Asia Pacific

Mongolia

SDG Finance - Enabling Environment

Rolling Out an Integrated Approach to the SDG Financing in Mongolia

Total funding allocated
SDG Finance - Enabling Environment
US $ 836954
Co-funding by UN agencies
SDG Finance - Enabling Environment
US $ 80000
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Brief Description

Mongolia was one of the first countries to adopt a national development strategy aligned with SDGs and created its own Sustainable Development Vision for 2030 (SDV) in 2016. Yet, Mongolia’s specific challenges in effective delivery of SDGs, especially in the people (social) domain, are not solely due to the lack of financial resources, but also in the weak link between policies and financing. To mobilize the financial resources to SDV, this Joint Programme aims to improve the alignment of financial resources with the national development policies and planning system.

Approach

The strategy for the JP is to combine three streams of reform activities to turn those into a new financing architecture for Mongolia to finance the Sustainable Development Vision-2030. It will be achieved by 1) strengthening the governance structure, monitoring & review systems of financing SDGs, 2) formulating an integrated national financial strategy, and 3) building capacity of key stakeholders to implement SDG financing strategies, incorporating the international best practices and innovative solutions. The programme will focus on strategies and budget programmes with specific target beneficiaries so LNOB, women, youth and children are at the core of the support to social sector ministries.

Quick facts

Total budget:
US $ 916, 954

UN Agencies:

UNDP, UNICEF


National Partners:

Ministry of Finance, National Development Agency, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, National Audit Office, Development Bank of Mongolia, National Committee in Gender Equality,


Duration:
1 Jul 2020 - 1 Jul 2022

Financial Information
Integrated Policy

Extending Social Protection to Herders with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness


The programme brief description

The UN Joint Programme is guided by a conviction that poverty and climate change vulnerability of Mongolia’s left-behind population – herders and their children – can be effectively addressed. The programme thus seeks to support national authorities and provincial governments in closing the social protection gaps for this population, with a particular emphasis on reducing vulnerabilities to poverty and extreme climate change. Founded in a rights-based approach, the UNJP combines the investment in system development with a practical intervention directly focused on eradicating poverty and protecting herders and their family members from falling into the poverty trap.

Approach

With these objectives in mind, three main areas of intervention were agreed with the Government: i) extension of coverage of herders by identifying innovative and unconventional solutions to enroll herders in social protection schemes; ii) introducing a shock responsive element into the social protection system to ensure herder families and children are increasingly protected from climate related shocks, and, iii) designing and/or mobilizing the budget structure to ensure funding availability and financial sustainability to cater for the modalities proposed. The latter will also indirectly support the Government’s effort to make the public financing system SDG oriented and the possibility of investing in the long-term strategic priorities.

Target groups

Women, children, girls, youth, persons with disabilities, older persons, rural workers, herders.

 

Quick facts

Total budget:
US $ 2,365,000

UN Agencies:

ILO, FAO, UNFPA, UNICEF


National Partners:

Ministry of Labour and Social Protection; Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Light Industry; General Authority for Social Insurance; General Authority for Labour and Welfare Services; General Authority for Health Insurance; National Emergency Management Agency; National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring; National Statistics Office; Labour and Social Protection Research Institute; Agency for Family, Children, and Youth Development; National Center for Lifelong Education; Provincial Governor’s Office


Duration:
February 1, 2020 to June 30, 2022 (28 months)

Financial Information