Vacancies

CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Issued on: 28 August 2018

Background

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 mobilisation 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, UNDAF 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.

Objectives
The consultant will support in the following areas in the implementation of the PSUP:

• Knowledge production:
• Contribute to the review and formulation of integrated thematic as well as process-oriented guides for up-scaled participatory slum upgrading,
• Provide assistance to Country Team members in documentation of strategic national or citywide projects particularly in Francophone Africa that are transformative and easily to replicable.

• Capacity development:
• Contribute to the development of the online e-learning platform for capacity building on slum upgrading,
• Develop capacity building tools, organize trainings and workshops and monitor capacity building in the implementation of the programme,
• Coordinate the creation of capacity development tools by other institutions and partners on selected themes including a slum upgrading curriculum for Universities.

• Technical assistance to implementation in ACP countries:
• Provide technical support for the design and implementation of PSUP in Madagascar, Congo Republic, Ivory Coast and Cabo Verde.
• Provide relevant technical support to ACP countries for in planning of city-wide participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal programmes and in up-scaling of slum upgrading, particularly in Francophone Africa

Outputs
To achieve the above objectives, the consultant will be expected to deliver the following outputs:

Overall Implementation Set-up          
The consultant will be directly communicating to the PSUP Project Leader.
The consultant will be based at UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
The position requires high flexibility to travel in ACP countries, high commitment and flexibility for responding to countries time zones and technical support needs.

Implementation Schedule
The outlined activities are expected to be undertaken within 12 months and the consultant is expected to deliver an updated time schedule at the commencement of the contract.

Property rights
Once the outputs are accepted by UN-Habitat, it will be the property of the United Nations, which shall be entitled to all property rights, including but not limited to patents, copyrights, and trademarks with regard to all material which bears a direct relation to, or is made in consequence of, the services provided to UN-Habitat by the Consultant.

UN-Habitat will refer to and acknowledge, the contribution made by the consultant in preparation of the materials produced.

Academic Qualifications

Master degree in the following fields: International Development, Engineering, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Geography, Community Management or Environmental Planning is a requirement but not mandatory.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 2-5 years working experience in relevant field related to participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal advising local and national authorities, NGOs, CBOs and other relevant partners – directly involved in programme implementation
• Experience in participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• Academic background in at least two or more thematic areas of participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal implementation (housing, land tenure, water, sanitation, participatory planning, policy and legislation, public space, local economic development as well as financing and community empowerment)
• Experience in documentation of case studies of slum upgrading and pro-active measures for urban poverty reduction;
• Experience in developing simple guidelines, tools and knowledge products for participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal
• Experience in working with urban stakeholder such as civil society (slum dwellers) and local governments in implementing slum upgrading and urban renewal programmes

Language Skills

Fluency in written and spoken English and French is a requirement; knowledge of Spanish, Arabic or other UN official languages is an advantage.

Remuneration

The assignment will be undertaken for a total of 12 months starting October 1st 2018 to September 30th 2019 at a monthly fee of USD 4.500,00 (Four Thousand Five Hundred Dollars).              

Background

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:

7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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 mobilisation strategy).
11. 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.
12. 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, UNDAF 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.

 Objectives
The consultant will support in the following areas in the implementation of the PSUP:

• Knowledge production:
• Contribute to the review and formulation of integrated thematic as well as process-oriented guides for up-scaled participatory slum upgrading,
• Provide assistance to Country Team members in documentation of strategic national or citywide projects particularly in Francophone Africa that are transformative and easily to replicable.

• Capacity development:
• Contribute to the development of the online e-learning platform for capacity building on slum upgrading,
• Develop capacity building tools, organize trainings and workshops and monitor capacity building in the implementation of the programme,
• Coordinate the creation of capacity development tools by other institutions and partners on selected themes including a slum upgrading curriculum for Universities.

• Technical assistance to implementation in ACP countries:
• Provide technical support for the design and implementation of PSUP in Madagascar, Congo Republic, Ivory Coast and Cabo Verde.
• Provide relevant technical support to ACP countries for in planning of city-wide participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal programmes and in up-scaling of slum upgrading, particularly in Francophone Africa

Outputs
To achieve the above objectives, the consultant will be expected to deliver the following outputs:

Overall Implementation Set-up          
The consultant will be directly communicating to the PSUP Project Leader.
The consultant will be based at UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
The position requires high flexibility to travel in ACP countries, high commitment and flexibility for responding to countries time zones and technical support needs.

Implementation Schedule
The outlined activities are expected to be undertaken within 12 months and the consultant is expected to deliver an updated time schedule at the commencement of the contract.

Property rights
Once the outputs are accepted by UN-Habitat, it will be the property of the United Nations, which shall be entitled to all property rights, including but not limited to patents, copyrights, and trademarks with regard to all material which bears a direct relation to, or is made in consequence of, the services provided to UN-Habitat by the Consultant.

UN-Habitat will refer to and acknowledge, the contribution made by the consultant in preparation of the materials produced.

Academic Qualifications

Master degree in the following fields: International Development, Engineering, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Geography, Community Management or Environmental Planning is a requirement but not mandatory.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 2-5 years working experience in relevant field related to participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal advising local and national authorities, NGOs, CBOs and other relevant partners – directly involved in programme implementation
• Experience in participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• Academic background in at least two or more thematic areas of participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal implementation (housing, land tenure, water, sanitation, participatory planning, policy and legislation, public space, local economic development as well as financing and community empowerment)
• Experience in documentation of case studies of slum upgrading and pro-active measures for urban poverty reduction;
• Experience in developing simple guidelines, tools and knowledge products for participatory slum upgrading and urban renewal
• Experience in working with urban stakeholder such as civil society (slum dwellers) and local governments in implementing slum upgrading and urban renewal programmes  

Language Skills

Fluency in written and spoken English and French is a requirement; knowledge of Spanish, Arabic or other UN official languages is an advantage.

Remuneration

The assignment will be undertaken for a total of 12 months starting October 1st 2018 to September 30th 2019 at a monthly fee of USD 4.500,00 (Four Thousand Five Hundred Dollars).