UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME has floated a tender for Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy. The project location is USA and the tender is closing on 03 May 2019. The tender notice number is , while the TOT Ref Number is 32411985. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

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Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy

Deadline : 03 May 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32411985

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Headquarters United Nations Development Programme One United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 USA
USA
Email :jobs.help@undp.org.

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy


Background

The Crisis Bureau (CB) has corporate responsibility for UNDP-s corporate crisis-related work and driving UNDP-s vision and priorities for crisis prevention, response, and recovery, to support the strategic results, outcomes and outputs of UNDP's Strategic Plan. CB teams provide technical advice to Country Offices; advocate UNDP corporate messages; represent UNDP as required, including at multi-stakeholder fora, public-private, and government-civil society dialogue initiatives; promote and support South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives; and engage in UN interagency coordination in the areas of work the Strategic Plan - building resilience to shocks and crises, in order to safeguard development gains.

Together with the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), the CB forms the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of global experts and practitioners providing timely development advice, delivering support to Country Offices and programme countries in a coherent manner to connect countries to the world of knowledge, resources and networks of best practice they need to achieve development breakthroughs.

Within the CB, the Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions (CPPRI) team works on the integration of governance, conflict prevention and peacebuilding interventions. The CPPRI team leads and coordinates UNDP's corporate, global approach on how to address the prevention of violent extremism from a development perspective.

While a security-centered approach to violent extremism is necessary, it is not enough and needs to be complemented with a development approach through implementation of the Secretary-General-s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism (“the Plan of Action”) and in coordination with the PVE related sections of the UN Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

UNDP, with its global presence and reach, solid basis of already existing PVE programming at the country and regional level and convening and coordinating power is well placed to implement development solutions to prevent violent extremism and support the Plan of Action by strengthening partnerships.




Duties and Responsibilities

SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED ANALYTICAL WORK

During the UNDP Strategy Meeting on Preventing Violent Extremism: Reviewing Progress, Charting the Way Forward, colleagues identified the following key areas:



1. Advancing increased coherence between UNDP-s PVE agenda and the wider UN Sustainable Development and Sustaining Peace agendas

2. Undertaking stocktaking and review of UNDP-s evolving PVE programming portfolio, to further articulate niche, elicit best practice experience/ lessons and assess results

3. Deepening institutional capacity and coordination while ensuring UN values are at the fore in advancing National Action Plans (NAPs) for PVE

4. Investing in improving external messaging and communication tools



This consultancy will address both the knowledge and implementation gap about the PVE NAP through collaborating with UNDP RBs, Hubs and Country offices, and National partners. Further, it aims to better understand UNDP-s role in supporting governments in the development of their PVE strategies and implementation plans; to draw recommendations for practitioners; to strengthen UNDP-s engagement with regards to PVE work; strengthening how we articulate our niche in both asserting values and norms; ensuring clarity internally on PVE-specific vs PVE-relevant programming; assessing the gender dimension of PVE NAP.

Expected outputs and deliverables:

Deliverable/Result 1: Provision of substantive support with regard to PVE Global Portfolio focusing on achievement of the following results:

· Conduct/update mapping of UNDP-s PVE programme at global, regional and country office level

· Financial mapping of PVE portfolio, including the gender marker and produce report/infographic for internal and external actors

· Mapping of PVE specific/ PVE relevant projects

· Mapping existing initiatives aiming to prevent violent extremism including documenting the extent to which gender equality, and women-s and girls- human rights have been integrated into the existing PVE initiatives;

· Knowledge management and classification of PVE portfolio based on the PVE SG Plan of Action thematic issues

· Support development of appropriate methodologies, guidelines, case studies, and policy briefs as needed;

· Continue up-dating of PVE Plan of Action Guidance based on findings from on-going UNDP research, results of needs assessment missions, and donor feedback;

· Support the coordination of missions, including support to training needs assessment teams, quality assuring findings and compiling lessons learned.

Deliverable/Result 2: Review, analysis and quality assurance support to all Global Portfolio focusing on achievement of the following results:

· Draft and review speeches, talking points, background papers in liaison with the Global Programme Manager as well as other units throughout BPPS and UNDP as needed;

· Provide event, communication and knowledge management support services;

· Support development of proposals and other donor liaison services, including reporting and monitoring and evaluation.

Deliverable/Result 3: Support the work on Gender/WPS and PVE. This can include, but is not limited to:

· Support the implementation of Invisible Women role out;

· Support organization and successful conduct of events;

· Support development of proposals, communications, reports and other tasks as requested.




Competencies

Core Competencies:

Ethics & Values:

· Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN-s values and ethical standards;

· Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;

· Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;

· Treats all people fairly without favoritism

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge Management and Learning:

· Promotes knowledge management in UNDP and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example;

· In-depth practical knowledge of inter-disciplinary development issues;

· Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.

Skills/ Competencies:

Professional Skills:

· Excellent research, analytical, writing and communication skills;

· Full understanding of UNDPs programmatic approach and project development process/templates

· Capacity to identify lessons learned and good practices and translate these into written materials and programming options;

· Knowledge and research experience in conflict prevention and peacebuilding. An understanding of gender and youth issues is an asset;

· Demonstrates strong ability to manage, facilitate, and engage in discussions with multiple stakeholders in a formal setting, seeking to encourage participation in an open and collegial environment;

· Strong ability in managing confidential and politically sensitive issues, in a responsible way, and in accordance with protocols.

Interpersonal and communication skills:

· Strong communication skills and proven ability to collaborate between different actors and high level of internal and external relationship management;

· Uses tact and sensitivity when delivering sensitive information or resolving delicate issues;

· Remains calm, in control and good humoured even under pressure




Required Skills and Experience

Academic qualifications:

· A minimum of a master-s degree or equivalent in social sciences, development studies, conflict studies, international relations, political science or related field is required.

Experience:

· At least 5 years of professional experience in the area of conflict prevention, women, peace and security and/or peacebuilding is required;

· Post-graduate research activities such as Ph.D. research, think-tank affiliation and/or a track record of academic and/or policy-oriented publications, guidance and/or research management including experience in the development of knowledge products is required;

· Demonstrated experience in supporting ant one of the areas including: conflict prevention, prevention of violent extremism, women peace and security and peacebuilding strategy and programmatic frameworks is required

· Demonstrated experience in conflict and gender analysis and application of conflict-sensitive approaches to programming, including with a focus on gender and youth, preferably in a conflict-affected or post-conflict context is required;

· Good understanding of UNDP and the UN system, its expertise, practices, and procedures; particularly in conflict-affected and fragile areas is an asset;

· Excellent writing skills and ability to capture lessons learned in writing is required.

Language:

· Fluency in written and spoken English is required;

· Working knowledge of another UN language would be an asset

Documents

 Tender Notice