Additional resources

In preparing a joint programme proposal, the following resources available online might be helpful for designing SDG-F's joint programme concept notes. Many of them are result of MDG-F's efforts to gather and analyze best practices and lessons learned based on its 130 programmes in 50 countries.

Resources for design and implementation of joint programmes

• Joint Programme implementation guidelines 
• Joint Programming on Youth Employment and Migration: A Training Guide 
• Handbook for Results Based Management (UNDG)
• MDG-F Joint programming tools
• MDG-F Joint Programmes's Final Evaluations
• MDG-F Online Library. 
• MPTF document center with financial reporting and budgeting information

Resources for sectorial areas

Food Security and Nutrition

• Addressing Malnutrition Multisectorally (MDG-F/UNICEF, 2013)
• Jointly Addressing Food and Nutrition Security: Sharing the practical findings from the MDG-F. (MDG-F, 2013)

Water and Sanitation

• Recommendations for the application of an intercultural approach in rural water and sanitation projects (MDG-F/SIWI, 2013)

Resources for cross-cutting issues

Sustainability

• Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation: Policy Guidance (OECD, 2009)
• Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Planning: A Guide for Practitioners (UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative, 2011)
• List of references from the UNFCCC on how to mainstream climate change into development programming.

Gender mainstreaming

• Two Roads, One Goal: Dual Strategy for Gender Equality Programming in the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F/UNDP/UN Women, 2013)
• Making Joint Gender Programmes Work (MDG-F/UNDP, 2013)

Private-public partnerships

• Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights

Post 2015

• Millennium Development Goals and post-2015 Development Agenda in ECOSOC’s website
• UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of eminent persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda  
• Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
• Post 2015 One Secretariat

We also recommend visiting UNDG website, with helpful guidance and good experiences on UN joint development efforts by UN Agencies.