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THE “URBAN, RESILIENCE AND LAND” (GPURL) GLOBAL PRACTICE
The World Bank Group (WBG) is embarking on its first FCV strategy, given the IDA 18/19 mandate for enhanced investments in FCV countries in Africa. To that end, the World Bank is pushing itself to learn, innovate, and adapt to develop approaches and operational models that provide critical development assistance at scale. The WBG’s experience in Africa offers important source of insight, drawing on an array of lessons learned from multi-sector operations in FCV or disaster-conflict nexus situations, such as in Somalia, North Eastern Nigeria, and Zimbabwe where at times no IDA funding could be provided to government due to their non-accrual status and the direct and innovative use of UN agencies was warranted.
For example, the 2017 Somalia Emergency Drought Response and Recovery Project (P163830) directly contracted through ICRC and FAO, while the 2019 Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project (P171114) disbursed to UN Office for Project Services, which is working with four other UN agencies for project implementation. In crisis-ridden North Eastern Nigeria, the 2016 Multi-sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (P157891) is implementing through government, bolstering citizen’s trust in the state to advance crisis recovery and peacebuilding. Further, given Somalia’s recent arrears clearance, the Bank approved the Somalia Crisis Recovery Project (P173315) in May 2020, which will utilize a hybrid approach by providing direct financing to government with implementation support through the civil society and UN technical agencies. Leveraging this learning and experience, the Africa GPURL DRM team in undertaking further multi-sector recovery and resilience programming, including ongoing and new operations.
Moreover the design and implementation of such crisis recovery operations require the conduct of state-of-the art post disaster assessments (PDNAs), recovery and peace building assessments (RPBAs), hybrid rapid assessments tools across PDNAs and RPBAs, and the development and operationalization of programmatic Recovery Frameworks through supplementary (often trust fund supported) technical assistance programs, which help ensure coordinated and synchronized crisis or disaster recovery across multiple partners and projects. An example of such an ongoing program is the DFID-funded ENSURE (Ensuring Sustained Recovery in the North East) in Nigeria, which is supporting a host of ongoing projects such as the Bank’s MCRP and other partner projects. Additionally, a number of COVID-19 related diagnostics and programmatic adjustments are required for the design and implementation of these ongoing and upcoming FCV operations.
The Africa Urban, Resilience and Land Unit would like to engage an ET Consultant (ETC) to provide specialized project preparation, technical assistance, and implementation support to the Task Teams on the above ongoing and upcoming FCV and conflict-disaster nexus operations and technical assistance programs in Somalia and Zimbabwe.
Duties And Responsibilities
The ET Consultant will undertake the following functions in support of the various Bank DRM Task Teams engaged in FCV, disaster-conflict nexus and COVID-19 operations in Somalia and Zimbabwe.
Support For Project Preparation In Somalia And Zimbabwe
Provide specialized inputs and coordination support to WBG sectoral or multisectoral task teams in the preparation and supervision of complex lending operations and technical assistance tasks, particularly emergency operations in FCV contexts in Somalia and Zimbabwe. This will include assisting Task Team Leaders (TTLs) towards start-to-end project preparation processing in the system, conduct of technical appraisals, coordination with task team members on safeguards, financial management, procurement, legal and other aspects, writing of project appraisal documents, assisting with project decision meeting and quality enhancement reviews, etc.
Provide support to the TTL in preparing the Additional Financing for the ongoing Somalia Urban Resilience Project Phase II (SURP-II).
Support the development of analytical and technical assistance activities accompanying project preparation and implementation.
Provide specialized analytical, processing and coordination support to WBG Task teams for the conduct of Rapid Conflict and Disaster Recovery Diagnostics and the medium-term implementation of Programmatic Crisis and Disaster Recovery Frameworks in support of the Bank’s lending operations. This would include preparation of proposals for raising trust fund resources, processing these TF operations in the Bank system, leading the engagement of market vendors and consultants in the conduct of these activities, supporting TTLs in grant monitoring, reporting and completion, leading parts of technical work and coordinating multi-GP and multi-partner inputs for such diagnostics, and developing finished products and accompanying communication products.
Assist in the design, conceptualization and operationalization of crisis recovery aid tracking systems, and institutional, financing and program management frameworks for conflict and disaster recovery etc.
Provide specialized support for carrying out COVID-19 related impact and needs assessment diagnostics and the setting up of COVID-19 related decision support systems under Bank projects (both Bank-executed and Recipient-executed), using market capacities and leveraging client capacities for activities such as hotspot mapping, aid tracking systems, disease surveillance systems etc.
Provide support as needed in designing and implementation of the TA included in the SURP-II, provide support as needed for the policy-level engagement under the Urban Resilience Platform, and help undertake the Implementation Completion Report for SURP.
Implementation Support For Ongoing Operations
Help TTLs and clients in preparing annual work plans and implementation schedules.
Assist TTLs in reviewing various procurement requests and preparing no-objections, and maintaining tracking databases for all project activities requiring TTL decisions.
Assist TTLs in organizing, conducting and concluding various project implementation support missions, including the preparation of aid memoires, Interim Status and Results Reports (ISRS), Grant Monitoring Reports, etc.
Prepare periodic internal and donor reports that detail achievements against results frameworks and challenges encountered.
Support the TTLs in reporting on and communicating progress an results achieved.
Assist in the development and management of internal budgets for projects and trust funded activities.
Prepare periodic internal and donor reports that detail achievements against results frameworks and challenges encountered.
Support the WBG in reporting on and communicating progress and results achieved of GPURL activities.
Assist the development and management of budgets for projects and trust funds under close supervision.
Support for Client, Partner, Donor and Bank-internal Relationship Management:
Help establish and maintain strong working relations with clients and donors.
Maintain good working relations with other recovery and development actors, both local and international, the WBG Country Management Units, and relevant task teams working in various countries.
Advise and support governments on collaborative approaches to working with humanitarian actors, identifying opportunities for programming at the humanitarian-development-peacebuilding nexus.
Maintain a current understanding of humanitarian and recovery-related developments, and corresponding response plans.
Selection Criteria
Master’s degree in disaster management, social sciences, or equivalent.
A minimum of 5 years of specialized operational experience with Bank on the design and implementation of multi-sector FCV or complex disaster recovery operations (refer para. 6 and 8 of the specific skills required). Start-to-end experience of project preparation, project and grant processing in Bank systems, implementation support and implementation completion are prerequisites for the position.
Experience of post disaster and post conflict needs assessment diagnostics and operational crisis and disaster recovery frameworks as deemed necessary.
Ability to work with a range of stakeholders including development partners and engage effectively with senior government officials.
Ability to function well independently and handle multiple tasks.
Strong analytical, communications, presentation-making and writing skills.
This internal requisition is open to WBG and IMF staff only (including short-term and extended term consultants/ temporaries). External candidates are requested not to apply. In case an external candidate applies, their application will not be considered.
Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable for an additional one year, at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET Appointment of two years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their second-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.
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