GPN ExpRes Profile - Livelihoods and Area-Based Development
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Successful applicants should:
• Have a Master's degree with a minimum of five years' experience in the respective field relevant to the ToR or possess seven years' experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Be prepared for potential deployment to crisis settings with short notice.
Additionally, specific preferences include:
• Proficiency in Arabic, French, or Spanish, with Russian and/or Portuguese considered advantageous.
• Encouragement is particularly extended to female applicants. In addition to candidates from the Global South.
UNDP seeks applicants under the following sub-profile areas of expertise and should refer to the additional qualifications noted below:
For applicants applying for Area Based Management:
• Advanced university degree in Social sciences, International affairs, or development –related Fields.
• Experience in programme management, coordination, or related areas; field experience in crisis and/or post-conflict settings highly desirable;
• Experience in the field of area-based development approaches with a focus on recovery and reintegration in crisis and complex contexts, including experience at the international level;
• Experience in partnership building and/or inter-agency coordination in post-conflict and/or post-natural disaster settings in particular at the field level and working with donors and NGOs;
• Proven ability to interact at the highest governmental and inter-agency levels
• Familiarity with UN common procedures and tools, especially regarding needs assessments, pooled funds, and joint programming;
• Experience in project design, implementation, and evaluation.
For applicants applying for Cash Based Livelihoods:
• Advanced university degree in social sciences, development, political sciences, management, or other relevant science.
• Experience in programme development and management in challenging environments.
• Experience in humanitarian and development environment.
• Experience in cash-based programming and Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation.
• Experience in procurement and project design, execution, and financing with UNDP and IFIs will be considered as an asset.
For applicants applying for Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Debris Management / Recovery Advisor:
• Advanced university degree in engineering (civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, and industrial engineering).
• Experience in programme development and management in challenging environments.
• Experience in humanitarian and development environments.
• Experience in post-disaster context.
• Experience in procurement, project design, execution, and financing with UNDP and IFIs will be considered as an asset.
For applicants applying for Employment Generation and Livelihoods Specialist:
• Advanced university degree in social sciences, development, political sciences, management, or other relevant science.
• Experience in programme development and management in challenging environments;
• Experience in humanitarian and development environments;
• Experience in post-disaster/conflict context;
• Experience in procurement, project design, execution, and financing with UNDP and IFIs will be considered as an asset.
For applicants applying for Enterprise Recovery:
• Advanced university degree in international development, sustainable livelihoods, public policy, or other relevant social sciences. Areas of specialization could include economic development, environmental planning, land use and comprehensive planning.
• Experience in the field of sustainable livelihoods approaches with a focus on recovery and reintegration in crisis and complex contexts, including experience at the international level.
• Relevant professional experience, including international experience, in rural development, policy analysis, and project management. The successful candidate will have experience in a range of issues/themes – rural/urban linkages, provision of socio-economic services through a system of settlements, sector analysis, project/programme planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation
• Facilitation and training skills highly desirable
• Experience in project design, implementations, and evaluation
For applicants applying for Mine Action:
• Advanced university degree in public administration, engineering, sociology, or any other relevant discipline.
• Experience in one or more fields of mine action.
For applicants applying for Women's Economic Empowerment:
• Advanced university degree relevant to the thematic area (specifically areas such as economics, business development, gender studies, socioeconomic development, agriculture, rural /urban development, civil engineering hydraulic engineering, industrial engineering, social sciences, development, political sciences, management, or other relevant science).
• Experience in gender responsive programme development and challenging environments.
• Extensive technical knowledge relevant to the thematic area.
• Region specific experience.
• Theoretical and practical experience in drafting, implementing, monitoring and evaluating public policy strategies or concepts relevant to the selected thematic area.
• Proven and recent experience with technical assistance for project development, implementation, management and/or evaluation.
• Excellent drafting and formulation skills; proven record of drafting official reports or papers/studies in the selected area.
• Experience working as a public official in the selected area or working/collaborating with the government is a plus.
• UN experience an asset.
• Experience with training and facilitation is an asset.
• Excellent knowledge of development issues and internationally agreed development goals.
• Good knowledge of social networks and mobile technologies.
• Excellent oral and written skills to develop knowledge products in these areas.
• Knowledge of UNDP's approach to ICT for Development and e-governance.
• Good knowledge of the socio-economic and political situation of the countries in the region.
WHAT IS LIVELIHOODS AND AREA-BASED DEVELOPMENT?
Area Based Management
A major role of the Crisis Bureau (CB) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to support Country Offices (COs) in the formulation and implementation of programmes and projects in an immediate crisis and recovery context. At the same time, CB supports the Resident Coordinators in leading early recovery efforts at the country level on behalf of the UN system.
CB's work is organized around four key areas: Conflict Prevention and Recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery, Early Recovery, and Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
The specific fields of responsibility will be: (a) to lead the design and elaboration of recovery and development programmes and support their implementation; (b) to support the processes of planning and development of strategies; (c) to maintain and develop partners relationships, in particular related to national counterpart, donors and UN agencies, to encourage collaboration with the key actors engaged in recovery processes especially local level recovery efforts targeting specified geographic areas; (e) support resource mobilization efforts for area –based programmes.
The incumbent will support the Country Office in strategic programming and planning and ensuring implementation of interventions.
Cash Based Livelihoods
UNDP works with communities and societies affected by disaster and conflicts to achieve early and long-term economic recovery and livelihoods recovery of the people. Livelihoods and economic recovery programmes are linked to the process of promoting sustainable and inclusive growth, working with institutions and communities to recover, be resilient and sustainable.
By doing so, we help societies and countries in their rapid return to sustainable development by tackling the social, economic, and environmental drivers of vulnerability.
Post-disaster/post-conflict UNDP is supporting the government to design and implement recovery projects which ensures to link the immediate humanitarian efforts with longer term sustainable development to ensure the humanitarian-development-peace nexus is achieved.
Within UNDP's Recovery approach, emergency employment and immediate livelihoods recovery projects aim to provide immediate jobs and livelihoods for the affected population as well as the wider local economy.
To maximize immediate employment opportunities a series of cash-based interventions for income relief are being designed by UNDP to stabilize and improve the livelihoods of the affected population as well as the wider local economy. Government leadership in this will ensure the harmonization among different Cash based interventions for different purposes.
Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation
In the aftermath of natural disasters UNDP is engaged in community infrastructure rehabilitation to support reconstruction efforts at the local level. Community Infrastructure and Community-Based Assets (physical and institutional) are critical for enabling a local population to thrive – economically, socially, and culturally.
Human development is inextricably linked with the performance of these community-based systems and structures.
The goal of UNDP's intervention in this is to assist a community to be fully engaged in leading its own recovery, enable local residents harness their own potential, expand their choices, learn new skills, and prioritize their needs and access opportunities.
In this context, UNDP is planning to develop infrastructure rehabilitation programme(s) to rebuild key local structures that perform basic functions and services which will be central to the survival and healthy functioning of the community and to its economic sustainability.
Debris Management / Recovery Advisor
Post-disaster/post-conflict UNDP is supporting the government to develop and implement a National Debris Management Strategy.
Within this framework, UNDP plans to design and implement jointly with the government a Debris Management Programme that will comprise one or several integrated projects.
The integrated approach to debris management covers all dimensions of debris management, including rubble removal, re-use, recycle and processing, as well as the potential contributions to the reactivation of the local economy through support to micro enterprises and support to affected communities.
The Recovery Advisor for Debris Management will lead the assessment of the debris situation at hand. Based on this s(he) will design a National Debris Management Strategy in close cooperation with government stakeholders. The development of the strategy will comprise strategic planning, resource mobilization and the provision of technical assistance as well as the start-up of programme/activities.
The Advisor will work under the overall guidance of the UNDP Resident Representative or Country Director and direct supervision of Deputy Resident Representative/Deputy Country Director, Programme and the relevant programme units.
Employment Generation
Post-disaster/post-conflict UNDP is supporting the government to design and implement large scale job creation schemes to enhance the social contract between the Government and its citizens while utilizing the capacity of the affected population as an active force for building a better future.
To maximize temporary employment opportunities labor-intensive public works schemes or community projects are being created by UNDP to improve the livelihoods of the affected population as well as the wider local economy. Government leadership in this will ensure the harmonization among different Cash-for-Work or labor-intensive infrastructure rehabilitation schemes.
In this UNDP will help to manage the critical transition from emergency employment into longer term prospects, including the national or local labor markets, national employment schemes or conditional cash transfers.
The Recovery Advisor for Employment Generation will be responsible for the design and development of temporary employment opportunities through labor-intensive public works schemes or community projects. The development of these initiatives will comprise strategic planning, resource mobilization and the provision of technical assistance as well as the start-up of programme/activities.
Such initiatives must be designed with a short-medium-long term vision keeping the recovery process as ultimate goal.
The Advisor will work under the overall guidance of the UNDP Resident Representative or Country Director and direct supervision of Deputy Resident Representative/Country Director, Programme and the relevant programme unit.
Enterprise Recovery
Post-disaster/post-conflict UNDP is supporting the government to design enterprise recovery schemes including enterprise recovery grants for micro/small businesses in the crisis affected areas to boost the wider local economy and help improve the livelihoods of the affected population.
Under the overall goal of assuring a quick employment recovery cash grants to local micro enterprises and small businesses will enable local entrepreneurs to replenish their assets that have been lost or damaged due to the disaster or conflict.
By targeting enterprise recovery on a larger scale through the injection of financing UNDP will help to put small enterprises back on their feet. This will allow for the critical transition from emergency employment to longer term prospects, including the national or local labor markets, national employment schemes or conditional cash transfers.
The Recovery Advisor for Enterprise Recovery will be responsible for the design and development enterprise recovery initiatives which will comprise strategic planning, resource mobilization and the provision of technical assistance as well as the start-up of programme/activities.
The Advisor will work under the overall guidance of the UNDP Resident Representative or Country Director and direct supervision of Deputy Resident Representative/Country Director, Programme and the relevant programme units.
Livelihoods Specialist
A major role of the Crisis Bureau (CB) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to support Country Offices (COs) in the formulation and implementation of programmes and projects in an immediate crisis and recovery context. At the same time, CB supports the Resident Coordinators in leading early recovery efforts at the country level on behalf of the UN system.
CB's work is organized around four key areas: Conflict Prevention and Recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery, Early Recovery, and Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
Mine Action
A major role of the Crisis Bureau (CB) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to support Country Offices (COs) in the formulation and implementation of programmes and projects in an immediate crisis and recovery context. At the same time, CB supports the Resident Coordinators in leading early recovery efforts at the country level on behalf of the UN system.
CB's work is organized around four key areas: Conflict Prevention and Recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery, Early Recovery, and Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
The Mine Action Consultant is assigned to support the management, coordination and development of mine action related projects and programmes, being undertaken or supported by UNDP at the country, regional and/or global level. The consultant's primary responsibilities relate to supporting country programmes to maintain high operational standards and to provide technical, strategic, and operations assistance.
The consultant may also be responsible for supporting the development of global and/or regional programmes and projects designed to support country offices or otherwise further the development of mine action programming through advocacy and capacity building.
Women's Economic Empowerment
UNDP helps countries prevent armed conflict, alleviate the risk and effects of disasters from natural hazards and build back better and stronger when crises happen. Building resilience to conflicts and disasters is at the very heart of UNDP's work.
When a crisis strikes, UNDP ensures that while the humanitarian response focuses on the immediate lifesaving needs of a population, those responsible also work towards longer-term development objectives.
Created in 2001 by UNDP's Executive Board, the Crisis Bureau (CB) works around the world to restore the quality of life for men, women and children who have been devastated by natural disaster or violent conflict.
Operating through some 100 Country Offices (COs), the Bureau provides a bridge between the humanitarian agencies that handle immediate relief needs and the long- term development phase following recovery. Carving stability out of chaos, CB continues to seek new ways of preventing conflicts and of doing business - faster, earlier and in riskier situations.
When operating in countries in development and crisis situations, UNDP country offices are almost always faced with the challenge of finding adequate human resources with the required technical expertise in the short timeframe that crisis related situations often demand.
CB is at the forefront of receiving regular requests from COs asking for the quick deployment of personnel or identification of consultants with specific expertise for durations ranging anywhere from a few days to a few months.
• Women's Economic Empowerment programming including gender responsive livelihood and economic recovery assessments, supporting the design of women's economic recovery programmes in an environmentally sustainable manner, women's access to market assessments, value chain assessment, support to gender responsive early recovery planning and monitoring and evaluation of recovery work, building capacity of national women's machinery and women's organization;
• Assessment of gender responsive Economic Recovery and Livelihoods interventions including assessment of all ongoing Economic Recovery and Livelihoods related interventions in the country, highlighting gender equality gaps, that need to be addressed and actionable recommendations;
• Women's Emergency Employment including assessment of the recovery needs, capacities, available resources and market conditions, assessment of impact of the crisis on the employment, safety and social protection, income, assets of affected women/enterprises, analysis of the market conditions and potential impact specific to cash for work and development of emergency employment initiatives with participation of at least 40% women;
• Women and Natural Resource Management including awareness around linkages between conflict and natural resources and its specific impact on women; support to women on sustainable use of natural resources as an important basis for opportunities for economically sustainable income generation; enhancing awareness on use of the legal protections available to women, especially for land and tenure over productive natural resources; and capacity-building for increasing employment in natural resource sectors through improved access to the technological, informational and financial resources necessary to transform natural resources into marketable assets.
SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED WORK
1. Area Based Management:
Under the direct guidance of the relevant Country Office personnel, and in collaboration with the relevant technical team of the CB, the consultant will:
• Provide direct technical and strategic support to UNDP Country Offices on area-based development planning and programming.
• Build partnerships and support country level networks, within and beyond the UN, on area-based development and recovery issues.
• Support UNDP Country Offices in developing area-based recovery programmes.
• Provide guidance to post crisis countries on the development of inter-agency coordination platforms for implementing area-based recovery initiatives.
• Promote a common understanding, within the UN Country Team, affected governments and other stakeholders operating in the affected country of sustainable area-based development approaches to recovery from crises.
• Promote the application of programming tools for UNDP personnel on area-based development approaches in recovery Situations, with emphasis on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDP Nexus).
• Train UNDP personnel in the application of these tools where appropriate.
• Provide substantive area-based input for UNDP transformational contributions to strategic planning and appealing documents at the country level.
• Support the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues into the design and implemented interagency programmes, including the UNDP components of these programmes.
• Work with the gender advisor at the country level or at the CB level if one is not available at the country level to ensure that area-based recovery programmes are gender transformative.
• Devise a monitoring and evaluation framework for all area –based recovery programmes designed at the country level with specific and measurable indicators. Ensure that these programmes are monitored, reviewed, and evaluated according to these procedures.
• Following a crisis provide rapid support to UNDP COs to assess needs and rapidly develop programming responses for most affected geographic areas.
• Train UNDP country office personnel on the application Recovery Programming tools developed according to area-based recovery principles.
• Build partnerships and country level networks, within and beyond the UN, on area-based development and recovery issues.
• Actively lead and participate in existing working-level groups or clusters developed at the country level on livelihoods and recovery issues.
• Ensure that knowledge is retrieved from UNDP area-based development and recovery programmes, through periodic reporting, meetings, analysis of documents produced, lessons learned exercises, and other means.
2. Cash Based Livelihoods
• Provide direct technical and strategic support to UNDP Country Offices on area-based development planning and programming.
• Build partnerships and support country level networks, within and beyond the UN, on area-based development and recovery issues.
• Support UNDP Country Offices in developing area-based recovery programmes.
• Provide guidance to post crisis countries on the development of inter-agency coordination platforms for implementing area-based recovery initiatives.
• Promote a common understanding, within the UN Country Team, affected governments and other stakeholders operating in the affected country of sustainable area-based development approaches to recovery from crises.
• Promote the application of programming tools for UNDP personnel on area-based development approaches in recovery Situations, with emphasis on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDP Nexus).
• Train UNDP personnel in the application of these tools where appropriate.
• Provide substantive area-based input for UNDP transformational contributions to strategic planning and appealing documents at the country level.
• Support the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues into the design and implemented interagency programmes, including the UNDP components of these programmes.
• Work with the gender advisor at the country level or at the CB level if one is not available at the country level to ensure that area-based recovery programmes are gender transformative.
• Devise a monitoring and evaluation framework for all area –based recovery programmes designed at the country level with specific and measurable indicators. Ensure that these programmes are monitored, reviewed, and evaluated according to these procedures.
• Following the crisis, provide rapid support to UNDP COs to assess needs and rapidly develop programming responses for most affected geographic areas.
• Train UNDP country office personnel on the application Recovery Programming tools developed according to area-based recovery principles.
• Build partnerships and country level networks, within and beyond the UN, on area-based development and recovery issues.
• Actively lead and participate in existing working-level groups or clusters developed at the country level on livelihoods and recovery issues.
• Ensure that knowledge is retrieved from UNDP area-based development and recovery programmes, through periodic reporting, meetings, analysis of documents produced, lessons learned exercises, and other means.
• Assess the most suitable cash-based intervention modality and design the cash-based programming within UNDP's Recovery response
• Ensure programme quality and results to promote quality cash transfer programmes in different contexts with effective participation mechanism of the community for targeting and implementation,
• Ensure greater technical expertise on Cash Transfer Programming. q Develop the suitable cash transfer modality to effectively support UNDP's recovery response to target the quick revival of the local economy, enhancing stability and recovery in a post crisis situation.
• Conduct the preparedness and contingency planning for cash-based programming
• Liase with the Livelihoods and Recovery team on the assessment and the impact of the crisis/disaster on the employment, income, assets of affected population/enterprises considering, when possible, a rapid update (survey) of labor market, household surveys and other secondary information that may contribute to the establishment of a baseline.
• Assess and complete a CBI feasibility and risk assessment
• Assess implementing partners capacity for this partnership on cash-based programming ▪Complete the situational analysis which includes other agencies response, feasibility and risk assessment, market analysis and gender maps.
• Enable NGO's, UN partners, governments, cash working groups, cluster/sectors to use cash and market analysis in order to ensure that all aspects of recovery programming prevent a negative impact on livelihoods, jobs and businesses upon which people's long-term security depends.
• Enhance UN agencies, NGO's and governments understanding of how cash and market analysis can be used to address the different needs of women, girls, boys, and men of all ages, and enable design of Cash Transfer Programme that is informed by need and market systems assessment and analysis.
• Analyze the market conditions and impact specific to CFW.
• Analyze the specific situation of women with regard to employment, income, land ownership and access to financial services.
• Assess all currently available payment modalities and the most efficient and effective alternative recommended within a reasonable timeframe.
• Within UNDP's strategy develop the cash-based programme to target the quick revival of the local economy, enhancing stability and recovery in a post crisis situation
• Finalize risk and mitigation measures and cost benefits for cash transfer programmes
• Assess and finalize the modes of operation through the selection and targeting mechanisms of vulnerable and asset poor groups, including women, female headed households, unemployed youth, ex-combatants, Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), migrants and refugees, depending on the specific conditions.
• Develop secure, transparent, and reliable payment modalities, based on appropriate MIS
• Secure agreement on the selection of the Cash Payment agent and payment instrument, undertaking appropriate risks analysis
• Enable humanitarian and development actors to make strategic planning, programme development and project implementation that take into consideration cash transfer programming and advice on different forms of cash transfer modalities that might be adopted in response to the specific humanitarian context and based on results from market assessment and analysis.
• Design an exit strategy
• Ensure that women's groups are both partners and beneficiaries.
• Coordination
• Technical assistance to the different clusters/sectors in analyzing the potential needs, benefits, and merits of using cash transfer modalities in their current programmes/activities; to identify gaps and challenges; and use this information in collaboration with partners to develop strategies for addressing CTP gaps in each cluster/working group/sector.
• Provide advice on how to strengthen cash and market coordination in discussions with Cash Working Groups and/or Humanitarian Country Team, and in engagement with national governments on specific interventions, if required.
• Support the establishment/strengthening and sustainability of existing cash and market coordination mechanisms at the national, regional, and local levels.
• Build strategic alliances with other key actors internally and externally to advocate for cash transfer programming and ensure continuity of advocacy efforts, as and when required.
• Devise a monitoring and evaluation plan within the overall programme
• Work with stakeholders to ensure local / national ownership of the programme and the livelihood initiatives, while providing for accountability and tracking of expenditures
• Work with the national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support national ownership of the reconstruction process.
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process.
• Support the participation and empowerment of women and women's groups.
• Provide inputs for the UNDP recovery and livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion with the general recovery initiatives.
• When possible, community bodies and other key stakeholders should be engaged during the whole project cycle providing for accountability and tracking of expenditures
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation.
• Draft TORs for key project positions.
• Coordination and implement the start-up of the recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation.
• Design the project´s implementation structure
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS)
3. Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation
• Conduct an assessment in the area of the community social and economic infrastructure rehabilitation.
• Assess the scope of infrastructural damage and the number of community assets to be repaired.
• Analyze the state of community infrastructure and as such of public buildings (bridges etc.), sanitation & water supply, education & health as well as energy facilities.
• Determine the national and local capacities (public and from SCOs) to respond emergency recovery
• Review existing capacities (physical, human, technical and other inputs) for rebuilding and repair, operation, and maintenance.
• Establish the priorities to be set forward in the program strategy.
• Develop a programme strategy for community infrastructure rehabilitation as part of a wider post-disaster recovery framework.
• Present the preliminary Programme Strategy at a Validation and Consensus building workshop to ensure participation and ownership from different stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Identify alternative sources of funding for resource mobilization.
• Analyze alternative sources of funding.
• Determine conditions for access to different sources of financing.
• Design a results framework including a monitoring and evaluation plan.
• Design a results framework that comprises the: a) repair, reconstruction, operation and maintenance of infrastructural community assets and services; b) creation of temporary employment schemes as transition to the economic recovery phase; c) capacity building initiatives to strengthen the communities' abilities to help themselves; and d) design of an effective management structure for the programme/projects.
• Design a budget / program for the project execution.
• Develop an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the projects' results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges.
• Design mitigation measures to overcome identified disaster, environmental, conflict, gender and poverty risks and devise strategies to overcome challenges presented in the execution of the project.
• Develop one or several project document(s) as stand-alone projects or as the component of a wider recovery programme.
• Work with local and national stakeholders to ensure national ownership of the projects and the livelihood initiatives, while providing for accountability and tracking of expenditures.
• Work with national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support national / local ownership of the reconstruction process and its future sustainability;
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process;
• Engage community bodies and other key stakeholders during the whole project cycle, providing accountability and tracking expenditures.
• Provide inputs for the UNDP Recovery and Livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion between community rehabilitation activities and general recovery initiatives.
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities.
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation;
• Draft TOR for key project positions;
• Coordinate and implement the start-up of recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation
• Design the project´s implementation structure;
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues;
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS).
4. Debris Management / Recovery Advisor
• Conduct an assessment of the recovery needs in the area of debris management and recycling:
• Assess the scope of infrastructural damage, the mapping of the area and the volume of rubble to be removed;
• Analyze the state of public infrastructure, including landfills and dumping sites and the accessibility to them by different kind of vehicles and machinery;
• Prepare a rapid technical assessment of buildings and housing using local technical capacities, when possible and available;
• Review existing capacities for removal, sorting and recycling in the country and region
• Establish priorities for the areas of debris removal, disposal, and recycling, in conjunction with other actors in the post disaster cluster;
• Identify any institutional capacities, policy and legislation that may affect the rubble removal process (including different status for disposal of debris).
• Develop a programme strategy for recovery & debris management as part of a wider recovery framework including the promotion of longer-term livelihoods initiatives:
• Consider the possibility of recycling debris as an input for construction for: roadbeds, housing, landfills, embankments, etc.
• Select appropriate technology for debris removal and recycling, creating skills in the CfW programmes that can lead to sustainable jobs, SMEs, and performance criteria, during the economic recovery phase;
• Present the preliminary Programme Strategy at a Validation and Consensus building workshop to ensure participation and ownership from different stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Identify alternative sources of funding for resource mobilization:
• Analyze alternative sources of funding;
• Determine conditions for access to different sources of financing;
• Pre-selection of convenient sources of financing.
• Design a results framework including a monitoring and evaluation plan:
• Design a results framework that comprises the a) safe removal, disposal and re-use of debris, b) Creation of temporary employment schemes as transition to the economic revitalization; c) strengthening of institutional capacities in the country in the area of debris management; and d) design of an effective management structure for the programme/projects;
• Develop an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the projects' results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges;
• Design mitigation measures to overcome identified disaster, environmental, conflict, gender and poverty risks and devise strategies to overcome challenges presented in the execution of the project.
• Develop one or several project document(s), either for debris management, removal, and recycling, as a stand-alone project or as the component of a wider recovery programme.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure local / national ownership of the project and the livelihood initiatives, while providing for accountability and tracking of expenditures:
• Work with the national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support for national ownership of the reconstruction process in a sustainable manner, addressing disaster and environmental risks;
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process;
• Engage community bodies and other key stakeholders during the whole project cycle providing accountability and tracking expenditures.
• Provide inputs for the UNDP Recovery and Livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion between debris management activities and general recovery initiatives.
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities:
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation;
• Draft TOR for key project positions;
• Coordinate and implement the start-up of recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation;
• Design the project´s implementation structure;
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues;
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS).
5. Employment Generation
• Conduct an assessment of the recovery needs, capacities, available resources, and market conditions:
• Assess the impact of the crisis/disaster on the employment, income, assets of affected population/enterprises considering, when possible, a rapid update (survey) of labor market, household surveys and other secondary information that may contribute to the establishment of a baseline for the Emergency Employment Creation (EEC) initiatives.
• Review how the Government was affected and what the current implementation capacities of Government, related to the stabilization and recovery, are both at central and local levels.
• Analyze the market conditions and potential impact specific to CFW.
• Assess all currently available payment modalities and the most efficient and effective alternative recommended within a reasonable timeframe.
• Develop a programme strategy for market reactivation as part of a wider recovery framework to target the quick revival of the local economy, enhancing stability and recovery in a post crisis situation:
• Contemplate transparent selection and targeting mechanisms of vulnerable and asset poor groups, including women, female headed households, unemployed youth, ex-combatants, Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), depending on the specific conditions;
• Promote training, skills, security, and equity;
• Suggest secure, transparent, and reliable payment modalities, based on past experiences and appropriate monitoring and evaluation;
• Promote a cooperative entrepreneurial, saving incentive and circle;
• Design viable exit strategies;
• Present the preliminary Programme Strategy at a Validation and Consensus building workshop to ensure participation and ownership from different stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Identify alternative sources of funding for resource mobilization:
• Design resource mobilization strategy/plan;
• Analyze alternative sources of funding.
• Design a results framework including a monitoring and evaluation plan and system:
• Design a results framework that comprises the a) immediate creation of temporary employment opportunities for critically affected households; b) the implementation of community driven emergency projects; c) strengthening of the capacity of implementing partners; d) design an effective management structure for the programme/projects;
• Develop an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the projects' results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges;
• Design mitigation measures to overcome identified disaster, environmental, conflict, gender and poverty risks and devise strategies to overcome challenges presented in the execution of the project;
• Develop one or several project document(s) for employment as stand-alone projects or as the component of a wider recovery programme.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure local / national ownership of the project(s):
• Work with national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support national / local ownership of the reconstruction process and its future sustainability;
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process;
• Engage community bodies and other key stakeholders during the whole project cycle, providing accountability and tracking expenditures.
• Provide inputs to the UNDP recovery and livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion between community rehabilitation activities and general recovery initiatives.
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities:
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation;
• Draft TOR for key project positions;
• Coordinate and implement the start-up of recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation;
• Design the project´s implementation structure;
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues;
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS).
6. Enterprise Recovery
• Conduct an assessment of the recovery needs, capacities, available resources, and market conditions:
• Assess the impact of the crisis/disaster on the state of the wider local economy;
• Analyze how many small businesses lost their assets and how many people and families were affected in urban and rural areas;
• Review how the Government was affected and what the current implementation capacities of Government are both at central or local level, sector ministries and specialized agencies;
• Review capacities of private sector, and SCOs / NGOs;
• Analyze the local market conditions post-crisis: Subsistence / Market levels;
• Analyze the business disruption process that has occurred;
• Analyze the state of financial institutions and MIFIs;
• Establish if there are security issues related to cash payments or establishment of small enterprises.
• Develop a programme strategy for enterprise recovery as part of a wider recovery framework to target the quick revival of the local economy, enhancing stability and recovery in a post crisis situation:
• Design transparent enterprise selection and targeting mechanism;
• Design transparent transfer of non-reimbursable funding in tranches according to pre-set business recovery goals;
• Establish a temporary social safety-net that will be replaced by a natural disaster insurance, when viable;
• Establish the key performance indicators agreed with local government and CBOs for M&E purposes;
• Present the preliminary Programme Strategy at a Validation and Consensus building workshop to ensure participation and ownership from different stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Identify alternative sources of funding for resource mobilization:
• Analyze alternative sources of funding;
• Determine conditions for access to different sources of financing.
• Design a results framework including a monitoring and evaluation plan including enterprise recovery grants for micro/small businesses in the crisis affected areas:
• Design a results framework that comprises the a) design of initiatives to boost the quick recapitalization of small businesses which lost assets during the disaster/conflict; b) an implementation strategy to provide small scale grants, principally to micro-enterprises; c) strengthening of the capacity of implementing partners; d) design an effective management structure for the programme/projects;
• Design and budget / program for the project execution;
• Develop an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the projects' results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges;
• Design mitigation measures to overcome identified disaster, environmental, conflict, gender and poverty risks and devise strategies to overcome challenges presented in the execution of the project.
• Develop one or several project document(s) for enterprise recovery as stand-alone projects or as the component of a wider recovery programme.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure local / national ownership of the project(s):
• Work with national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support national / local ownership of the reconstruction process and its future sustainability;
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process;
• Engage community bodies and other key stakeholders during the whole project cycle, providing accountability and tracking expenditures.
• Provide inputs to the UNDP recovery and livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion between community rehabilitation activities and general recovery initiatives.
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities:
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation;
• Draft TOR for key project positions;
• Coordinate and implement the start-up of recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation;
• Design the project´s implementation structure;
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues;
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS).
7. Livelihoods Specialist
• Develop a productive working relationship to promote a common understanding within the UN team, donors, international finance institutes, non-governmental organizations, government, and other partners as it relates to livelihoods in the recovery and reconstruction issues.
• Facilitate a coordinated response by national and international agencies to address identified needs and gaps in these areas within the recovery programmes, including consulting BRR, provincial, district, sub-district, and village authorities in order to enhance cooperation and avoid duplication.
• Design a strategy to enhance a coordinated approach to livelihood initiatives and the development of recovery strategies. This may include: a) Identify outstanding needs in relation to livelihoods recovery strategies linked to local markets
• Following major crises, in recovery contexts, lead the design and implementation of UNDP livelihoods programmes or UNDP components of inter-agency livelihoods programmes.
• Support and promote a coordinated approach to the development of cross sectoral livelihoods efforts in recovery contexts and beyond.
• Support the development of livelihoods initiatives within the context of area-based recovery processes, durable solutions for forcibly displaced populations
• Monitor that the needs of the affected populations, environment and other relevant concerns are taken into account to ensure that livelihood and poverty reduction initiatives are sustainable including establishing priority targets and indicators.
• Ensure that gender is adequately taken into account in the design and implementation of livelihoods recovery strategies.
• Establish senior level contacts with the Government, education and research institutions, NGOs, and civil society groups that are active in these fields.
• Actively foster donor and NGO coordination and interagency linkages and represent UN/UNDP at donor and Government meetings.
• Participate in relevant working groups including livelihoods, governance, shelter/settlements, environment, gender, health, and education.
• Work with specialists from Government Departments including BRR, as well as UN Agencies, international financial institutions, and international and national NGOs to design and implement a coordinated and sustainable livelihood initiative, which addresses identified needs.
• Submit reports on activities on a periodical basis and as requested.
8. Mine Action
• Ensures appropriate technical, policy and strategic support is provided to UNDP's Country, Headquarters and Regional offices, and assist them to review and evaluate the technical, institutional, and financial feasibility and constraints of mine action programmes/projects.
• Makes recommendations on mine action programme/project activities, feasibility, and implementation; linkages with other sectors of UNDP intervention; re-programming and re-scheduling of activities external technical assistance, and resource requirements.
• Assists Country and Regional offices to incorporate mine action into contingency planning, early recovery, and regular programming, to develop appropriate programmatic approaches, and to identify implementing partners.
• Provide support to country offices to mainstream gender and inclusion, environment and victim assistance considerations into mine action programmes and projects.
• Provide support to county offices to strengthen national sustainable mine action structures and capacities by providing pre-agreed technical support, training, develop strategies, plans, standards etc. as agreed with UNDP strategic partners (NMAA, NMAC, NGO's).
• Advise on the maintenance and development of national and international mine action policy, information management tools, standards, and guidelines.
• Undertake advocacy on specialized matters, such as the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, the anti-personnel mine ban convention or the political declaration restricting the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
• Identify training and representation needs of UNDP advisors and specialists in country offices and facilitate participation in appropriate events. Provide on-the-job training.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation missions as needed.
• Draft technical and other knowledge products relating to mine action programming. Prepare mission reports, ad hoc monitoring reports and any other special reports or papers on different aspects of UNDP's mine action programmes.
• Participates in the implementation, monitoring, and review of UNDP's mine action workplans, policies and strategies as required.
• Participate in policy and technical working groups, conferences, workshops, and other forums.
9. Women's Economic Empowerment
Consultants will provide advisory support to clients (UNDP offices, national project teams, and national stakeholders including governments, civil society organizations and affected communities in the region) in areas of crisis prevention and recovery.
Specific reporting and working relationships will be specified at the time of contracting for a specific assignment.
When demand arises in a particular thematic area, pre-selected consultants are called upon to provide demand-driven advisory services, access to knowledge, and technical backstopping to UNDP Country Offices. The range of tasks for the consultant vary according to the assignment and may include research, diagnostic missions, provision of strategic advice, capacity assessments and capacity development activities, strategic development and implementation of projects and policies, on-site support to programme identification and development, monitoring and evaluation, legislation drafting, negotiation and coordination with public/private partners and stakeholders, partnership development, community engagement and outreach.
Consultants will perform their duties from home combined with the in-country missions and/or project site visits (per request of the UNDP Country Office). Consultants are expected to attend relevant meetings and workshops at the country level, including stakeholder consultations, inception and validation meetings.
Requirements for specific competencies, qualifications, duties, and responsibilities will be outlined in assignment TORs.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:
At UNDP, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UNDP recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNDP, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UNDP's policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UNDP personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference checks.
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Role: Other
Working hours (%): 80-100%
Duty Station: Multiple
Successful applicants should:
• Have a Master's degree with a minimum of five years' experience in the respective field relevant to the ToR or possess seven years' experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Be prepared for potential deployment to crisis settings with short notice.
Additionally, specific preferences include:
• Proficiency in Arabic, French, or Spanish, with Russian and/or Portuguese considered advantageous.
• Encouragement is particularly extended to female applicants. In addition to candidates from the Global South.
UNDP seeks applicants under the following sub-profile areas of expertise and should refer to the additional qualifications noted below:
For applicants applying for Area Based Management:
• Advanced university degree in Social sciences, International affairs, or development –related Fields.
• Experience in programme management, coordination, or related areas; field experience in crisis and/or post-conflict settings highly desirable;
• Experience in the field of area-based development approaches with a focus on recovery and reintegration in crisis and complex contexts, including experience at the international level;
• Experience in partnership building and/or inter-agency coordination in post-conflict and/or post-natural disaster settings in particular at the field level and working with donors and NGOs;
• Proven ability to interact at the highest governmental and inter-agency levels
• Familiarity with UN common procedures and tools, especially regarding needs assessments, pooled funds, and joint programming;
• Experience in project design, implementation, and evaluation.
For applicants applying for Cash Based Livelihoods:
• Advanced university degree in social sciences, development, political sciences, management, or other relevant science.
• Experience in programme development and management in challenging environments.
• Experience in humanitarian and development environment.
• Experience in cash-based programming and Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation.
• Experience in procurement and project design, execution, and financing with UNDP and IFIs will be considered as an asset.
For applicants applying for Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Debris Management / Recovery Advisor:
• Advanced university degree in engineering (civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, and industrial engineering).
• Experience in programme development and management in challenging environments.
• Experience in humanitarian and development environments.
• Experience in post-disaster context.
• Experience in procurement, project design, execution, and financing with UNDP and IFIs will be considered as an asset.
For applicants applying for Employment Generation and Livelihoods Specialist:
• Advanced university degree in social sciences, development, political sciences, management, or other relevant science.
• Experience in programme development and management in challenging environments;
• Experience in humanitarian and development environments;
• Experience in post-disaster/conflict context;
• Experience in procurement, project design, execution, and financing with UNDP and IFIs will be considered as an asset.
For applicants applying for Enterprise Recovery:
• Advanced university degree in international development, sustainable livelihoods, public policy, or other relevant social sciences. Areas of specialization could include economic development, environmental planning, land use and comprehensive planning.
• Experience in the field of sustainable livelihoods approaches with a focus on recovery and reintegration in crisis and complex contexts, including experience at the international level.
• Relevant professional experience, including international experience, in rural development, policy analysis, and project management. The successful candidate will have experience in a range of issues/themes – rural/urban linkages, provision of socio-economic services through a system of settlements, sector analysis, project/programme planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation
• Facilitation and training skills highly desirable
• Experience in project design, implementations, and evaluation
For applicants applying for Mine Action:
• Advanced university degree in public administration, engineering, sociology, or any other relevant discipline.
• Experience in one or more fields of mine action.
For applicants applying for Women's Economic Empowerment:
• Advanced university degree relevant to the thematic area (specifically areas such as economics, business development, gender studies, socioeconomic development, agriculture, rural /urban development, civil engineering hydraulic engineering, industrial engineering, social sciences, development, political sciences, management, or other relevant science).
• Experience in gender responsive programme development and challenging environments.
• Extensive technical knowledge relevant to the thematic area.
• Region specific experience.
• Theoretical and practical experience in drafting, implementing, monitoring and evaluating public policy strategies or concepts relevant to the selected thematic area.
• Proven and recent experience with technical assistance for project development, implementation, management and/or evaluation.
• Excellent drafting and formulation skills; proven record of drafting official reports or papers/studies in the selected area.
• Experience working as a public official in the selected area or working/collaborating with the government is a plus.
• UN experience an asset.
• Experience with training and facilitation is an asset.
• Excellent knowledge of development issues and internationally agreed development goals.
• Good knowledge of social networks and mobile technologies.
• Excellent oral and written skills to develop knowledge products in these areas.
• Knowledge of UNDP's approach to ICT for Development and e-governance.
• Good knowledge of the socio-economic and political situation of the countries in the region.
WHAT IS LIVELIHOODS AND AREA-BASED DEVELOPMENT?
Area Based Management
A major role of the Crisis Bureau (CB) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to support Country Offices (COs) in the formulation and implementation of programmes and projects in an immediate crisis and recovery context. At the same time, CB supports the Resident Coordinators in leading early recovery efforts at the country level on behalf of the UN system.
CB's work is organized around four key areas: Conflict Prevention and Recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery, Early Recovery, and Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
The specific fields of responsibility will be: (a) to lead the design and elaboration of recovery and development programmes and support their implementation; (b) to support the processes of planning and development of strategies; (c) to maintain and develop partners relationships, in particular related to national counterpart, donors and UN agencies, to encourage collaboration with the key actors engaged in recovery processes especially local level recovery efforts targeting specified geographic areas; (e) support resource mobilization efforts for area –based programmes.
The incumbent will support the Country Office in strategic programming and planning and ensuring implementation of interventions.
Cash Based Livelihoods
UNDP works with communities and societies affected by disaster and conflicts to achieve early and long-term economic recovery and livelihoods recovery of the people. Livelihoods and economic recovery programmes are linked to the process of promoting sustainable and inclusive growth, working with institutions and communities to recover, be resilient and sustainable.
By doing so, we help societies and countries in their rapid return to sustainable development by tackling the social, economic, and environmental drivers of vulnerability.
Post-disaster/post-conflict UNDP is supporting the government to design and implement recovery projects which ensures to link the immediate humanitarian efforts with longer term sustainable development to ensure the humanitarian-development-peace nexus is achieved.
Within UNDP's Recovery approach, emergency employment and immediate livelihoods recovery projects aim to provide immediate jobs and livelihoods for the affected population as well as the wider local economy.
To maximize immediate employment opportunities a series of cash-based interventions for income relief are being designed by UNDP to stabilize and improve the livelihoods of the affected population as well as the wider local economy. Government leadership in this will ensure the harmonization among different Cash based interventions for different purposes.
Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation
In the aftermath of natural disasters UNDP is engaged in community infrastructure rehabilitation to support reconstruction efforts at the local level. Community Infrastructure and Community-Based Assets (physical and institutional) are critical for enabling a local population to thrive – economically, socially, and culturally.
Human development is inextricably linked with the performance of these community-based systems and structures.
The goal of UNDP's intervention in this is to assist a community to be fully engaged in leading its own recovery, enable local residents harness their own potential, expand their choices, learn new skills, and prioritize their needs and access opportunities.
In this context, UNDP is planning to develop infrastructure rehabilitation programme(s) to rebuild key local structures that perform basic functions and services which will be central to the survival and healthy functioning of the community and to its economic sustainability.
Debris Management / Recovery Advisor
Post-disaster/post-conflict UNDP is supporting the government to develop and implement a National Debris Management Strategy.
Within this framework, UNDP plans to design and implement jointly with the government a Debris Management Programme that will comprise one or several integrated projects.
The integrated approach to debris management covers all dimensions of debris management, including rubble removal, re-use, recycle and processing, as well as the potential contributions to the reactivation of the local economy through support to micro enterprises and support to affected communities.
The Recovery Advisor for Debris Management will lead the assessment of the debris situation at hand. Based on this s(he) will design a National Debris Management Strategy in close cooperation with government stakeholders. The development of the strategy will comprise strategic planning, resource mobilization and the provision of technical assistance as well as the start-up of programme/activities.
The Advisor will work under the overall guidance of the UNDP Resident Representative or Country Director and direct supervision of Deputy Resident Representative/Deputy Country Director, Programme and the relevant programme units.
Employment Generation
Post-disaster/post-conflict UNDP is supporting the government to design and implement large scale job creation schemes to enhance the social contract between the Government and its citizens while utilizing the capacity of the affected population as an active force for building a better future.
To maximize temporary employment opportunities labor-intensive public works schemes or community projects are being created by UNDP to improve the livelihoods of the affected population as well as the wider local economy. Government leadership in this will ensure the harmonization among different Cash-for-Work or labor-intensive infrastructure rehabilitation schemes.
In this UNDP will help to manage the critical transition from emergency employment into longer term prospects, including the national or local labor markets, national employment schemes or conditional cash transfers.
The Recovery Advisor for Employment Generation will be responsible for the design and development of temporary employment opportunities through labor-intensive public works schemes or community projects. The development of these initiatives will comprise strategic planning, resource mobilization and the provision of technical assistance as well as the start-up of programme/activities.
Such initiatives must be designed with a short-medium-long term vision keeping the recovery process as ultimate goal.
The Advisor will work under the overall guidance of the UNDP Resident Representative or Country Director and direct supervision of Deputy Resident Representative/Country Director, Programme and the relevant programme unit.
Enterprise Recovery
Post-disaster/post-conflict UNDP is supporting the government to design enterprise recovery schemes including enterprise recovery grants for micro/small businesses in the crisis affected areas to boost the wider local economy and help improve the livelihoods of the affected population.
Under the overall goal of assuring a quick employment recovery cash grants to local micro enterprises and small businesses will enable local entrepreneurs to replenish their assets that have been lost or damaged due to the disaster or conflict.
By targeting enterprise recovery on a larger scale through the injection of financing UNDP will help to put small enterprises back on their feet. This will allow for the critical transition from emergency employment to longer term prospects, including the national or local labor markets, national employment schemes or conditional cash transfers.
The Recovery Advisor for Enterprise Recovery will be responsible for the design and development enterprise recovery initiatives which will comprise strategic planning, resource mobilization and the provision of technical assistance as well as the start-up of programme/activities.
The Advisor will work under the overall guidance of the UNDP Resident Representative or Country Director and direct supervision of Deputy Resident Representative/Country Director, Programme and the relevant programme units.
Livelihoods Specialist
A major role of the Crisis Bureau (CB) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to support Country Offices (COs) in the formulation and implementation of programmes and projects in an immediate crisis and recovery context. At the same time, CB supports the Resident Coordinators in leading early recovery efforts at the country level on behalf of the UN system.
CB's work is organized around four key areas: Conflict Prevention and Recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery, Early Recovery, and Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
Mine Action
A major role of the Crisis Bureau (CB) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to support Country Offices (COs) in the formulation and implementation of programmes and projects in an immediate crisis and recovery context. At the same time, CB supports the Resident Coordinators in leading early recovery efforts at the country level on behalf of the UN system.
CB's work is organized around four key areas: Conflict Prevention and Recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery, Early Recovery, and Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
The Mine Action Consultant is assigned to support the management, coordination and development of mine action related projects and programmes, being undertaken or supported by UNDP at the country, regional and/or global level. The consultant's primary responsibilities relate to supporting country programmes to maintain high operational standards and to provide technical, strategic, and operations assistance.
The consultant may also be responsible for supporting the development of global and/or regional programmes and projects designed to support country offices or otherwise further the development of mine action programming through advocacy and capacity building.
Women's Economic Empowerment
UNDP helps countries prevent armed conflict, alleviate the risk and effects of disasters from natural hazards and build back better and stronger when crises happen. Building resilience to conflicts and disasters is at the very heart of UNDP's work.
When a crisis strikes, UNDP ensures that while the humanitarian response focuses on the immediate lifesaving needs of a population, those responsible also work towards longer-term development objectives.
Created in 2001 by UNDP's Executive Board, the Crisis Bureau (CB) works around the world to restore the quality of life for men, women and children who have been devastated by natural disaster or violent conflict.
Operating through some 100 Country Offices (COs), the Bureau provides a bridge between the humanitarian agencies that handle immediate relief needs and the long- term development phase following recovery. Carving stability out of chaos, CB continues to seek new ways of preventing conflicts and of doing business - faster, earlier and in riskier situations.
When operating in countries in development and crisis situations, UNDP country offices are almost always faced with the challenge of finding adequate human resources with the required technical expertise in the short timeframe that crisis related situations often demand.
CB is at the forefront of receiving regular requests from COs asking for the quick deployment of personnel or identification of consultants with specific expertise for durations ranging anywhere from a few days to a few months.
• Women's Economic Empowerment programming including gender responsive livelihood and economic recovery assessments, supporting the design of women's economic recovery programmes in an environmentally sustainable manner, women's access to market assessments, value chain assessment, support to gender responsive early recovery planning and monitoring and evaluation of recovery work, building capacity of national women's machinery and women's organization;
• Assessment of gender responsive Economic Recovery and Livelihoods interventions including assessment of all ongoing Economic Recovery and Livelihoods related interventions in the country, highlighting gender equality gaps, that need to be addressed and actionable recommendations;
• Women's Emergency Employment including assessment of the recovery needs, capacities, available resources and market conditions, assessment of impact of the crisis on the employment, safety and social protection, income, assets of affected women/enterprises, analysis of the market conditions and potential impact specific to cash for work and development of emergency employment initiatives with participation of at least 40% women;
• Women and Natural Resource Management including awareness around linkages between conflict and natural resources and its specific impact on women; support to women on sustainable use of natural resources as an important basis for opportunities for economically sustainable income generation; enhancing awareness on use of the legal protections available to women, especially for land and tenure over productive natural resources; and capacity-building for increasing employment in natural resource sectors through improved access to the technological, informational and financial resources necessary to transform natural resources into marketable assets.
SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED WORK
1. Area Based Management:
Under the direct guidance of the relevant Country Office personnel, and in collaboration with the relevant technical team of the CB, the consultant will:
• Provide direct technical and strategic support to UNDP Country Offices on area-based development planning and programming.
• Build partnerships and support country level networks, within and beyond the UN, on area-based development and recovery issues.
• Support UNDP Country Offices in developing area-based recovery programmes.
• Provide guidance to post crisis countries on the development of inter-agency coordination platforms for implementing area-based recovery initiatives.
• Promote a common understanding, within the UN Country Team, affected governments and other stakeholders operating in the affected country of sustainable area-based development approaches to recovery from crises.
• Promote the application of programming tools for UNDP personnel on area-based development approaches in recovery Situations, with emphasis on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDP Nexus).
• Train UNDP personnel in the application of these tools where appropriate.
• Provide substantive area-based input for UNDP transformational contributions to strategic planning and appealing documents at the country level.
• Support the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues into the design and implemented interagency programmes, including the UNDP components of these programmes.
• Work with the gender advisor at the country level or at the CB level if one is not available at the country level to ensure that area-based recovery programmes are gender transformative.
• Devise a monitoring and evaluation framework for all area –based recovery programmes designed at the country level with specific and measurable indicators. Ensure that these programmes are monitored, reviewed, and evaluated according to these procedures.
• Following a crisis provide rapid support to UNDP COs to assess needs and rapidly develop programming responses for most affected geographic areas.
• Train UNDP country office personnel on the application Recovery Programming tools developed according to area-based recovery principles.
• Build partnerships and country level networks, within and beyond the UN, on area-based development and recovery issues.
• Actively lead and participate in existing working-level groups or clusters developed at the country level on livelihoods and recovery issues.
• Ensure that knowledge is retrieved from UNDP area-based development and recovery programmes, through periodic reporting, meetings, analysis of documents produced, lessons learned exercises, and other means.
2. Cash Based Livelihoods
• Provide direct technical and strategic support to UNDP Country Offices on area-based development planning and programming.
• Build partnerships and support country level networks, within and beyond the UN, on area-based development and recovery issues.
• Support UNDP Country Offices in developing area-based recovery programmes.
• Provide guidance to post crisis countries on the development of inter-agency coordination platforms for implementing area-based recovery initiatives.
• Promote a common understanding, within the UN Country Team, affected governments and other stakeholders operating in the affected country of sustainable area-based development approaches to recovery from crises.
• Promote the application of programming tools for UNDP personnel on area-based development approaches in recovery Situations, with emphasis on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDP Nexus).
• Train UNDP personnel in the application of these tools where appropriate.
• Provide substantive area-based input for UNDP transformational contributions to strategic planning and appealing documents at the country level.
• Support the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues into the design and implemented interagency programmes, including the UNDP components of these programmes.
• Work with the gender advisor at the country level or at the CB level if one is not available at the country level to ensure that area-based recovery programmes are gender transformative.
• Devise a monitoring and evaluation framework for all area –based recovery programmes designed at the country level with specific and measurable indicators. Ensure that these programmes are monitored, reviewed, and evaluated according to these procedures.
• Following the crisis, provide rapid support to UNDP COs to assess needs and rapidly develop programming responses for most affected geographic areas.
• Train UNDP country office personnel on the application Recovery Programming tools developed according to area-based recovery principles.
• Build partnerships and country level networks, within and beyond the UN, on area-based development and recovery issues.
• Actively lead and participate in existing working-level groups or clusters developed at the country level on livelihoods and recovery issues.
• Ensure that knowledge is retrieved from UNDP area-based development and recovery programmes, through periodic reporting, meetings, analysis of documents produced, lessons learned exercises, and other means.
• Assess the most suitable cash-based intervention modality and design the cash-based programming within UNDP's Recovery response
• Ensure programme quality and results to promote quality cash transfer programmes in different contexts with effective participation mechanism of the community for targeting and implementation,
• Ensure greater technical expertise on Cash Transfer Programming. q Develop the suitable cash transfer modality to effectively support UNDP's recovery response to target the quick revival of the local economy, enhancing stability and recovery in a post crisis situation.
• Conduct the preparedness and contingency planning for cash-based programming
• Liase with the Livelihoods and Recovery team on the assessment and the impact of the crisis/disaster on the employment, income, assets of affected population/enterprises considering, when possible, a rapid update (survey) of labor market, household surveys and other secondary information that may contribute to the establishment of a baseline.
• Assess and complete a CBI feasibility and risk assessment
• Assess implementing partners capacity for this partnership on cash-based programming ▪Complete the situational analysis which includes other agencies response, feasibility and risk assessment, market analysis and gender maps.
• Enable NGO's, UN partners, governments, cash working groups, cluster/sectors to use cash and market analysis in order to ensure that all aspects of recovery programming prevent a negative impact on livelihoods, jobs and businesses upon which people's long-term security depends.
• Enhance UN agencies, NGO's and governments understanding of how cash and market analysis can be used to address the different needs of women, girls, boys, and men of all ages, and enable design of Cash Transfer Programme that is informed by need and market systems assessment and analysis.
• Analyze the market conditions and impact specific to CFW.
• Analyze the specific situation of women with regard to employment, income, land ownership and access to financial services.
• Assess all currently available payment modalities and the most efficient and effective alternative recommended within a reasonable timeframe.
• Within UNDP's strategy develop the cash-based programme to target the quick revival of the local economy, enhancing stability and recovery in a post crisis situation
• Finalize risk and mitigation measures and cost benefits for cash transfer programmes
• Assess and finalize the modes of operation through the selection and targeting mechanisms of vulnerable and asset poor groups, including women, female headed households, unemployed youth, ex-combatants, Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), migrants and refugees, depending on the specific conditions.
• Develop secure, transparent, and reliable payment modalities, based on appropriate MIS
• Secure agreement on the selection of the Cash Payment agent and payment instrument, undertaking appropriate risks analysis
• Enable humanitarian and development actors to make strategic planning, programme development and project implementation that take into consideration cash transfer programming and advice on different forms of cash transfer modalities that might be adopted in response to the specific humanitarian context and based on results from market assessment and analysis.
• Design an exit strategy
• Ensure that women's groups are both partners and beneficiaries.
• Coordination
• Technical assistance to the different clusters/sectors in analyzing the potential needs, benefits, and merits of using cash transfer modalities in their current programmes/activities; to identify gaps and challenges; and use this information in collaboration with partners to develop strategies for addressing CTP gaps in each cluster/working group/sector.
• Provide advice on how to strengthen cash and market coordination in discussions with Cash Working Groups and/or Humanitarian Country Team, and in engagement with national governments on specific interventions, if required.
• Support the establishment/strengthening and sustainability of existing cash and market coordination mechanisms at the national, regional, and local levels.
• Build strategic alliances with other key actors internally and externally to advocate for cash transfer programming and ensure continuity of advocacy efforts, as and when required.
• Devise a monitoring and evaluation plan within the overall programme
• Work with stakeholders to ensure local / national ownership of the programme and the livelihood initiatives, while providing for accountability and tracking of expenditures
• Work with the national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support national ownership of the reconstruction process.
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process.
• Support the participation and empowerment of women and women's groups.
• Provide inputs for the UNDP recovery and livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion with the general recovery initiatives.
• When possible, community bodies and other key stakeholders should be engaged during the whole project cycle providing for accountability and tracking of expenditures
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation.
• Draft TORs for key project positions.
• Coordination and implement the start-up of the recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation.
• Design the project´s implementation structure
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS)
3. Community Infrastructure Rehabilitation
• Conduct an assessment in the area of the community social and economic infrastructure rehabilitation.
• Assess the scope of infrastructural damage and the number of community assets to be repaired.
• Analyze the state of community infrastructure and as such of public buildings (bridges etc.), sanitation & water supply, education & health as well as energy facilities.
• Determine the national and local capacities (public and from SCOs) to respond emergency recovery
• Review existing capacities (physical, human, technical and other inputs) for rebuilding and repair, operation, and maintenance.
• Establish the priorities to be set forward in the program strategy.
• Develop a programme strategy for community infrastructure rehabilitation as part of a wider post-disaster recovery framework.
• Present the preliminary Programme Strategy at a Validation and Consensus building workshop to ensure participation and ownership from different stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Identify alternative sources of funding for resource mobilization.
• Analyze alternative sources of funding.
• Determine conditions for access to different sources of financing.
• Design a results framework including a monitoring and evaluation plan.
• Design a results framework that comprises the: a) repair, reconstruction, operation and maintenance of infrastructural community assets and services; b) creation of temporary employment schemes as transition to the economic recovery phase; c) capacity building initiatives to strengthen the communities' abilities to help themselves; and d) design of an effective management structure for the programme/projects.
• Design a budget / program for the project execution.
• Develop an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the projects' results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges.
• Design mitigation measures to overcome identified disaster, environmental, conflict, gender and poverty risks and devise strategies to overcome challenges presented in the execution of the project.
• Develop one or several project document(s) as stand-alone projects or as the component of a wider recovery programme.
• Work with local and national stakeholders to ensure national ownership of the projects and the livelihood initiatives, while providing for accountability and tracking of expenditures.
• Work with national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support national / local ownership of the reconstruction process and its future sustainability;
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process;
• Engage community bodies and other key stakeholders during the whole project cycle, providing accountability and tracking expenditures.
• Provide inputs for the UNDP Recovery and Livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion between community rehabilitation activities and general recovery initiatives.
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities.
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation;
• Draft TOR for key project positions;
• Coordinate and implement the start-up of recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation
• Design the project´s implementation structure;
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues;
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS).
4. Debris Management / Recovery Advisor
• Conduct an assessment of the recovery needs in the area of debris management and recycling:
• Assess the scope of infrastructural damage, the mapping of the area and the volume of rubble to be removed;
• Analyze the state of public infrastructure, including landfills and dumping sites and the accessibility to them by different kind of vehicles and machinery;
• Prepare a rapid technical assessment of buildings and housing using local technical capacities, when possible and available;
• Review existing capacities for removal, sorting and recycling in the country and region
• Establish priorities for the areas of debris removal, disposal, and recycling, in conjunction with other actors in the post disaster cluster;
• Identify any institutional capacities, policy and legislation that may affect the rubble removal process (including different status for disposal of debris).
• Develop a programme strategy for recovery & debris management as part of a wider recovery framework including the promotion of longer-term livelihoods initiatives:
• Consider the possibility of recycling debris as an input for construction for: roadbeds, housing, landfills, embankments, etc.
• Select appropriate technology for debris removal and recycling, creating skills in the CfW programmes that can lead to sustainable jobs, SMEs, and performance criteria, during the economic recovery phase;
• Present the preliminary Programme Strategy at a Validation and Consensus building workshop to ensure participation and ownership from different stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Identify alternative sources of funding for resource mobilization:
• Analyze alternative sources of funding;
• Determine conditions for access to different sources of financing;
• Pre-selection of convenient sources of financing.
• Design a results framework including a monitoring and evaluation plan:
• Design a results framework that comprises the a) safe removal, disposal and re-use of debris, b) Creation of temporary employment schemes as transition to the economic revitalization; c) strengthening of institutional capacities in the country in the area of debris management; and d) design of an effective management structure for the programme/projects;
• Develop an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the projects' results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges;
• Design mitigation measures to overcome identified disaster, environmental, conflict, gender and poverty risks and devise strategies to overcome challenges presented in the execution of the project.
• Develop one or several project document(s), either for debris management, removal, and recycling, as a stand-alone project or as the component of a wider recovery programme.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure local / national ownership of the project and the livelihood initiatives, while providing for accountability and tracking of expenditures:
• Work with the national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support for national ownership of the reconstruction process in a sustainable manner, addressing disaster and environmental risks;
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process;
• Engage community bodies and other key stakeholders during the whole project cycle providing accountability and tracking expenditures.
• Provide inputs for the UNDP Recovery and Livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion between debris management activities and general recovery initiatives.
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities:
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation;
• Draft TOR for key project positions;
• Coordinate and implement the start-up of recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation;
• Design the project´s implementation structure;
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues;
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS).
5. Employment Generation
• Conduct an assessment of the recovery needs, capacities, available resources, and market conditions:
• Assess the impact of the crisis/disaster on the employment, income, assets of affected population/enterprises considering, when possible, a rapid update (survey) of labor market, household surveys and other secondary information that may contribute to the establishment of a baseline for the Emergency Employment Creation (EEC) initiatives.
• Review how the Government was affected and what the current implementation capacities of Government, related to the stabilization and recovery, are both at central and local levels.
• Analyze the market conditions and potential impact specific to CFW.
• Assess all currently available payment modalities and the most efficient and effective alternative recommended within a reasonable timeframe.
• Develop a programme strategy for market reactivation as part of a wider recovery framework to target the quick revival of the local economy, enhancing stability and recovery in a post crisis situation:
• Contemplate transparent selection and targeting mechanisms of vulnerable and asset poor groups, including women, female headed households, unemployed youth, ex-combatants, Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), depending on the specific conditions;
• Promote training, skills, security, and equity;
• Suggest secure, transparent, and reliable payment modalities, based on past experiences and appropriate monitoring and evaluation;
• Promote a cooperative entrepreneurial, saving incentive and circle;
• Design viable exit strategies;
• Present the preliminary Programme Strategy at a Validation and Consensus building workshop to ensure participation and ownership from different stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Identify alternative sources of funding for resource mobilization:
• Design resource mobilization strategy/plan;
• Analyze alternative sources of funding.
• Design a results framework including a monitoring and evaluation plan and system:
• Design a results framework that comprises the a) immediate creation of temporary employment opportunities for critically affected households; b) the implementation of community driven emergency projects; c) strengthening of the capacity of implementing partners; d) design an effective management structure for the programme/projects;
• Develop an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the projects' results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges;
• Design mitigation measures to overcome identified disaster, environmental, conflict, gender and poverty risks and devise strategies to overcome challenges presented in the execution of the project;
• Develop one or several project document(s) for employment as stand-alone projects or as the component of a wider recovery programme.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure local / national ownership of the project(s):
• Work with national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support national / local ownership of the reconstruction process and its future sustainability;
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process;
• Engage community bodies and other key stakeholders during the whole project cycle, providing accountability and tracking expenditures.
• Provide inputs to the UNDP recovery and livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion between community rehabilitation activities and general recovery initiatives.
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities:
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation;
• Draft TOR for key project positions;
• Coordinate and implement the start-up of recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation;
• Design the project´s implementation structure;
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues;
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS).
6. Enterprise Recovery
• Conduct an assessment of the recovery needs, capacities, available resources, and market conditions:
• Assess the impact of the crisis/disaster on the state of the wider local economy;
• Analyze how many small businesses lost their assets and how many people and families were affected in urban and rural areas;
• Review how the Government was affected and what the current implementation capacities of Government are both at central or local level, sector ministries and specialized agencies;
• Review capacities of private sector, and SCOs / NGOs;
• Analyze the local market conditions post-crisis: Subsistence / Market levels;
• Analyze the business disruption process that has occurred;
• Analyze the state of financial institutions and MIFIs;
• Establish if there are security issues related to cash payments or establishment of small enterprises.
• Develop a programme strategy for enterprise recovery as part of a wider recovery framework to target the quick revival of the local economy, enhancing stability and recovery in a post crisis situation:
• Design transparent enterprise selection and targeting mechanism;
• Design transparent transfer of non-reimbursable funding in tranches according to pre-set business recovery goals;
• Establish a temporary social safety-net that will be replaced by a natural disaster insurance, when viable;
• Establish the key performance indicators agreed with local government and CBOs for M&E purposes;
• Present the preliminary Programme Strategy at a Validation and Consensus building workshop to ensure participation and ownership from different stakeholders and beneficiaries.
• Identify alternative sources of funding for resource mobilization:
• Analyze alternative sources of funding;
• Determine conditions for access to different sources of financing.
• Design a results framework including a monitoring and evaluation plan including enterprise recovery grants for micro/small businesses in the crisis affected areas:
• Design a results framework that comprises the a) design of initiatives to boost the quick recapitalization of small businesses which lost assets during the disaster/conflict; b) an implementation strategy to provide small scale grants, principally to micro-enterprises; c) strengthening of the capacity of implementing partners; d) design an effective management structure for the programme/projects;
• Design and budget / program for the project execution;
• Develop an adequate monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the projects' results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges;
• Design mitigation measures to overcome identified disaster, environmental, conflict, gender and poverty risks and devise strategies to overcome challenges presented in the execution of the project.
• Develop one or several project document(s) for enterprise recovery as stand-alone projects or as the component of a wider recovery programme.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure local / national ownership of the project(s):
• Work with national and local authorities as well as NGOs to develop their capacity and support national / local ownership of the reconstruction process and its future sustainability;
• Support community empowerment and participation in the process;
• Engage community bodies and other key stakeholders during the whole project cycle, providing accountability and tracking expenditures.
• Provide inputs to the UNDP recovery and livelihoods strategy and ensure cohesion between community rehabilitation activities and general recovery initiatives.
• Support the start-up of programme/project activities:
• Assist in identifying relevant sources of expertise for project/activity implementation;
• Draft TOR for key project positions;
• Coordinate and implement the start-up of recruitment and deployment of experts to support project implementation;
• Design the project´s implementation structure;
• Determine the critical evaluation / review phases and issues;
• Design conceptual framework for the project´s management information system (MIS).
7. Livelihoods Specialist
• Develop a productive working relationship to promote a common understanding within the UN team, donors, international finance institutes, non-governmental organizations, government, and other partners as it relates to livelihoods in the recovery and reconstruction issues.
• Facilitate a coordinated response by national and international agencies to address identified needs and gaps in these areas within the recovery programmes, including consulting BRR, provincial, district, sub-district, and village authorities in order to enhance cooperation and avoid duplication.
• Design a strategy to enhance a coordinated approach to livelihood initiatives and the development of recovery strategies. This may include: a) Identify outstanding needs in relation to livelihoods recovery strategies linked to local markets
• Following major crises, in recovery contexts, lead the design and implementation of UNDP livelihoods programmes or UNDP components of inter-agency livelihoods programmes.
• Support and promote a coordinated approach to the development of cross sectoral livelihoods efforts in recovery contexts and beyond.
• Support the development of livelihoods initiatives within the context of area-based recovery processes, durable solutions for forcibly displaced populations
• Monitor that the needs of the affected populations, environment and other relevant concerns are taken into account to ensure that livelihood and poverty reduction initiatives are sustainable including establishing priority targets and indicators.
• Ensure that gender is adequately taken into account in the design and implementation of livelihoods recovery strategies.
• Establish senior level contacts with the Government, education and research institutions, NGOs, and civil society groups that are active in these fields.
• Actively foster donor and NGO coordination and interagency linkages and represent UN/UNDP at donor and Government meetings.
• Participate in relevant working groups including livelihoods, governance, shelter/settlements, environment, gender, health, and education.
• Work with specialists from Government Departments including BRR, as well as UN Agencies, international financial institutions, and international and national NGOs to design and implement a coordinated and sustainable livelihood initiative, which addresses identified needs.
• Submit reports on activities on a periodical basis and as requested.
8. Mine Action
• Ensures appropriate technical, policy and strategic support is provided to UNDP's Country, Headquarters and Regional offices, and assist them to review and evaluate the technical, institutional, and financial feasibility and constraints of mine action programmes/projects.
• Makes recommendations on mine action programme/project activities, feasibility, and implementation; linkages with other sectors of UNDP intervention; re-programming and re-scheduling of activities external technical assistance, and resource requirements.
• Assists Country and Regional offices to incorporate mine action into contingency planning, early recovery, and regular programming, to develop appropriate programmatic approaches, and to identify implementing partners.
• Provide support to country offices to mainstream gender and inclusion, environment and victim assistance considerations into mine action programmes and projects.
• Provide support to county offices to strengthen national sustainable mine action structures and capacities by providing pre-agreed technical support, training, develop strategies, plans, standards etc. as agreed with UNDP strategic partners (NMAA, NMAC, NGO's).
• Advise on the maintenance and development of national and international mine action policy, information management tools, standards, and guidelines.
• Undertake advocacy on specialized matters, such as the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, the anti-personnel mine ban convention or the political declaration restricting the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
• Identify training and representation needs of UNDP advisors and specialists in country offices and facilitate participation in appropriate events. Provide on-the-job training.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation missions as needed.
• Draft technical and other knowledge products relating to mine action programming. Prepare mission reports, ad hoc monitoring reports and any other special reports or papers on different aspects of UNDP's mine action programmes.
• Participates in the implementation, monitoring, and review of UNDP's mine action workplans, policies and strategies as required.
• Participate in policy and technical working groups, conferences, workshops, and other forums.
9. Women's Economic Empowerment
Consultants will provide advisory support to clients (UNDP offices, national project teams, and national stakeholders including governments, civil society organizations and affected communities in the region) in areas of crisis prevention and recovery.
Specific reporting and working relationships will be specified at the time of contracting for a specific assignment.
When demand arises in a particular thematic area, pre-selected consultants are called upon to provide demand-driven advisory services, access to knowledge, and technical backstopping to UNDP Country Offices. The range of tasks for the consultant vary according to the assignment and may include research, diagnostic missions, provision of strategic advice, capacity assessments and capacity development activities, strategic development and implementation of projects and policies, on-site support to programme identification and development, monitoring and evaluation, legislation drafting, negotiation and coordination with public/private partners and stakeholders, partnership development, community engagement and outreach.
Consultants will perform their duties from home combined with the in-country missions and/or project site visits (per request of the UNDP Country Office). Consultants are expected to attend relevant meetings and workshops at the country level, including stakeholder consultations, inception and validation meetings.
Requirements for specific competencies, qualifications, duties, and responsibilities will be outlined in assignment TORs.
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At UNDP, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UNDP recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNDP, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UNDP's policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UNDP personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference checks.
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