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e Town, 8 February, 2011.- The United Nations Country Team will held its annual retreat on 8th – 9th February 2011, at Devon Valley, in Stellenbosch. This was an occasion to reflect on the performance of the UN System in South Africa, its programmes and lessons learnt as it plans the work for 2011.
The key objectives of the retreat were to review and refocus the development partnership between UN and Government of South Africa South Africa, to take stock and re-examine the programming instruments from the UNDAF & Cluster Work-plans 2010 & 2011 in order to sharpen these tools for enhanced relevance of UN in South Africa and to enhanced understanding of the “Delivering as One UN” framework, and its application through emerging challenges and opportunities in South Africa.
Since 1994, the UN System has been collaborating with the Government of South Africa in the implementation of various government programmes. In the recent Joint Evaluation of the Role and Contribution of the 
United Nations in the Republic of South Africa Report, also known as the UNEG Report, it was established that the potential of this collaboration has not yet been fully explored, and that there was still room for improvement.
United Nations in the Republic of South Africa Report, also known as the UNEG Report, it was established that the potential of this collaboration has not yet been fully explored, and that there was still room for improvement.It is in this regard, that the UN Resident Coordinator hosted a reception on the evening of 8th January 2011. This reception hosted Chairpersons of Parliamentary Portfolio Committees, Ambassadors, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Senior Government officials as well as Heads of the United Nations Agencies.
