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This tool is intended to offer useful tips for UNDP to integrate consideration of minorities in each stage of the programme cycle and in some key components of work, such as the MDG/HDR reports and general engagement with civil society. It includes many of the recommendations made in other components of this Resource Guide and Toolkit but is best used in conjunction with more detailed information in the relevant chapters.
COMMON COUNTRY ASSESSMENT (CCA)
- Canvass UNCT experience of working with minorities
- Liaise with any governmental national council on minorities/non-discrimination
- Include an assessment of government capacity on minority issues in the enabling environment and organizational capacity assessments
- Conduct situation analysis of minorities (Tools 1-3 and 7)
- Establish Thematic Group on minorities and/or ensure presence of minority experts and advocates from the governmental and CSO sectors in CCA preparatory consultations
- Include disaggregated data on minorities in CCA across all sectors (Tool 4)
- Ensure minorities are reflected throughout CCA, not only in demographic overview
- Include dedicated analysis on issues of particular importance to minorities (e.g. religious freedom; discrimination in access to employment or education)
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FRAMEWORK (UNDAF)
- Ensure that the situation of minorities as identified in CCA is reflected in UNDAF Goals
- With Thematic Group, set UNDAF Goals or minorities and/or include specific UNDAF Indicators
- Aim to ensure all UNDAF Indicators are disaggregated by ethnic, religious and/or linguistic group
- Use the HRBA Causality Analysis (Tool 3) to identify root causes of marginalisation for minorities and aim to focus on these in the UNDAF
COUNTRY PROGRAMME DOCUMENT (CPD)
- Engage Thematic Groups on minorities in CPD elaboration
- Include measures in CPD to build government capacities for working on issues of minorities
- Aim to ensure the CPD specifically names minorities and considers the particular obstacles they face as distinct from other vulnerable groups; specifically identify minorities as programme beneficiaries
- Ensure that project tenders are produced in minority languages and distributed to minority media outlets and CSOs
- Ensure that TORs for posts include requirements for cultural sensitivity, expertise on non-discrimination and/or encouragement of minorities to apply
- Establish a Diversity Policy for recruitment of new staff (see experience of UNDP Nepal)
- Identify the training needs of UNDP staff on minority issues (e.g. non-discrimination, minority rights standards, knowledge of minority groups and development concerns)
COUNTRY PROGRAMME ACTION PLAN (CPAP)
- Seek out partnerships with minority CSOs for project implementation
- Ensure TORs for project implementation include criteria for monitoring impact of projects on minorities and evidence of relevant knowledge on minority issues
- Include baseline data and indicators for monitoring and evaluation of the impact of projects and programmes on minorities
- Integrate attention to minority issues into relevant CO training
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS REPORTS, NATIONAL HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT REPORTS
- Include disaggregated data tracking how minorities are achieving the MDGs/HDI
- Include dedicated analysis on issues of particular importance to minorities (e.g. environmental impact on minority-specific livelihoods; discrimination in access to employment or education)
- Consider translating summaries of MDG reports and NHDRs into minority languages and/or devising communications strategies to minority regions to disseminate key findings of reports (e.g. radio programmes, features in minority-focused newspapers)
EVALUATION
- Ensure elaboration of TORs for evaluation includes input from minority stakeholders
- Ensure evaluation consultants have expertise on minority issues and non-discrimination
- Provide evaluation consultants with contact info for relevant minority CSOs
- Distribute call for evaluators among minority CSO networks, minority media and in minority languages.
- Ensure that Programme and Project Evaluation Reports evaluate impact on marginalised minority groups (e.g. Tools 4, 6)
ENGAGEMENT WITH CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
- Ensure that minorities can access information on UNDP activities in their country/region (e.g. through translation of documents, dissemination through minority radio/print media, in-community briefings, dissemination via minority CSO networks)
- Actively inform minorities about proposed UNDP projects for their regions
- Offer support to minority CSOs so that they can participate in CSO stakeholder activities (e.g. funding to travel, translation services, background briefings)
- Ensure that CO Civil Society Advisory Committees strive to reflect the ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity of the country; ensure that minorities have some representation in and access to the Committee
- Ensure language accessibility: at a minimum, provide basic information on CO in relevant minority languages; publish documents in minority languages where project activities will affect minorities
- Adapt participation processes to facilitate greater participation by minorities (e.g. language access; longer, more flexible consultation periods; hold meetings in minority areas; respect for traditional decision-making processes of minority communities)
- Participate in events hosted by minority CSOs to build relationships
- In CSO capacity assessments, examine CSO engagement with minority groups (e.g. projects of cooperation with minority CSOs, minority staff, ability to communicate in minority languages, non-discrimination policies, monitoring of impact on minority groups, any field presence in minority areas).
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