Common use of Implementation Strategies Clause in Contracts

Implementation Strategies. 93. The main implementation strategies of the One Plan are: (a) advocacy and awareness-raising in partnership with the Government, civil society and donors; (b) technical assistance and capacity-building for law and policy development, based on international laws and standards where appropriate, knowledge management, standard- setting and monitoring; (c) capacity-building for sub-national agencies; (d) strengthening the participation of women, youth/children, and ethnic minorities; (e) improving access to information and behaviour-change communication; and (f) fostering partnerships at different levels. 94. The overall strategy includes special attention to several cross cutting themes as part of a holistic approach to address social inequality, which is also highlighted in the results at several levels (see Annex I). The following implementation criteria are applied across the whole One Plan: (a) A rights based approach will be pursued, to assist Viet Nam in meeting its international commitments to ensure the human rights of its people, and to report to the relevant UN bodies on progress towards achieving international human rights standards; (b) Gender equality will be improved by pursuing ways to ensure that women and men enjoy equal economic, social, political and civil rights, including equal access to social services, decent work, credit and legal protection through gender mainstreaming and specific activities to empower women; and (c) Policies and capacities will be put in place to slow and eventually reverse the spread of HIV and protect, promote and fulfil the rights of PLHIV. 95. Specific action will be taken to infuse such cross cutting perspectives during the implementation of the One Plan. In addition to the systematic integration of these cross cutting issues in projects and programmes, advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation, and the establishment of good practices, specific, targeted initiatives will continue on human rights, gender and HIV. 96. Many of the programmes and projects include both national components and local elements, especially to build capacities of local partner agencies – this is highlighted with several Expected Results in the Results and Resources Framework (RRF) in Annex I. Geographic convergence of service provision and piloting of various innovative initiatives, such as cross-sectoral planning at the local level, are agreed in project/programme documents and annual/biennial work plans. 97. The One Plan includes a limited number of agency specific initiatives and projects that were approved in the period 2001-2005 and are still ongoing for the first years of the One Plan period, and projects that have been approved in 2006 and 2007 with funding from the 2006-2010 CP cycle. The One Plan also provides space for new initiatives that are being formulated or will be proposed by the various parties during the coming years, in response to emerging needs and opportunities. The One Plan incorporates social economic research that will be undertaken and results that will be produced with in-house expertise of Participating UN Organizations. 98. Coordination and collaboration between Participating UN Organizations is increasing. The One Plan provides the basis for increased joint programming and Joint Programmes. Joint programmes now exist for gender, Kon Tum and HIV. Joint