UNDP.DO supports Multi-stakeholder Partner Cheap

The report of a shameful story where an NGO named FUNREDES is locally weakened by UNDP on the name on and in contradiction with a global policy endorsed by UNDP.
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Puce 12/10/2005: Funredes wrote to UNDP headquarter. Link to note

Puce 20/10/2005: UNDP headquarter ask Office of Audit and Performance
Review who acknowledge the reception of the case

Puce 20/10/2005: Funredes response

Puce 11/11/2005: Audit Office send answer

Puce 11/11/2005: Funredes reaction with the following conclusion:

I am afraid that if the final conclusion from UNDP on this matter is based on contractual considerations and on a confusion between two different projects it is not good notice for civil society organizations willing to invest time and energy in multistakeholder partnerships with UNDP and I hope your office will reconsider a position based on wrong premises.

In any case, I am grateful for your interest and will complete the public file with this exchange, leaving civil society interested parties free to make their own judgment based on respective argumentations.

In our opinion the message which would go across is definitively discouraging for civil society to engage in multistakeholder partnerships with a government, under the umbrella of UNDP.

read the complete note


Puce 11/11/2005: The file is not close yet.

Puce 15/11/2005: Audit Office send answer after funredes reaction

Puce 15/12/2005: Daniel Pimienta send oficial letter received from PNUD, to INDOTEL

This last letter did not received formal answer and the case remained closed without satisfactory resolution in spite of the good will shown by UNDP headquarters in their last letter.

As a consequence, Funredes interrupt its local activities in Dominican Republic (however maintaining its international, regional and global activities from the country).

See reorganization announcement:
http://funredes.org/english/institucion/institucion.php3/docid/475

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Chronology

Funredes' contract (10/2003)

Letter where Funredes concludes the contract (29/2/2004)

First claim letter to Indotel (10/2004)

Formal answer from Indotel (12/2004)

Informal answer from Indotel (10/2004)

Second claim letter to UNDP and Indotel (5/2005)

Formal second answer from Indotel (6/2005)

Whole set of exchanged mails for the consulting process (7/10/2003 - 4/8/2005)

Whole set of exchanged mails for the claim process (7/10/2004 - 4/8/2005)

Relevant links and documents

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