The United Nations Development Coordination Office (DCO) serves as the secretariat for the UN Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG)–34 agencies, funds and programmes working on development–at the regional and global levels.
At the global level the UN SDG is chaired by the Deputy Secretary-General. The Vice-Chair is the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator.
The Resident Coordinator system: coordinated and managed by the Development Coordination Office, a UN Secretariat entity as of 1 January 2019.
DCO provides substantive guidance and support to resident coordinators and United Nations country teams, in addition to daily backstopping to resident coordinator offices on the ground. DCO also provides troubleshooting, quality assurance and dispute resolution services in close cooperation with the relevant regional teams of the UN Sustainable Development Group.
DCO and the UNSDG - DCO provides managerial and oversight functions for resident coordinators. Its activities are advanced through collective ownership by the UNSDG. The Office acts as a key conduit for supporting the UN’s activities for sustainable development, which inform policy, programme and operations on the ground.
UN Country Teams (UNCTS) create annual reports that illustrate their contribution to the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They report on the status of system-wide implementation of the Cooperation Framework as well as other planning documents between the UN and the Government in addition to any other plans and priorities for the country. These are delivered by March 31 each year. The goal is to have a database of contributions divided into different topics (we are currently building an Analytical Framework on this). This could feed into a dashboard to visualize the system contributions as a whole (PowerBI, Tableau). Every year we have the individual contributions, but we want to be able to compare and quantify them as a whole. As a part of this project students could also assist individual UNCTs to visualize the data they have using Tableau or other software.