| Overview : The purpose of this procurement exercise is to contract an individual consultant (s) who will facilitate its support to governments for SDG implementation and monitoring, as tailored to national capacities and priorities, and be able to produce guidance material that may offer key considerations, best practices, and general steps to guide country efforts in building integrated and holistic M&E frameworks for the 2030 Agenda. While national M&E frameworks for the SDGs should build on existing mechanisms and processes, avoiding the creation of parallel or duplicate systems, UNDP support to governments can help to promote certain quality standards with universal relevance. In particular, the following considerations should form the basis of the guidelines to promote M&E frameworks that can respond to the critical dimensions required for successful implementation of the SDGs: the enabling environment, including policies and multi-stakeholder platforms; delivering on commitments; the effectiveness of interventions; the consistency of planned interventions with initial targets; and exploration of policies and interventions with greater and better distributed outcomes. Beyond overarching principles, the guidelines or set of guidance tools should outline the steps necessary in building the M&E systems – from a diagnosis of existing mechanisms in country, to the development of action plans and coordination of key stakeholders, to recommendations for the design of causal frameworks and indicator selection that demonstrate how processes, policies and investments influence the achievement of the SDGs. Guidelines for the action plan should likewise consider key areas for operationalization of M&E systems, including identification of influential champions; creation of strong incentives both to conduct M&E and to use the information; training in M&E and in using M&E information; structural arrangements to ensure M&E objectivity and quality; and a long-term commitment to institutionalizing M&E. Scope of work covers: - Research and analysis: Desk review/mapping of best practices and case studies;
- Liaising with country offices, relevant units within HQ, and UN and other partners supporting governments in their data collection, monitoring, and reporting for the SDGs, to understand the landscape of existing support, opportunities to fill national capacity gaps, and available expertise to inform the guidelines;
- Based on assessments of the needs and contexts, proposing the format and content for final deliverable(s) in agreement with UNDP counterparts;
- Production of guidelines to support governments in designing and implementing M&E systems for the SDGs;
- In discussion with UNDP counterparts, possible support to development of external knowledge products and advocacy tools to complement the guidelines, elaborating on or providing momentum for driving central components of the process.
Expected outputs and deliverables (Dates are indicative.): A - Research and analysis: collection of case studies and best practices (by 30 November 2017) B - Proposed outline for the guidelines (by 31 October 2017) C - Submission of final guidance document (by 31 December 2017) Further details are available at UNDP job site: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=74630 |
