Udenrigsudvalget 2019-20
URU Alm.del Bilag 175
Offentligt
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UNDP Support to Government
Objectives
1. Reduce the impact of COVID-19 on governments by ensuring that governments are able to
respond in a timely manner at the national and sub national levels.
2. Identify ICT business continuity needs, support, setup and deploy digital tools.
3. Provide business Continuity planning (BCP) and digital tools to support governments to
maintain effective communications between its key personnel and partners in coordinating
the COVID-19 response and maintaining its overall full operational capacity
4. Limit the impact of COVID-19 on national Institutions and resume the provision of public
services.
5. Build upon COVID-19 BCP to develop a long-term sustainability strategy to inform future
disaster preparedness and overall institutional BCP
UNDP Comparative Advantages
1.
Builds o UNDP’s glo al e perie e i i ple e ti g BCP i our Cou tr Offi e.
2.
Established
corporate practice of risk management and business continuity, underpinned by
robust systems that have been tested and validated in a wide variety of operating contexts in
the world,
3. Global Policy Network that will allow UNDP to quickly access information, experience and
expertise from other countries
4. Longest, broadest and deepest engagement with government counterpart
5. Dedicated team composed of staff resident in the Country Office and Regional Service
Centre, as well as Colleagues in New York and Copenhagen,
Assessment to be done by CO
1. Key functions and minimum business need?
2. Existing BCP including procedures and succession planning in case of disasters?
3. How many government officials / personnel Essential staff?
4. Availability of internet /and bandwidth?
5. Reliable energy source / supply including backups?
6. Existing collaboration platforms to support telecommuting?
7. Video/audio conferencing such as Microsoft Team, Skype for Business or zoom?
8. Information/document sharing, e.g SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer
9. Digital workplaces for chat and document sharing?
10. Do key officials/personnel have devices, such as laptops, tablets and suitable connectivity in
their homes to support telecommuting?
11. Do key officials/personnel have remote access to key documents and files?
12. What are the specific legal/security needs or requirements for data storage and processing?
 URU, Alm.del - 2019-20 - Bilag 175: Opfølgning på virtuel briefing den 14. maj 2020 ved UNDP’s regionale direktør for Afrika om den aktuelle situation og håndtering af COVID-19 i Afrika syd for Sahara
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13. Do officials/personnel need to map a situation and to share geo-spatial information?
14. Exiting of any Legal legislation on E-Signature ?
Digital Solution Offer
1. Help/guide to develop local infrastructure readiness based on cloud technology,
2. Help/guide to develop VPN ( Virtual Private Network)
3. UNDP can help/guide to implement rapid deployment infrastructure in all parts of the country
(using solution like OneICTbox-Lite) including domain Name
4. Help/guide to implement satellite communication solution,
5.
Power Ba kup for Criti al Staff’s Reside e –
portable solar-based power kits for individual
users
6. Teleconferencing solution, (Microsoft Team and Zoom )
7. SharePoint or Google Online eDocument Sharing
8. DocuSign E-Signature. Compatibility with national legislation needs to be verified as to
acceptance of digital signatures
9. Office 365 eMail and collaboration tools
10. Microsoft Azure Storage - It is a cloud-based Microsoft service to provide secured, highly
available, scalable and very cost-effective data storage solution.
11. GoogleEarth, QGIS or ESRI
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Digital Geolocalized information systems to build digital maps,
geo-localizing infrastructures, situations, images, data...
12. Workstation at Home. (Double screen stand, docking station, monitor, camera, headset, etc)
Next Steps
1. Established project team for 6 months
2. Launch project Web Site (Including all Support Document and Online Forms)
3. Determine Contractual modality with the coordinating government To be discuss with Legal
Office
4. Agree on early adopters (Mali, Uganda, Ethiopia) and Identify focal points in each country
who will facilitate implementation in their respective Countries;
5. Establish a local Task Team in the Country (UNDP CO to facilitate);
6. Identify, in partnership with the Task Team who will participate in the Training of Trainers
sessions
7. Launch the Need assessment,
8. Proceed to the acquisition of Tools, Service and Software, based on Need assessment
recommendations,
9. Decide implementation modality we would like to apply (DIM/NIM) and whether direct
financial transfer to partners is expected as part of the package