Communication Specialist of the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Secretariat Tender

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Country : Ethiopia

Summary : Communication Specialist of the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Secretariat

Deadline : 28 Nov 2018

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TOT Ref.No.: 28578578

Document Ref. No. : 51662

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

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Title of the assignment: Communication Specialistof the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Secretariat Country: EthiopiaProject name: Engagement Facility to support the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund initiativePeriod of assignment: Twelve Months with Possibility of Extension The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hereby invites Individual Consultants to submit a Proposal to the consultant Recruitment Notice forCommunication Specialist of the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Secretariat.BackgroundEthiopia has been implementing Diaspora engagement policies and establishing government institutions to engage theDiaspora over the past decade. Large numbers of Ethiopians or foreign citizens of Ethiopian origin are estimated to be residing abroad. According to estimates from UNDESA (2017), the top five host countries for Ethiopians and foreign citizens of Ethiopian origin are the USA; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; the European Union; Israel; and Sudan. In 2017, the Ethiopia diaspora provided the country with remittances amounting to one per cent of the country's GDP, USD816million (World Bank, 2017).Through various fora, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia has appealed for support to government initiatives aimed at harnessing the contribution of highly qualified Ethiopian diaspora to Ethiopia's economic and social development. The Government has recently established a Diaspora Council under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with mandate to devise and operationalize diaspora engagement policies.Following the Prime Minister's call to the global Ethiopian Diaspora to contribute to an Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (hereinafter "EDTF"), the EDTF Advisory Council appointed by the Prime Minister established and lunched the EDTF (ethiopiatrustfund.org), The EDTF is intended to gather financial contributions from the Ethiopian Diaspora, Ethiopians willing to support the EDTF and Friends of Ethiopia and channel them back to Ethiopia to finance people-focused social and economic development...

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