| Overview : The overall objective of this exercise is to use the F4F assessment report and other relevant key frameworks and documents to identify the benchmark of new niche that make UNCDF contribution more meaningful and develop strong programme document that will contribute to meet the food security and hunger eradication objectives in the post-Covid19 world . The 2 specific objectives are to: - Support building partnerships and advocacy to create a niche for UNCDF in the FSN community of practice
- propose strategy and business case to better address food security emerging needs including the nature production/Biodiversity management and gaps on UNCDF’s past intervention in the LDC and graduated countries.
Under the global supervision of UNCDF Local Transformative Finance Practice and the responsibility of the Regional Technical Advisor in charge of Food Security, the consultant will inter alia perform and achieve the following tasks and activities: 1. Building partnerships to create UNCDF niche in the FSN community of practice - Organize advocacy for UNCDF visibility within food security community of practice.
- Support the participation to the UNFSS dynamic and release UNCDF Food security Policy and Positioning Papers.
- Target and advise on the participation of UNCDF to global events, clustering, publishing, leading groups and thematic working groups in the UNFSS,
- Support the organization of official meetings, side events on the new UNCDF Food Security approach
2. Develop project document for a new UNCDF niche and intervention to meet the food security and hunger eradication objectives in the post-Covid19 world This must include, but not limited to the following: - Propose strategy for the promotion of local governance and territorial approach adoption to FS, FSNincluding biodiversity management,
- Propose how the gap of local finance, including public and private can be filled in the context of the new development of the UN Sustainable Food System and Global Food Security agenda,
- Propose strategy to increase access to transformative capital for municipalities to strengthen urban food system using the Municipal Investment Finance and the International Municipal Investment Fund (IMIF)
- Propose blueprints to leverage international food finance to attract private sector investment for urban and peri-urban food production, to create financial platform for funding food and biodiversity value chain actors and to possibly issue a ‘food bond’ to finance sustainable urban food systems
The consultant will work in close collaboration with other colleagues and consultants working with UNCDF along the Local Transformative Finance Practice especially those on the support to SMEs and project finance, the MIF program and IMIF Technical Assistance and all Regional Technical Advisors. For full details of this assignment, please access UNCDF Jobs - 99904- Support to designing the UNCDF Transformative Food (undp.org) | 
