Results of Service

The marketing consultant will contribute to an enhanced coverage setting for catastrophe threat discount and the institutional capability to ship early warning programs which have a robust integration of gender equality, incapacity, and social inclusion.

Work Location

Vientiane, Lao PDR

Anticipated period

22 Apr-30 Sep 2024

Duties and Obligations

Created in December 1999, the United Nations Workplace for Catastrophe Danger Discount (UNDRR) is the designated point of interest within the United Nations system for the coordination of efforts to cut back disasters and to make sure synergies among the many catastrophe discount actions of the United Nations and regional organizations and actions in each developed and fewer developed international locations. Led by the United Nations Particular Consultant of the Secretary-Basic for Catastrophe Danger Discount (SRSG/ASG), UNDRR has over 140 employees positioned in its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and in regional places of work. UNDRR guides, displays, analyses, and studies on progress within the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Catastrophe Danger Discount 2015-2030. It helps regional and nationwide implementation of the Framework and catalyzes motion and will increase international consciousness to cut back catastrophe threat working with UN Member States and a broad vary of companions and stakeholders, together with civil society, the personal sector, parliamentarians and the science and know-how neighborhood. One of many UNDRR’s strategic areas of labor in Lao PDR is to assist the nation’s efforts to strengthen catastrophe threat governance, significantly, to develop, implement and finance nationwide and native methods and plan to advertise concrete actions for local weather and catastrophe threat discount throughout a number of improvement sectors. The important thing tasks beneath this task are to: – Collaborate carefully with Ministry of Labor and social Welfare (MoLSW) / Division of Social Welfare (DSW) to realize an intensive understanding of the particular wants and priorities for gender equality, incapacity, and social inclusion as a part of the Nationwide Motion Plan for Catastrophe Danger Discount (DRR), and Gender Equality, Incapacity, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) integration guiding software for early warning early motion. – Present assist and technical steering to MoLSW/DSW within the improvement of the gender equality, incapacity, and social inclusion motion priorities beneath the DRR Nationwide Motion Plan via stakeholder consultations, identification of gaps, and incorporation of inputs and suggestions into the plan and power, in alignment with related nationwide and international methods, insurance policies, and guideline for catastrophe threat discount. – Help the MoLSW/DSW and the Ministry of Pure Assets and Atmosphere (MONRE)/ Division of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) to align the nationwide gender motion priorities for DRR with the Gender Motion Plan to Help Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Catastrophe Danger Discount 2015-2030 (Sendai GAP) – Carefully work with the marketing consultant who shall be engaged on the event of the Nationwide DRR Motion Plan. The marketing consultant shall be based mostly in Lao, PDR and work carefully with UNDRR’s Local weather and Catastrophe-Resilient Improvement Specialist on the UN Resident Coordinator’s Workplace based mostly in Vientiane, Lao PDR beneath supervision of Programme Administration Officer, UNDRR Regional Workplace for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). Every day, the marketing consultant will carefully collaborate with DSW/MoLSW, the secretariat of CDMC, and sometimes with DMH, MoNRE. The marketing consultant may even interact extensively with authorities and improvement companions at largely at nationwide stage. – Coordinate with MoLSW, MONRE, Central Catastrophe Administration Committee (CDMC), UNDRR, improvement companions and different involved stakeholders, and put together an inception report that outlines the method and tentative strategies, workplan for creating gender equality, incapacity, and social inclusion priorities for DRR, and GEDSI integration guiding software for early warning early motion. In doing so, interact Sendai GAP point of interest from MoLSW. – Discover and finalize the methodology, approaches, and instruments vital to attain the anticipated outputs. – Conduct a desk overview of related authorized and coverage devices, together with legal guidelines, insurance policies, methods, and plans on DRR, gender, and incapacity on the international, regional, and nationwide ranges. These paperwork embrace, inter alia, the Legislation on Gender Equality, Fourth Nationwide Plan of Motion on Gender Equality (2021-2025), the Second Nationwide Plan of Motion on Violence in opposition to Ladies and Violence in opposition to Youngsters (2021-2025), the third Nationwide Plan of Motion on Mom and Youngsters (2021-2025), and Nationwide Ladies Improvement Plan (2021-2025), the Conference on the Elimination of All types of Discrimination In opposition to Ladies (CEDAW), Legislation on Improvement and Safety of Individuals with Disabilities, Decree on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities, the Gender Motion Plan to Help Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Catastrophe Danger Discount 2015-2030 (Sendai GAP) , and the Guidelines for Inclusive Early Warning Early Motion. – Evaluate the present state of affairs of gender and incapacity mainstreaming in DRR insurance policies, methods, and improvement plans. Analyze the extent to which gender has been mainstreamed in nationwide and sub-national DRR insurance policies. – Discover challenges and alternatives in mainstreaming gender, incapacity, and social inclusion in DRR actions in accordance with Catastrophe Danger Administration legal guidelines and nationwide DRR methods. – Suggest instruments and mechanisms to assist the mixing of gender and incapacity in DRR motion plans and packages. – Assess the capability of catastrophe administration officers at nationwide and sub-national ranges in integrating gender, incapacity, and social inclusion issues in DRR efforts. – Facilitate stakeholder session processes, together with technical and session workshops, to assemble suggestions from involved stakeholders. – Put together technical workshops idea observe and translate in each Lao and English languages as applicable. – Help MoLSW and UNDRR in organizing a number of workshops and session conferences, as vital. – Draft the gender equality, incapacity, and social inclusion motion plan on DRR, and GEDSI integration guiding software for early warning – early motion in each Lao and English languages and submit them to DSW, MoLSW.

{Qualifications}/particular abilities

Superior college diploma in pure assets administration, environmental science, local weather change, gender and improvement, catastrophe threat administration, or associated discipline is required. A primary-level college diploma with not less than 2 extra years of qualifying expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma. At the least 5 years of expertise in planning and managing initiatives/packages associated to local weather change, catastrophe threat discount/administration, gender, and incapacity inside authorities entities and/or non-governmental organizations is required. Information of and expertise in integrating gender equality and the rights of individuals with disabilities in insurance policies, programmes or plans is required. Expertise working with Lao PDR’s catastrophe threat governance, in addition to the system of catastrophe threat discount insurance policies, mechanisms, and procedures, is fascinating. Expertise in working with the federal government of Lao PDR in formulation of presidency insurance policies, methods, motion plans, or framework in relation to catastrophe threat administration, local weather change, gender, incapacity, or every other related discipline at nationwide or sub-national governments is fascinating. Expertise working throughout the UN system or every other related worldwide group in catastrophe threat discount, emergency preparedness and response, humanitarian development-peace collaboration, response, restoration, gender, and incapacity is fascinating.

Languages

Fluency in Laotian and English language is required.

Further Info

Not out there.

No Price

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.