The UN Country Team has been leading the humanitarian, reconstruction and development agenda in a coordinated manner and in alignment with national priorities.

In line with the priorities stipulated in the Iraq Five Year National Development Plan (2010-2014) the UNCT has signed in May 2010 the United Nations Development Assistance Framework for Iraq. It will be implemented between 2011 and 2014 in close cooperation and partnership with the Government of Iraq, civil society organisations and a number of partners and counterparts including Iraqi and international non-governmental organisations, academia, private sector and the international donor community.

Through the implementation of the UNDAF the UNCT aims to provide coherent and coordinated assistance delivery in line with the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and help the Government of Iraq to meet its various obligations. These include the Millennium Declarations and the Millennium Development Goals and International Treaties to which Iraq is signatory.

The UNCT remains particularly concerned about the Iraqi people’s ability to lead normal lives and all aspects of their safety. Protection of targeted and vulnerable groups including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), refugees, returnees, minorities, children, youth and women are a top priority of the United Nations Country Team’s in Iraq.

The UNCT in Iraq has 20 agencies, funds and programmes including 16 resident and four non-resident agencies.

The resident agencies are: FAO, ILO, IOM, OCHA, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UN-Habitat, UNIDO, UNOPS, UNWOMEN, WFP, WHO and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The non-resident agencies include ESCWA, UNEP, UNCTAD and UNODC.

For information on these agencies, funds and programmes please click on the logos below.

Ms. Christine McNab is the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (DSRSG).

She assumed her responsibilities in November 2009.

Ms. McNab is the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) for Iraq and the Director of the Office of Development and Humanitarian Support of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI),

Her experience has, in particular, focused on public sector reform, democratic governance and capacity development in support of the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Prior to assuming this position, Ms. McNab served as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative and United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2002 to 2006 McNab served as United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Jordan.

Before joining UNDP in 2001, Ms. McNab spear headed the Swedish Development Programme in Tanzania and Zambia, and earlier served as a Senior Advisor on education and training for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

Born in 1948, Ms. McNab holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and social anthropology from the University of Wales, and a doctorate in international and comparative education from the University of Stockholm. She is married and has two children.