Update on the
UNICEF Strategic
Plan, 2018-2021
February 2017
Outline
The Context
Purpose of the Strategic Plan
Lessons Learned
Guiding Principles
Draft Key Elements of the Strategic Plan
The proposed framework
The ‘WHAT’ (result areas)
The ‘HOW’ (change strategies)
The ‘Enablers’
Outline of the Strategic Plan narrative
Next Steps
The Context
The Context
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...but we can have a considerable impact, with a set of clear,
focused goals.
...and by starting with the most deprived.
This forms the basis for UNICEF’s 2018-2021 Strategic Plan.
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Purpose and
Approach of
the 2018-2021
Strategic Plan
Purpose of the Strategic Plan
To enhance the impact of UNICEF’s work for children by:
Aligning the work of different
parts of the organization
around common goals and
strategies
Assisting the
organization to make
strategic choices
Creating a communication
vehicle internally and
externally on what UNICEF
aims to achieve for children
Strengthening the
organization’s
accountability
framework
The Strategic Plan will reflect UNICEF’s commitment to delivering
results for all children in the context of the SDGs.
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Overall approach
Build on
lessons learned
from the Mid
Term Review
Emphasize
UNICEF’s
contribution to
the SDGs; 2021
results as a
stepping stone
to 2030
Attention to
multi-sectoral
issues of
sustainability,
equity, gender
and the
humanitariandevelopment
nexus
Lessons Learned
from the 2014-2017
Strategic Plan
Overall Lessons Learned
highlight the importance of…
 Intensifying community
mobilization
 Stronger private sector
engagement
 Strengthening national
service delivery systems
 Multi-sectoral planning
and action
 Enhanced systems for
humanitarian response
and risk-informed
programming
 Greater focus on
reaching the most
disadvantaged children
in national plans
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Guiding
Principles and
Design
Considerations
SP Design Considerations
What is different; what is reinforced?
 The Strategic Plan will include 2021
 Addressing QCPR implications
results in the context of 2030 goals
 There will be an increased focus on
 Focus on UNICEF’s universal
adolescents
mandate in response to both the CRC
and SDGs – CRC and SDGs (1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6 and 16.) reinforced; and the call
“leave no child behind
 Build on progress in addressing
gender equality
 Provide clear indicators on
 Addressing equity and sustainability
humanitarian response and
– addressed through dedicated Goal
humanitarian-development
Areas as well in a cross-cutting way
 Clear change strategies (HOW) and
Enablers
integration in results framework
Key elements of
the 2018-2021
Strategic Plan
Proposed Key Elements of the Strategic Plan
2030
2021
GOAL AREA 1
GOAL AREA 2
GOAL AREA 3
GOAL AREA 4
GOAL AREA 5
EVERY CHILD
SURVIVES
AND THRIVES
EVERY CHILD
LEARNS
EVERY CHILD
IS PROTECTED
FROM
VIOLENCE AND
EXPLOITATION
EVERY CHILD
LIVES IN A SAFE
AND CLEAN
ENVIRONMENT
EVERY CHILD
HAS AN
EQUITABLE
CHANCE IN
LIFE
25 RESULT AREAS
WHO: The most disadvantaged children everywhere
HOW: change strategies
ENABLERS: helps deliver the HOW
Summary proposal on the Result Areas
2030
GOAL AREA 1
GOAL AREA 2
GOAL AREA 3
GOAL AREA 4
GOAL AREA 5
EVERY CHILD
SURVIVES
AND THRIVES
EVERY CHILD
LEARNS
EVERY CHILD
IS PROTECTED
FROM
VIOLENCE AND
EXPLOITATION
EVERY CHILD
LIVES IN A
SAFE AND
CLEAN
ENVIRONMENT
EVERY CHILD
HAS AN
EQUITABLE
CHANCE IN
LIFE
 safe drinking
water
 basic
sanitation
 disaster risk
reduction and
social
cohesion
 childresponsive
urban settings
 environmental
pollution and
climate action
 gender equality
 maternal and
newborn care
 immunization
2021
 childhood
illnesses
 early childhood
development
 genderresponsive
adolescent
health and
nutrition
 HIV/AIDS
 adolescent
empowerment
 multidimensional
child poverty;
social protection
 integrated
support for girls
and boys with
disabilities
RESULT AREAS
 violence
 harmful
practices
 learning
against girls and
outcomes
boys
 skills
 access to justice
development of
 grave violations
adolescents girls
against girls and
and boys
boys in
humanitarian
situations
 birth
registration*
 rights of child
migrants*
 nutritional status  out-of-school
of children
girls and boys
Cross-cutting priorities
 Gender Equality
 Humanitarian Response
WHO: The most disadvantaged children everywhere
* may
become
indicators
Summary proposal on the HOW
2030
GOAL AREA 1
GOAL AREA 2
GOAL AREA 3
GOAL AREA 4
GOAL AREA 5
EVERY CHILD
SURVIVES
AND
THRIVES
EVERY
CHILD
LEARNS
EVERY CHILD
IS PROTECTED
FROM
VIOLENCE AND
EXPLOITATION
EVERY CHILD
LIVES IN A
SAFE AND
CLEAN
ENVIRONMENT
EVERY CHILD
HAS AN
EQUITABLE
CHANCE IN
LIFE
25 RESULT AREAS
2021
HOW: change strategies
1. Programming excellence for at-scale results for children:
(Cross sectoral programming) (Systems strengthening and service delivery; Humanitarian and development integration; Genderinformed programming; Community dialogue and behaviour change; South-south and horizontal cooperation)
2. Winning support for the cause of children from decision makers and the wider public:
(Advocacy, public engagement, communication and movements; Children as change agents)
3. Develop and leverage resources and partnerships for children:
(Leveraging resources for children; Resource mobilization)
4. Harnessing the power of business and markets for children:
(Leveraging private sector/corporate partnerships; Market shaping)
5. UN working together
(Strengthen system coherence)
6. Fostering innovations in programming and advocacy processes and practices
(Promote the use of new technologies)
7. Harnessing the power of evidence as a driver of change for children
(Evaluations, research and data)
Updated HOW Strategies
1. Programming excellence for at-scale results for
children:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
Fostering cross-sectoral and multisectoral programming that responds to children
holistically and to the environment in which they grow up (Cross sectoral
programming);
Improve the delivery of essential services to the most disadvantaged children,
directly and through policy and system strengthening (Systems strengthening and
service delivery);
Enhancing at-scale capacity for humanitarian action and develop results-focused
programming on the humanitarian development nexus, including on accountability
to vulnerable and affected people, preparedness, recovery and resilient
development (Humanitarian and development integration);
Strengthening gender-informed programming in all areas of UNICEF’s work
(Gender-informed programming);
Promoting behaviours, demand for services and social norms that contribute to the
realization of child rights, directly and through policy and system strengthening
(Community dialogue and behaviour change);
Promoting cooperation, share lessons learned, best practices and foster innovation
between countries and across regions (South-south and horizontal cooperation).
Updated HOW Strategies
2. Winning support for the cause of children from
decision makers and the wider public:
i.
ii.
Becoming an even stronger advocacy, campaigning and
communications force for children, strengthening the
UNICEF brand, and working with others to build alliances
and movements for change. Through this public
engagement we make progress towards the goal of
recruiting millions of supporters to our cause: to give, to
advocate and volunteer (Advocacy, public engagement,
communication and movements);
Helping support young people and children as agents of
change (Children as change agents);
Updated HOW Strategies
3. Develop and leverage resources and
partnerships for children:
i.
ii.
Leveraging resources and partnerships for children,
including by influencing domestic planning, financing and
delivery of services for children (Leveraging resources for
children)
Mobilizing resources for UNICEF from governments and
the private sector to maximize longer term, flexible and
predictable revenue in support of programmes for children
(Resource mobilization)
Updated HOW Strategies
4. Harnessing the power of business and markets
for children:
i.
ii.
Leveraging the power of the private sector to improve the
lives of children around the world, through harnessing
their core business, their innovation and ensuring that
they uphold child rights. (Leveraging private
sector/corporate partnerships)
Developing products, technologies and global and local
markets for children - including pursuing a R&D pipeline
of vaccines, medicines, technologies for achievement of
SDG targets, reduction of market barriers that prevent
access to essential supplies for children (Market shaping)
Updated HOW Strategies
5. UN working together
i.
In line with the quadrennial comprehensive policy review,
work collaboratively with other United Nations entities to
strengthen system coherence towards greater results for
children, more integrated approaches to the 2030
Agenda, and increased alignment with national
government priorities and plans (Strengthen system
coherence)
Updated HOW Strategies
6. Fostering innovations in programming and
advocacy processes and practices
i.
Promoting the use of new technologies to more efficiently
and effectively serve children, especially the most
disadvantaged (Promote the use of new technologies)
7. Harnessing the power of evidence as a driver of
change for children
i.
Generating, synthesizing and promoting the use of
evaluations, research and data about child well-being to
catalyze change, including through new and existing
partnerships (Evaluations, research and data)
Updated ENABLERS
2030
GOAL AREA 1
GOAL AREA 2
GOAL AREA 3
GOAL AREA 4
GOAL AREA 5
EVERY CHILD
SURVIVES AND
THRIVES
EVERY CHILD
LEARNS
EVERY CHILD IS
PROTECTED
FROM VIOLENCE
AND
EXPLOITATION
EVERY CHILD
LIVES IN A SAFE
AND CLEAN
ENVIRONMENT
EVERY CHILD
HAS AN
EQUITABLE
CHANCE IN
LIFE
2021
25 RESULT AREAS
1. Governance
(Modern, transparent and accountable governance for the organization)
2. Management
(Results oriented, efficient, effective, and collaborative management)
3. People
(Versatile staff, staff as agents of change)
4. Knowledge and information systems
(Efficient, safe and secure systems connecting results & people)
Updated ENABLERS
1. Modern, transparent and accountable governance:
i.
ii.
Risk management
Efficient operating processes - simplification, technology &
innovation, vertical and horizontal integration – GSSC & BOS)
iii. Greening
iv. Accessibility
v. Publicly trackable results (IATI)
vi. Working in different contexts – HIC, MICs, LDCs, fragile contexts
vii. Independent oversight bodies and management response
Updated ENABLERS
2. Results oriented, efficient, effective and collaborative
management at all levels:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
RBM/RBB strengthening, including team approach to management for
results and clear accountabilities for quality assurance of RBM process;
and staff development on programme and project management as core
skills
Strengthening Evaluation and Lessons Learned – as key parts of mid
course adjustment to programme implementation
Value for Money as management principle
Fraud prevention as management principle
Make progress towards matrix management across the organization
Updated ENABLERS
3. People - versatile staff as agents of change:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
Gender and geographical diversity at team level
Versatility, learning, voice, agency and collaboration/knowledge transfer
as core skills of staff (recruitment, training & performance management
strategies)
Mobile workforce across geography, sectors (development and
humanitarian work) in support of the priorities of the Strategic Plan
Performance management (Individual performance linked to team
performance)
Compliance with conflict of interest and disclosure policy
Updated ENABLERS
4. Knowledge and information systems - efficient
knowledge and information systems:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
All knowledge and information systems contribute to either
programmatic results or organizational efficiency and effectiveness
results
Collaborative knowledge exchange arrangements and
mechanisms
Child Safeguarding Policy operationalized
Key element of business continuity
Indicative Outline of Strategic Plan 2018-2021
I. Overview
II. Strategic
Approach
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Context
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Lessons learned
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Priorities and
opportunities; A
vision for 2021
and beyond

Guiding
principles
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III. Annex
Goal areas
 Integrated resource
plan 2018-2021
Contributions to
international agenda
 Integrated results and
Result areas
resources framework
Cross-cutting priorities
2018-2021
Change strategies
Organizational
effectiveness and efficiency The Strategic Plan will
be accompanied by a
Mitigating risks
Results Framework
Effective results-based
that includes
management
indicators, baselines
Conclusion
and targets
Draft decision
Finalizing the SP
1. Deliverables:
i. SP (narrative) Board document – March 2017
ii. Results Framework – March/April 2017
iii. Integrated Results & Resources Framework – the link between
SP and the Integrated Budget – March 2017
iv. Annexes – SP Theory of Change, others – April/May 2017
v. Harmonizing with other agencies (chapeau, ‘common indicators’
and IRRF structure, etc.) – March-May
2. Ongoing work:
i.
The SP narrative document, including around humanitarian
action, gender equality, equity, child rights and the CRC, etc.
ii. Refine result statements to portray UNICEF’s contribution
iii. Develop the full Results Framework, including indicators that
are measurable on an annual basis and identify baselines,
annual milestones and end of cycle targets
Proposed timelines for
the SP and IB processes
Date
Item
Type of engagement
25 Aug 2016
Road map to the Strategic Plan
Informal briefing / consultation
Second Regular
Session - Sep 2016
Road map to the Strategic Plan
For information
Oct - Nov 2016
Development of Discussion Paper for
consultation purposes only
Consultation purposes (not
official Board paper)
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Consultation with the private sector, civil
society, and within UNICEF
Consultation
14 Dec 2016
Updated road map
Informal briefing
23 Jan 2017
Updated road map and draft outline
Informal briefing
10 Feb 2017
Informal workshop on the Strategic Plan
Informal consultation /
Workshop with Member States
Apr / May 2017
UNICEF Strategic Plan – draft for review
Informal briefing
Annual Session Jun 2017
UNICEF Strategic Plan – draft for review
For information
Jul 2017
Review of draft Integrated Budget by ACABQ
For information
Jul 2017
UNICEF Strategic Plan – final version
Informal briefing
Second Regular
Session - Sep 2017
UNICEF Strategic Plan, Integrated Budget
and Gender Action Plan – final versions
For decision