Antecedentes
A team of four consultants will be hired to provide expert inputs to the various parts of the wider assignment of developing the policy paper on the options for future form of government and decentralisation in Yemen. The consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Policy Specialist and in close coordination with the rest of the team and under overall guidance and supervision of the LSGP Project Manager and MOLA.
Deberes y responsabilidades
The goal of this assignment is to carry out an analysis of the available policy options for the future form of government in Yemen to form the basis for the Government vision paper designed to inform discussions and decision-making in the Conference for National Dialogue and the Constitutional Commission.
The objectives of this consultation include:
- Improve the understanding of national stakeholders about the main forms of political regimes and decentralization systems, their advantages and disadvantages and the practical experiences of their application in various country contexts;
- Provide analysis of the main forms of government in the Yemeni context, including division of legislative, executive and judiciary responsibilities between various layers of government, issues of political representation at the national level and fiscal decentralization; the advantages and disadvantages of these options in terms of political, economic and social implications, including maintaining the status quo;
- Identify the actions required for implementation of each option together with an approximate timeline in keeping with the framework for the transition period and estimate approximate budget requirements for each policy option.
Each objective should build on the previous one and all of them should be implemented in a mutually dependent and complementary manner.
The team leader is specifically responsible for:
- Designing the methodology for this policy paper;
- Leading and coordinating the efforts of a multi-disciplinary team of experts in accordance with the approved methodology and the specified timeline;
- Drafting the relevant sections of the report, specifically an analysis of the main forms of government focusing on the allocation of legislative, administrative and judicial powers between various layers of government (a unitary state, including various gradations of decentralization; federation, including an asymmetric federation, and confederation); their advantages and disadvantages; how these forms of government are applied in different country contexts as well as positive and negative examples of actual functioning of these governments in various countries;
- Quality control of the inputs provided by other expert team members and their integration into the final draft of the study;
- Finalizing presentation materials summarizing and explaining the main findings and recommendations of the study for sharing with stakeholders.
Competencias
- An excellent knowledge and understanding of the functioning of various systems of government as well as decentralization and local governance issues specifically;
- Familiarity with the Yemeni context, particularly the main challenges in governance;
- Excellent writing skills; ability to express complex political and governance issues in a clear, comprehensive and instructive manner in writing;
- Excellent research and analytical skills;
- Ability to lead and coordinate a multi-disciplinary team of experts;
- Good IT literacy, including word processing, use of database information, and the Internet.
Habilidades y experiencia requeridas
- Master’s Degree in Political Science, International Relations, Constitutional Law, Public Administration, or similar;
- An advanced degree would be an asset.