Emplois au PNUD - 13668- Consultant: Decentralization and Urban Planning

Consultant: Decentralization and Urban Planning

Lieu :

Manama, BARHEÏN

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

10-Dec-2009

Date limite de candidature :

08-Dec-09 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

International Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

10 Working Days

Langues requises :

Arabe Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

Le PNUD s’engage à recruter un personnel divers en termes de genre, de nationalité et de culture. Nous encourageons de même les personnes issues des minorités ethniques, des communautés autochtones ou handicapées à postuler. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées dans la plus stricte confidentialité. Le PNUD ne tolère pas l’exploitation et / ou les atteintes sexuelles, ni aucune forme de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel, et / ou toutes formes de discrimination. Tous/tes les candidats/tes selectectionnes /ées devront ainsi se soumettre à de rigoureuses vérifications relatives aux références fournies ainsi qu’à leurs antécédents.

Historique

The Kingdom of Bahrain is undergoing a political reform process that is having a profound impact on the country and the region. An important part of this process is decentralizing governance systems and building capacity in the newly created Municipalities. The Urban Planning Department at the Ministry of Municipalities and Agricultural Affairs (MoMAA) is working in partnership with the Municipalities in this regard.

The Middle Area Municipality has a pilot project to combine 7 villages in the Sitra area into 1 administrative area with shared facilities. Hence there is a requirement for a consultant to gather information from all Stakeholders to analyse the current situation, plan and prioritise citizens and Municipality concerns through a participatory process to produce a Project Document to carry out this pilot, with the intention to replicate the process in other Municipalities of Bahrain.

The consultant required for this project must be highly competent on technical aspects of Decentralization and Urban Planning, as well as on effective and strategic management. The consultant will work in close collaboration with the Middle Area Municipality and the Ministry of Municipalities and Agricultural Affairs (MoMAA) to produce the Project Document

Devoirs et responsabilités

With the Middle Area Municipal Council, create a project document for the creation of 1 urban centre of Sitra from the current 7 villages, taking into consideration: the Kingdom’s Economic Vision 2030; the latest developments at the Middle Area Municipal Council; the Project Proposal by Space Syntax; the plan from the Urban Planning department of the Ministry of Municipalities and Agricultural Affairs (MoMAA)
Meet with: MoMAA; the Urban Planning department at MoMAA; the Middle Area Municipal Council and Executive Body; Major Stakeholders in the 7 villages; Citizens Groups (constituents)
Visit the municipality and listen to feedback from the Northern Municipality managers and their constituents on the newly formed “Coordination Council” which is a go-between player between the Ministries and all Municipal Councils
Highlight the concepts of community development, participatory approach mechanisms, social and environmental impact assessment of projects as well as Monitoring and Evaluation tools

Produce the Project Document as per UNDP project document template considering the following:

Developing a buffer zone between the industrial complex and the residential area
Allocating land for social services, such as schools, health centers, recreational area
The need to review the delivery of physical infrastructures, such as wastewater management. The needs extend to establishing a modality for solid waste management
Among the possible mechanisms for provision of public goods, such as solid waste management, is through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
Historic preservation and maintenance of the image of the settlement is also needed for preserving culture and identity
The action plan will evolve from the human rights based approach and from applying the principles of good governance: participation; be conducive to building partnerships; aiming to build consensus on issues and actions; effective and efficient; responsive and inclusive; transparent; accountable
The use of issue-specific working groups as the forum for discussion and decision-making. Hence will need to develop stakeholder analysis to see where the potential partnerships are and where interests conflict, in order to reach a win-win agreement
That the working groups modality is a means to assure ownership and responsibility
The activities within the action plan have to be phased according to priority, funds and to be subject to economic, financial, social and environmental impact assessment before implementation
The action plan will also include commitments from the various stakeholders, which will be legally binding to all partners
We need to examine bringing UNHABITAT on board in training the local cadres and the use of Islamic laws in land management and development at large to gain acceptability

Compétences

Has at least ten years work experience in his/her areas of specialization
Has at least ten years experience in working in developed and developing countries
Competent knowledge of both Arabic and English is essential
Must maintain confidentiality

Qualifications et expériences requises

Holds a Post Graduate Degree in Areas such as Governance, Decentralisation and Urban Planning