UN WOMEN Jobs - 73825- National Consultant for Extension fo the Plan for

National Consultant for Extension fo the Plan for National Statistical Development (PNSD-II)

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Kampala,, UGANDA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

01-Sep-2017

Application Deadline :

18-Aug-17 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

60 days

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

60 days

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

UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality are translated into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts while building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics is mandated by the UBOS Act, 1998, to develop and maintain the National Statistical System (NSS), and is charged with the responsibility for coordinating, monitoring and supervising the NSS. The Bureau is guided by a five-year strategic Plan, and in collaboration with selected Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as Higher Local Governments (HLGs) executes the Plan for National Statistical Development (PNSD) to deliver its mandate. The PNSD provides a framework and mechanisms for further reform of the NSS.? It emphasizes the acceleration of statistical capacity development for data production and use in the country.? Its design was anchored on the National Development Plan (NDP I) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and, the framework underscored the Post 2015 Development Agenda.? It operates within the global, regional and national development frameworks.

The current UBOS regular programmes account for over 95 percent of the NDP II data requirements. However, the UBOS strategy and PNSD II (2013-14/2017-18) are not aligned to the timeframe of the NDP II, and the evolving regional and international statistical and development frameworks. The mission of the NSS (PNSD) is “to promote evidence-based policy, planning, decision-making, good governance and accountability, monitoring, evaluation and reporting at all levels by providing coherent, reliable, efficient and demand-driven statistical data, information and services”.?

The PNSD Goals

i) Goal 1: Increase demand for and usability of statistics.

ii) Goal 2: Improve data production and management.

iii) Goal 3: Enhance data quality assurance.

iv) Goal 4: Improve statistical coordination and management.

v) Goal 5: Strengthen human resource management and development in statistical production and dissemination.

To date, 31 MDAs and 56 HLGs have been supported to design Strategic Plans for Statistics (SPSs), some of which are being implemented since July 2013. The PNSD II expires in FY2017/18, and a Mid Term Review (MTR) of the PNSD II was undertaken in 2016. In addition, a number of assessment? studies have been undertaken that will inform the extension of the PNSD.

Rationale

The PNSD II implementation has increased the appreciation of statistics in meeting user needs for planning, measuring performance and reporting.? However, the PNSD midterm review findings and emerging development frameworks including the NDP II, Global Strategy for improving Agriculture Statistics, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among others present data requirements that may not be met by the current PNSD strategies.? The Mid Term Review recommendations underlined an extension of the PNSD II implementation period for two more years (FY2018/19 to 2019/2020) to address the incomplete activities and emerging issues. The PNSD extension will also provide an opportunity for alignment of the PNSD II to the NDP II timeframe.

Further, there is need to undertake consultations with key stakeholders and the respective MDAs/LGs to inform the PNSD III design. UBOS is seeking for experienced, knowledgeable and committed individuals with the right attitude to support the PNSD (MDA/LG SPSs) update considering the MTR findings and the changing development frameworks.?

Duties and Responsibilities

Objectives

The overall objective is to extend the PNSD II implementation period by two years (2018/19-2019/2020) and, design the PNSD III (2020/21-2024/25).

Specific Objectives:

Specific Objective 1

Review the PNSD II mid term report and current status of implementation to develop a plan of action aligned to the NDP II and SDG requirements for FY2018-19/2019-20.

Tasks

a) Review the PNSD II MTR.

b) Review the status of implementation of the PNSD II.

c) Review assessment reports and identify proposed action areas to be included in the proposed PNSD

d) Define the requirements of the extended PNSD II.

e) Align the requirements of the PNSD II extension to the NDP II timeframe and related regional and international frameworks.

f) Develop a two year plan of action for the PNSD II aligned to the NDP II.

In addition, special attention should be given to the following issues from the PNSD II MTR;

i. PNSD critical areas for reforms in the NSS.

ii.Improvement of key policy, legislative, and institutional reforms for advocacy, dissemination,

iii. Coordination of surveys and rollout of statistics standards and quality assurance frameworks.

iv. The long term integrated census and survey program

v. Improvement of administrative data in MDAs & HLGs.

vi. Investments in the ICT to support statistics.

g) Integration of MDAs / HLGs into the PNSD.

h) Mechanisms for development of PNSD III - priorities, strategies, actions and financing.

Specific Objective 2

Design the PNSD III for the period 2020/21 to 2025/26 (2021-2026).

The PNSD update process will involve a review and design of Sector/LG SPS long-term plans with realistic implementation arrangements taking into account;

i. Costed priority actions sequenced over 10 years including actions for addressing sex disaggregated data;

ii. Human Resource capacity development strategy.

iii. Resource mobilisation strategy.

iv. ICT Infrastructure development strategy

v. Monitoring and evaluation framework

Tasks

The tasks will involve

1. Assessment of;

i. National, sub regional, regional and international development frameworks affecting statistics in the NSS.

ii. Data production and use of statistics [systems, statistics, indicators, quality and gaps];

iii. Stakeholder analysis and data needs

iv. prioritization of existing and emerging data demands,

v. Skills and HR capacity for statistics;

vi. Coordination and institutional arrangements

vii. Development Partner engagements with respect to statistics in line Ministries;

2. Conduct stakeholder consultations and validation of findings from (No. 1) at sectors and HLGs level.

3. Design Sector and HLG SPSs as building blocks of the PNSD III.

4. Consolidate PNSD III with findings from (No. 3)

Methodology:

The PNSD II extension and design of the PNSD III will be informed by previous works and ongoing activities.? Particular attention will be focused on the theory of change which will demonstrate the impact of statistical development and use for policy, planning and decision making.

The methods will be determined by the consultants, but are expected to involve desk-based review of the following documents;

The following documents will be availed to facilitate the assessment.

1. PNSD I, II and SPSs documents

2. Mid Term Review Report

3. ToRs for formulation of the PNSD II

4. SDG framework

5. M&E Framework I & II

6. Vision 2040

7. NDP I & II

8. National M&E Policy

9. Regional Reference Framework

10. Africa Agenda 2063

11. EAC Vision 2050

12. PNSD I & II Midterm Assessment report

13. IAC and Monitoring reports

14. PNSD Evaluation report

15. Producer-User reports

16. Steering Committee Reports etc.

Reporting

Under the overall guidance and support of UN Women, the lead National consultant working on the PNSD shall report jointly to the Executive Director.? Principally, to the UBOS Director Statistical Coordination Services, and routinely work in consultation with the Principal Officer, Statistical Coordination Services. The lead consultant will work closely with the other consultants on the team on this assignment.? Regular communication between the lead consultants, UBOS and MDAs/HLGs will be essential.

The existing statistics committees will mobilize technical staff from the respective MDAs and HLGs.? They will facilitate the review processes and provide necessary support to the consultant/s.

The draft report will be reviewed and validated by members of the Inter Agency Committee (IAC), the National Standards indicator core team, UBOS Management and the PNSD Steering Committee.

The final report will be submitted to the Executive Director, UBOS.

The hired consultant will work with a team of three consultants as follows:

National Consultant for Higher Local Governments (30 days)

National Consultant for the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (30 days)

National Consultant for UBOS (30 days)

Their specific roles and responsibilities should be described and included as part of the submission.

The lead consultant is responsible for the final output of this assignment, including engaging the national consultants for Higher Local Governments, Ministries, Departments and Agencies.? ?He/She will be accountable to UN Women to ensure that the team composition as proposed is maintained for the entire period of the? consultancy.

Scope of the Assignment:

The process will focus on analysis of the internal and external environment for statistics, the theory of change and value for money relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the PNSD and NSS, taking account of the NDP II, SDGs and related framework. It will also provide insights and strategies for enhancing harmonization, coordination, and compliance to statistical standards across the NSS for improved quality, credibility and use of statistics at different levels of the individual LGs, sectors and NSS in general.

The assignment will cover all implementing PNSD MDAs and HLGs that have developed SPSs, Users (key government oversight agencies – MoFPED, OPM, NPA and MoLG; and the MDAs and LGs, key data providers, Private Sector, Civil Society and Development Partners (DFID, UNWomen, World Bank, UNICEF, UNFPA among others).?

The entire period of this consultancy will last 60 working days.?

An inception report detailing understanding of the ToRs, methodology, work schedule and expected outputs will be produced and submitted for discussion prior to actual implementation of the assignment.

The update process will be consultative and inclusive covering all MDAs and LGs under the PNSD framework.? The consultant will undertake consultative meetings.

Workshops and meetings will be adopted as platforms for discussing, reviewing and generating consensus on findings for both MDAs and LGs to enhance quality of inputs in the strategic documents. The consultant will submit a brief progress report on field and data collection activities and training of data collectors.

Relevant documentation

Deliverables:

With support from overall guidance of UN Women and direct supervision from UBOS , the consultant will remain responsible for the entire process of updating the PNSD ?maintaining the highest level ethical standards and quality for producing the final product and will be responsible for the following deliverables:

Deliverables	Number of days
1. An inception report detailing approach/methodology, work plan and schedule	5
2. 2-5 year sequenced strategic plans for statistics for each line Ministry, Department or Agency and LG under the PNSD framework with the following; i) Situation analysis, strategic framework and costed workplan ii) Prioritised data production schedule with key outcome indicator framework iii) A realistic comprehensive and prioritised training program to address statistical, analytical and reporting and other capacity gaps (2-7 years) iv) Monitoring and Evaluation and Reporting Framework	25
3. Updated PNSD documents as an outcome of all the participating sectors (MDAs) as follows; i) Draft PNSD Extension Report (2018/19-2019/20) with the MDA & HLGs SPSs ii) Final PNSD Extension Strategy with the MDA & HLGs SPSs iii) Draft PNSD III Strategic Plans (2020/21-2026) with the MDA & HLGs SPSs iv) Final Draft PNSD III Strategic Plans with the MDA & HLGs SPSs	30

Competencies

CORE VALUES / GUIDING PRINCIPLES

•Integrity: Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

•Professionalism: Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

•Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity: Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

CORE COMPETENCIES

•Ethics and Values: Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity

•Organizational Awareness: Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment

• Work in teams: Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

•Communicating and Information Sharing: Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication

•Self-management and Emotional Intelligence: Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behaviour towards others.

•Conflict Management: Surface conflicts and address them proactively acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually acceptable solution.

•Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

•Excellent analytical, editing and writing skills demonstrating complete fluency in English language;

•Demonstrated accuracy and attention to detail;

•Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and work well with diverse and multicultural supervisors and staff members;

•Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.

•Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.

•Focuses on impact and result for the partners and responds positively to feedback.

Required Skills and Experience

Lead Consultant

Education:

Master's or advanced degree in one or more of the following disciplines:public administration, Management studies, Social Sciences, Development Studies. PHD Public Administration/Management Studies and added advantage
Relevant Training - Strategic Planning and Management.

Experience

Knowledge and experience in Strategic Planning and Management and Human Resource Development.
Knowledge and experience in the formulation Monitoring and evaluation of the statistical Plans, familiarity with the development.
M&E of Uganda’s Statistical Systems, NDP and SDG framework, and government Policy frameworks.
Knowledge and experience in related areas with government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, and the decentralized framework of government, national and international development indicators.
Overall work commitments and availability;
current/pending projects and responsibilities.
Methodology and Work plan.
Exposure in working with UN, International Donors and development agencies.

Consultants team:

i)Relevant Training - Strategic Planning and Management

Language:

Fluency in English is required and knowledge of one the local languages is an asset.

Roles/Responsibilities of the consultants for MDAs, HLGs and UBOS

Under the overall guidance of the Lead Consultant, the consultants (s) will be responsible for the following key functions:

Qualifications/Education of the other consultant(s)

Master’s Degree in Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Economics, Demography, Public Administration/Management studies.

Experience:

i)Knowledge and experience in Strategic Planning and Management and Human Resource Development.

ii)Knowledge and experience in the formulation Monitoring and evaluation of the statistical Plans, familiarity with the development. M&E of Uganda’s Statistical Systems, NDP and SDG framework, and government Policy frameworks.

iii)Knowledge and experience in related areas with government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, and the decentralized framework of government, national and international development indicators.

iv)Overall work commitments and availability; current/pending projects and responsibilities

Language Requirements of the consultants for MDA(s):

·Proficiency in English,

Evaluation of applicants Candidates will be selected on the basis of cumulative analysis of:

• Technical Qualification(100 points) weight [70%]

• Financial/Price Proposal (100 points) weight [30%]

A two-stage procedure will be utilised in evaluating the proposals, with evaluation of the technical proposal being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 70 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

Technical Qualification evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the offer or/individual is evaluated based on following:

	Technical Evaluation Criteria	Obtainable Score
1.	Demonstrated understanding of the objectives and completeness of the assignment. This section should not merely be a replication of the TORs.	30
2.	Methodology and implementation plan: a.Details and quality (adequacy) of methodology proposed for the assignment. The methodology should incorporate human rights and gender equality perspectives. b.Detailed implementation plan indicating the timeframe c.Detailed description of the proposed team, and specific roles on the consultancy;	30
3.	Qualification and experience of Lead consultant: Education: a.Master's or advanced degree in one or more of the following disciplines: Public Administration, Management studies, Social Sciences, Development Studies. PHD Public Administration/Management Studies and added advantage Experience b.Relevant Training - Strategic Planning and Management. c.Experience in statistical planning. d.Knowledge and experience in Strategic Planning and Management, and Human Resource Development. e.Knowledge and experience in the formulation Monitoring and evaluation of the statistical Plans, familiarity with the development. M&E of Uganda’s Statistical Systems, NDP and SDG framework, and government Policy frameworks. f.Knowledge and experience in related areas with government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, and the decentralized framework of government, national and international development indicators. g.Overall work commitments and availability; current/pending projects and responsibilities. Methodology and Work plan. h.Exposure in working with UN, International Donors and development agencies	20
4.	Qualifications/Education of the other consultant(s) i.Master’s Degree in Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Economics, Demography, Public Administration/Management studies. Experience: i.Knowledge and experience in Strategic Planning and Management and Human Resource Development. ii.Knowledge and experience in the formulation Monitoring and evaluation of the statistical Plans, familiarity with the development. M&E of Uganda’s Statistical Systems, NDP and SDG framework, and government Policy frameworks. iii.Knowledge and experience in related areas with government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, and the decentralized framework of government, national and international development indicators. iv.Overall work commitments and availability; current/pending projects and responsibilities	20
Total points		100

Financial Proposal review criteria:

The financial proposal will be reviewed according to the following criteria:

·The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.

·The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

NOTE: The financial proposal should clearly and separately indicate the cost in UGX of conducting the assignment.

Application procedure:

Interested Consultants are required to upload an electronic application in one single PDF on the jobs website not later than 20th August 2017. The application should include the following documents/information:

Letter of interest (using the template provided by UNDP (Annex II); http://www.ug.undp.org/content/uganda/en/home/operations/procurement.html) containing the statement on candidate’s experience in the field of recruitment.

·A technical proposal clearly detailing the methodology, work plan and time lines (should be a maximum of 10 pages excluding annexes).

·A financial proposal. The detailed financial proposal shall specify daily professional fees in Uganda Shillings (UGX)for both the Lead consultant (60 days ) and the consultants' team (MDAs, HLGs and UBOS (30 days).

· A completed Personal History Form - P11” which can be downloaded fromhttp://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employmentindicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the candidate and at least three professional references and links to edited documents, publications in the areas of focus as a requirement for the process.

·Signed CVs of the proposed three National Consultants for the MDAs, HLGS and UBOS.