Background

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) in partnership with the Provincial Local Government Units (PLGUs) are implementing the Conditional Matching Grant to Provinces (CMGP) for Road Repair, Rehabilitation, and Improvement of Local Roads in 78 provinces. The Program has a total budget of P18.03 Billion for FY 2017 General Appropriations Act (GAA) under the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF). Aside from this, the DILG budget also has an allocation of P564.256 Million for FY 2017 intended to support the governance reform, quality assurance, and monitoring of road projects of the PLGUs. The Program addresses the underinvestment in local roads, and improvement of national-local roads connectivity to increase economic activity, and improve public access to facilities and services in the provinces. 

The Program, however, is not only a road engineering intervention, it is also a governance reform program in local roads management (LRM) and public financial management (PFM). Thus, in partnership with DILG, UNDP has launched a project “Paving the Roads to SDGs through Good Governance (Roads2SDGs)” which aims to provide support to the governance reform and quality assurance components of CMGP through the ‘Road to SDGs’ framework. This framework will anchor the prioritization, planning, design, implementation, and maintenance of infrastructure projects to the achievement of the SDGs, incorporating the elements of partnership building, climate change and disaster risk reduction, gender mainstreaming, and citizen participation for transparency and accountability.

The Governance Reform aspect to be covered by the Roads2SDGs aims to further enhance and strengthen the existing capacities, skills, processes and systems of PLGUs in LRM and PFM, among others, so that PLGUs themselves are able to more effectively plan, design, implement, and maintain their local roads network.

As the CMGP Program will be implemented nationwide for six years from 2017 to 2022, it is best to map out plans and strategies for the successful implementation and achievement of the targeted reforms and aligning them with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These reforms, guided by the SDGs, will be incorporated into a document that shall be called the Provincial Governance Reform Roadmap to the SDGs (PGRR2SDGs) of the PLGUs. The formulation of this document is clearly stated in Section 5.6.1 of the DILG-DBM Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2017-002, dated 26 April 2017, to wit:

“The Provincial Government shall prepare a Governance Reform Roadmap (PGRR) for a term of six (6) years (2017-2022) to achieve the reform targets.”

With the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals into the PGRR, as a result of the partnership between CMGP/DILG and UNDP, the PGRR will incorporate / integrate / mainstream the SDGs into the PGRR in seven (7) reform areas.

In June 2018, the Roads2SDGs Project conducted a series of activities leading to the crafting of the Guidelines for the Formulation of Provincial Governance Reform Roadmap (PGRR), together with the Workshop and Facilitation Guidelines to help prepare UNDP, DILG-CMGP and Provincial LGUs in the roll-out and conduct of Workshops for the Provincial Governance Road Reform Roadmaps to SDGs (PGRR2SDGs).

Subsequently, the Roads2SDGs engaged the services of Governance and Institutional Development Specialist (GIDS) deployed in all the 16 regions outside the National Capital Region (NCR) to assist 78 provincial local government units in the crafting, finalization, and eventual adoption of their respective PGRRs -- to facilitate provincial assessment sessions, facilitate the PLGU workshops pertaining to PGRRs, and to coach and help the LRMTs in the entire process of formulating/finalizing/adopting the PGRRs.

The entire process (from the conduct of Provincial Assessment Workshops, to the PGRR Formulation Workshops, the subsequent mentoring for the refinement and eventual approval of the PGRRs) has been initially piloted and rolled out to twenty-one (21) provinces from July-October 2018. As the PGRR Formulation processes are progressing in the pilot provinces, the full roll-out to all the other 57 provinces immediately followed and is also progressing.

There is a need to engage the professional services of a Governance Expert cum Facilitator, who shall be referred hereinafter as Vendor, to usher in the smooth staging of Roads2SDGs Workshops, and to ensure that the Workshop objectives and deliverables are achieved. The Vendor shall be  engaged on-call to run and facilitate a series of three (3) other related governance workshops, as needed, in the next five months.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Vendor (Facilitator-Resource Person) is expected to perform the following:

1) Moderate/facilitate the conduct of Roads2SDGs governance-related workshops while also contributing as resource person to introduce some of the Workshop topics, on call as demanded;

2) Employ various methodologies to ensure interaction and participation through presentations, hands-on practical exercises, structured learning exercises, and open forum; animate the groups in producing their respective group outputs;

3) Prepare and submit an Activity/Workshop Report (per activity), attaching therein all the training outputs/deliverables.

4) Perform other tasks, as may be deemed necessary, in line with this TOR, and as may be agreed with the Project Manager.

Competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
• Expertise in data collection and analysis
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines;
• Strong analytical and research skills; and
• Excellent organizational, and communication skills;

Required Skills and Experience

Application Requirements:

Applicants are requested to upload the following documents in one file:

1. Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability that indicates the all-inclusive lumpsum contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided; If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP.
2. Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references; 
3. Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment, and a methodology, if applicable, on how they will approach and complete the assignment.

Complete and detailed TOR along with the application requirements can be accessed thru this link: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=51559

Kindly submit your proposal to procurement.ph@undp.org.

In view of the volume of applications UNDP receives, only shortlisted offerors will be notified.