COPENHAGEN - UNOPS has published its 2010 results, detailing the operational support provided to our partners’ humanitarian, peacebuilding and development goals in some of the world’s most challenging environments.
In 2010 UNOPS implemented $1.27 billion worth of projects for our partners, up 16 percent from 2009. We helped our partners work towards a range of development goals, through the implementation of more than 900 projects - from managing the construction of schools in Afghanistan, to building shelters in Haiti to procuring educational computers in Argentina.
Overall UNOPS supervised the construction or rehabilitation of 88 schools, 52 hospitals and health centres, 28 police stations, 11 prisons and detention centres, 18 courthouses and 69 other government buildings in 2010. We helped partners construct or rehabilitate 36 waste facilities, 3 power stations and 48 water treatment plants. We also constructed or rehabilitated 2,243 kilometres of roads, 5 harbours, and 32 bridges on behalf of our partners.
More than 1.3 million pieces of machinery or equipment were procured for partners, including more than 7,100 items of high-tech medical equipment, such as x-ray machines. Almost 910 million doses of medicine were procured or distributed, around a quarter of these were to treat HIV/AIDS.
Adding value
Details about these projects, the financial position of UNOPS and the various ways we add value for our partners can be found in our new report: Results That Matter.
Other significant developments in 2010 and 2011 include record business acquisition, a drop in administration costs, the growth and success of UNOPS new focus areas and the certification of UNOPS quality management system to ISO 9001.
UNOPS procured more than $552 million worth of goods and $648 million worth of services - helping to translate policies into action for all the key players in the peacebuilding, humanitarian and development world.
As the lead United Nations entity for large-scale physical infrastructure projects in peacebuilding settings, UNOPS managed significant volumes of construction work in Iraq, the occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2010. UNOPS also undertook substantial efforts in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
In post-conflict and post-disaster settings UNOPS helped partners construct more than 5,100 emergency buildings, such as shelters, and 3,700 other facilities, such as toilets and septic tanks in camps.
Supporting partners
UNOPS helped the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) complete clearance work which made more than 300 million square metres of land and 16,000 kilometres of roads safe for local populations.
UNOPS helped partners deliver training to more than 80,000 people in the fields of health, election monitoring and agriculture, among others.
We helped our partners develop local capacity by organizing more than 300 training courses and workshops. We also organized 245 high-level events and meetings, provided support to 141 government entities and 4,139 local organizations, and worked on 78 policies or laws.
UNOPS administered or monitored more than 760 grants funding a range of projects, in addition to about 4,000 United Nations Development Programme Global Environmental Facility (UNDP-GEF) small grants in more than 120 countries.
Last year was the first year of the UNOPS Strategic Plan 2010-2013, which spells out a refined mission and vision. The report follows the structure of the Strategic Plan and reports on UNOPS operational results under the goals and cross-cutting concerns outlined in the strategy.
Results That Matter explains the above results in more detail as well as looking at organizational improvements and other ways we add value. It can currently be downloaded from the website in English, and French and Spanish will be uploaded shortly.