IMPORTANT: Under the JPO programme framework, the following position is open only to Danish nationals. The applicant must be fluent in both Danish and English. For the full requirements and information about the JPO Programme, please visit: https://www.undp.org/jposc
Background
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 46 least developed countries. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.
UNCDF’s financing models work through three channels: inclusive digital economies, connecting individuals, households, and small businesses with financial eco-systems that catalyze participation in the local economy, and provide tools to climb out of poverty and manage financial lives; local development finance, that capacitates localities through fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and structured project finance to drive local economic expansion and sustainable development; and investment finance, that provides catalytic financial structuring, de-risking, and capital deployment to drive SDG impact and domestic resource mobilization. By strengthening how finance works for poor people at the household, small enterprise, and local infrastructure levels, UNCDF contributes to Sustainable Development Goal-SDG 1 on eradicating poverty and SDG 17 on the means of implementation. By identifying those market segments where innovative financing models can have transformational impact in helping to reach the last mile and address exclusion and inequalities of access, UNCDF contributes to a broad diversity of SDGs.
The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) is a mechanism to integrate climate change into local authorities’ planning and budgeting through the regular intergovernmental fiscal transfer system using performance-based grants in a participatory and gender sensitive manner, increase awareness and capacities to respond to climate change at the local level including through ecosystem-based solutions, and increase the quality and number of local investments that address climate change. LoCAL combines performance-based climate resilience grants (PBCRGs), which ensure programming and verification of change expenditures at the local level, with technical and capacity-building support. It uses the grants and demonstration effect to trigger further flows for local climate action including global climate finance and national fiscal transfers. LoCAL also aims to support private finance for small and medium businesses and municipal finance and public-private partnerships. LoCAL is currently active in 17 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, with another 17 countries preparing to join (at the design stage).
The UNCDF’s programmatic portfolio in Eastern and Southern Africa is expanding through LoCAL, in particular in Uganda (phase 1), Tanzania (phase 1) and Mozambique (phase 2) ). Other countries in the region include Lesotho and Malawi (phase 1) and Sudan, south Sudan, Somalia and Zambia (scoping/design).
LoCAL combines performance-based climate resilience grants (PBCRGs) with technical and capacity-building support. PBCRGs ensure programming and verification of climate change expenditures at the local level and offer strong incentives for general performance improvements targeting areas of importance for enhanced resilience. The PBCRG can be seen as an earmarked cross-sectoral grant with conditions attached to the use of its funding for climate change adaptation beyond business as usual. Combined with regular grant allocations, PBCRGs enable 100 per-cent of the investments in climate-sensitive sectors to become climate resilient over time. They include a set of minimum conditions, performance measures and a menu of eligible investments. LoCAL focuses on the delivery of four outputs that will directly contribute to increasing local governments’ access to climate finance and building resilience to climate change:
Output 1 – Awareness and capacities to respond to climate change adaptation at the local level are increased;
Output 2 – CCA is mainstreamed into government’s planning and budgeting systems and investments are implemented in line with the PBCRG mechanism;
Output 3 – The PBCRG system is effectively and sustainably established in participating countries and leads to an increased amount of CCA finance available to local government and local economy;
Output 4 – The role of local authorities and of the PBCRGS in addressing climate change are increasingly recognized at international level, through outreach, learning and quality assurance.
The initiative operates in three distinct phases:
Since its global scale up in 2014, LoCAL has engaged 328 local governments in 17 countries representing over 15 million people. Between 2014 and 2022, it has mobilized more than USD 130 million, including grants and technical assistance to countries. During the same period, 2,000+ climate change adaptation interventions were finalized across countries using grants or being planned in the next phase of LoCAL.
The Facility is overseen by the LoCAL Board, which comprises of representatives from participating governments, and is co-chaired by the Chairs of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group to the United Nations and to the UNFCCC. Through its decisions, the LoCAL Board reaffirmed its commitment to a strong and continued LoCAL engagement with UNFCCC, COPs and with the LDC group in the UNFCCC processes to consolidate and deepen the progress towards LoCAL’s objectives, and to explore options to institutionalize LoCAL as a global mechanism. In addition, the Board established a group of LoCAL Ambassadors, comprised of Ministers of Environment from LoCAL member countries (currently from Burkina Faso, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, The Gambia, Niger, Benin and Cambodia), who commit to take a lead role in supporting the implementation of the Board Decision and advocating for the LoCAL mechanism, with support from the LoCAL Facility Secretariat. As of today, 34 countries are represented at the LoCAL Board, of whom 27 are LDCs, 7 are SIDS and 24 from Africa.
High-Level representatives and ministers from countries deploying the LoCAL mechanism have launched, in the margins of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76), as part of the New York Climate Week, a Ministerial Declaration aimed to provide political guidance and high-level leadership for the efforts on locally led adaptation action in vulnerable countries particularly, Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States and African countries, which resulted in a strong political engagement at COP26 and COP27 for increased climate finance for NDC and NAP-aligned locally led action.
Content and methodology of supervision:
As part of the UNDP JPO programme overall framework, the JPO will benefit from the following supervision modalities:
Learning and Training:
As part of the UNDP JPO programme overall framework, the JPO will benefit from the followingtraining and learning opportunities:
Position Purpose:
Within this programme context, UNCDF is seeking a Programme Analyst (JPO), P-2 to support the effective delivery of the Programme’s activities in Africa with a focus on eastern and southern Africa in particular Somalia, reporting to the Global Manager, P-5, based in Kampala, Uganda and in close collaboration with the LoCAL global Facility and LDFPA colleagues across the region.
Key Duties and Accountabilities
The Programme Analyst’s (JPO) key focus areas will be:
1. Programme implementation support (40%)
2. Policy, regulatory and technical support to government counterparts and key stakeholders (30%)
3. Knowledge management and communication (10%)
4. Networking and partnership building (20%)
Core Competencies
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
Cross-Functional Competencies:
1. Business Direction & Strategy Business Acumen Ability to understand and deal with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome: Knowledge and understanding of the operational frameworks in the organization and ability to make good judgments and quick decisions within such frameworks
2. Business Management Project management Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
3. Business Management Monitoring Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results
Technical Competencies:
Required Skills and Experience
Education
Required skills and Experience
Language requirements
Nationality of the applicant
IMPORTANT: Under the UNDP JPO programme framework, the following position is open only to Danish nationals. The applicant must be fluent in both Danish and English. For the full requirements and information about the JPO Programme, please visit:https://www.undp.org/jposc
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UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
Disclaimer
Important information for US Permanent Residents (‘Green Card’ holders)
Under US immigration law, acceptance of a staff position with UNDP, an international organization, may have significant implications for US Permanent Residents. UNDP advises applicants for all professional level posts that they must relinquish their US Permanent Resident status and accept a G-4 visa, or have submitted a valid application for US citizenship prior to commencement of employment.
UNDP is not in a position to provide advice or assistance on applying for US citizenship and therefore applicants are advised to seek the advice of competent immigration lawyers regarding any applications.
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