OREANDA-NEWS. January 29, 2010. The implementation of the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for 2010-2015 began in Kazakhstan.

“The framework is the third and identifies three main priorities of cooperation between Kazakhstan and the UN. This is the economic and social well-being for all, good governance and environmental sustainability,” Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kairat Umarov of the Republic said, during the presentation of the program on Wednesday in Astana.

“The UNDAF includes assistance in the following areas: improving the situation of vulnerable groups including women, children, migrants, refugees, elderly and disabled; institutional capacity building, ensuring rights and opportunities of civil society and media, increasing attention to human rights; teamwork on respond to the impacts, associated with climate change,” Kairat Umarov  said.

Vice-Minister noted since the adoption of the Millennium Declaration, Kazakhstan has made a significant progress on some development goals. However, some challenges have not yet lost its relevance, especially in the field of maternal and child health, environment, HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis.

In his turn, UN Resident Coordinator in Kazakhstan Haolyan Shu said the UNDAF is the result of ongoing consultative process aimed at an analysis of how the UN can effectively comply with the national priorities and needs of Kazakhstan.

UNDAF is the common framework program of activities in the field of development, on the basis of which the individual UN organizations will formulate their business plans for the period from 2010 to 2015.

The total anticipated resources in support of development goals for the period from 2010 to 2015 are USD  79.4 million,” Haolyan Shu said.