Waste Wise Cities Tool (WaCT) Consultant

Contract

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Result of Service

Ensure proper data entry in the WaCT DCA, analyse and validate entered data as part of African Clean Cities Platform and Waste Wise Cities

Work Location

Home Based

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. The Urban Basic Services Section of UN-Habitat is mandated to improve the access to urban basic services, including sustainable solid waste management by collecting data on municipal solid waste management, improving policies and guidelines in partnership with local, regional and national authorities, creating an enabling environment for promoting investments in sustainable waste management with a focus on the urban poor and increasing coverage of sustainable waste management services in communities. Waste Wise Cities UN-Habitat launched Waste Wise Cities (WWC) on World Habitat Day in 2018 with a call to action to cities and local governments to tackle the global waste management crisis and supports them in moving towards a circular economy. Waste Wise Cities has four key action areas: 1) knowledge and good practices sharing; 2) waste data and monitoring; 3) advocacy and education; and 4) project finance and bankability support. WWC aims to support cities and local governments in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals related to waste and as well as in implementing the New Urban Agenda. Currently WWC has 312 member cities worldwide, as well as over 70 Affiliates. Together with other partners they form the Waste Wise Network. African Clean Cities Platform The African Clean Cities Platform has the same mission as WWC, though focusing on the African continent with the aim to realize clean and healthy African countries and cities by 2030. It was established in April 2017 jointly by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), UN-Habitat and the City of Yokohama. Currently 175 cities in 47 countries in Africa are participating. Waste Wise Cities Tool: waste assessment and monitoring methodology for SDG indicator 11.6.1 Many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their targets directly relate to waste management. These include: access to basic services (Target 1.4), eliminate dumping to improve water quality (Target 6.3.), municipal solid waste management (Target 11.6), food waste (Target 12.3), chemicals and hazardous waste, including e-waste (Target 12.4), recycling (Target 12.5), and marine litter (14.1). For each SDG target a variety of indicators exist, to monitor progress towards achieving them. Each indicator was assigned a so-called custodian agency, as well as partner agencies. UN-Habitat is for example the custodian agency of SDG Indicator 11.6.1 “Proportion of municipal solid waste collected and managed in controlled facilities out of total municipal solid waste generated, by the city”. UN-Habitat has worked on the development of the monitoring methodology for this indicator coherent with other waste statistics systems in the world. This has crystalized into the current “Waste Wise Cities Tool” (WaCT) and launched in 2021. The tool was applied to more than 40 cities since its launch, collecting municipal solid waste data on the ground and facilitated the action planning for improved solid waste management in cities. The data collection and compilation are facilitated by Data Collection Application (DCA), an automated excel tool accompanied with WaCT. Both WWC and ACCP support cities in WaCT application, data validation and action planning for the improved solid waste management for the member cities. Under the supervision of Lead, Waste Management, the consultant will undertake the following tasks; • Collect good practices in solid waste management in Africa covering the topics stipulated in Tunis Action Guidance through Waste Wise Cities and ACCP networks • Participate in and contribute to the ACCP Associate Member Workshop to showcase SDG 11.6.1 monitoring survey reports inviting both ACCP Members and Associate Members • Summarise ACCP Associate Members’ contributions to ACCP • Provision of necessary information of WaCT for data harmonization

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Statistics, Chemistry, Environmental Management, or in a closely related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A minimum of two years’ experience in municipal solid waste management or a related field with extensive knowledge and experience in waste data collection is required. Excellent writing and communication skills and the ability to analyse data are required Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) is desirable. Experience in the United Nations or other international development agencies is regarded as an asset.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this post, fluency in written and oral English is required. Working knowledge of other UN official languages is desirable.

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.