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International Consultant Legal Analysis for Investments and PPPs Lao PDR (Re-advertise) | |
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Location : | Vientiane, LAO PDR |
Application Deadline : | 05-Jun-22 (Midnight New York, USA) |
Additional Category : | Management |
Type of Contract : | Individual Contract |
Post Level : | International Consultant |
Languages Required : | |
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) | 15-Jun-2022 |
Duration of Initial Contract : | 2 months |
Expected Duration of Assignment : | June - August 2022 |
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. 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. |
Background |
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UNCDF is the United Nations capital investment agency for the world’s 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 transformational impact in helping to reach the last mile and address exclusion and inequalities of access, UNCDF contributes to a number of different SDGs; UNCDF are currently implementing a project in Lao PDR financed under the UNJP SDG Fund that is supporting the development of the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) for Lao PDR. The project Efficiency and Optimization of Lao PDR’s Public Budget to Finance the SDGs Through the National Plan provides the technical framework for the mission as a diagnostic exercise to inform the financing strategy of the current implications and requirements for domestic and foreign direct investments into the Lao economy
NOTE: Individuals from Legal firms and lawyers specializing in investments and project advisory including legal structuring and financing being registered and practicing in Lao PDR are encouraged to apply OBJECTIVE UNCDF Local Transformative Finance (LTF) practice works to unlock regional and domestic capital to finance productive infrastructures at sub national level and within municipal territories that compliment and support the national development projects and the 9th National Socio-Economic Development Plan. UNCDF’s advisory and financial instruments are ankle to be deployed to originate, financially close and implement economically feasible projects that can be developed solely by the private sector or local governments or via public private partnerships.
The objective of the mission is to develop and provide a technical report that updates a previously UNCDF commissioned study to determine the legal base and its current status of promulgation and implementation associated with national and sub national investments and FDI. Within this context, the technical review needs cover: -
The study should be a maximum of 20 pages with reference materials being provided within an annex and be accompanied with an electronic presentation.
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Duties and Responsibilities |
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The legal review documentation and associated PowerPoint that forms the output of the consultancy will assist to UNCDF to develop key “knowledge products” to facilitate infrastructure investment decisions in emerging economies, thereby serving the needs of the project whilst complimenting other key areas of UNCDF global work and corporate development. Working under the direct supervision of the LTF Regional Technical Advisor for Asia based in Bangkok, the consultant will be responsible for providing high quality legal review study for Lao PDR covering key areas as described above (Section III). The review will specifically answer the following questions;
The formulation of the review will be approached in 4 stages as described. The finalised content and legal references will be agreed in writing at the end the 1st week of the assignment with the RTA Bangkok.
The UNCDF Regional Technical Adviser (RTA) based in Bangkok, will be the contact point for the mission, providing necessary management support, guidance, and over-sight of the mission. The RTA Unit will be responsible for reviewing intermediate and final products and providing approvals for payment based upon the deliverables under VI. The consultant will deliver the following within the framework of the mission:
All reports and documents to be submitted in English
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