UN agencies play a key role in planning, coordinating and overseeing the Global Accelerator activities, including coordinating technical support to countries as needed, the continuous development of a development cooperation portfolio, the development of partnerships with agencies and development banks that wish to align their programmes to the Accelerator, and global monitoring and evaluation of the Accelerator. These terms of reference describe the roles and responsibilities of the UN agencies that will lead the Global Accelerator process in any country as designed to perform the functions ascribed to it in line with its overall governance framework. Therefore, it should be read together with terms of reference of the GA Steering Group and the Technical Support Facility.