Individual Consultant

 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Individual Consultant - Junior General (RKVY) for Indian Nationals only
Location :	Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, INDIA
Application Deadline :	03-Feb-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left :	13d 0h 57m
Type of Contract :	Individual Contract
Post Level :	National Consultant
Languages Required :	English
Duration of Initial Contract :	One Year
Background
Indian producers face several challenges to secure their household’s income, food provision while making an important economic contribution for the country. And one reason for the rising farm distress is crop failures and yield losses triggered by the vagaries of climate. The livelihood of a large proportion of India’s population—as the largest private enterprise with ~138 million farm families with an 18% contribution to national GDP—is at risk.   Any shock on agricultural production already has social and financial repercussions for both the population and the country as a whole; it impacts rural income levels, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and, in the worst years, poverty rates. The redesigned schemes RKVY- RAFTAAR "Remunerative Approaches for Agriculture and Allied Sector Rejuvenation", aims at making farming a remunerative economic activity through strengthening the farmers efforts, risk mitigation and promoting agri-business entrepreneurship. In the states, Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Empowerment operates RKVY-RAFTAAR where the State Government prepares projects as per guidelines RKVY- RAFTAAR issued by the Government of India. The Country Programme Document (2018-2022) of United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) approved by the Government of India has defined one of its foremost programme priorities and outcomes as  “Institutional and systems strengthening for service delivery” as the single most innovations to achieve last mile developmental impact. UNDP has set up the Technical Support Unit for the implementation of RKVY, at MOA&FW  to improve institutional and programme responsiveness, increase coverage and better access among the marginalised and excluded farm households for the rural population in Odisha. Under this project UNDP is planning  to provide a technical support to the state government of Odisha, for which UNDP is planning to hire an Individual Consultant to provide technical support to Department of Agriculture, Government of Odisha in strengthening the RKVY across the state.
Duties and Responsibilities
Functions / Key Results Expected Summary of Key Functions: As Junior Consultant (RKVY), the person will be responsible for supporting the Senior consultant and the Director (RKVY), Agriculture department and  identifying areas for improvement  Duties and Responsibilities: The Junior Consultant (RKVY), will be based at Bhubaneswar and shall work under the guidance and supervision of the Director, Agriculture. The Junior Consultant (RKVY), is responsible for: - ·        Assist in preparing State Agriculture Plan (SAP) & State Agriculture Infrastructure Development Programme (SAIDP) and ensuring the preparation of the District Agriculture Plans (DAPs). ·        Assist in developing projects, in conjunction with the line departments, keeping in view the RKVY

Training and Logistics Coordinator

UN Women

Training and Logistics Coordinator - Protection of Women and Girls from Sexual and Gender Based Violence (Open to Indian Nationals Only)
Location :	New Delhi, INDIA
Application Deadline :	30-Jan-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left :	13d 0h 53m
Additional Category :	Gender Equality
Type of Contract :	Service Contract
Post Level :	SB-3
Languages Required :	English
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)	01-Feb-2021
Duration of Initial Contract :	One Year (Renewable -Subject to availability of Funds)
Expected Duration of Assignment :	One Year (Renewable – Subject to availability of Funds)
Background
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. As the UN agency with the mandate to work on gender equality, UN Women is responsible for leading and coordinating United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world and at the country level. UN Women is also expected to provide strong and coherent leadership in support of countries’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society, the nodal government agency, private sector and other relevant actors. In times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, women and girls face higher risk of violence.  Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in India remains a highly prevalent and protracted problem which not only affects the human rights many women, girls and other vulnerable group, but remains a major public health and development challenge. COVID-19 outbreak has uncovered the existing inequalities in families and society in India and exacerbated the structural factors that contribute to SGBV in its different forms including domestic violence, intimate partier violence, violence against children, sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, and at different sites- private pubic, work and online. The UN Secretary General made an appeal to the leaders of the Members States to put ‘Women and Girls Safety first’ and center- stage gender responsive measures in their plans to address the challenge of COVID-19, to build back better and equal world. India was among 140 countries to endorse the Call. In response to this urgent concern, UN Women, along with three other UN agencies – UNICEF, WHO and UNHCR, initiated a joint programme under the Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF). The programme has been envisioned to enhance the protection of women and girls from SGBV in the times of COVID-19, to be implemented in 3 States, focusing on the most vulnerable groups, and with the following specific objectives: ·        Ensure availability of and accessibility to gender responsive and age sensitive protection ·        Improved access to gender-sensitive justice systems for women and girls at risk or of survivors

Individual Consultant

 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Individual Consultant - Instructional Designing (for Indian National only)
Location :	New Delhi, INDIA
Application Deadline :	29-Jan-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left :	12d 0h 53m
Type of Contract :	Individual Contract
Post Level :	National Consultant
Languages Required :	English
Duration of Initial Contract :	12 months
Background
The Enterprise Application Development (EAD) unit of the Information Technology Services (ITS) is responsible for developing sustainable and affordable IT solutions to meet UNOV/UNODC requirements, also enabling availability of the solutions more generally across the UN Secretariat entities. The India Technical Hub (EAD-ITH) based in New Delhi forms part of the vital delivery pillars of the ITS in keeping with the UN’s revised ICT strategy. As part of this strategy and under the direct supervision of the Head - ITH; the Instructional Designer will be responsible for conceptualization and creation of visual stories from different types of available content, available through various domains. The Instructional Designer will work with a team of highly motivated software developers and bridge the gap between subject matter experts and technical development, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the final product looks as well as how it impacts.
Duties and Responsibilities
·        Designing the Course Outline as per the learning objectives and developing training material meeting the same ·        Researching, analysing, designing, developing, customising instructional materials ·        Working with different types of input material to create Instructional Content ·        Applying various Instructional Strategies, Models and Theories to Content ·        Visualising Graphics and develop innovative ideas for e-Learning resources. ·        Use appropriate writing styles to make content easy to understand for the target audience. ·        Discuss ideas for images, graphics and animations with team members before specifying them for development. ·        Liaise with Subject Matter Experts from other teams/departments/agencies on production, schedules and deliveries. ·        Produce well-written audio and video scripts to produce high-quality course assets. ·        Communicate effectively with the development team. ·        Maintain project documentation and course folders during the project lifecycle. ·        Perform other duties as assigned.
Competencies
·        Professionalism: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Strong analytical, research, reporting and writing abilities. Strong organisational and process management

Individual Consultant

 United Nations Development Programme -UNDP

Individual Consultant – Block Technical Coordinator _Forward Linkage Gadag, Karnataka (5 Posts)
Location :	Bangalore, INDIA, INDIA
Application Deadline :	28-Jan-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left :	15d 0h 46m
Type of Contract :	Individual Contract
Post Level :	National Consultant
Languages Required :	English
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)	01-Feb-2021
Duration of Initial Contract :	One Year

  

Background

Background: The DAY-NRLM (Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission) is the flagship program of Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India relaunched in 2016 for promoting poverty reduction by building strong institutions of the poor, particularly women. The programme creates and enables community owned institutions of women to empower and make them economically self-reliant by improving their agency to access a range of livelihood and financial services and maximize their resources for creating sustainable livelihood opportunities.  The state governments are mandated to set up dedicated Mission Management Units at the state, district and village/community level for the effective implementation of the NRLM scheme.  The mission provides regular hand-holding support to SHG/federations for a period of 5-7 years.  At the end of a fully implementation cycle the SHGs/federations are well prepared to become resource institutions at the community level for providing evidence and support to other social initiatives.  Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society (KSRLPS) The State Government is implementing DAY-NRLM scheme in phases through Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society in the name of “Sanjeevini”. The mission statement of KSRLPS is: “To reduce rural poverty by providing gainful wage and self-employment opportunities through community institutions resulting in sustainable improvement in their livelihoods”. Sanjeevini is a community driven and process-oriented programme. The processes include different activities such as awareness building, social mobilization, and development of Community Resource persons (CRPs). Formation of CBOs, strengthening SHGs/ CBOs/federations/Livelihood Collectives, establishment of linkages and promotion of livelihoods. The conventional methods of monitoring focuses on physical, financial and logistic aspects of projects, but do not capture the processes of community perception, satisfaction with project services, inclusion and institutional dynamics. As the community processes do not conform to pre-set rules, deadlines, targets or blue print approaches, a responsive and adaptive implementation is necessary. It is in this context that the State government of Karnataka has partnered with UNDP to implement The National Rural Economic Transformation Project (NRETP) in Karnataka. NRETP proposes to implement higher order economic activities which are cross cutting in nature, for instance, the project design envisages that there will be an organic link between the model Cluster Level Federation (CLFs) and financial inclusion strategies, insurance and pension schemes, producer groups and organisations, product marketing and enterprise development. The financial inclusion strategy will also have a key role in financing of farm and non-farm enterprises.  UNDP will be uniquely positioned to quickly transfer the technical know-how gained at the national and state level working across the country.  The state SMMU will be fully synchronized with the National level team working at the centre, important for better alignment of state priorities with those of the national programme while formulating the State specific poverty reduction action plans. Under the scheme, UNDP is looking for a Block Technical Coordinator _ Forward Linkage, Consultant to undertake the activities as provided below. The incumbent will be based at KSRLPS and will perform duties under the direct supervision of the Mission Director and SPM - Value Chain & Forward Linkage.

Duties and Responsibilities

·        Candidate should be willing to travel across the districts of the State of Karnataka ·        Responsible for execution and monitoring of the sanctioned value chain development projects at the block level ·        Continuously scout for opportunities by analyzing potential for developing value chain interventions for existing commodities being produced in the block ·        Facilitate the technical support agencies in implementation of the sanctioned projects. ·        Maintain information regarding produce of the SHG members, markets (prices and trends), commodity-wise details of local and block level markets. ·        Identifying local buyers / local buyers, facilitating buyer seller meets at the block level ·        Collection of information / data for development of new proposals in value chain development ·        Execution of capacity building plans for the project staff, udyogmitra and community members on farm livelihoods and value chain development ·        Facilitate workshops, consultations necessary for developing manuals and guidelines to facilitate implementation of value chain development. ·        Identify and document best practices in value chain development under farm livelihoods

Individual Consultant

  United Nations Development Programme -UNDP

Individual Consultant – State Project Manager-Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning - Bangalore
Location :	Bangalore, INDIA, INDIA
Application Deadline :	28-Jan-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left :	15d 0h 46m
Type of Contract :	Individual Contract
Post Level :	National Consultant
Languages Required :	English
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)	01-Feb-2021
Duration of Initial Contract :	One Year

 

Background

The DAY-NRLM (Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission) is the flagship program of the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India relaunched in 2016 for promoting poverty reduction by building strong institutions of the poor, particularly women. The program creates and enables community-owned institutions of women to empower and make them economically self-reliant by improving their agency to access a range of livelihood and financial services and maximize their resources for creating sustainable livelihood opportunities.  The state governments are mandated to set up dedicated Mission Management Units at the state, district, and village/community level for the effective implementation of the NRLM scheme.  The mission provides regular hand-holding support to SHG/federations for a period of 5-7 years.  At the end of a full implementation cycle, the SHGs/federations are well prepared to become resource institutions at the community level for providing evidence and support to other social initiatives.  Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society (KSRLPS) The State Government is implementing the DAY-NRLM scheme in phases through Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society in the name of “Sanjeevini”. The mission statement of KSRLPS is: “To reduce rural poverty by providing gainful wage and self-employment opportunities through community institutions resulting in sustainable improvement in their livelihoods”.   Sanjeevini is a community-driven and process-oriented program. The processes include different activities such as awareness building, social mobilization, development of Community Resource Persons (CRPs). Formation of CBOs, strengthening SHGs/ CBOs/federations/Livelihood Collectives, the establishment of linkages, and promotion of livelihoods. The conventional methods of monitoring focus on physical, financial, and logistic aspects of projects, but do not capture the processes of community perception, satisfaction with project services, inclusion, and institutional dynamics. As the community processes do not conform to pre-set rules, deadlines, targets, or blueprint approaches, a responsive and adaptive implementation is necessary.   It is in this context that the State government of Karnataka has partnered with UNDP to implement The National Rural Economic Transformation Project (NRETP) in Karnataka.  NRETP proposes to implement higher-order economic activities which are cross-cutting in nature, for instance, the project design envisages that there will be an organic link between the model Cluster Level Federation (CFLs) and financial inclusion strategies, insurance, and pension schemes, producer groups, and organizations, product marketing, and enterprise development. The financial inclusion strategy will also have a key role in the financing of farm and non-farm enterprises. UNDP will be uniquely positioned to quickly transfer the technical know-how gained at the national and state-level working across the country.  The state SMMU will be fully synchronized with the National level team working at the center, important for better alignment of state priorities with those of the national program while formulating the State-specific poverty reduction action plans.   Under the scheme, UNDP is looking for a State Project Manager_ Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning to undertake the activities as provided below. The incumbent will be based at KSRLPS and will perform duties under the direct supervision of the Mission Director.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Mission Director-KSRLPS the incumbent will focus on the achievement of the following results: ·        Provides guidance for the state and district team for the preparation of district profiles suitable/supportive to the programs of the mission ·        Designing and implementing required research activities ·        Explore research opportunities and develop proposals ·        Develop Questionnaires and other tools to collect quantitative and qualitative data. ·        Undertake and oversee data collection using different research tools, editing of raw data ·        Conducting/facilitating labor market survey, skill gap analysis, market research for products and services of beneficiaries of the mission ·        Developing and managing MIS and M&E Mechanisms ·         Providing periodic analytical and narrative MIS report to MD about the performance of the

Individual Consultant

 United Nations Development Programme -UNDP

Individual Consultant – Block Technical Coordinator _Forward Linkage Uttar Kannada, Karnataka (3 Posts)
Location :	Bangalore, INDIA, INDIA
Application Deadline :	28-Jan-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left :	15d 0h 46m
Type of Contract :	Individual Contract
Post Level :	National Consultant
Languages Required :	English
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)	01-Feb-2021
Duration of Initial Contract :	One Year

 

Background

Background: The DAY-NRLM (Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission) is the flagship program of Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India relaunched in 2016 for promoting poverty reduction by building strong institutions of the poor, particularly women. The programme creates and enables community owned institutions of women to empower and make them economically self-reliant by improving their agency to access a range of livelihood and financial services and maximize their resources for creating sustainable livelihood opportunities.  The state governments are mandated to set up dedicated Mission Management Units at the state, district and village/community level for the effective implementation of the NRLM scheme.  The mission provides regular hand-holding support to SHG/federations for a period of 5-7 years.  At the end of a fully implementation cycle the SHGs/federations are well prepared to become resource institutions at the community level for providing evidence and support to other social initiatives.  Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society (KSRLPS) The State Government is implementing DAY-NRLM scheme in phases through Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society in the name of “Sanjeevini”. The mission statement of KSRLPS is: “To reduce rural poverty by providing gainful wage and self-employment opportunities through community institutions resulting in sustainable improvement in their livelihoods”. Sanjeevini is a community driven and process-oriented programme. The processes include different activities such as awareness building, social mobilization, development of Community Resource persons (CRPs). Formation of CBOs, strengthening SHGs/ CBOs/federations/Livelihood Collectives, establishment of linkages and promotion of livelihoods. The conventional methods of monitoring focuses on physical, financial and logistic aspects of projects, but do not capture the processes of community perception, satisfaction with project services, inclusion and institutional dynamics. As the community processes do not conform to pre-set rules, deadlines, targets or blue print approaches, a responsive and adaptive implementation is necessary. It is in this context that the State government of Karnataka has partnered with UNDP to implement The National Rural Economic Transformation Project (NRETP) in Karnataka. NRETP proposes to implement higher order economic activities which are cross cutting in nature, for instance, the project design envisages that there will be an organic link between the model Cluster Level Federation (CLFs) and financial inclusion strategies, insurance and pension schemes, producer groups and organisations, product marketing and enterprise development. The financial inclusion strategy will also have a key role in financing of farm and non-farm enterprises.  UNDP will be uniquely positioned to quickly transfer the technical know-how gained at the national and state level working across the country.  The state SMMU will be fully synchronized with the National level team working at the centre, important for better alignment of state priorities with those of the national programme while formulating the State specific poverty reduction action plans. Under the scheme, UNDP is looking for a Block Technical Coordinator _ Forward Linkage, Consultant to undertake the activities as provided below. The incumbent will be based at KSRLPS and will perform duties under the direct supervision of the Mission Director, SPM - Value Chain & Forward Linkage.

Duties and Responsibilities

·        Candidate should be willing to travel across the districts of the State of Karnataka ·        Responsible for execution and monitoring of the sanctioned value chain development projects at the block level ·        Continuously scout for opportunities by analyzing potential for developing value chain interventions for existing commodities being produced in the block ·        Facilitate the technical support agencies in implementation of the sanctioned projects. ·        Maintain information regarding produce of the SHG members, markets (prices and trends),