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Country Administrator Guidance UN INFO v1.16 - Compressed
Country Administrator Guidance UN INFO v1.16 - Compressed
Country
Administrator
Guidance 2019
Version 1.16
TRACKING THE UN PROMISE TOWARDS 2030
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
ACRONYMS .......................................................................................................................................... 2
TABLE
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................... 4
O ........................................................................................................................... 5
VERVIEW OF SYSTEM
OF UN INFO ............................................................................................................................7
ACCESSING
CONTENTS
UN INFO R ....................................................................................................................... 8
EGISTRATION
How to register yourself ................................................................................................................ 8
How to approve new users .......................................................................................................... 10
How to register new users as an administrator ............................................................................ 12
How to assign roles to users ........................................................................................................ 13
How to remove a user ................................................................................................................. 14
MODIFYING THE TEMPLATE FOR COUNTRY CONTEXT ...................................................................... 15
TEMPLATE MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................................... 16
How to navigate Template Management ..................................................................................... 16
STRATEGIC PRIORITY/OUTCOME/OUTPUT ................................................................................................ 18
How to include Outputs in either the UNDAF/UNSDCF or JWP template ....................................... 18
....................................................................................................................................................... 19
TAGS AND MARKERS...................................................................................................................... 19
How to add and edit a tag and tag items ..................................................................................... 20
INDICATOR FIELDS ............................................................................................................................... 22
COMMON BUDGETARY FRAMEWORK (CBF) ................................................................................. 23
How to add optional disaggregation to the CBF element ............................................................. 25
PROGRESS REPORTING......................................................................................................................... 25
STYLE ............................................................................................................................................... 26
PHASE MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................... 27
How to add custom phases.......................................................................................................... 29
APPROVAL PROCESS ............................................................................................................................ 30
How to require approval during planning .................................................................................... 30
Approval in planning ................................................................................................................... 31
Approval during reporting........................................................................................................... 32
USER MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................................... 33
Roles ........................................................................................................................................... 34
User roles .................................................................................................................................... 38
ADVANCED ..................................................................................................................................... 40
Publish Data ................................................................................................................................ 41
Manage Reports .......................................................................................................................... 43
CREATING THE PLAN ...................................................................................................................... 44
CF Cooperation Framework
KA Key Activity
This menu page provides access to all functionalities to create, edit, and manage templates, plans
and users. It also gives access to standardized reports and dashboards (extracted from the data
entered in the system).
Step 3 Provide the required information in the form, noting the following:
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• Create your unique User ID (you may use numbers or letters but ensure its memorable),
ensure that is does not contain any spaces or special characters.
• You need to use your official UN email address.
• Create your password. Password length must be greater than 12 characters and less than
20 characters. For strong passwords, your password should contain upper- and lower-case
letters, numbers and symbols. Example: NuThod783%&
Step 5 Select your relevant function according to which you will be able to access UN INFO.
For instance, if you are a country user you may select > UN personnel at country level. If you are
on a regional team, then select > UN Regional staff. There are other functions available beyond
these two.
Step 6 According to the function selected, you will be able to select the country(s) or region you
will be associated with. If you select an HQ function, you will be linked to the global workspace.
Step 7 Click on Create new account. An email will be sent to the address you provided with the
password after the country administrator approves your registration.
Step 1 As a country administrator you will receive an email notification of a new user pending
approval. To approve or decline the registration, go to the User Administration under My UN INFO
Tools
Step 2 You will see a list of all the users with their status either blocked or active.
Step 1 Click on Add User button available under User Administration section.
Country administrators can further update the default function of the user if they want to edit
existing functions or add multiple roles.
Go to the Administration tab on the UNDAF/UNSDCF menu page and Select User Roles in the left
navigation.
To identify the relevant user, you can sort or filter on any of the column headings.
To identify recent registrations, click on the “Registered On” heading to sort them by the most
recent registration.
Step 1 Select the user from the list to view user details
Assign the relevant Role, Geographical scope (if used), Result Group and Agency. Note that you
can have multiple selections for each category.
Step 4 If the user has multiple Roles in the system, click Add. It adds a new row for the user to
choose the role from.
Step 1 Click on Administration on the UNDAF/UNSDCF menu page to open the sub menus. Click
on Template Management and you will automatically have two Plan Templates available - one for
UNDAF and one for JWP.
Step 2 Open the relevant plan template to review as further configurations are required for your
in-country needs.
Step 3 Click on the Edit button to make changes to the template Label, Description, and Plan Type.
Label Enter name of template
Description Enter summary description of the template
Plan Type If adding a new template, choose the UNDAF Plan Type when adding a new UNDAF or
CF, and the JWP Plan Type when adding a new work plan. The configurations that were set for
each of these templates will be applied to the new template being created.
Step 4 Select which fields should be included in the Overview section of Template Management.
Clicking on Strategic Priority will allow you to manage the configurations for Strategic Priority.
Similarly, Clicking on Outcome or Output will allow you to manage their respective configurations.
If necessary, adjust the settings for the selected level as per the picture below.
Follow this same process to adjust the settings for Outcomes and Outputs. Reference the menu
on the left side of the page to view and navigate all levels of the results chain.
• Determine which template you wish to include Outputs under (UNDAF/UNSDCF or JWP).
• Open the template
• Select Outputs from the left navigation
• Click on the checkbox for Select
• Click on Save
Examples of tags are: Agency, Source of Funds, SDGs, and Result Group(s). Result Group(s) can be
associated at either the Strategic Priority or Outcome level.
Examples of markers are: Gender Equality, Human Rights, and Sustaining Peace.
Markers are selected at the lowest level of the UNDAF/UNSDCF and JWP. Once selected at the
most granular level of each plan, they will apply to all higher plan levels without any additional
effort on the part of the user.
The diagram below identifies Tags that are customizable by the country administrator, as of the
implementation of the UNDAF. These customizations may or may not be directly applicable to the
CF.
To delete a tag, select the tag from the list and click Delete. This action will disassociate the tag
from the workspace. However, if data has been associated with this tag in the planning view then
you will not be able to delete the tag. Further, if the tag is a Global Tag, one that is mandated by
the Global Administrator, then it cannot be deleted and will be available to be imported again.
Step 1 Select the tag to which you would like to add tag items.
Step 2 Click the Add button in the tag item section.
Step 3 Provide the required information as indicated.
Some pre-existing tags require the country administrator to add in country relevant tag items
and/or to choose relevant tag items from the Global Tag registry.
Score, shown here, corresponds to the Progress Tracker function in the workstation’s Planning and
Monitoring views.
To add a new indicator, click on the Add button on the top right part of the screen. A new
window pane will open, allowing the user to add details for the indicator in the fields available for
editing. These fields are shown as empty in the image below.
Click Save to add the new indicator once all relevant fields have been completed.
The CBF is optional for all countries who add their UNDAF/UNSDCF.
For reference, default details of each UNDAF/UNSDCF CBF element are shown in the table below.
The CBF is mandatory for all countries who add their JWP.
For reference, default details of each JWP CBF element are shown in the table below.
In addition to the default details shown in the above table, it is possible to report annualized CBF
values for Key Activities (KAs) within multi-year JWPs. To do this, adopt the CBF elements as shown
in the table below in addition to the default options provided.
The disaggregation is used to segregate the CBF element. For example, Agency as a mandatory
disaggregation for all CBF elements. That means, CBF data will need to be reported agency-wise.
As a country administrator, you can use the Optional Disaggregation field to select Tags which you
would like to use as an additional disaggregation for CBF elements. For example, if you wish to
disaggregate Total Required Resources by the Geography tag, you would select Geography as an
Optional Disaggregation within the CBF element known as Total Required Resources.
Step 3 Click the Save button present at the top of each section to save the details.
Progress Reporting
Progress reporting is the narrative reporting entered at different levels of the plan.
Style
You can customize the look and feel of the plan by determine the font style, font size, color, and
background color for the UNDAF/UNSDCF template level by level.
There are two phases included in Phase Management: Planning and Monitoring.
Planning: Under this phase, users can create new plans, create the results framework, associate
tags, and add baselines and targets for indicators.
Monitoring: Under this phase, users can report data on indicators, review the data and do narrative
progress reporting.
The fields that are editable in each of these phases are determined under the Phase Management
section.
The user should only have access to progress reporting when a review process is ongoing. Or, maybe
you want the user to update the CBF data only while in planning process. By determining the phases
Implication of selecting the level of approval (as shown in the above screenshot)
Select the content that will be verified when you check the approval button while planning
the results framework.
• Mandatory levels – While checking the approve button in the plan, the system will throw a
warning if mandatory levels are not created.
• Mandatory Tags – While checking the approve button in the plan, the system will throw a
warning if mandatory tags are associated.
• Mandatory Markers – While checking the approve button in the plan, the system will throw
a warning if mandatory markers are associated.
Approval in planning
An approval button will appear for the selected level
• Clicking on the approve button will verify all the planning data (Strategic
Priority/Outcome/Output details, tags, markers, baselines, and targets) and show warnings
for any missing data.
• After approval, if there is any addition/edit/delete of information at a level, then only that
level gets unapproved. For example, if an output label/name is changed then, only that
output gets unapproved.
• The approval button for that level becomes editable.
• A notification mail is sent to the administrator indicating the change that took place.
• Once the administrator checks that level, the approval button again becomes read only.
• User can select the kind of reporting which requires approval – CBF, Progress Data,
Progress Reporting
• Please note that CBF can either be a part of Planning or Monitoring. That is CBF data can
either be approved at the Planning stage or Monitoring stage. If it is a part of planning
then, it is approved with all other information like tags, markers, indicator association etc.
If it is chosen for approval within reporting phase, then a separate approval button will be
provided for CBF section at the lowest levels in the plan.
1. CBF
• Approval checkbox will be available for each CBF element at the lowest level.
• When the user clicks on the approve button, the system will throw a warning if CBF
data is not added.
2. Progress Data
• Approval checkbox will be available for each programme indicator in the plan
• When the user clicks on the approve button, the system will throw a warning if
data is not added for the indicator.
3. Progress Reporting –
• Approval checkbox will be available for the section of progress reporting at the
levels where it is configured.
• When the user clicks on the approve button, the system will throw a warning if text
is not added to the progress reporting fields under one level.
Roles
Manage access to the system for authorized users by assigning permissions to different roles.
There are about fourteen roles provided by the Global Administrator: Plan Manager; Data
Reporter; Data Reviewer; Results Group Lead, Plan Viewer and others. These roles cannot be
customized, so if you need to make any amendments you will have to create a new Role.
Step 1 In the description tab, provide a title and description of the role. Select if the Role is a
Primary, Secondary or Tertiary Persona. User Personas are representations of people engaging
with UN INFO. Country admin shall have a primary persona, while a data reporter might have a
secondary persona.
Step 2 In the Modules tab, view the permissions available to the selected role for various modules.
Planning
Plan Management Allows to create/edit/delete UNDAF/JWP plans the title, start date end date of the
plan etc
Plan Item Allows to create/edit/delete levels and indicators of the results frameworks –
Management outcomes, outputs, key activities, associating tags, adding documents etc
Programmatic Allows to view and manage UNDAF programmatic indicator planned data values
Indicator
Operational View and manage BOS operational indicator planned data values
Indicator
Programmatic Allows to view and manage UNDAF Programmatic indicator actual data values
Indicator
Offline Data Reporting Allows access to export and import Excel data file
Score Allows to manage the score of indicators. The Score corresponds to the
workstation’s Progress Tracker.
Data Reporting Allows to add comments for data points in indicators
Comments
See the Data
BOS Standard Report View and export the BOS standard reports
Administration
Template
Management
Plan Type View and configure plan at global level
Plan Levels View and configure information for all levels in the plan
Fixed Content Configure the fixed BOS framework at the global level
Approval Process View and configure the approval process for a plan
User Management
Step 3 You can further set the role for specific levels of the plan. Click the check box in front of the
plan level that the role should have access to in “Constraints” tab.
You can update already assigned functions (during registration) or add multiple roles under User
Roles.
If you have created new custom roles, and you want to assign them to the users, they can do so
from this interface.
Step 1 Go to the Administration tab on the Homepage and Select User Roles in in the left-hand bar
To identify the relevant user, you can sort or filter on any of the column headings. To identify recent
registrations, click on the Registered On heading to sort them by the most recent registration.
Step 2 Select the user from the list to view user details
Step 3 Click on Edit
Step 4 Click on Roles tab. The below screen appears. Assign the relevant Role, Geographical scope
(if used); Result Group and Agency. Note that you can have multiple selections for each
category. The user will only get access to the selected fields under geography, result group
and agency)
Step 5 If the user has multiple Roles in the system, click Add. It adds a new row for the user to
choose the role from.
Publish Data
This module allows publishing data for dashboards, reports, etc. It further consists of following
sections:
• IATI data
• Dashboards
• Standard Report
IATI data
This section allows you to generate IATI XMLs from the data entered in the system. IATI XML for
key activities associated with that selected current plan is generated.
Dashboards
To see the data in the dashboard, you would need to publish the data for the same. You can select
Country UNDAF Public/Private dashboards for which you want to see recent data.
Step 1 Select the dashboard for which you want to publish the data.
You can re-publish the data time and again to see the recent data on the dashboard.
Please note that the dashboard visualizations will not be visible if there is:
To see the data in the standard reports under the See the Data section, you would need to publish
the data for the same. You can re-publish the data time and again to see the updated data in the
reports. You would need to wait for some time to see the reflected changes in the plan.
Manage Reports
You can enable and disable the reports that you want to view under the See the Data section of
UN INFO. Furthermore, you can select the reports that should be made public. The ones that you
set as public will be visible to the general public visiting (even the non - logged in users) UN INFO
website.
Step 2 Click on the Add button to add a new plan. Note that you need to create an
UNDAF/UNSDCF. To create a JWP, select the UNDAF/UNSDCF before clicking the Add button
as the JWP needs to be connected to an UNDAF/UNSDCF.
Note: To create a JWP, select the UNDAF/UNSDCF that the JWP is supporting and then click the
Add button.
Step 3 Fill in the plan details (the same procedure applies to setting up the JWP)