Posted on :
21 Aug, 2019
21 Aug, 2019
UNCDF makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 47 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 two channels: financial inclusion that expands the opportunities for individuals, households, and small businesses to participate in the local economy, providing them with the tools they need to climb out of poverty and manage their financial lives; and by showing how localized investments — through fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and structured project finance — can drive public and private funding that underpins local economic expansion and sustainable development. By strengthening how finance works for poor people at the household, small enterprise, and local infrastructure levels, UNCDF contributes to SDG 1 on eradicating poverty and SDG 17 on the means of implementation. By identifying those market segments where innovative financing models can have a transformational impact in helping to reach the last mile and address exclusion and inequalities of access, UNCDF contributes to a number of different SDGs.
Job Description
Job Title: Programme Analyst, Local Resilience Programme
UNCDF has developed expertise and a portfolio of programs addressing the issue of local resilience called the Local Resilience Programme (LRP), with a focus on building resilience to climate change, environmental sustainability, and food security through local governments and mechanisms for local government finance. The centerpiece of the Local Resilience Programme is the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL). In line with the recommendations of the Mid Term Review of the LoCAL facility, the LRP consolidates the LoCAL mechanism itself and more recent work in the field of land restoration, municipal finance, urban resilience, coastal resilience, and food security. It includes investments funded with local public finance and investments that have a blended finance component.
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 14 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. LoCAL operates a “quadruple check” methodology and measurement process for proven climate adaptation.
The recent mid-term evaluation of the LoCAL mechanism has called for LoCAL to expand its proven methodology, accelerating support to adaptation in urban areas, adaptation in coastal areas and private sector adaptation. The Mid Term Review also called upon LoCAL to improve its monitoring and impact measurement systems to enable the LoCAL mechanism and associated methodologies to become fully embedded in the global climate adaptation response.
Local Resilience Programme (LRP) 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 Resilience Programme (LRP) 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:
The Programme operates in three distinct phases:
Since its global scale up in 2014, LoCAL has engaged 99 local governments in 14 countries representing over 6 million people. Between 2014 and 2018, it delivered close to USD 16.5 million, with grants and technical assistance to countries totaling USD 10.9 million. During the same period, 517 climate change adaptation interventions were finalized across 11 countries using grants, with another 77 under implementation or being planned.
UNCDF is seeking a Programme Analyst, Local Resilience Programme (LRP), P-2 to work as part of the Local Resilience Programme (LRP) Secretariat team, to contribute to the effective delivery of the Programme’s activities, working under the overall guidance of the LRP Global Programme Manager and direct supervision of the LoCAL Deputy Project Manager (Africa),
This position will be based in Accra, Ghana.
Duties and Responsibilities
Summary of key functions:
The Programme Analyst will have the following duties and responsibilities, as per details below;
The Programme Analyst, LRP will help the LoCAL Deputy Project Manager, P4 in supporting the technical oversight of assigned LRP programme management activities, contribute to the development and implementation of LRP’s Strategic and Annual Workplans and development of LRP’s private investment pipeline, as well as will be responsible for effective monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management, in line with corporate standards.
The Programme Analyst, P2 LRP is expected to work in close collaboration with the LRP Project team & Secretariat, UNCDF headquarters and regional offices, country project teams and CO programme and operations clusters, government officials, private sector, non-government and civil society organizations.
Detailed Description of Job Roles and Responsibilities
1) Programme Management (40%)
2) Monitoring and Evaluation (40%):
3) Knowledge Management (20%):
IV. Impact of Results
The incumbent will contribute to the Local Resilience Programme (LRP)’s efforts of strengthening its programme management, monitoring and evaluation, data management and reporting systems with a view of generating improvements at both outcome and output levels.
CompetenciesCore Compentencies
Technical/ Functional Competencies:
Subject Matter Expertise: Possesses expert knowledge of advanced concepts in to digital & financial inclusion, a broad knowledge of related disciplines, as well as in-depth knowledge of relevant organizational policies and procedures.
Knowledge Management: Ability to capture, develop, share and effectively use information and knowledge.
Project Management: Ability to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.
Relationship Management: Ability to engage and foster strategic partnerships with other parties, Inter-Agency Coordination and forge productive working relationships.
Results Based Programming: Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Experience:
Language Requirements:
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