Sector wide approaches: a resource book for UNFPA staff and partners

HLSP Institute for UNFPA, 2005

This resource is mainly intended for UNFPA staff involved in the design or implementation of sector programmes, but will also be useful to officials in partner governments, consultants, and anyone wishing to learn how to design, manage and implement sector programmes.

Contents:

1. Overview of Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps)
2. The core components of a sector programme and alternative ways of channelling aid
3. The broad implications for UNFPA of engaging with SWAps
4. The details of how to support a sector programme, and what this might mean for UNFPA
5. The broader development context, issues raised by decentralization, existing projects, and the links between PRSPs and SWAps

The resource book is available on the UNFPA website at:
http://www.unfpa.org/public/op/edit/publications/pid/1304