National Consultant for the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons in Data-driven Tools for Planning related initiatives in Support of the Risk Informed Development Report of UNDP Philippines

National Consultant for the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons in Data-driven Tools for Planning related initiatives in Support of the Risk-Informed Development Report of UNDP Philippines

Background

National Consultant for the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons in Data-driven Tools for Planning related initiatives in Support of the Risk Informed Development Report of UNDP Philippines

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.[1]

In this regard, UNDP Philippines’ CESI project is hiring three (3) experts to conduct 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; and (iii) conflict prevention and peace-building.

[1] UNDP and ODI (2019), Risk-informed development: from crisis to resilience.

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. This interplay of responsibilities is illustrated in Fig. 1 below.

Fig. 1. Diagram illustrating the interplay of different CESI project elements.

For this work, the National Consultant will be covering the thematic area of data-driven tools for planning related initiatives. Specifically, the set of services required by the project is covered under the following five (5) objectives:

1. To develop, in coordination with the two (2) other MARL experts, a unified or harmonized framework or reporting template, umbrella methodology, and codification scheme for documenting lessons learned, which will be prescribed to in all three reports[1] [2];
2. To conduct a rapid scoping of information, operationalizing the agreed upon methodology, which will serve to consolidate and map key resilience development lessons from past and ongoing UNDP projects/ initiatives, covering the National Consultant’s assigned thematic area[3]—systemic risks/ failures will be reflected on, and best practices (direct or indirectly brought about by the projects/ initiatives) will be codified;
3. To analyze and organize information in their respective thematic area reports, prescribing to the unified or harmonized framework, highlighting instances wherein Risk-Informed Development (RID) approach was implemented[4];
4. To provide support, as needed by the Risk-Informed Development (RID) expert, in the development of the UNDP CO RID report, generating additional supporting data, information, and analyses, among others, as co-identified with the RID expert;
5. To turn-over their respective MARL reports and corresponding supporting database, which includes the codified lessons learned, to: (i) the RID expert; and (ii) IKM specialist developing the UNDP CO KMS system[5];

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

The main outputs of this consultancy will be:

1. A report on the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons (MARL) in Support of the Risk-Informed Development (RID) Report; and
2. Database of synthesized lessons learned, prescribing to the agreed upon standard codification scheme.

Institutional Arrangement

• For the duration of the contract, the National Consultant will be under the direct supervision of the CESI Project Coordinator and overall supervision of the UNDP Programme Unit Team Leaders for Impact Advisory Team (IAT) and Institutions and Partnerships (I&P) Team.
• The consultant will also be provided guidance, as necessary, by the RID expert.

Duration of Work

• The expected duration of work is thirty (30) working days spread over 2 months,
• 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, work space, internet connection for the work requirement. In light of the CoVID-19 pandemic and declaration of State of Public Health Emergency in the Philippines, all work and travel of the Individual consultant shall be done within the guidelines and protocols set by the local and national government and in compliance with community quarantine policies.

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

Competencies

Required Skills and Experience

Qualifications of the Successful Individual Contractor

The National Consultant should meet the following minimum qualification:

Education

• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in public health, public administration, public policy, health science, data science, development studies, social sciences, or other relevant degree, with preference to those with relevant certifications or training.

Experience

• At least five (5) years previous work experience on public health, public administration, public policy, health science, data science, development studies, social sciences, with a focus on addressing multiple, concurrent threats and complex risks, trade-offs, and opportunities arising from development decisions, and acting on that knowledge.
• At least three (3) years previous work experience in international development, with preference to experience working with the UN system.
• Completed a minimum of one (1) qualified/ comparable project on mapping of development lessons learned, risk-informed development, and/or related initiatives.

Language

• Proficiency in English and Filipino

1. 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:

Recommended Presentation of Offer

For purposes of generating Offers whose contents are uniformly presented and to facilitate their comparative analysis, it is best to recommend the preferred contents and presentation of the Offer to be submitted, as well as the format/sequencing of their presentation. The following documents may be requested:

1. Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP;
2. Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, 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.  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. 

[1] The codification scheme must be designed in a way that enables important key learnings in the context of RID to be easily culled, synthesized, and analyzed by the RID expert.

[2] Should there be an unexpected delay in the hiring of the other two (2) MARL experts, a version aligned with at least one (1) MARL expert, and as vetted by the RID expert and programme units, must be secured.

[3] The list of projects/ initiatives to be considered in the study will be identified based on consultations, and approval, of the supervising UNDP CO programme unit/ team.

[4] The MARL experts may consult with the RID expert on this, once onboard.

[5] In addition to the concurrence of UNDP CO, turn-over will be considered complete with the confirmation by both the RID expert and IKM specialist. This will ensure that outputs are in a form that can be used by said consultants to operationalize their respective tasks.

Criteria for Selection of Best Offer

The combined scoring method where the qualifications will be weighted 70 points and combined with the price offer which will be weighted 30 points shall be adopted.

The CV will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Only applications that will obtain a minimum of 49 out of 70 points will be qualified for the financial evaluation.

Offerors must upload in one (1) file the aforementioned documents.

Templates for a) P11 Personal History Form and b)  Offeror’s Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability and Financial Proposal (Annex 2) are available through the link below. UNDP General Terms and Conditions for Individual Contractors  are also available:

http://gofile.me/6xdJm/bE9TCw8fU

Incomplete submission of required documents may result in disqualification.

Please see the deadline of submissions above.

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

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Submit your proposal here: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=101409

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