| Overview : The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in nearly 170 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners that can bring about results. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in nearly 170 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners that can bring about results. UNDP as the development agency of the United Nations and is actively engaged in safeguarding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the wake of Covid-19 and seeks to support the work of the Government of South Africa to respond to the pandemic scourging the country. UNDP has three (3) main program intervention area – Inclusive, just and sustainable economic growth; Effective, efficient and transformative governance; and Climate resilience and sustainably managed natural resources – geared to ensure wholistic support to the government of South Africa towards job creation, poverty reduction and inequalities. These interventions are very closely aligned to the country’s national development plan (vision 2030), and the country’s Covid-19 response plan. At the back of the Covid-19 pandemic, UNDP has mainstreamed the short and medium-term Covid-19 responses and long-term socio-economic and governance recovery interventions that will help sustain existing development gains and fully recover from the impact of Covid-19. A consultant is requires to analyze the program interventions areas of UNDP with particular reference to response to Covid-19 activities, youth programming and UNDP’s program document, and mainstream youth and PLWD in these program interventions and documents for a special greater impact to young women. | 
