Late Night Library Musings

Been cracking my head on a research issue... Been here in the library all day, skimming through documents, coding, thinking and panicking. Did not even notice that time flew so fast! So night time falls and I decided to try draw the picture of my situation.

So this is a glimpse of how my brain looks like (I'm sure the jumbled thoughts in my head must be amplified by a 1000x). Pictures are a bit blurred but I need a form of reference of my musings. 

At this rate... I'm getting really worried. But I don't think I'll get anything more done for tonight... so off to home now...

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Just in case you are interested in what I'm fussing about:

My research question is: To what extent does programme risk management practice contribute to achieving UNDP programme outcomes?

My research method is designed to be unobtrusive; thus I am heavily depending on using UN documents that have been already created and published. Using these documents  I am trying to infer the extent of (1) how UNDP country programmes uses/perceives  programme risk management and (2) how programme risk management is valued in the process of achieving programme outcomes.

Through my research so far I have been able to:

• Trim down my study's target population to 15 countries within the Europe and CIS region.
• Set the time-frame of the programme cycles to be within the years 2005-2011; the rationale being, so that the outcomes are already evident.
• Gather, complete and read the top 3 country programme documents (UNDAF, CPD and CPAP) of the 15 countries; where the documents have narrated how the programmes are supposed to be managed (but only some includes a risk management aspect)
• Skim through the ERC website, where the documents can give me inferences of the outcomes of the programmes.

What is causing me to worry is: so far I hardly see any explicit risk management aspect in the documents that I have. In addition, I've also gathered that the UN system has proposed and implemented an enterprise risk management framework; but I have realised that the framework was introduced in 2008, mid-way through the programme cycle (therefore will not be evident in the documents that I have).

UNDP RBM Presentation

Found a site containing various presentations:

http://www.slideshare.net/undpeuropeandcis/tag/undp

Interestingly I found a presentation a bit similar to our discussion during the tutorials. It kind of links the results chain to particular documents

http://www.slideshare.net/Ramen24/resultbased-management-and-the-undaf-matrix-for-country

 Here are some slides from the presentation: 

Europe and CIS UNDP

Just got a bit of a nudge to look at Europe and CIS UNDP. Found an interesting page and with it other interesting links that could be useful for my project.

http://europeandcis.undp.org/home/AboutUs/show/ABCA4902-F203-1EE9-BDC3749532FDE254

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Looking forward to jump start/wake-up call in tomorrow's meeting with Alec.
Because, to be honest right now... progress 0%.

UNDP Country Programming

UNDP Country programming cycle (UNDP, 2011)

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UNDP 2011, National Implementation by Government of UNDP Supported Projects: Guidelines and Procedures.

Mapping UNDP

I do some scratch-work on loose bits of paper... just trying to make sense of things. I'm taking pictures of them and documenting it here in my blog so I can refer back to them (just in case if I mistakenly throw them away).

I found this today... I actually did this 2-or-3 weeks back. I found it quite useful. 

Cleaner version of the above picture.

UNDP PPM Toolkit

http://ppmtoolkit.undp.org/