To: plenary@wsis-cs.org, gkps@gkps.org.my,
icacaribbean@dgroups.org, ppp-l@pppwatch.org, incom-l@incommunicado.info,

Whoever in WSIS (and in general in ICT4D) is
interested in multistakeholder partnerships and
who has been interested in following the thread
"UNDP.DO supports multistakeholder partner
cheap…" may be interested to know, in a timely
manner, for WSIS/Tunis, the follow-up of the
http://funredes.org/undp.do story.

After our request, UNDP headquarter ask Office of
Audit and Performance to check the case, some
weeks ago, and the answer reached us yesterday
provoking this comment from FUNREDES to this office:

"I am afraid that if your final conclusion is
based on contractual considerations and on a
confusion between two different projects it is
not good notice for CSO 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."

But the file is not close yet...

Details in: http://funredes.org/undp.do/index.php/followup
Nearby Sat Nov 12 23:48:56 2005