At our core, we strive to provide top-tier consulting services to the UN system to promote efficiency, optimization and simplification. We offer purpose driven work within the SDG 2030 framework and we are guided by UN ethics, principles and legal standards.
UNAA works under a cost-recovery model and leverages UN2UN agreements to facilitate transfers of resources from one UN entity to another to carry out activities.
Promoting Inter-Agency Collaboration across nine areas of expertise
The UNAA offers a comprehensive range of management consulting-style services to support the UN in becoming more efficient and innovative. Its diverse team has substantial experience in the UN/NGO and top-tier global management consulting. Collaboration can be offered as full team support managed by the UNAA or as one or more resources managed by the interested agency.
The UNAA promotes inter-agency collaboration through nine areas of expertise, these services include:
Drive strategy definition based on best practices and organizational objectives
Perform business case analyses to validate hypothesis and ensure processes are aligned with strategy
Perform data collection, validation, cleaning, and insights
Utilize data to generate insights and enable organization to strengthen informed based decisions
Identify change initiatives, plan implementation, and prepare for change
Drive implementation of initiatives, closely working with all stakeholders
Define solution into actionable initiatives to maximize impact
Drive transformation to deliver immediate value while building capabilities and adapting
Promote Results Delivery Office (RDO) structure and process to drive project results with on-time delivery
Ensure prioritization is in line with strategic objectives
Define and measure efficiency
Monitor progress to ensure desired changes are achieved over time
Breakdown and categorize costs to understand key drivers and identify optimization opportunities
Identify drivers to create sustainable cost benefits and align expenditure with strategic priorities
Assess organizational strengths and weaknesses to align on design principles and shape organizational design
Define operating model and identify capabilities required to deliver new operating model
Understand complexities, key pain points, and inefficiencies in processes across teams/ organizations
Create process maps and understand responsibilities to simplify process and increase effectiveness
