Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains recruits 01 Participatory Slum Upgrading Expert

Vacance de poste

Intitulé publication : Participatory Slum Upgrading Expert

Département / Bureau : Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains

Lieu d’affectation : NAIROBI

Période de candidature :  07 novembre 2021

No de l’appel á candidature : 21-United Nations Human Settlements Programme-167056-Consultant

Staffing Exercise N/A

Valeurs fondamentales de l’ONU : intégrité, professionnalisme, respect de la diversité

Result of Service

Outputs

1. AOC Output 2.1: Communication and advocacy strategy

1.1 Report inputs to communications and advocacy strategy of MIA – including graphic design

1.2 Work package 3: Report on strategic planning workshop

1.3 Training report on climate change planning

2. AOC Output 2.3 Capacity development/training report on upgrading and climate change planning methodology

2.1 Short summary report of the Situation Analysis Report to highlight the strategic priorities.

2.2 Stakeholder consultation strategy

2.3 Demonstrated substantive and editorial inputs to drafts of Situation Analysis Report

3. AOC Output 3.2 South Tarawa Informal Settlements Upgrading Strategy (with specific recommendations for the two pilot communities

3.1 Development strategy and workplan for STISUS

3.2 First draft of STISUS

3.3 Summary report of stakeholder consultations (see also output 1.2)

3.4 2nd Draft of STISUS – STISUS with recommendations

3.5 Final Draft and Presentation of the STISUS

Work Location

Home Based

Expected duration

6 Months

Duties and Responsibilities

BACKGROUND

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the United Nations 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 Practices Branch (UPB) is the tools and methodology production and skills center of the UN-Habitat, that develops normative guidance and cutting-edge tools through communities of urban practice. It provides technical and policy advice approaches and methodologies to MCOs/CO, government and partners and mainstreams them throughout the programmed portfolio. It also ensures that the cross-cutting area of safety and the social inclusion issues of human rights; gender; children, youth, and older persons; and disability are developed and mainstreamed across the Agency.

The overall aim of the assignment is to support the successful implementation of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) in 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and more than 160 cities, initiated by ACP Group of States and financed by the European Commission (EC). PSUP aims to triggering change to make a real difference in the lives of slum dwellers in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions and contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG Target 11.1 as well as the implementation of the New Urban Agenda for inclusive and sustainable urbanization. PSUP seeks to tackle urban poverty through adaptive and pro-active measures and to enhance management of urbanization through assessment studies and strategic planning approaches for participatory and inclusive decision-making processes and up-scaled participatory slum upgrading.

The PSUP is acknowledged for its approach aligned with the New Urban Agenda and the SDGs and tested in many ACP countries with many success stories, lessons to be learnt and opportunities for up-scaling. In the past, globally often slum upgrading has been approached through a project-to-project basis and experience has shown that this approach is ineffective, because it rarely gained scale and/or replication. For making slum upgrading sustainable there is a current shift towards strategic and inclusive city-wide slum upgrading with pro-active measures which PSUP is implementing.

APPROACH

The Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) consists of six general programme criteria:

1. Quality of the project design: the appropriateness of the suggested project objectives and underlying problems, the needs and priorities of the intended target groups and beneficiaries that the project is supposed to address and the adaptation to the physical and policy environment within it operates. This shall include the quality of the project preparation and design – the logic and completeness of the project planning process, and the internal logic and coherence of the project design.

2. Achievement of the main objectives and effectiveness in the implementation of participatory slum upgrading projects: the assessment of expected results and impacts, including unintended ones, and then the comparison of intended and unintended consequences. The consequences shall be evaluated in relation to the overall goal and the objectives of the PSUP, and the respect countries’/cities’ objectives.

3. Efficiency of the implementation to date: to what extent funding, human, financial resources, regulatory, and/or administrative resources contributed to, or hindered, the achievement of the objectives and results. This also includes the ownership of the national and local governments to contribute to the programme implementation in line with national priorities and budgets.

4. Sustainability of the effects: an analysis of the extent to which the results and impact are being, or are likely to be maintained over time, considering the multiplier effect of the planned slum upgrading activities and the extent to which the projects identified in PSUP are being or are likely to be financed and implemented (based also on the developed resource mobilization strategy).

5. Key cross-cutting areas of interventions: for example, land, environment, gender, human rights, housing, basic urban services, urban planning, legislation, livelihoods and local economic development, inclusive governance etc. are combined and are taken care off in the programme design which leads to a strong project with multiplier effects.

6. Coordination, complementation and coherence: the degree that the proposed pilot projects are coherent with national priorities and current efforts of the key local and national partners, with donors and EU policies and Member States, with the UN Country Teams, UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework, (UNSDCF) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers as well as UN-Habitat’s Country Programme Documents (if in place). This shall include an assessment of the positioning of UN-Habitat within the overall context of donors in the field of urban development.

Context of the Assignment

Kiribati is made up of 32 flat coral atolls and one island spread across an area of about three and a half million square kilometres and has a total population of 110.000 people (2015 Population Census) . More than half of the population live in the capital of Tarawa, while many other atolls are uninhabited. Kiribati is one of the least developed countries in the Pacific region and has an extreme poverty rate more significant than 10 per cent. Population growth is around 2.2 per cent per year, making it one of the highest within the region. The country is greatly dependent on overseas aid and has the lowest access to clean water and sanitation among all Pacific States. Frequent outbreaks of water-borne diseases are some of the consequences. Furthermore, child and infant mortality has increased in recent years

57 per cent of the population of Kiribati was classified as urban (2015 Census ) , and is highly concentrated in the South Tarawa area, which is experiencing a 4% annual population growth rate. South Tarawa is a magnet for internal migration from the rural outer islands as it provides opportunities for cash employment and consumption and access to higher education and specialist social services. South Tarawa’s population is expected to double to about 107,000 people (nearly 70% of the total national population) by 2030 .

Rapid urbanization is placing additional pressure on ground water supplies, as well as on sanitation and housing. Informal settlements are rising in number and size. Most informal settlements are located in the South Tarawa area. The combination of economic challenges, climate change, environmental hazards and their impacts, and inadequate access to infrastructure, water and sanitation and land tenure issues, negatively affects the population of these settlements and makes them particularly vulnerable.

To address the challenges of informal settlements, UN-Habitat and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have entered into an agreement of cooperation (AoC) to implement the PSUP III in Kiribati. The programme has also established a Country Team (CT), a multi-stakeholder platform bringing a wide range of stakeholders in to discuss and collectively address the challenges of the informal settlements in South Tarawa. The essential purpose of the AoC is to facilitate the development of the South Tarawa Informal Settlements Upgrading Strategy (STISUS) with a specific focus on communities of Betio Town Council (BTC) and Teinainano Urban Council (TUC). The development of the STISUS also provides an opportunity to build the capacity of the relevant departments at MIA and local communities, raise awareness on environmental sanitation and COVID-19 and policy and legislation change

RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the direct supervision of the project manager, PSUP, the consultant will undertake the tasks below:

1. Provide Input for several workshops including series of policy dialogue workshops, advocacy campaign. Under the AoC, MIA has developed communications material and a communications strategy is emerging. The consultant will contribute to finalization of the strategy and provide some graphic design support. Specifically, the consultant will:

1.1 Review and provide inputs to communications and advocacy strategy of MIA – including graphic design support

1.2 Provide inputs of work package 3: report on strategic planning workshop

1.3 Provide inputs to training report on climate change planning

The startup of the planning phase for the South Tarawa Informal Settlements Upgrading Strategy, capacity development contribution to MIA/PSUP country team, will be delivered by the consultancy.

Capacity development contribution will further be provided by UN-Habitat on climate change planning.

The consultancy will also alignment with broader capacity needs of MIA / PSUP country team.

2. Input to Situation Analysis Report

Under the AoC, MIA is developing a comprehensive Informal Settlements Analysis for South Tarawa with in-depth analyses of two pilot communities.

The consultancy contributes to:

• Review 1: of the report with particular emphasis on its strategic orientation of the report.

• Guidance in contribution of local stakeholder consultations.

• Review 2: of the report with particular emphasis on the communication value of the report (edit, visualizations).

2.1 Short summary report of the Situation Analysis Report to highlight the strategic priorities.

2.2 Stakeholder consultation strategy

2.3 Demonstrated substantive and editorial inputs to drafts of Situation Analysis Report

3. South Tarawa Informal Settlements Upgrading Strategy (STISUS)

3.1 Development strategy and workplan for STISUS

3.2 Inputs to first draft of STISUS

3.3 Contribute to stakeholder consultations (see also output 1.2) – summary report

3.4 Substantive inputs to 2nd Draft of STISUS – STISUS with recommendations

3.5 Final Draft and Presentation of the STISUS

Based on the agreed table of contents, 1st draft of STISUS will include results from i) situation analysis, ii) stakeholder analysis, iii) policy and legislation review, and iv) key strategic priorities and strategies as well as summary workshop discussions

The consultancy will support MIA/PSUP in the strategy for developing the first draft and will review the first draft.

The 1st draft of the strategy will be discussed with stakeholders, subsequently revised and extended with the implementation strategy

The consultancy will support the review process;

Final Draft of STISUS and PowerPoint file presenting the strategy, including key issues and identified areas of actions, set of key recommendations for two communities and M&E Framework.

The consultancy will review the final draft of STISUS, review the final presentation for stakeholders and support the final edit of the STISUS.

OVERALL IMPLEMENTATION SET-UP

The consultant will be directly supervised by the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and PSUP Project Manager in line with the assigned tasks. The consultant will home-based and work remotely with local consultants at MoI.

Qualifications/special skills

Skills: • Good written and verbal communication skills and ability to articulate complex ideas in a clear and accurate manner, including the ability to present the content of the thematic area in a clear and concise way.

• Ability to prioritize activities within a team to support a range of activities. This includes the ability to use time efficiently in the context of competing deadlines.

• Good organizational skills to liaise and communicate with stakeholders of different capacities towards a common goal

• Background in informal settlements upgrading and relevant work experience

• Experience in working with local communities

• High motivation to support the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP).

Academic Qualifications: Master’s degree in a field relevant to the development and urban planning, public policy, social sciences, international development, political science, or similar experience in lieu of a master degree is required.

Experience: Five years of working experience in urban development, preferable in slum and informal settlements upgrading, affordable housing, strategic urban planning, in the Pacific and elsewhere, is required. Knowledge and experience stakeholder engagement, participatory approaches, communication and community-driven policy and strategy development or similar are required. Demonstrated level experience in urban upgrading development or slum upgrading in previous assignments is desirable.

Language: Fluency in spoken and written English is required.

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