Updated version of the 2007 CCA/UNDAF guidelines approved by UNDG on 29 January 2009 and disseminated to UNCTs in February 2009.

This Guidance Note describes how UN Country Teams can support national Poverty Reduction Strategies, including Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) in those countries where governments have accepted to undertake PRSPs, and the relationship between CCA, UNDAF and PRSP. It has been prepared by UNDG because its members agree that the PRSP represents an important opportunity for the UN at country level to support the poverty reduction efforts of programme countries, and because Country Teams and governments have asked for clarification with regard to the different instruments.

The paper articulates the common UNDG policy and offers practitioners a tool for integrating capacity development into programming activities.

Agreed by the UN Development Group on 27 August 2008, this document provides a clear framework in which both accountability and management can be exercised effectively by the different actors and levels of the UN development and Resident Coordinator System.

This guidance note highlights the main issues that are likely to arise when preparing a country-level MDG report. It replaces the first one from October 2001 and incorporates many of the findings of the assessment of existing MDGRs taken by UNDP's Evaluation Office in 2003.

This guidance note has been superseded by the 2003 MDGR guidance.

Integration of refugee, IDP and displacement issues into CCA and UNDAF