Overview : Over the past few years, the UN and the wider multilateral system have been undergoing various processes of review, reform, and strategy- and goal-setting across the spectrum of their collective mandates, spanning the areas of peace and security, human rights, humanitarian assistance and development. These included, chiefly, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted in September 2015 and its ambitious set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that covers the parallel and often interrelated strands of multilateral engagement across the UN’s collective mandate. In April 2016, twin resolutions on Sustaining Peace were passed by the Security Council and General Assembly, calling on the UN pillars of development, peace and security, and human rights to make contributions to addressing root causes and supporting institutions required for sustainable peace and development. The outcomes of the May 2016 World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) further built on the premise of coherence. Most stakeholders agreed on the urgent need to strengthen humanitarian-development collaboration and synergies by working to overcome long-standing attitudinal, institutional, and funding obstacles. A commitment was made to a ‘New Way of Working’ that transcends humanitarian and development divides by working over multiple years towards collective outcomes that reduce risk and vulnerability and build towards achievement of the SDGs, based on the comparative advantages of a diverse range of actors, including those outside the UN system. At present, the UN system remains institutionally fragmented and thematically siloed, which diminishes the Organization’s potential to devise and deliver collective outcomes. This fragmentation is mirrored in the UN’s staff body which, while containing an unparalleled reservoir of specialized expertise, is hampered by a lack of professionals with a system-wide background and requisite skillset. In addition, at country level, the UN is largely lacking dedicated advisory capacity to support joint situation and problem analysis, better joined-up planning and programming towards collective outcomes, and multi-disciplinary support the leadership and coordination by an empowered Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC or DSRSG/RC/HC in integrated contexts). The Secretary-General has made it a priority to achieve greater coherence in the work of the UN both horizontally across siloes, and vertically between the HQs and field – with a particular view to strengthening the UN’s overall effectiveness in prevention. The New Way of Working is one of the initiatives that the Secretary-General views as contributing to this objective. As a contribution to operationalizing the NWOW and strengthening the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, and to overcoming the challenges outlined above as it pertains to its own institutional capacities, UNDP is spearheading the People Pipeline Initiative, in close coordination with a broad range of UN stakeholders. The initiative seeks to offer a systematic approach to staff development while contributing to organizational reforms aimed at overcoming current barriers to UN system collaboration. It aims to develop and nurture a cadre of professionals across UN system entities starting from the mid-level upward (P3/P4 to D-level) who possess the requisite inter-personal and coordination skills, substantive knowledge and hands-on experience to engage in and facilitate complex system-wide processes. It also aims to align with, and reinforce, existing reform efforts and training/capacity building initiatives to increase UN system coherence and to reduce disincentives that currently prevent closer collaboration and mobility at an organizational and personal level. Objective During 2018, the concept and a strategy for rolling out the People Pipeline initiative were developed, and a two-phased approach to operationalizing the initiative has been agreed, starting with an initial phase of enhanced cooperation on training, learning and staff development while carrying out further preparatory work with a view to shifting to a formalized joint People Pipeline project within a time span of 6-12 months. The purpose of this procurement exercise is to contract an individual consultant to support the operationalization of the People Pipeline Initiative, based on the already developed roll-out strategy, through development of a solid project proposal with three components, namely i) the People Pipeline staff development pathway; ii) the deployment mechanism, and; iii) the knowledge management component, as well as development of a training package. Details are provided in the Terms of Reference as advertised on UNDP job site VA # 83805 click on the hyperlink (https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=83805). Interested bidders are requested to submit their application using the following link: VA # 83805 https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=83805 as per the instruction in the notice and using templates provided. |