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Individual Consultant to Assist in the Development of Suitable Legal, Regulatory and policy environment for WIIin Sudan | |
Location : | Khartoum, SUDAN |
Application Deadline : | 22-Jul-18 (Midnight New York, USA) |
Additional Category : | Climate & Disaster Resilience |
Type of Contract : | Individual Contract |
Post Level : | International Consultant |
Languages Required : | English |
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) | 01-Aug-2018 |
Duration of Initial Contract : | 30 working days |
Expected Duration of Assignment : | 30 working 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. |
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UNDP Sudan developed a country programme for 2018-21 with the aim to promote democratic governance and rule of law, community stabilization, addressing vulnerability to climate change and promoting equitable access to basic services in consultation with the development partners. UNDP supports its technical assistance in the area of adaption to climate change, renewable energy, employment creation and equitable access to natural resources in rural areas under the Sustainable Livelihood Unit. The unit focuses on strengthening capacities at local, regional and national level to manage and utilize natural resources in a sustainable way, to enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to long-term climate change including variability impacts and to reduce the associated risk of natural disasters. One of the ongoing projects under climate change adaptation portfolio is Climate Risk Finance project (2014-18) and the fund was provided by the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF). The aim of the project is to avail financial services are available to the high-risk population to provide them capital for resilience-building activities by supporting the development of a range of financial mechanisms to incentivize investments in climate change adaptation and risk reduction measures in six vulnerable agro-ecological regions of Sudan. Project Component 2 will focus on developing index insurance for climate risk management in the states of high rainfall variability where certain residual risks remain, even after adaptation measures are adopted (e.g., LDCF1 project). In 2017, the project developed Sudan’s first Weather Index Insurance products, which are strategically combined with microfinance services supporting adaptation-oriented agricultural and livestock practices. To ensure sustainability with these tasks, LDCF will be used for the creation of regulatory policy document to set out the types of Sharia-compliant products and include a robust dispute resolution process. To do so, the legal and regulatory framework for risk transfer must be analysed so that policies can be adapted, and reinsurance secured. Policies also need to be revised so that clear compensation criteria can be developed based on best practices to monitor and validate weather indices in each state. At the same time, regulators and policy makers should be trained, to develop a suitable legal, regulatory and policy environment for WII and on the created regulatory policy document that they can implement the regulatory scheme for WII in Sudan.
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The objective of this assignment is to support the Government of Sudan to develop an agriculture insurance market for the benefit of agriculture sector which contributes significantly to the GDP. This will also contribute to increasing resilience of the players in the agricultural insurance value chain creating sustainability and thereby agriculture development. The assignment also aims to draft proposed regulation and guidelines to cover the various phases of an evolving agriculture insurance market from the inception stage to the scale up phases. Development of partnerships with projects which can facilitate the link between micro-finance and micro-insurance and savings and with partners who can facilitate outreach to small farmers and pastoralists. For the agriculture insurance market to be successful, it has to include the public sector and also make financial/commercial sense to the private sector, the International Consultant is expected to prepare a regulatory policy document for WII that will attract participation of the private sector. The legal and regulatory framework for risk transfer need to be analyzed so that policies can be adapted, and reinsurance secured. Policies must also be revised so that clear compensation criteria can be developed based on best practices to monitor and validate weather indices in each state. The International Consultant will be responsible for completing the following tasks over a period of 30 working days spread over a period starting the second week of August 2018. The work of the Consultant will be divided into two related and parallel activities, namely:
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