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Background to the UNV Programme: The United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme is the UN organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges, and it can transform the pace and nature of development. Volunteerism benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer by strengthening trust, solidarity and reciprocity among citizens, and by purposefully creating opportunities for participation. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for recognition of volunteers, working with partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing an increasing number and diversity of volunteers, including experienced UN Volunteers, throughout the world. UNV embraces volunteerism as universal and inclusive, and recognizes volunteerism in its diversity as well as the values that sustain it: free will, commitment, engagement and solidarity. Background to the Volunteer Modalities to be reviewed: The UNV Programme Strategy has youth as a cross-cutting area following a 1976 United Nations General Assembly resolution IRES/31/131 that asked UNV to particularly support volunteer opportunities for youth. In order to follow up with its mandate UNV has developed two youth volunteer modalities to promote the role of youth in peace and development: The UNV University Volunteer Programme started in June 2001 with the George Mason University (GMU) from the USA, followed in March 2002 by the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid (UAM) from Spain and in 2004 by the Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU) from Japan. The programme mobilizes a specific sector of the population - university students (at times even academic staff), to serve as volunteers in development projects implemented in partnership with UNDP country offices, governments or with other UN entities or UNV partners (including with civil society organizations). University Volunteers primarily help to build local capacities in areas such as ICT for Development, environment, health and education towards achieving the MDGs. They have contracts with and are directly sponsored from their respective university and/ or government. UNV is responsible for the coordination of the programme, review of assignment requests, guidance to the drafting of Description of Assignments and pre-departure briefing. Once the University Volunteers are in the field, UNV Field Units provide management support (including supervision and monitoring) during assignment. The University Volunteers are not in any respect officials or staff of the United Nations. University volunteer assignments are for a period of three/six months without possibility of extension and receive a moderate allowance intended to cover basic needs (i.e. accommodation, food and local transportation). The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) is the coordinating university for the Spanish University Volunteer Network currently comprising 26 Spanish universities. Since the beginning of the collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2002, UNV has fielded 116 Spanish University volunteers. While in collaboration with the KGU University a total of 58 student volunteers have been fielded, mainly in the area of ICT. The figure includes the three currently serving volunteers. All selected University Volunteers undergo a special briefing session at UNV HQ in Bonn before travelling to duty station. Justification: Given UNV’s mission to promote volunteerism for peace and development including the advancement of youth; UNV is seeking to further engage in innovative volunteer modalities. As part of this process, a consultancy is required to undertake a review of the existing volunteer modalities in order to reflect on their current state and how they apply to the work of UNV. The objectives of the consultancy are:
Key Areas/Issues to be Addressed: Based on the objectives of the consultancy, the review will consider the following criteria and key questions: Relevance: External coherence: The extent to which the objectives and design of the modalities are suited to locally defined stakeholders’ needs and priorities, to government policies, to other development agencies’ efforts in achieving development results.
Efficiency: A measure of how resources/inputs (funds, expertise, time, management etc.) are converted to results. Efficiency measures the outputs – qualitative and quantitative –comparing the two modalities and identify the most efficient modality.
Note: All the info should be presented in a Matrix allowing comparing the two modalities:
Impact/Effects
Whether and to what extent the modalities took the gender dimension into account and whether they promote a gender sensitive approach. It also involves practical measures to guarantee an adequate treatment of gender issues, beyond equal participation by men and women, and addressing changes in attitudes and behaviours.
An analysis of the institutional relationships developed throughout the development and implementation of the two modalities and the extent to which they have contributed to the achievement of results.
Methods and Approaches: The consultancy will be mainly home-based, with one travel to UNV headquarters in Bonn, Germany for briefing and consultation with the interdivisional Steering Group comprising of representatives from Partnerships Section and Volunteer Programme Management Group (VPMG) and Senior Management. A second travel may be undertaken to present and discuss the draft report. The review will be done in part based on UNV sources, but will also require the consultant to identify and pursue additional primary and secondary information sources. Methods and tools can be combined at various stages in the process. Evaluation Process: It is envisioned that the consultant will go through the following broad steps to achieve the objectives of the assignment:
Consultation Process Steps in the review process
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Outputs: The consultant will have two main deliverables under the contract:
Management of the Evaluation: The consultation will be under the overall supervision of an interdivisional Steering Group comprising of representatives from Partnerships Section and Volunteer Programme Management Group (VPMG) to provide advice throughout this review. The group will be chaired by the Volunteerism Policy Advisor. The Volunteer Knowledge and Innovation Section (VKIS) will provide secretariat support.
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How to Apply | |
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. |
REVIEW OF THE UNV UNIVERSITY VOLUNTEERS PROGRAMME AND THE UN VOLUNTEER INTERNS MODALITIES
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