High Commissioner’s Strategic Management Plan 2008-2009
- Document number
- 1706
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- High Commissioner’s Strategic Management Plan 2008-2009
- Author/publisher
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations (UN)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
- Summary
- In 2005, the Secretary-General’s report, In Larger Freedom, set out the basis for reforming the United Nations. As called for in the report, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) presented its Plan of Action for the following five to six years. It made the case for greater involvement not just in setting international human rights norms but also in ensuring that they are actually implemented on the ground – both through more widespread monitoring and public reporting of human rights violations and through providing sustained technical assistance and advice to governments and others at the country level. The Plan of Action also identified the main issues that posed a challenge to the full realization of human rights throughout the world – impunity, poverty and global inequities, discrimination, armed conflict and violence, democratic deficits and weak institutions. The SMP for 2006-2007 articulated, for the first time in a single document, the full range of OHCHR strategies and interventions, and presented indicators against which the Office’s performance could be measured. During the past biennium OHCHR put a strong emphasis on strengthening its capacity to carry out its comprehensive mandate, as reflected in the Office-wide expected accomplishments and planned outputs for 2006-2007. The Strategic Management Plan for 2008-2009 consists of three main parts. Part One introduces OHCHR’s strategic priorities, with due account of the changes in the global context, the challenges, the key achievements and lessons learned, and presents the Office-wide expected accomplishments and strategies. Part Two introduces OHCHR’s programme of work for the biennium, in terms of its work with UN human rights bodies and organs, thematic fact-finding procedures, human rights mainstreaming, right to development and research and analysis, and advisory services and technical cooperation. Part Two also presents the work of the field presences, an essential piece in the Office’s country engagement strategy. A description of how the programme will be supported by sound management principles and a focus on results is also included. Finally, Part Three presents the Office’s total budget and funding requirements for the biennium.
- Related documents