Norway: Director United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Oslo Governance Centre

Nov 20, 2014 | UNDP, DevNet

The Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan.  BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas.  BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Response Unit (CRU) to support emergency and crisis response.  BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP, including through its six Global Policy Centres (GPCs) and partners to be more innovative, and knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.

The Oslo Governance Centre, building on UNDP’s expertise in human development, democratic governance and conflict prevention, is to become a global centre for policy development and applied research with an overarching focus on democratic governance and peacebuilding in crisis, conflict and transitional contexts. The OGC will work with Norwegian, Nordic and partners from the South in undertaking applied research and developing policy options and tools for governance support in order to find practical solutions on the ground which address: (1) Governance challenges in countries that are transitioning towards more inclusive institutions and research on diverging pathways towards more inclusive, peaceful, prosperous and resilient societies; (2) Governance of extractive industries in post-crisis and post-conflict settings and its impact on sustainable development pathways and progress towards more inclusive institutions and (3) the governance of inclusion, and in particular how societies evolving from crisis and conflict address gender equality and the political and economic empowerment of women.

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