Background

The UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDP’s Global Policy Centre for policy development and applied research with an overarching focus on democratic governance and peacebuilding in crisis, conflict and transitional contexts. The Oslo Governance Centre sits within the Governance and Peacebuilding Cluster, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support. It engages with Norwegian, Nordic and other partners from the South in undertaking applied research and developing policy options and tools for governance support in post-crisis and post-conflict environments, in order to find practical solutions on the ground. One of the four priority areas for the OGC is UNDP’s support to the implementation and monitoring of Goal 16 of the SDGs – promoting peaceful, just and inclusive societies.  UNDP is the interim custodian agency for three global SDG 16 indicators that lack an internationally agree standard for measuring, two of which are based on population surveys (SDG 16.6.2 & 16.7.2).  SDG indicator 16.7.2 is analogous to measuring levels of ‘political efficacy’ (i.e. people’s feeling that their political views can impact on political processes), a well-established concept in political science, and recently chosen by the OECD as a ‘headline indicator’ of civic engagement and governance, alongside voter turnout. International consultations held by UNDP have proposed that the indicator be measured with two survey questions from the European Social Survey and the World Values Survey, namely one question measuring ‘external efficacy’ (system responsiveness), “How much would you say the political system in [country] allows people like you to have a say in what the government does?”, and one question measuring ‘internal efficacy’ (subjective competence), “How confident are you in your own ability to participate in politics”?

Moreover, the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre is working with other UN custodian agencies for SDG 16 global indicators to develop and pilot in 2018 a survey module to monitor SDG 16 survey-based indicators, to be finalised in early 2019.  The aim is to develop a quality tool that will enable the collection of nationally representative and internationally comparable survey-based statistics for monitoring of progress on SDG 16.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will:

  • Provide technical assistance in the integration of list experiments in the methodology testing for SDG 16.7.2
  • Provide support to UNDP’s provision of technical assistance to NSOs participating in the piloting of SDG 16.7.2 including the development of guidelines
  • Provide technical support in the analysis of data
  • Contribute to the finalisation of the methodology for SDG 16.7.2
  • Support UNDP’s input into the development of the SDG 16 survey module, and provide technical support in the piloting of the various options developed for the module and accompanying guidelines, including also SDG 16.7.2
  • Participate in expert consultations with SDG 16 UN custodian agencies and other expert stakeholders, including members of the Praia City Group on Governance Statistics to finalise the module and guidelines.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

  • Direct experience with implementing list experiments for politically sensitive items
  • Direct experience with survey-based measures of governance in the context of SDG 16 
  • Experience in survey design, data collection and data analysis in political science
  • Knowledge and understanding of the UN’s work on SDG 16 indicators and statistics

Corporate Competencies:

  • Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
  • Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP, and partner organizations;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
  • Excellent understanding of international development issues and knowledge of the UN system.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Advanced degree in political science, statistics, or equivalent

Experience:

  • Expert knowledge and working experience with democracy/governance measurement and governance statistics;
  • Proven experience in conducting survey-based research and analysis
  • Experience from academia/think tank or developing programming environments;
  • UNDP experience is an asset.

Language:                    

  • Fluency in English, both written and oral;
  • Working knowledge of a second UN language is an asset.

 

 

Institutional Arrangements:

  • The Senior Research and Policy Advisor at the Oslo Governance Centre will supervise the consultancy, under the overall supervision of the Director.

 

Travel

Assignment is home based.

 

Application procedure

The application is a two-step process. Failing to comply with the submission process may result in disqualifying the applications.

Step 1: Submission of technical proposal. That will include providing application via UNDP Job-shop (jobs.undp.org )

Interested candidates should provide the following documents and information

  • Uploading a CV/P11 and a statement of interest indicating all past experience for similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the candidate and at least three (3) professional references (the template can be downloaded from this link: http://sas.undp.org/Documents/P11_Personal_history_form.doc;

 

  • A mandatory, brief description and justification (approx. 300-500 words) of the approach proposed to conduct the tasks required for this assignment, demonstrating how the applicant’s qualifications and experience will enable him/her to successfully deliver against the requirements of this assignment.

 

 

Step 2: Submission of Financial Proposals

Applicants are required to submit their financial proposals in US Dollars for this consultancy, using the financial proposal template available here: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_file.cfm?doc_id=45780   Please fill in section A I and II on p. 4. The total sum of I and II should be divided by 120 days to get the “all-inclusive daily fee” to be filled in on p. 1, e)

The proposals should be sent via email to oslo.governance.centre@undp.org with the following subject heading: “Financial Proposal Expert on Governance Statistics” by the application deadline. Proposals received after the deadline may be rejected. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal should be all-inclusive professional daily fee, and include a detailed breakdown of the cost. The term ‘all-inclusive’ implies that all costs (professional fees, assignment related travel expenses to join the duty station, communications, tax, utilities, consumables, insurance, etc.) that could possibly be incurred by the Contractor are already factored into the financial proposal.

Criteria for selection

Only those candidates who meet the minimum level of education and relevant years of experience requirements will be considered for the technical evaluation. The technical evaluation will include a desk review and may also include interviews with shortlisted candidates.

Combined scoring method – where the qualifications and methodology will be weighted a max of 70% and combined with the price offer which will be weighted a max of 30%.

Method: cumulative analysis method will be used to evaluate proposals.

When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

Responsive / compliant / acceptable; and
Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

Technical criteria weight: 70 (70% of total obtainable scores).

Financial criteria weight: 30 (30% of total obtainable scores)

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 (70%) points on technical part will be considered for the financial evaluation.

Criteria and scores for technical evaluation (total 70):

  • Direct experience with implementing list experiments for politically sensitive items (20 points)
  • Direct experience with survey-based measures of governance in the context of SDG 16  (15 points)
  • Experience in survey design, data collection and data analysis in political science (15 points)
  • Knowledge and understanding of the UN’s work on SDG 16 indicators and statistics (15 points)
  • Description and justification of the approach (5 points)

Criteria for financial evaluation (30 points maximum):

The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal:

p = y (µ/z), where

p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated

y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal:
µ=price of the lowest priced proposal:
z = price of the proposal being evaluated:

The award of contract will be made to the individual consultant who receives the highest combined score out of the weighted technical and financial criteria as specified above.

General Terms and Conditions_Individual Consultant (IC) http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/documents/procurement/documents/IC%20-%20General%20Conditions.pdf