International Consultant for the Development of the UNDP Philippines’ Risk-Informed Development Country Report in Support of the UNDP “Capacity for Experience Sharing Initiative”

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Background

Project Title: Capacity for Experience Sharing Initiative (CESI)

Project Description and Background

Through their Country Programme and the Regional Programme, UNDP Country Offices (COs) in Asia-Pacific have achieved significant results and have tangibly contributed to domestic development. In doing so, said COs have acquired specialized experiences and expertise.

This experience would be of direct relevance to other UNDP Offices and countries in Asia-Pacific as well as in other regions. In fact, UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP) COs have been repeatedly approached by other COs with requests for sharing of lessons learned, guidance, and oftentimes direct support through conference calls and missions. However, COs have found it difficult to respond to the growing demand due to the need to prioritize their country-level work, as well as due to their limited capacity in providing “beyond borders” support in demand. As a result, direct experience sharing and support has been limited in scope and duration, helping, but not fully meeting the needs of the requesting Offices. This is a lost opportunity for these requesting Offices and the countries they serve—as well as for UNDP overall, as this direct horizontal sharing and support provides corporate benefits in terms of capitalization and dissemination of UNDP experience.

The RBAP “Capacity for Experience Sharing Initiative” (CESI) therefore aims to fill these gaps, through meeting CO needs in terms of supporting capacity for experience sharing, and operationalizing “Beyond Borders Country Offices” in Asia-Pacific. CESI will cover an area that is unattended to, and will not intersect with the different functions and work of the Global Policy Centers—though some of the findings may be shared with some Centers in specific thematic areas. The UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) will support and contribute to the initiative through the Regional Programme and the BRH-based Global Policy Network. However, BRH cannot be a substitute, or even an intermediary, in the direct sharing of experience from CO to CO, which is being sought, and which CESI can enable.

The UNDP Philippines’ CO was identified for CESI support, with the focus area being Risk-Informed Development (RID). This was identified, given the CO’s broad range of experiences in the fields of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (CCA-DRR); security, peace and conflict prevention; and health and pandemic response. This enables the synthesis and application of findings from said thematic areas under the RID framework: to reduce risks and avoid risk creation in resilient and sustainable development efforts—with the understanding of multiple, concurrent threats and complex risks, trade-offs, and opportunities arising from development decisions, and acting on that knowledge.

In this regard, UNDP Philippines’ CESI project requires the services of a Risk-Informed Development (RID) expert to synthesize, analyze, organize, and derive meaningful lessons, in the framework of RID, that can be shared with other RBAP UNDP COs. Said RID expert will work with CESI’s other three (3) national experts covering the consolidation and mapping of key resilience development lessons and knowledge from past and ongoing UNDP projects/ initiatives for documentation in each of the following thematic areas: i) CCA-DRR; ii) data-driven tools for planning related initiatives; and iii) conflict prevention and peace-building.

Institutional Arrangement

  • For the duration of the contract, the International Consultant will be under the direct supervision of the CESI Project Coordinator and overall supervision of the UNDP Programme Unit Team Leaders of the Climate Action Programme Team, Peace Programme Team, Institutions and Partnerships Team, and Impact Advisory Team.
  • The consultant will also be provided guidance, as necessary, by UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH).

Duration of Work

  • The expected duration of work is fifty (50) working days spread over 3.5 months, from September 2021 to December 2021.
  • The UNDP CO will review and give comments on outputs maximum of four (4) working days after output presentation (or submission if presentation is not necessary).

Duty Station

Duty Station: Home-based

The Consultant is expected to work remotely and provide their own laptop, workspace, internet connection for the work requirement.

No fieldwork/ duty travel is expected. Regular reporting will be done through virtual means.

Scope of Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments

The financial proposals from possible candidates should be expressed in lump sum amount inclusive of all financial costs related to this engagement (i.e. professional fees X number of working days, communications including internet).

Medical/health insurance must be purchased by the Individual at his/her own expense, and upon award of contract, the Contractor must be ready to submit proof of insurance valid during contract duration.

The Payment terms are as follows:

Percentage

Description

Deadline

20%

Upon submission and acceptance of:

  • Inception Report

Within 2 weeks from start of contract

40%

Upon submission and acceptance of:

  • Draft RID Report
  • Report Identifying Knowledge Products
  • Report on Support to KMS

Within 6-10 weeks from previous tranche

40%

Upon submission and acceptance of:

  • Final RID Report
  • Report on Support to KMS

Within 2-6 weeks from previous tranche

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

The Project will hire three (3) experts as National Consultants, that will work on respective thematic areas, namely CCA-DRR, conflict prevention and peace-building, and data-driven tools for planning -related initiatives. These will be done under the overall guidance of their corresponding programme units that implement initiatives under these thematic areas respectively.

Each of these experts will produce a respective Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons (MARL) report, which will serve as the primary resource in the development of a UNDP CO Risk-Informed Development (RID) report. Said RID report synthesizes consolidated findings and packages them under the RID framework. The results of which will later on feed into the Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS) system, to be developed under the project, that will serve to support direct UNDP CO to CO sharing of relevant experience.

Specifically, the set of services required by the project from the International RID Consultant is covered under the following nine (9) objectives:

  1. To review, analyze, and derive information and meaningful insights from the resulting three (3) thematic reports, and corresponding codified database on lessons learned, developed by the MARL experts, covering their respective thematic areas of: i) CCA-DRR; ii) data-driven tools for planning related initiatives; and iii) conflict prevention and peace-building—analyzing the interplay of project implementation in the three (3) thematic areas, highlighting best practice, points of improvement, and developing the overall RID country profile of the UNDP Philippines’ CO. For an organized analysis, a framework for the codification of RID initiatives will first be developed in coordination with the MARL experts, as part of strategic framework of implementation to be included in the RID expert’s Inception Report;
  2. To synthesize findings from the MARL reports and identify: i) general findings and lessons on RID that can be shared with other COs, ii) specific case studies that exhibit best-practice in terms of RID (i.e., cases that fostered understanding of multiple, concurrent threats and complex risks to and arising from development decisions, and facilitating action based on that knowledge), and iii) cross-sectoral analysis assessing partnerships and its role in the RID approach (e.g., private, public, and development sectors, among others), which can also be shared to other UNDP COs—and include them as an integral part of the RID report;
  3. To develop, as another core section of the RID report, an analysis on the implications of the findings for the UNDP Philippines CO’s positioning and delivery of mandate as a policy and programme agency, within the context of developing UNDP’s new Strategic Plan for 2022-2025—recognizing that RID would be a useful tool to accelerate support towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, and in line with UNDP’s Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle. This section of the report must cover, among others:
    1. The CO's current profile and structure of work in the resilience space;
    2. Opportunities to build an offer that requires office-wide, inter-programme unit engagement/ joint-approach;
    3. Unifying currently fragmented funding pots (i.e., systems-approach), and shape it using the current interest in the resilience space and opportunities to help mature it; and
    4. It should address recommendations how to strengthen RID implementation of the UNDP CO, based on the lessons learned.
  4. To complement the information and analysis derived from the MARL reports with their own supplementary investigation/s as necessary to produce the RID report;
  5. To identify, based on the results of the RID report, and/or supplementary investigation, at least three (3) knowledge products, such as policy notes or strategy papers, that can be derived from the UNDP Philippines’ CO experience, and would potentially benefit other UNDP RBAP COs as a framework of practice, especially those with similar country contexts. The RID expert shall support UNDP CO in developing the initial draft of the Terms of Reference (ToRs) for the procurement of said products;
  6. To provide substantial inputs in terms of knowledge sharing to the design of the Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS) system, developed by the IKM specialist under CESI, including, but not limited to:
    1. Ensuring that knowledge exchange channels are focused on the most relevant and actionable learnings that will be consumed by other UNDP COs, including the assessment of systemic failures and corresponding related solutions, as well as replicable best-practices;
    2. Highlighting both explicit (i.e., tangible knowledge products) and tacit (i.e., difficult to codify insights and experiences) experiences/ learnings and framing these in forms that can be readily consumed and acted upon by other UNDP COs;
    3. Provide insights in the process of refining open-source risk management tools/ migration onto UNDP platforms to ensure utilization by other COs.
  7. To provide substantial inputs in terms of UNDP CO transformational development towards fulfilling its emerging role in providing direct CO to CO RID advisory services to the design of the Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS) system, developed by the KM specialist under CESI, including, but not limited to:
    1. Visualizing the end-goal, of what the role of the Philippines CO should be under an ideal UNDP regional and global programming structure (i.e., Global Policy Network) that would allow RID agenda of CO, and UNDP system more broadly, to be advanced. This means answering questions like "should new programmes be designed?";
    2. Identify forms of support required from other COs, or what needs additional funding for the Philippines' UNDP CO to fill this new role (e.g., seed funding) and how these should be used for programming purposes; and
    3. Identifying phases needed to reach the visualized end-goal of an internal UNDP collaborative model.
  8. To provide inputs to the design of regular sharing exercises (e.g., learnings and experiences) among different UNDP COs, and deliver presentations, such as on case studies in the context of RID, during said sessions;
  9. To provide inputs in the establishment of an advisory team within the Philippines’ CO as part of the KMS system’s framework—in support to the IKM specialist.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

Deliverable/Output

Estimated Duration to Complete

Target Due Dates

Review and Approvals Required

Inception Report (IR). The IR shall contain a proposed strategic framework (including, among others, a framework for the codification of RID initiatives) and detailed methodology for implementation towards the completion of the RID report. It will include a workplan indicating specific activities and corresponding timelines.

10 working days

Within 2 weeks from start of contract

Programme Unit Team Leader for CAPT

Programme Unit Team Leader for Peace

Team Leader for Impact Advisory Team

Programme Unit Team Leader-IAP

Project Coordinator

Draft of the RID Report. This report should cover addressing objectives nos. 1-4 under Section C: Scope of Work. The draft report must clearly identify how said objectives have been addressed.

Identification of Knowledge Products. All three knowledge products (at least) must be identified at this point, addressing objective no. 5 under Section C: Scope of Work. A separate report discussing why these were identified, their outlines, and short narrative of the potential contents of said reports must be included. Draft ToRs developed and turned over to UNDP CO must be included as annexes to the report.

Report on Support to KMS. A separate report documenting the assistance provided to the KMS system shall be generated. This should document the support provided in addressing objectives nos. 6-9 under Section C: Scope of Work, including the draft sections of the narratives complimenting the outputs of the KM specialist.

30 working days

Within 6-10 weeks from previous tranche

Final RID Report. This should be the completed report incorporating final comments.

Report on Support to KMS. A separate report documenting the assistance provided to the KMS system shall be generated. This should document the support provided in addressing objectives nos. 6-9 under Section C: Scope of Work, including the draft sections of the narratives complimenting the outputs of the KM specialist.

10 working days

Within 2-6 weeks from previous tranche

TOTAL

50 working days

Competencies

Corporate competencies

  • Must have strong leadership and project management skills
  • Must have an extensive background and understanding of the Philippine DRR, recovery, and resilience policies, programmes, and activities
  • Must be detail-oriented
  • Has excellent analytic skills especially in understanding complex information to produce evidence-based comparisons and conclusions.
  • Excellent written and spoken English is required.

  • 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 and technical competencies

  • Ability to work in a diverse and multi-cultural environment;
  • Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure and to meet strict and competing deadlines;
  • Displays analytical judgment and demonstrated ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner;
  • Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities

Required Skills and Experience

Offers will be evaluated based on the combined scoring method :

  • Technical qualifications = 70%
  • Financial Proposal = 30%

For the evaluation of the Technical Proposal, the selection of the successful consultant must be based on the following qualifications (with the appropriate obtainable points).

Qualification

Points Obtainable (70 points)

Education

At least a Master’s Degree in courses related to risk-informed development, or risk-management, development studies, public policy, or courses covered under the thematic areas of CCA-DRR, peace and conflict prevention, or healthcare, preferably with supplemental certifications related to addressing multiple, concurrent threats and complex risks, trade-offs, and opportunities arising from development decisions, and acting on that knowledge.

(11 points for Masters degree, 15 points for PH.D; additional point for each additional certification relevant to the work; maximum of 15 points)

15 points

Experience

At least ten (10) years previous work experience related to risk-informed development, or risk-management in the thematic areas of CCA-DRR, peace and conflict prevention, or healthcare, with results addressing multiple, concurrent threats and complex risks, trade-offs, and opportunities arising from development decisions, and acting on that knowledge.

(14 points for 10 years’ experience, additional point for each additional year; maximum of 20 points)

20 points

At least ten (10) years previous work experience in international development, with preference to experience working with the UN system.

(11 points for 10 years’ experience, additional point for each additional year, additional 3 points if previous work is within the UN system; maximum of 15 points)

15 points

Completed a minimum of three (3) qualified/ comparable projects on risk-informed development, and/or related initiatives.

(14 points for three completed projects, additional point for each completed project; maximum of 20 points)

20 points

TOTAL

70 points

Only applications that will obtain a minimum of 50 out of 70 obtainable points will be qualified for the financial evaluation.

Recommended Presentation of Offer

Interested applicants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload of a maximum of one document.

  1. Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP;
  2. UNDP Personal History Form (P11) or Curriculum Vitae (following the template attached) indicating all past experiences from similar projects or requirements, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references;
  3. Financial Proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided, and clearly stating the payment percentage as indicated in this TOR. If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP.

Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document.

Interested applicants to note that personal Medical/health insurance (to be purchased by the individual at his/her own expense) is mandatory for the issuance of contracts. Upon award of the contract, the consultant must be ready to submit proof of insurance valid during the contract duration.

The following templates / Annexes and IC General Terms & Conditions can be downloaded from http://gofile.me/6xdJm/bE9TCw8fU:

  • General Terms and Conditions for Individual Contract
  • Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability
  • P-11 form

In view of the volume of applications, UNDP receives, only shortlisted offerors will be notified.

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