Background
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 170 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
The Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Response Unit (CRU) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.
BPPS supports UNDP’s 2014-2017 Strategic Plan, focusing on 7 outcomes including strengthening institutions to progressively deliver universal access to basic services (outcome 3). The HIV Health and Sustainable development team, within BPPS, is helping to contribute towards this outcome.
HIV, Health and Development Approach
UNDP is a founding cosponsor of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a partner of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and a co-sponsor of several other international health partnerships. UNDP’s work on HIV, health and development leverages the organization’s core strengths and mandates in human development, governance and capacity development to complement the efforts of specialist health-focused UN agencies. UNDP delivers three types of support to countries in HIV, health and development.
First, UNDP helps countries to mainstream attention to HIV and health into action on gender, poverty and the broader effort to achieve and sustain the Millennium Development Goals. For example, UNDP works with countries to understand the social and economic factors that play a crucial role in driving health and disease, and to respond to such dynamics with appropriate policies and programmes outside the health sector. UNDP also promotes specific action on the needs and rights of women and girls as they relate to HIV.
Second, UNDP works with partners to address the interactions between governance, human rights and health responses. Sometimes this is done through focused or specialized programmes, such as promoting attention to the role of legal environments (law and access to justice) in facilitating stronger HIV responses, including the use of flexibilities in intellectual property and human rights law to lower the cost of drugs and diagnostics and to increase access to HIV-related treatment. UNDP also works to empower and include people living with HIV and marginalized populations who are disproportionately affected by HIV - also known as key populations - such as sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people. Beyond these focused efforts, UNDP plays a key role in ensuring attention to HIV and health within broader governance and rights initiatives, including support to district and municipal action on MDGs, strengthening of national human rights institutions and increasing access to justice for marginalized populations.
Third, as a trusted, long-term partner with extensive operational experience, UNDP supports countries in effective implementation of complex, multilateral and multisectoral health projects, while simultaneously investing in capacity development so that national and local partners can assume these responsibilities over time. The UNDP/Global Fund partnership is an important part of this work, facilitating access to resources for action on MDG 6 by countries that face constraints in directly receiving and managing such funding. UNDP partners with countries in crisis/post-crisis situations, those with weak institutional capacity or governance challenges, and countries under sanctions. When requested, UNDP acts as interim Principal Recipient in these settings, working with national partners and the Global Fund to improve management, implementation and oversight of Global Fund grants, while simultaneously developing national capacity for governments or local entities to be able to assume the Principal Recipient role over time.
In the 25 countries where it currently holds the role of interim Principal Recipient (PR), UNDP is responsible for the financial and programme management of Global Fund grants as well as procurement of pharmaceutical, non-health items and required services.
Given the importance of the partnership with the Global Fund, UNDP continues to strive towards providing high value-added services to governments and the Global Fund, both in its role as the PR, and, increasingly, as a significant technical partner to governments implementing Global Fund grants. In all areas of implementation, UNDP provides capacity development services to relevant institutions, sub-recipients and implementing partners.
The UNDP / Global Fund Partnership:
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) is an innovative public-private partnership that has played a crucial role in the world's efforts to respond successfully to the three diseases. The Global Fund achieves its goals through a broad range of partnerships, including with the United Nations family. The Global Fund's relationship with UNDP is a crucial component of that partnership, with a focus on three interlinked objectives:
- Supporting implementation by serving as temporary Principal Recipient (PR) of the Global Fund in countries facing exceptional development challenges and/or complex emergencies.
- Developing the capacity of national entities by strengthening or creating national systems to take over the management of Global Fund programmes as soon as circumstances permit, or to improve their performance while they are already serving as Principal Recipients.
- Strengthening policy and programme quality of Global Fund related work, both at country and global levels, in line with UNDP's role as a cosponsor of UNAIDS and UNDP's core mandates in governance and capacity development.
Global Fund – New Funding Model:
Under the New Funding Model (NFM), National Strategic Plans (NSPs) serve as the basis for Global Fund funding. UNDP's capacity development activities together with other technical partners will include support for the strengthening of NSPs, the conducting of country dialogues including the engagement of Key Affected Populations (KAPs) and preparation of concept notes. In countries that are eligible for Global Fund funding, UNDP support is available to strengthen legal and policy enabling environments, which include laws, regulations, policies and law enforcement practices, as well as human rights and gender-sensitive programming.
Strategic objective: Increasing focus on, and support to, Capacity Development:
Capacity development is an integral part of the Global Fund partnership, with UNDP providing an essential service to National Programs for the three diseases, current, nominated and prospective national Principal Recipients and Sub Recipients to strengthen their capacity to implement Global Fund grants. This work is highly specialized and closely linked to the specificities of Global Fund requirements, as well as to the unique challenges of health systems strengthening (HSS) and drug procurement and supply chain management. It also contributes to improved effectiveness of management of the national disease responses through increased coordination of national stakeholders and development partners, and overall strengthening of management of both domestic and international funding sources. The introduction of the minimum capacity requirements for PRs and CCMs as part of the NFM application process, provides a greater focus and clarity on capacity development.
UNDP Global Fund Capacity Development Toolkit:
The Capacity Development Toolkit http://www.undp-globalfund-capacitydevelopment.org/ provides a platform to further respond to the growing opportunities to strengthen national disease responses for HIV, TB and Malaria.
Innovative communication of results:
Part of the next phase of development of the Capacity Development Toolkit will be placing a greater emphasis on the innovative communication of results to Key Affected Populations (KAPs). This will include the design and prototyping, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and urban areas in LDCs in Asia. This will enhance KAPs monitoring and providing feedback on the results which is used to inform and help mobilize KAPs and to raise awareness of the role and value of innovation.
The innovative communication of the UNDP / Global Fund Portfolio results will enable end users to monitor and provide feedback on the communication of results and reach out to those who have not traditionally been involved in the development process. The innovative work will utilize the existing UNDP CD Toolkit and related social media.
Zambia:
Over the last decade, Zambia has made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria, with the support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and other major donors. The country has strengthened its health systems and access to care and treatment has been provided to many Zambians. By the end of 2013, more than 580,000 people of which 49,419 are children had access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), with the result that HIV incidence has fallen 25 per cent and AIDS deaths have fallen by more than half.
Zambia has achieved universal coverage of TB - DOTS and the MDG target of halting and beginning to reverse the TB epidemic by 2015. The TB case detection rate is above 80 per cent and nearly 90 per cent of the 30,000 TB cases in Zambia in 2012 were successfully treated.
Access to malaria prevention and treatment is expanding, and an ambitious mass distribution of bed nets is underway nationwide in 2014.
The country’s progress is all the more remarkable for having been achieved in the face of chronic capacity constraints, in health infrastructure, governance, financial management, procurement and monitoring and evaluation. The planned video clips will examine the response to the three diseases in Zambia from the time the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) assumed the role of interim Principal Recipient (PR) of Global Fund grants in 2010, and focuses on the major effort undertaken over two years to strengthen national capacity in key functional areas so that the Zambian Ministry of Health may eventually reassume the PR role, subject to an assessment and decision by the Global Fund on the transition of the PR.
Duties and Responsibilities
Objective of the assignment:
The overall objective of the assignment is:
To plan, shoot and edit a series of four short high quality video clips each approximately 3 minutes in length, suitable for use on social media, that communicate the innovative activities and results of four main elements of the Global Fund grants from the last four years during which UNDP has been interim Principal Recipient working closely with Ministry of Health and Medical Stores Ltd and other partners.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Under the overall supervision of the Senior Capacity Development Adviser, the Consultant will be responsible for:
Video Clip Production:
To work with the Zambia UNDP Program Manager of the Global Fund Grants and the Senior Capacity Development Advisor to;
Pre-production – Meetings; creative briefing, discussing video ideas; travel planning; organizing shoot logistics; connecting with partners on the ground; identifying stories and subjects. 4 days home-based.
Production - Shooting video on location in two locations Lusaka and a second more rural location approximately 4 hours’ drive from Lusaka. 7 Days in country commencing 13 October 2014.
Post-production - Storage devices for footage; Transcription of interviews; Post shoot briefing story discussion; Script Writing and script revisions; Music selection + royalty licenses; Video Editing +2 Additional Revisions; Graphics, titles/logos/info-graphics. 14 Days home based.
Specific Deliverables - Four completed video clips average length 3 minutes on the following subject areas;
- Video Clip - Integrated Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) & Antiretroviral therapy (ART) Option B+, in which all pregnant women living with HIV are offered life-long ART, regardless of their CD4 count.
- Video Clip - National Malaria Program, insecticide treated bed nets (ITN) distribution campaign.
- Video Clip - Strengthening the supply chain managed by Medical Stores Limited for HIV, TB and Malaria medicines from the central store to the health facilities.
- Video Clip - Progress towards universal coverage of Antiretroviral therapy (ART) in line with WHO guidelines.
The delivery dates of the completed four videos are one a week starting the 7 November 2014.
Expected Outputs:
Four high quality video clips
- The design, shooting and post production to deliver four quality video clips that communicate the innovative activities and results of the Global Fund programs in Zambia over the last four period whilst UNDP acted as the Interim PR. Where possible the video clips should capture innovative approaches and support the communication of results to Key Affected Populations including People Living with HIV.
Reporting:
Based on a short work plan produced and agreed with the Senior Capacity Development Advisor in the first 2 weeks of the contract.
A completion report will be prepared and submitted by the consultant for approval and submitted to the Senior Capacity Development Advisor for approval by the end of the contract.
Travel:
The consultant is expected to undertake the following travel during the assignment:
- 7 days travel to Lusaka, Zambia, starting 13th October 2014. Also travel to a rural location approximately 4 hours’ drive from Lusaka – UNDP to provide transport.
All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.
In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
Evaluation:
Applicants will be screened against qualifications and competencies specified below through a desk review or interview processS. Applicants will be evaluated based on a cumulative analysis based on a combination of the Technical and Financial Scores.
Technical Evaluation Criteria: 70%
Financial Evaluation Criteria: 30%
Payment Method:
All inclusive daily fee and lump sum for travel to Zambia.
Competencies
Organizational Competencies:
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP.
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
Functional:
- Strong analytical, negotiation and communication skills, including ability to produce high quality practical advisory reports and knowledge products,
- Professional and/or academic experience in one or more of the areas of the Development or knowledge management field.
Project and Resource Management:
- Ability to produce high quality outputs in a timely manner while understanding and anticipating the evolving client needs.
- Ability to focus on impact and results for the client, promoting and demonstrating an ethic of client service.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently, produce high quality outputs.
- Sound judgment, strategic thinking and the ability to manage competing priorities.
Partnership building and team work:
- Excellent negotiating and networking skills.
- Demonstrated flexibility to excel in a multi-cultural environment.
Communications and Advocacy:
- Strong ability to write clearly and convincingly, adapting style and content to different audiences and speak clearly and convincingly;
- Strong presentation skills in meetings with the ability to adapt for different audiences;
- Strong analytical, research and writing skills with demonstrated ability to think strategically;
- Strong capacity to communicate clearly and quickly;
- Strong inter-personal, negotiation and liaison skills.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
A recognized degree in social sciences, communication, media, development or a related subject
Experience:
- Five years’ experience in designing, shooting and producing video content ideally including experience in a development context.
- Five years' experience in working in communications and media.
Language:
- Written and verbal fluency in English is essential.
Guidelines for application
Filled P11 form including past experience in similar projects and contact details of references (blank form can be downloaded from http://europeandcis.undp.org/files/hrforms/P11_modified_for_SCs_and_ICs.doc); please upload this P11 instead of your CV.
Financial Proposal* - specifying a daily rate in USD and, a lump sum for round-trip travel costs to Zambia to include living costs. Please provide your financial proposal in USD (Mandatory)
Please note that the financial proposal is all-inclusive and shall take into account various expenses incurred by the consultant/contractor during the contract period (e.g. rent of dwelling, fee, health insurance, vaccination, visa costs and any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services...). All envisaged costs (except of the unforeseen travel costs for missions, if any) must be included in the financial proposal. Unforeseen travel costs for missions, if any, will be paid separately according to UNDP rules and regulations.
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please make sure you have provided all requested materials.
Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged to apply.
Due to large number of applications we receive, we are able to inform only the shortlisted candidates about the outcome or status of the selection process.
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
Annex 1- Individual Consultant General Terms and Conditions is provided here: http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/documents/procurement/documents/IC%20-%20General%20Conditions.pdf.