Lead Knowledge Management Consultant, Scaling Up Case studies on Mali, Benin and Uganda.

Background

UNCDF is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 least developed countries. It creates new opportunities for poor people and their communities by increasing access to microfinance and investment capital. UNCDF focuses on Africa and the poorest countries of Asia, with a special commitment to countries emerging from conflict or crisis. It provides seed capital – grants and loans – and technical support to help microfinance institutions reach more poor households and small businesses, and local governments finance the capital investments – water systems, feeder roads, schools, irrigation schemes – that will improve poor peoples’ lives.
 
UNCDF works to enlarge peoples’ choices: it believes that poor people and communities should take decisions about their own development. Its programmes help to empower women – over 50% of the clients of UNCDF-supported microfinance institutions are women – and its expertise in microfinance and local development is shaping new responses to food insecurity, climate change and other challenges. All UNCDF support is provided via national systems, in accordance with the Paris Principles. UNCDF works in challenging environments – remote rural areas, countries emerging from conflict – and paves the way for others to follow. Its programmes are designed to catalyse larger investment flows from the private sector, development partners and national governments, for significant impact on the Millennium Development Goals, especially Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger, Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women, and Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability. Established by the General Assembly in 1966 and with headquarters in New York, UNCDF is an autonomous UN organization affiliated with UNDP.
 
The Task:
The Lead Consultant-Scaling will possess senior expertise on decentralization and local development and will have primary responsibility to produce, in a timely manner, a high-quality knowledge product consisting of case studies on decentralization and local development Mali, Benin and Uganda. Such drafts will be submitted to the Head of UNCDF’s Knowledge, Policy and Advocacy Unit and jointly reviewed with the Senior LDF Advisor, HQ.
 
Each case study will be organized across three main parts and will cover a number of common questions including the following:
 
Part (1) Local Development and Decentralization
  • 1.1   – What have been the key milestones of decentralization in the Country
  • 1.2   - What were the main reasons for advancing decentralization?
  • 1.3   - What were the key obstacles/challenges in advancing decentralization?
  • 1.4   - What advantages can you see from the progress achieved so far in decentralization? What role are LGs playing in the Country?
  • 1.5   - What examples are of specific, successful LD projects in the country?
Part (2) Role of UNCDF
  • 2.1 - Did UNCDF (with its partners) play a significant role in helping to address those challenges? What was it?
  • 2.2 - What was the technical contribution of UNCDF?
  • 2.3 - What was the role of UNCDF in working with Government and DPs?
Part (3) Looking forward
  • 3.1 - What are the Country’s key objectives for the future in terms of decentralization and local development in the country?
  • 3.2 - What are the most pressing challenges that remain to be addressed? And what are the opportunities for LGs to play a stronger role in the Country’s development?
  • 3.3 - How can UNCDF help in the future?
The selected candidate will initiate activities as soon as possible (tentatively February 1st 2013) and will be expected to serve for 45 working days during a 3-months period.

Duties and Responsibilities

Functions/ Tasks:
 
Under the direct supervision of the Head of UNCDF’s Knowledge, Policy and Advocacy (KPA) Unit, and in close consultation with UNCDF’s Senior Local Development Advisor, HQ lead consultant will:
  • Review the annotated table of contents and methodology for the case studies. Make proposals and ask clarifications as necessary; 
  • Gather all necessary information (qualitative and quantitative) to carry out the case studies according to the established methodology and table of contents. This will include: desk research and telephone interviews with UNCDF staff (HQ, regional and country level) and policymakers involved in the targeted countries; short in-country visit or meeting(s) in UNCDF Regional office might be also organized if deemed necessary by UNCDF after the completion of the first draft. 
  • Write the first and then final drafts of the case studies (approximately 15 pages each) in a timely fashion, ensuring high quality of content as well as language.
Deliverables:
    • Reviewed Table of Contents of the case studies and methodology - 5 working days after beginning of assignment.
    • First draft of the case studies - 30 working days after validation of table of content.
    • Final draft of the case studies (in English) incorporating relevant inputs/feedback received from UNCDF - 10 working days after reception of comments on first draft.
      The work of the Lead Consultant is expected to provide a major contribution in terms of knowledge sharing of good practices in scaling up innovations in decentralization and local development. The case studies will be reviewed/revised by UNCDF as necessary and used as inputs to a larger publication compiling cases studies from across Africa and Asia. The final publication will be diffused in coordination with scaling up case studies produced by UNDP.

      Competencies

      Functional Competencies:
      • Excellent analytical skills
      • Excellent writing skills
      • Ability to work effectively as part of a team
      • Ability to work under pressure and under tight deadlines

      Required Skills and Experience

      Education:
      • A Master's degree in social sciences, development, public administration, business administration, economics, or related discipline.  A PhD in a related disciplline will be considered an asset.
       
      Experience:
      • A minimum of twelve (12) years experience in the fields of local development and decentralization in developing countries. 
      • Substantive experience in R&D and in the production of high-quality publications (including books, book chapters, and/or specialized journal articles). 
      • Direct, in-depth knowledge on decentralization in at least 2 of the 3 target countries (Mali, Benin and Uganda). 
      • Knowledge of UNCDF/UN will be considered an asset.
      Language Requirements:
      • Proficiency in English and French is required.

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