United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS)

with special reference to the United Nations Joint Programme on Integrated Highland Livelihood

Development in Mae Hong Son

Sources: OCHA/HSU and UNJP-MHS

More Information

• Guidelines for the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security, 6th Revision, 17 June 2011

• Designing a human security programme/project

• HSU website (http://ochaonline.un.org/Default.aspx?alias=ochaonline.un.org/humansecurity)

• Project document of the UNJP-MHS

• UNJP website (http://unjp.maehongson.go.th/)

About the UNTFHS

• Funded solely by the Government of Japan from 1999 to 2006. Since 2007, contributed by the Governments of Greece, Mexico, Slovenia and Thailand.

• Managed by the OCHA/Human Security Unit (HSU)

• The main objective of the UNTFHS is to support projects carried out by UN organizations and when appropriate, in partnership with non-UN entities, to advance the operational impact and the added value of the human security concept.

• Projects are implemented globally with priority given to countries and regions where insecurities of people are most critical and pervasive.

• As of 30 November 2011, 202 projects in over 70 countries have been approved by the UNTFHS.

What is human security?

• People-centered concept focusing on the most critical and pervasive threats below which the survival, livelihood and dignity of individuals are seriously threatened.

• Highlights a set of elementary freedoms that are at the vital core of life -- freedom from fear, freedom from want, and freedom to live in dignity.

Freedom from fear(Security)

Freedom from want(Development)

Freedom to live in dignity(Human Rights)

Threats to the safety of people (i.e., all forms of violence)

– conflicts, crime, etc.

Threats to basic needs (i.e., economic, social and environmental aspects of life

– poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, etc.

Threats to fundamental human rights

– intimidation, identify-based discrimination, etc.

Key Funding Criteria

• Providing concrete and sustainable benefits to people and communities threatened in their survival, livelihood and dignity.

• Taking into account the people-centered, comprehensive, multi-sectoral, context-specific and prevention-oriented aspects of the human security concept.

• Implementing the Protection and Empowerment framework by comprehensively including both top-down protection and bottom-up empowerment measures.

• Promoting partnerships with local entities (government and non-governmental) and encouraging implementation by these entities who will have the most direct impact on improving the overall human security situation, and can also ensure ownership and sustainability.

Key Funding Criteria

• Concentrating on those areas of human insecurity that are currently neglected and avoiding duplication with existing programmes and activities.

• Having a pilot and innovative nature which could be

replicated in other regions or countries through other sources of funding.

• Promoting inter-agency planning and implementation based on the comparative advantage of the applying organizations so as to advance the operational impact of the project.

The UN Joint Programme on Integrated Highland Livelihood Development in Mae Hong Son

• Lead Organization = FAO

• Duration: February 2010 to January 2014

• Budget: USD 4.5 million

• Executing UN agencies: 8 UN Agencies (FAO, UNIDO, WHO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, IOM, UNESCO)

• Associated UN agencies: UNICEF and ILO

Myanmar

Mae Hong Son …

Human Achievement Index 2007 & 2009 = Lowest amongst all Thai provinces

Remote, mountainous, hilly terrain

Difficult access with infrastructural constraints

Long border with Myanmar causing insecurity

Different ethnic groups with its own distinctive languages & customs incl. large # migrants, local ethnic minorities, and refugees

Many with limited access to social services

Preamble Signing Ceremony

Preamble Signing Ceremony

UNJP – Target Beneficiaries

Poor farmers in remote areas

Ethnic minorities

Migrants (mostly from Myanmar)

Displaced population (i.e. refugees residing within camps)

UNJP Objectives - Human Security Goals

To improve the quality of life and reduce poverty among vulnerable groups in underserved areas through enhancing both Protection and Empowerment capacities

Increased Income/Productivity

Sustainable Natural Resources Management / Renewable Energy

Increased Access to Social Services (Health, Education, etc.)

Number of Sector/Sub-sectors

3 Objectives

11 Thematic Components

17 Sub-Themes/Projects

Implementation/Partnership Framework

JointWorking Group

Project Management Unit**to be handed over to provincial government in the last year

MHS Provincial Task Force

Implementing partners

UN Team

Programme Advisory Board (PAB)Co-chairs: Ministry of Interior (MOI) & FAO

10 UN organizationsMOAC, MOPH, MOTS, other ministries

Provincial Steering Committee (PSC)

Programme Management Unit (PMU)

Co-chairs: MHS Governor & FAO

National level

Provincial level

UNJP – Current Status

• In transition – government takes over the Programme

• Appointment of a National Programme Manager (NPM)

• Allocation of resources from the governments (central, provincial and local) in 2013 onward

• Collaboration and coordination between UN and the governments continues under the leadership of the NPM and PMU

• Replication of the Mae Hong Son model in other areas/regions – development of Integrated Livelihood Development and Human Security Strategy Framework ongoing

Suggestions

FAO as Lead Organization

People-centered, Multi-sectoral,

Protection and Empowerment

Proposal to be shared with the Japanese Embassy