Background

Background:

The Government of KP has adopted a multi-year Accelerated Implementation Program (AIP), 2019-2022, to address the key developmental gaps in the Merged Areas (MA), erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). AIP is the first three-year program under the Tribal Decade Strategy (TDS) of the government that seeks to address developmental disparity of the MA and bring these areas at par with other areas of Pakistan.

Duties and Responsibilities

The TDS, with detailed discussion of the development challenges and issue of the MA is available on the following link:

http://bit.ly/TDSKPMA

The Draft Accelerated Implementation Programme is available on the following link:

http://bit.ly/AIPKPMA

UNDP is implementing its FATA Governance Project (FGP) as key partner in the process of erstwhile FATA development. FGP seeks to support AIP implementation through technical assistance in the areas of project formulation, context specific innovations in service delivery systems, results oriented programming, data collection and analysis to contribute to development of locally feasible solutions. In this endeavor, the services of the following specialist(s) are required:

1. Duties and Responsibilities

1. Review the relevant literature including reports on small enterprises in MA and KP and study the departmental and sectoral data of KP;

b)Carry out review of international development practices in the subject area relevant to developing countries and prepare proposals for short and medium term interventions in the sector;

c)Carry out discussions with Government and UNDP local teams to finalize area and focus of intervention(s) linked to priority developmental objectives in the sector;

d)Develop a preliminary proposal of innovative and problem driven intervention(s) to address the agreed key developmental priorities in the AIP sector;

e)Participate and assist in detailed design of the intervention(s) with implementation notes and instructions;

f)Develop scheme of data collection and periodic reviews;

g)Develop data collection instruments, instruction manual, variable definitions and sample calculations;

h)Carry out data analysis and contribute to evidence based program development in the sector through a report/paper on the intervention(s); and

i)Present the analysis and results to stakeholders.

1. Deliverables, Scope and Schedule of Payments

Please go the following link for the UNDP General Conditions of Contract for Individual Consultants:  http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_file.cfm?doc_id=7879

Individual Consultants are responsible for ensuring they have vaccinations/inoculations when traveling to certain countries, as designated by the UN Medical Director. Consultants are also required to comply with the UN security directives as set forth by the United Nations Department of Safety and Security.

Copyright

The above assignment will have UNDP and governance department sole ownership and copyright.

1. Institutional Arrangement and Duty Station:

Supervisor: Chief Technical Specialist

Day to day management: Lead Economic Advisor

Duty Station: The consultant will work from home, and travel to Islamabad/Peshawar as and when required in mutual agreement of both parties.  

Competencies

Competencies

Innovation - Ability to make new and useful ideas work.

Level 6: Exercises stakeholder-centered design approaches for office / programme / division.

Leadership - Ability to persuade others to follow.

Level 6: Ensures teams are resourced for success  and empowered to deliver.

People Management - Ability to improve performance and satisfaction.

Level 6: Guides substantive specialists / teams and expands credibility and innovation capacity.

Communication - Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform.

Level 6: Creates confidence among stakeholders by delivering authoritative positions, compelling analysis, and contextual acumen.

Required Skills and Experience

Submission Instructions:

Following documents should be uploded in one word or PDF file:

2- Writing samples

3-Updated CV with details of experience.

Important Note: Only tecnicaly qualified candidates will be contacted to submit their financial proposal. 

If you request additional information, please write to pakistan.procurement.info@undp.org. The team will provide necessary information within due date. 

1. EVALUATION PROCESS

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis methodology (weighted scoring method), where 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 technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

Technical Criteria weight: 70%

Financial Criteria weight:  30%

Only Consultants obtaining a minimum of 70% on the Technical evaluation will be considered for the Financial Evaluation.