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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), acting as an implementing agency of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is providing assistance to the Romanian Ministry of Environment in the preparation of the GEF Medium Size Project (MSP) “Improving the financial sustainability of the Carpathian System of Protected Areas”.
It is within this framework that UNDP Romania invites experts with relevant experience to apply for the position:
1. Protected Area Institutional Assessment Specialist
Applications should be sent:
- by e-mail to procurement.ro@undp.org
- or by fax to 0212017828
Please see attached the Terms of Reference for this assignment or visit UNDP Romania web site www.undp.ro.
Applications should indicate: “National institutional assessment expert/ Carpathian”
The deadline for submitting applications is 5 June 2009.
The principal responsibility of the national consultant is to make substantive contributions to the development and structuring of the CEO Endorsement request document and Project Document for the Medium-Sized Project proposal (MSP). The incumbent will work under the overall guidance of the UNDP Romania Country Office and international protected area finance consultant, as informed by guidance from the UNDP/GEF Regional Technical Advisor. The expert will conduct institutional and individual capacity needs assessment for the sustainable financial management of PAs and will design an institutional development program through conducting desk reviews of existing information, documents, analytical reports and stakeholder interviews.
Within the framework of this ToR, the consultant is expected to perform the following duties:
1. Organize a stakeholder workshop at the inception of the preparation stage with the support from the CO. The workshop should clarify the objectives, approaches and outcomes of project design, and spell out the roles and contributions of different stakeholders, aiming at ensuring the national ownership from the very inception of the project;
2. Identification of the institutional responsibilities for Protected Area financing in Romania;
3. Completion of the UNDP/GEF institutional capacity assessment scorecard for the identified PA institutions in the Carpathians;
4. Analyze the institutional and individual capacity barriers which are hampering Carpathian protected area financial sustainability;
5. Analyze the operation of the institutional mechanisms for management and allocation of funds: looking at issues, such as: the use of funds generated for PA management; and criteria used for allocation of funds from the system level to site level – performance, need based;
6. Together with the international expert outline the capacity development and training programs for financial planning and management of PAS to be implemented in the MSP;
7. Work with the other experts to put together a set of criteria for the selection of the pilot sites for the demonstration of new governance structures for protected area management which would contribute to improved financial sustainability.
8. Prepare an overview of the baseline situation with associated approximate costs – which are the activities which will be undertaken by the governmental and non-governmental stakeholders that will contribute to financial sustainability of the Carpathian network of Protected Areas in Romania on 2009 – 2014 divided by the two components: (a) Supportive legislative framework and Sustainable PA Financing; and (b) Institutional and individual capacities of management authorities and other local stakeholders to realize sustainable financing of PAs. This overview will feed into the incremental reasoning;
9. Contribute to the design of the project – detailed description of outputs and costs for component II;
10. Contribute to the preparation of the logical framework – with provision of relevant impact indicators for the objective and outcomes level.
The United Nations Development Programme in Romania
The activity of UNDP Romania is coordinated by the Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS (RBEC) at the UNDP Headquarters in New York. Currently, RBEC is led by Ms. Kori Udovicki, who also is UN Assistant Secretary-General. The area of operations of RBEC covers 31 countries. Simultaneously, all these countries are provided support by experts from the UNDP Regional Centre based in Bratislava.
Established in 1971, the UNDP Country Office in Bucharest was the first UNDP field office to function in a former Warsaw Pact member state. It wasn\\\\\\\'t until two decades later that other offices opened in the neighboring countries of the former Socialist bloc.
Based on more than three decades of experience in Romania, UNDP is currently implementing the 2005-2009 Country Programme. Anchored around Romania’s MDGs, it responds to the key challenges of reform and EU accession.
UNDP draws on its reputation for neutrality and integrity to help Romania grasp new opportunities, while alleviating some of the disruptions caused by the transition to the free market and the accession to the European Union in 2007. We are helping the country build a functional and participatory democratic government by developing a more accountable public administration. Since 2005, UNSP\\\\\\\'s activity has been based on theCountry Programme Document 2005-2009.
Sustainable development comes from helping people find strategies that work best within their societies. UNDP Romania’s focus has been to help the country build and share solutions to the following three challenges:
Democratic governance, by strengthening the public sector capacity and management, and promoting political participation and accountability.
Sustainable and balanced economic growth, by decreasing poverty, creating jobs and reducing the disparities between the various regions of Romania, in conjunction with an overall increase in the standard of living.
Responsible management of environmental resources, by taking into account the impact of economic development on the ecosystem.
To address these challenges, UNDP’s work focuses on three areas of action: advocacy and policy dialogue; piloting new solutions; and partnership and alliance-building. Gender balance, as a crosscutting issue, is mainstreamed in all areas.
As a general practice, UNDP identifies disparities and areas of vulnerability in human development, demonstrates local-level solutions to these challenges, and follows-up by expanding the scale of these solutions and mainstreaming them into national government programmes.