| Overview : The purpose of this call is to identify an institution that can provide the institutional support and services of a senior expert (coordinator) who can lead the process of engaging with PDA fellows, facilitate dialogue with them, improve learning while identifying critical best practices and lessons learned through a 2-week Fellowship Programme. The coordinator will also guide the process of identifying potential mentors within the institution who can work with the individual fellows to guide and closely mentor them. 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. To support learning from the Joint UNDP-DPA Programme, OGC will invite a number of interested PDAs to participate in a short-term fellowship at the Oslo Governance Centre. PDA Fellows will engage in facilitated reflections with their peers on pre-identified issues of interest. The issues will be identified through consultations between OGC and the partners to the Joint UNDP-DPA Programme (UNDP/BPPS, DPA, and PBSO), based on the needs and interests identified by PDAs themselves and the key issues, challenges, and opportunities related to conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the countries and regions in which they are deployed (or are otherwise supported by the Joint UNDP-DPA Programme). The PDA Fellowship Cohort II, which will be organised in 2017, will involve 3-4 PDAs invited for each session. Participation will be open to PDAs that have recently finished their assignment, or are in between assignments as well as serving PDAs, contingent on their availability. Each fellowship period will last 2-3 weeks The Fellowship Cohort II, on the topic of ‘Promoting local ownership and building national capacities’, will reflect on PDA experience as practitioners, and PDAs in particular, in promoting local ownership and building national capacities. The overall aim is to strengthen their capacity to advise, facilitate, and design approaches that help in working with local / national actors either to prevent or help address social unrest and conflict in a society through building national capacities. The Fellowship will be geared towards the following learning objectives for the PDAs (and from the perspective of PDAs): understanding of the terminology; tools to promote local ownership; existing challenges and how they can be overcome; take into account gender imperatives; usefulness and relevance of existing guidance; lessons learned and best practices; finding a balance between effectively promoting inclusive local ownership and finding a role for ‘external’ actors in this process, including for PDAs themselves; and lastly working with national UN staff and partners to strengthen the impact of the PDA work. Please see attached document for details and application procedure. | 
