UNSDG-HRM MDTF 2022-2025 UNSDG-HRM MDTF 2022-2025 The UNSDG Human Rights Mainstreaming Fund is a multi-partner pooled fund that is overseen by a Steering Committee comprised of Participating UN Organizations such as OHCHR, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF and UN Women, as well as DCO and the MPTFO. The initiatives it funds are consequently integrated into the work of an important part of the UNDS, reaching at the country level not only RCs, but also many of the entities that form UNCTs. 

The HRM Fund’s value-add is its focus specifically on strengthening the capacity of the UNDS to put human rights at the center of its work through joint actions wherever possible, addressing gaps in the system and providing catalytic resources to UNCTs to respond to emerging human rights priorities and opportunities at country level, including strengthened partnerships with national human rights institutions, duty bearers and rights holders such as civil society organizations and human rights defenders. The HRM Fund is the main vehicle through which RCs and UNCTs receive necessary funding to support inter-agency efforts to better integrate human rights in development work. HRM-fonden är en givargemensam fond med flera FN-organisationer som deltagande genomförande partners. Fonden hanteras av en styrkommitté bestående av vissa av de deltagande FN-organisationerna (OHCHR, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF och UN Women, samt DCO och MPTFO). Fonden finansierar initiativ med syfte att stärka UNDS:s kapacitet att kunna sätta mänskliga rättigheter i centrum. Fonden tillhandahålla katalytiska resurser till FN:s landteam (UNCTs) för att kunna svara upp mot olika behov kring mänskliga rättigheter på landnivå – exempelvis genom att stärkta partnerskap med nationella människorättsinstitutioner, ansvarsbärare och rättighetsinnehavare såsom civilsamhällets organisationer och människorättsförsvarare. HRM-fonden är ett finansieringsverktyg för bland annat FN:s landchefer (RC) och landteam (UNCT) som stödjer gemensamma insatser för att bättre integrera mänskliga rättigheter i utvecklingsarbetet. Overall goal (impact): The UN development system contributes to a society where all people enjoy their human rights, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, as well as the right to development and the right to a healthy environment without discrimination and are empowered to be active partners in development in accordance with the 2030 Agenda and its promise to leave no one behind. This is grounded in the mandate of the UN development system to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

Mission: To support the UN development system (UNDS), particularly the country level, to fully integrate human rights in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, putting people at the centre of development and systematically applying a human rights-based approach, including through the implementation of the Secretary-Generals Call to Action for Human Rights (Call to Action).

Vision: Human rights are at the core of UN development system work at all levels, resident coordinators and UN country teams build the capacities of duty bearers and strive to empower rights holders as active agents in development and will uphold their inherent dignity and rights to ensure no one is left behind.

Output 1. By 2025, the UNDS has advanced policy coherence, thought leadership, and knowledge creation and management on HR in development. This will be achieved through initiatives such as strategic level inter-agency engagements and policy retreats, Frontier Dialogues, joint knowledge management products (e.g. UNSDG Portal on Human Rights and LNOB) and fora for peer-to-peer learning and support.

Output 2. By 2025, RCs and UNCTs have necessary capacities, knowledge, skills, guidance and tools to apply HRBA, putting HR at the core of analysis, programming and advocacy, including to further the implementation of the Call to Action for Human Rights. This will be achieved through initiatives such as human rights leadership and diplomacy support for RCs, training of UNCTs on the HRBA (updated Common Learning Package), surge capacity to support the integration of economic and social rights in policy advice and UNCT processes; and tailored support to UNCTs to jointly address urgent or emerging human rights priorities.

Output 3. By 2025, an increased number of Human Rights Advisers have provided RCs and UNCTs with capacities to put human rights at the centre of their work. This will be achieved through the scaled-up and strengthened Human Rights Adviser programme.

Output 4. By 2025, with support of RCs/UNCTs, national & local governments and NHRIs have stronger capacities to engage with HR mechanisms and integrate HR in development, and human rights defenders, civil society and communities have strengthened capacity and platforms for meaningful participation and advocacy. This will be achieved through, for instance, providing direct funding and catalytic support to RCs and UNCTs to strengthen support and partnership with governments and NHRIs on engaging with human rights mechanisms and integrating human rights in development as well as for strengthened capacity and platforms for meaningful participation and advocacy by rights-holders  including through initiatives such as providing direct support to UNCTs to work with national partners on integrating human rights into SDG responses and SDG planning and programming, and to jointly engage and build capacities of civil society, communities and human rights defenders to meaningfully participate in development processes and priorities.

Interventions supported by the Fund under each of the outputs above may be implemented by Participating UN Organizations through global, regional or country-level initiatives, in collaboration with other UN entities and partners where relevant.