The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 177 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners that can bring about results.
The Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) is UNDP’s policy Bureau and backbone of the global practices. BDP has a key role to play in helping country offices to accelerate human development through strengthening the practice areas within UNDP’s programmes. BDP supports the development and design of projects that are responsive, effective and contribute to the national-level policies and results. Driven by demand, BDP provides tools, analysis and capacities for country offices to make a real difference in UNDP’s practice areas.
BDP supports UNDP’s 2008-2013 Strategic Plan, focusing on 6 thematic areas: Poverty Reduction, Governance, Environment and Energy, HIV/AIDS, Capacity Development, and Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment.
HIV, Health and Development Approach
UNDP is a founding cosponsor of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a partner of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (‘Global Fund’), and a co-sponsor of several other international health partnerships. UNDP’s work on HIV, health and development leverages the organization’s core strengths and mandates in human development, governance and capacity development to complement the efforts of specialist health-focused UN agencies. UNDP delivers three types of support to countries in HIV, health and development.
First, UNDP helps countries to mainstream attention to HIV and health into action on gender, poverty and the broader effort to achieve and sustain the Millennium Development Goals. For example, UNDP works with countries to understand the social and economic factors that play a crucial role in driving health and disease, and to respond to such dynamics with appropriate policies and programmes outside the health sector. UNDP also promotes specific action on the needs and rights of women and girls as they relate to HIV.
Second, UNDP works with partners to address the interactions between governance, human rights and health responses. Sometimes this is done through focused or specialized programmes, such as promoting attention to the role of legal environments (law and access to justice) in facilitating stronger HIV responses, including the use of flexibilities in intellectual property and human rights law to lower the cost of drugs and diagnostics and to increase access to HIV-related treatment. UNDP also works to empower and include people living with HIV and marginalized populations who are disproportionately affected by HIV - also known as key populations - such as sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people. Beyond these focused efforts, UNDP plays a key role in ensuring attention to HIV and health within broader governance and rights initiatives, including support to district and municipal action on MDGs, strengthening of national human rights institutions and increasing access to justice for marginalized populations.
Third, as a trusted, long-term partner with extensive operational experience, UNDP supports countries in effective implementation of complex, multilateral and multisectoral health projects, while simultaneously investing in capacity development so that national and local partners can assume these responsibilities over time. The UNDP/Global Fund partnership is an important part of this work, facilitating access to resources for action on MDG 6 by countries that face constraints in directly receiving and managing such funding. UNDP partners with countries in crisis/post-crisis situations, those with weak institutional capacity or governance challenges, and countries under sanctions. When requested, UNDP acts as interim Principal Recipient in these settings, working with national partners and the Global Fund to improve management, implementation and oversight of Global Fund grants, while simultaneously developing national capacity for governments or local entities to be able to assume the Principal Recipient role over time.
Enhancing Results Reporting
As part of its strategic priorities, UNDP has committed to making the management, measurement and communication of development results a primary focus. Particular emphasis is placed on establishing an evidence base (quantitative and qualitative) that will help UNDP better understand its performance as a development partner, and capture and communicate the value added of the organization, while providing a frank picture of the challenges it faces in the diverse, complex settings in which it operates.
Since the start of its partnership with the Global Fund in 2003, UNDP has helped countries receiving Global Fund grants achieve remarkable results in the fight against the three diseases. However reporting of these results has been largely limited to input and output level, with some notable exceptions. There is therefore a need to enhance quantitative and qualitative reporting, including mechanisms to capture, process and distill outcomes and impact of UNDP-managed Global Fund grants in the various areas of the UNDP/Global Fund partnership, i.e. implementation support, policy engagement, and capacity development.
The latter area requires specific attention given the interim nature of UNDP’s role as Principal Recipient (which should only last until a national entity is ready and able to assume this responsibility) and the strategic importance of this area in terms of UNDP’s mandate and the value-added the organization brings to the partnership with the Global Fund.
Objective
UNDP’s HIV, Health and Development Group is seeking a consultant to conceptualize a robust results framework to enhance the way it captures and communicate the results of UNDP’s partnership with the Global Fund, which should be based on a sound mix of quantitative and qualitative evidence-based reporting, with a view to increasing the visibility and understanding of the Partnership (successes and challenges) internally and externally (donors, partners, and the broader development community).
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Under the overall supervision of the Policy Specialist, UNDP Global Fund Partnership Team, and in consultation with other team members and partners when necessary, the consultant will lay the foundations for a comprehensive results framework which will enable UNDP to capture, process and distill the results, impact and stories on the partnership with the Global Fund.
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Financial Proposal*
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please make sure you have provided all requested materials *Please note that the financial proposal is all-inclusive and shall take into account various expenses incurred by the consultant/contractor during the contract period (e.g. daily fee, health insurance, vaccination and any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services). Payments will be made only upon confirmation of UNDP on delivering on the contract obligations in a satisfactory manner. Individual Consultants are responsible for ensuring they have vaccinations/inoculations when travelling to certain countries, as designated by the UN Medical Director. Consultants are also required to comply with the UN security directives set forth under dss.un.org
Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged 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.
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Consultant , Enhancing Results Reporting on the UNDP-Global Fund Partnership
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