Task Force - 5 : Regional Efficiency Agenda

Driven by the Un SG’s Recommendation # 5, this special task force focuses on finalising the Regional Business Operations Strategy (R-BOS) towards enhancing the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of Regional Operations. Co-convenors of the task Force (WFP & UNAIDS) are working with several UN agencies and the Regional Operations Management Team (R-OMT), ensuring analytical and advisory roles in developing the R-BOS, coordinating with UNCTs and their Operations Management Teams (OMTs) in identifying programmatic needs and operations support.

Task Force 5

The work of Task Force 5 focuses on finalised the Regional Business Operations Strategy (R-BOS) towards enhancing quality, efficiency and effectiveness of UN Regional Operations in Africa. The Regional Operations Management Team (R-OMT) played analytical and advisory roles in developing the R-BOS, coordinating with UNCTs and their Operations Management Teams (OMTs) in identifying programmatic needs and operations support. The R-BOS was signed off by the RCP Co-chair during the period making Africa among the first regions to meet this requirement. R-OMT provides oversight and quality assurance to OMTs of 37 African countries to complete the first BOS annual review in 2022. Country level BOS also reported massive quality improvement across 6 common service lines against their baseline data. Evidence of the cost avoidance of the BOS at Regional and Country levels could be found on UN Info BOS data monitoring platform: https://data.uninfo.org/Home/_BOSMonitoring.