Jan 30, UN-HABITAT Evaluation Consultant for the Flood Resilience in Ulaanbaatar Ger Areas Project Jobs in Kenya

UN-HABITAT Evaluation Consultant for the Flood Resilience in Ulaanbaatar Ger Areas Project Jobs in Kenya

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the specialized programme for sustainable urbanization and human settlements in the United Nations system. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all. Pursuant to its mandate, UN-Habitat aims to achieve impact at two levels.

At the operational level, it undertakes technical cooperation projects. At the normative level, it seeks to influence governments and non-governmental actors in formulating, adopting, implementing and enforcing policies, norms and standards conducive to sustainable human settlements and sustainable urbanization.

The current UN-Habitat strategic plan for 2020-2025 is in line with its new vision of “a better quality of life for all in an urbanizing world”. The vision is encapsulated in the Plan’s four Domains of Change namely:

Reduced spatial inequality and poverty in communities across the urban – rural continuum.

Enhanced shared prosperity of cities and regions.

Strengthened climate action and improved urban environment.

Effective urban crisis prevention and response.

UN-Habitat also leads and coordinates the monitoring of and reporting on global progress in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG0 11 of making cities and human settlements inclusive, safer, resilient and sustainable. Other global agreements support UN-Habitat’s work including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

The Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established and launched the Adaptation Fund in 2007. The fund is to finance concrete adoption projects and programmes in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to adverse effects of climate change. The fund’s projects and activities aim at building national and local adaptation capacities while reaching and engaging with the most vulnerable groups.

Mongolia is a land locked developing country, and Ulaanbaatar, surrounded by high mountains, is the coldest capital city in the world. High rural-urban immigration rates to Ulaanbaatar city has increased urban poor, who mostly reside in informal Ger settements.

In addition, as a consequence of increased warm summer days and nights in Central Mongolia, there has been more frequent flooding in the city, which affects the unplanned Ger areas, in which residents reside in high risk areas, around gullies at the bottom of mountains and around riverbeds.

Whereas government efforts to create appropriate policy and planning framework to address climate change issues are evident, the resources to prepare and plan for climate change impacts are limited and requires support.

In this context, the project proposed by UN-Habitat and funded by the Adaption Fund, was more intended to promote and improve collaboration, particularly by facilitating engagement between the Ministry of Environment and Toursim; and the Municipal authorities at all levels; and through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), to harness existing capacities by strengthing instutional capacities and sharing information to enhance the climate change resilience of the seven most vulnerable Ger Khoroo settlements and people, focusing on flooding in Ulaanbaatar city.

In September 2018 UN-Habitat signed an agreement with the Adaptation Fund for Climate Change to implement the project on Flood Resilience in Ulaanbaatar Ger-Areas (FRUGA) – Climate Change Adaptation through community-driven small-scale protective and basic services interventions – in the seven most-vulnerable and high-risk ger-areas of Ulaanbaatar Mongolia.

The project was originally planned to be implemented from December 2018 through September 2022. Due to Covid breakout and restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid, the project implementation has experienced some delays and was extended by the Donor until 31 December 2023.

The total project

budget is US$4,495,235. It was funded as part of the US$23.8 million approved by Adaption Fund Board, for funding of projects and programmes for developing countries to build resilience and capacity to adapt to climate change, during the implementation of the five year Adaption Fund Strategy for 2018-2022.

The main objective of the project is to enhance the climate change resilience of the seven most vulnerable Ger khoroo settlements focusing on flooding in Ulaanbaatar City. The objective was to be achieved through four components/expected accomplishments:

Improving the knowledge on flood hazard and risk exposure and vulnerability of the targeted areas;

Improving the resilience and adaptive capacity of the Ger settlements through a Community-Based and gender-responsive approach (i.e. building social cohesion per Khoroo)

Increasing resilience ger area physical infrastructure and services, supported by enhanced capacities of responsible district level and khoroo authorities.

Strengthening institutional capacity to reduce risks and capture and replicate lessons and good practices

The target beneficiaries of the project are the seven target Ger communities in Ulaanbaatar , which were characterized by a high exposure to multiple climate hazards ranging from wind and dust storms, air pollution, and particularly by floods.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Chief, Evaluation Unit, UN-Habitat, the Evaluation Expert will:

To assess the performance of the project in terms of achievement of the results at objective, expected accomplishment (outcome) and output levels;

To assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, impact and coherence of the project in improving conditions of the target communities in terms of flood resilience building;

To assess project management modalities, appropriateness of partnerships, working arrangements, adequacy of resources and how these may have impacted on the effectiveness of the project;

Assess the how the Covid-19 affected the performance of the project

To assess how cross-cutting issues such as gender equality, youth and human rights were integrated in the project;

To identify lessons learned and make strategic, programmatic and management recommendations on what further needs to be done to effectively promote and improve flood resilience in Ulaanbaatar city.

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced academic degree in Political Sciences, Project Management, International Development, Program Evaluation, Statistics, Communication, Information Technology, Urban Planning, Economics, Sociology or another relevant field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

7 years of project management experience in results-based management working with development projects/ programmes is required

Extensive evaluation experience. The lead consultant should have the ability to present credible findings derived from evidence and prepare conclusions and recommendations supported by the findings is required.

Knowledge and understanding of UN-Habitat mandate, operations and experience of regional/ multi-country projects is desired.

Knowledge and understanding of Adaptation Fund operations and strateg is highly preferred

Knowledge in climate change issues is desired

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this post, fluency in written and oral English is required.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UN-HABITAT Evaluation Consultant for the Flood Resilience in Ulaanbaatar Ger Areas Project Jobs in Kenya

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