contract will not be renewed beyond this period given the establishment of new Laos implementation arrangements for the program by January 2013. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime contract for work in Burma ends in December 2012 and a transition plan for HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Program services will be submitted to AusAID by end of June 2012. An independent review of the program in Burma will be completed in 2012 to assess previous implementation and inform AusAID of existing gaps to be addressed from 2013 to 2015. Management consequences – previous year The following progress has been made to address the previous year’s program management issues. An appropriate engagement between the ASEAN Committee of Permanent Representatives and senior AusAID officials has been established. The Joint Cooperation Committee met for the first time in October 2011 with a focus broadly on development cooperation between AusAID and ASEAN. This will enable the ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation Program Phase II Joint Program Review Committee to focus on program matters. Senior AusAID officers continued to develop and foster relationships with senior officials in ASEAN and APEC through attendance at key regional senior official and ministerial meetings.
east-Asia-appr-2011.docx