In December 2021, Guyana signed a new Multi-Country Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (MSDCF) with the UN for the period 2022-2026.The MSDCF covers the whole Dutch- and English-speaking Caribbean. To ensure that UN development assistance meets Guyana’s particular needs, in 2022 the UN Country Team will agree on a workplan (or ‘Country Implementation Plan’, CIP) with the Government of Guyana. The new Cooperation Framework, and the derived CIP, build on the progress of the previous MSDF, and can be summarised as follows: ‘Prosperity’ (Priority Area 1), ‘People’ Priority Area 2), ‘Planet’ (Priority Area 3) and ‘Peace [and governance] (Priority Area 4).
The CIP captures all UN programmatic and policy assistance at country level. It is formulated on the basis of the four priority areas and eight outcomes of the MSDCF 2022-2026, and adds a total of 21 country level outputs specific to Guyana.