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Meeting date: 30th November 2009
Agenda Item:
Draft Decision: Project Proposal: Greening as One: UN House
Issue:
The Greening as One initiative aims to support the establishment of a Green UN House in countries that are applying or have committed to apply the Delivering as One UN approach to their modus operandi, and to promote low carbon and sustainable operations of organizations. The proposal responds to two major UN initiatives simultaneously: (i) the UN Chief Executive Board’s decision in October 2007 to adopt the UN Climate Neutrality Strategy, which committed all UN funds, programs and agencies to become Climate Neutral; and (ii) the UN country level reform process through the delivering as one UN approach.
The initial phase of the project aims to support three Delivering as One (DaO) pilot countries – Albania, Cape Verde, and Viet Nam – with the establishment of their Green UN Houses while promoting sustainable operations in UN and non-UN organizations in the three countries. In the subsequent phase, the project will support the preparatory activities for establishing a Green UN House for up to ten other programme countries that already have a UN House that can be renovated into a Green UN House.
While it is clear that common facilities and services through the DaO approach have clearer cost efficiencies, there is a perception that Green Buildings cost significantly more and that their cost benefits are not immediately perceivable. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that Green Buildings can be built with little or no capital cost premium and have attractive pay back periods.
Expected results arising from the decision:
The project target countries are divided into 2 groups and the different sets of activities that would be carried out in them are described below and summarized as part of the resource implications:
Group 1: Albania, Cape Verde and Vietnam
In Albania and Cape Verde, all the activities (1 through 19, as described below) will be undertaken and completed by the end of the project period. Vietnam has already obtained Government approval to renovate and extend an existing building and has raised funds for design and construction. They are about to commence procurement of construction activities. In this particular country, this project will focus on the final assessment, advisory support, documentation, information sharing and dissemination and additional capacity building activities (that is, activities 8 -19), in addition to the ongoing activities already launched.
Group 2: Up to ten other countries that have initiated or are planning to apply the Delivering as One approach and have a building for renovating into the Green One UN House
For this group of countries, this project would support preparatory activities and for developing a proposal for establishing the Green One UN House. Up to ten countries would be selected, in which activities 1 through 6 would be carried out.
| ACTIVITIES | AMOUNT (USD) |
| Act.1-6. Initial assessments and support for resource mobilization (Up to 12 countries, i.e, all except Vietnam) | 1,400,000 |
| Act.7-9. Support for design and construction (2 countries: Albania and Cape Verde) | 550,000 |
| Act. 10. Final Assessment(3 countries: Albania , Cape Verde and Vietnam) | 55,000 |
| Act.11-12.Information sharing and dissemination(3 countries: Albania , Cape Verde and Vietnam) | 145,000 |
| Act 13-19. Sustainable Operations management of UN and Non-UN organizations. (3 countries: Albania , Cape Verde and Vietnam) | 450,000 |
| Overall Project Coordination (International Project Coordinator for 5 years @ 130,000 US$ per year + 100,000 US$ operating cost for 5 years) |
750,000 |
| Advisory support (A Technical Advisor for 5 years @ 10,000 US$ per year ) | 50,000 |
| Total | 3,400,000 |
| UNEP PSC (13 %) | 442,000 |
| Grand Total | 3,842,000 |
Implications for linkages with other groups:
- Common Services: All UN organizations sharing the One UN Houses in Albania, Cape Verde and Vietnam will have adopted and implemented a systematic approach to implement sustainable operations management approaches at the local level, including travel, procurement, office set-up, administration, budgeting, staff training and awareness.
- Capacity Assessment and HR network: In the One UN House, the UNCT can enhance development effectiveness through functional clustering of staff and establish a wide range of common support services yielding cost savings.
- Capacity Development and Aid effectiveness: Bringing in climate neutrality and sustainability into these efforts will enhance the Delivering as One reform objectives by improving efficiency of the UN, while also reducing costs, improving quality of work, and supporting local capacity building in the host country.
Background documentation:
Project Proposal: Greening as One: UN House, UNEP, November 2009
