The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of people affected by disasters, conflict, epidemics/pandemics and more. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 100 million people with food assistance in 83 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to nutritious food and contribute to the lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

These jobs are found in Headquarters (HQ), Regional Bureaux (RBs) or Country Offices (COs) and job holders report to a more senior Programme Policy Officer. Job holders operate with a high degree of independence, manage more junior staff to ensure that programme and policy objectives are achieved in full. They are usually involved in a wide variety of programme and policy activities and analytical work, some of which may be of a considerable complexity. At this level job holders are expected to contribute to performance improvement.

JOB PURPOSE

The PIA Consultant will conduct an assessment and evaluation of the current practice in WFP Nepal with regards to data privacy and data protection vis-à-vis WFP’s corporate guidelines, theory and other relevant literature in the field and produce a report with clear analysis and recommendations.

The PIA Consultant will be based in Kathmandu or remotely depending on COVID-19 restrictions and the field activities needed for PIA completion. S/he will be under the guidance of Head of Programme and the technical supervision of the Regional Privacy Impact Assessment Advisor.

BACKGROUND

WFP Nepal has been implementing its five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2019-2023. It contributes to five Strategic Outcomes (SOs) that are aligned to five Strategic Results of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for Development). The five Strategic Outcomes (SO) are: SO 1: affected populations in Nepal have timely access to adequate food and nutrition during and in the aftermath of natural disasters and/or other shocks. SO 2: Food Insecure people in targeted areas have improved nutrition throughout the key stages of the life-cycle by 2025. SO 3: Vulnerable communities in remote, food-insecure areas of Nepal have improved food security and resilience to climate and other shocks by 2030. SO 4: The Government of Nepal has strengthened capabilities to provide essential food security services and respond to crises by 2023. SO 5: Government efforts towards achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 are supported by inclusive and coherent policy frameworks across all spheres of government by 2023. To be able to serve the people in need, WFP processes large amounts of beneficiary data within its own programmes and operations, including emergency assistance, and primarily uses a digital platform SCOPE as the technological solution for beneficiary information and transfer management platform. WFP also registers feedback and complaints from communities through its community feedback mechanisms (CFM) where it operates, which includes personal information. In addition, under the coordination of UNRCO, UN Agencies in Nepal have been developing UN Common Cash Framework, with aim of collaboration in various stages of humanitarian cash response in Nepal among UN Agencies, including beneficiary information registration and management. This framework enables UN Agencies working within the framework to share the beneficiary data and or use a single platform for registration and transfer management. WFP has offered its platform, SCOPE, to other UN Agencies for the same if necessary. However, the impact on beneficiary data protection and privacy has not been evaluated yet, which is necessary to identify risks and mitigation measures. Managing and sharing peoples’ personal data and identity is extremely sensitive. Unintended use of personal data, especially if used outside its legitimate purpose, may cause harm to the people WFP seeks to assist. Protecting personal data is therefore about protecting people’s life, dignity and integrity, which is the core commitment set forth by WFP 2020 Protection and Accountability Policy. Moreover, with the WFP Guide to Personal Data Protection and Privacy (2016) and draft Beneficiary Identity Management Guidance (2020), WFP has taken concrete steps to put forward beneficiary data protection in the way it operates and has developed Data Protection Toolkit (2019) to support this objective. A key tool used in data protection work in WFP is a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) which is aimed at identifying, evaluating and addressing the risks (e.g. protection, legal, principled humanitarian action, etc.) arising from the processing of personal data related to a specific activity, project, programme, initiative or, in this case, a whole Country Strategic Plan (CSP). The PIA exercise is expected to access the impact on data protection and privacy of beneficiaries throughout WFP Nepal operations, its beneficiary information management platform, SCOPE, including the possible implementation of UN Common Cash Framework. The PIA is a multifunctional exercise, which draws from the expertise of units such as IT, SCOPE, partnerships, programme and protection.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

JOB TITLE: Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Consultant TYPE OF CONTRACT: National/International Consultancy I UNIT/DIVISION: Programme DUTY STATION (City, Country): Kathmandu, Nepal (Combination of Remote and In-country assignment) DURATION: 40 days within 3 months on When Actually Employed (WAE) basis

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Conduct and complete the Privacy Impact Assessment for WFP Nepal operations in collaboration with other relevant units in WFP. Completing the PIA includes, but is not limited to:

• Develop a deliverable-based workplan for the assignment including a two-pager inception report indicating understanding of the task along with methodology to be used, with the completed PIA report as the final product • Conducting secondary literature and data review to understand the: - Socio-political situation and relevance of identity and personal data therein; - Protection issues experienced by crisis and poverty affected people, with special focus on issues where identity, or lack of identity, or any particular status of the person (e.g., ethnicity, language, disability, gender, displacement, etc.) is a triggering factor; - Legal framework on data privacy and protection in Nepal, including applicability of UN privileges and immunities, domestic legislation and regulations of relevance to people’s identity (e.g., Know Your Client regulations; anti-terrorism laws; anti-money laundering laws; any other public health or public security law requiring access to personal data) and possibility that partners or third parties are obliged to disclose data to authorities; - Known or foreseeable actors that might be interested in requesting/accessing/seizing personal data collected by WFP to pursue humanitarian and non-humanitarian purposes; - Risks of possible unintended use of personal data and consequences on WFP’s beneficiaries. • Conducting internal consultations with relevant WFP staff, including heads of units, heads of field offices, activity managers, and colleagues working on data protection at the country, regional and headquarters level; • Conducting external consultations with relevant humanitarian agencies and sectors (e.g., UNHCR, UNICEF, UNFPA, UN Women, IOM), technical working groups, government ministries, WFP CPs and Protection Sector and affected people of various gender, age, disability and other diversity. • Engaging in field visits necessary to complete data collection, consultations and focus group discussions for the PIA, including to observe informed consent being obtained from beneficiaries for data collection and registration, with a view to developing informed consent guidance document for partners; • Analysis of data flows, data security, data quality and data subject rights in WFP operations at WFP country and field-office level; • Analysing WFP Nepal current status with respect to implementation of privacy and personal data protection, including issues such as data quality, data subject rights, data security standards, and risk analysis as per the Data Protection Toolkit; • Risk analysis overview and recommendations. • Completing drafting the report including all annexes, consulting relevant colleagues for inputs on the final draft and presenting it to Heads for endorsement of the recommendations.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF ASSIGNMENT

1. Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Report

2. Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM) Privacy Impact Assessment Report

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Advanced university degree in one of the following disciplines: social sciences, law, humanitarian assistance, data protection and privacy or another field related to international relations, human rights, or political science.

Language: Fluency (level C) in written and spoken English. Working knowledge of other languages spoken in Nepal is desirable.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Knowledge of legal frameworks on human rights, data protection and privacy and international humanitarian law. • 3 - 5 years of relevant work experience in the field of protection or legal research; • Solid analytical and writing skills; • Ability to conduct work remotely with little oversight at times; • Team spirit and excellent interpersonal relations. • Experience in digital privacy is desirable • Flexibility to travel to and live in difficult environments;

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

Capability Name Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools. Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher) Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development. Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.) Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring. Emergency Programming Displays ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches. Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Thursday, 04 November 2021

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.

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