UNDP - Institutional strengthening for FfD and SDGs, INFF 2021-24 UNDP - Institutionsutveckling för utvecklingsfinansiering och SDGs, INFF 2021-24 UNDP har inrättat en INFF - facilitet för att stödja länder att stärka de nationella finansieringssystemen till stöd för nationella utvecklingsplaner anpassade efter Agenda 2030. INFF-faciliteten kommer att genomföra insatser under en treårsperiod i en portfölj av länder. Genom faciliteten strävar UNDP efter att investera i processer på landsnivå och utnyttja kunskap och teknisk kapacitet i olika länder och från det internationella samfundet att hjälpa regeringar och deras partner att stärka institutionerna och övervinna tekniska flaskhalsar till finansiering för hållbar utveckling. INFF-faciliteten bör ses som ett sätt att samla expertutlåtanden och stödja länder på ett systematiskt och konsekvent sätt kring finansiering för utveckling. UNDP placerar partnerskap med andra FN-organ, internationella organisationer och utvecklingspartners samt inom finans- och utvecklingssektorerna som avgörande för INFF:s slutnäring.UNDP investerar i dessa partnerskap som en del av sin tjänsteleverans, i syfte att säkerställa att olika aktörer samarbetar för att stödja landsledda strategier för att finansiera hållbar utveckling. Att fördjupa och etablera partnerskap är en integrerad del av själva förändringsteorin och hörntonen i genomförandestrategin. UNDP has established an INFF facility to support countries to strengthen national financing systems in support of SDG- aligned national development plans. The INFF Facility is set to deliver interventions over a three year period in a portfolio of countries. Through the facility, UNDP aim to invest in country-level processses and harness knowledge and technical capacity across countries and from the international community to help governments and their partners strengthen institutions and overcome technical bottlenecks to financing for sustainable development. The INFF facility should be seen as a way to gather expertice and to support countries in a systematic and coherent way around finacning for development. UNDP places partnerships with other UN agencies, international organizations and development partners as well as across the finance and development sectors as critical to the INFF endevour. UNDP invests in these partnerships as part of its service delivery, with a view to ensuring that different actors work together in support of country led approaches to financing sustainable development. Deepening and establishing partnerships is an integral part of the theory of change itself as well as the cornerston of the implementation strategy. The objectives of the intervention have been sligthly up-dated as part of the process of revising and updating the Theory of Change and Results monitoring framework, RMF . The main objective of the proposed up-dated programme by UNDP, is to contribute to the operationalization of the Addis Abeba Action Agenda and progress towards the SDGs at the country level. 

A general comment to the up-dated programme document is that the strategic direction of the programme and implementation remains. The revision of objectives and outputs should be seen as an equation of adaptation to learnings and results and is hence adaptive management rather than major changes in direction of programming and implementation. 

The proposed programme will support the operationalisation of INFFs to strengthen national financing systems in support of SDG aligned national development plans. The programme will invest in country-level processes and harness knowledge and technical capacity from the international community to help governments and their partners strengthen institutions and overcome technical bottlenecks to financing for sustainable development.

The programme has four outputs, which over the agreement period have been aligned with the overall INFF facility Joint programme framework, and hence adjusted from 3 to 4 components as compared to original agreement (already adjusted in approved workplan and budget for 2023): 

1) Governments strengthen collaboration across public and private actors in operationalizing INFFs to ensure national institutional functions are in place to design and implemement inclusive financing policies and reforms. 

This is focused on providing support to strengthen the institutions delivering INFFs at the national level with emphasis on building inclusive, multistakeholder approaches. 

2) Countries implement financing priorities as identified through INFFs. This is focused on providing technical support and capacity development to governments and their partners at the country level as they develop and operationalize INFFs, identify entry-points and barriers for transforming their financial ecosystems, and deploy SDG financing tools to address them. 

3) Governments and their partners access, share and exchange knowledge, insights and tools in support of the operationalisation of INFFs. This is focused on bringing cutting edge tools, knowledge, training, and advocacy (on policy and institutional reform, finance instruments, impact management etc) relevant to the country context. 

4) Strengthened agenda setting and coherence across international partners in supporting INFFs - focused on engagement in global processes, and promoting alignment and coordination of support on SDG financing tools and technical support. 

There is no change in the assessment of its contribution to Sida's vision 2023, Sida's operational plan 2022-2024 and priorities in the Strategy for Capacity Development, partnership and methods that support the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development (goal area 1.1, 1.2 and goal area 2). 

The programme is well aligned with Sida's vision 2023, the objectives set out in Sida's operational plan 2022-2024 and the priorities in the Strategy for Capacity Development, partnership and methods that support the 2030 agenda for Sustainable development. The intervention has its focus on strengthening country capacity for Financing for Development and Institution building, but aims at the same time to contribute to peer to peer learning and institutional learning at both country and global level. 

The intervention has its focus on contributing to the following strategy goals: 

1.1. Strengthened institutional capacity of actors in partner countries for sustainable development and poverty reduction. 

1.2. Better possibilities and strengthened capacity for actors in partner countries to implment, follow up and participate in the global dialgoue on the 2030 Agenda. 

The Intervention also contributes to goal area 2 of the same strategy, with focus on: 

Strengthened capacity and leadership, greater knowledge and engagement among a range of actors, including Swedish actors, ability to contribute to the global implementation of the 2030 Agenda.