International Consultancy: Public Finance Management Consultant- UNICEF Juba South Sudan.

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Goal of the consultancy:

This particular person consultancy will assist Authorities generate important public finance for kids proof that may inform planning processes at each nationwide and sub-national ranges. The consultancy will end result within the manufacturing of Funds Briefs (nationwide and sectoral) and nationwide Residents’ Funds for the enacted finances.

Background & Rationale:

The present UNICEF (2023-2025) County Programme Cycle is anchored on the 2023-2025 South Sudan United Nations Sustainable Growth Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). The nation programme contributes to the 4 UNSDCF outcomes of governance, financial growth, social providers and social safety, and empowerment of girls and youth, in addition to to the framework’s joint programmes on resilience, justice, and vitamin. The present nation programme relies on the Principle of Change of the UNDSDCF and is aligned to South Sudan’s Revised Nationwide Growth Technique 2021-2024, South Sudan 2040 Imaginative and prescient Doc, the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025, and the Gender Motion Plan 3. The UNICEF programme subsequently seeks to make sure all kids, together with adolescents and girls, significantly essentially the most susceptible, are safer and revel in their rights, with methods strengthened to make sure they’ve entry to prime quality and resilient providers. The humanitarian part of the programme seeks to make sure help and growth cooperation handle the structural causes of fragility and vulnerability.

The working surroundings in South Sudan stays complicated and remains to be characterised by insecurity and political instability. The construction of the present programme is thus an adaptation of the UNICEF international key programme consequence areas. One of many consequence areas of the nation programme is Social Inclusion (SI) which partly promotes UNICEF’s international mandate on public monetary administration by the UNICEF public finance for kids (PF4C) programme. The general goal of SSCO PF4C programme is to affect the mobilization, allocation, and utilization of home and public monetary assets for kids in South Sudan. These assets embrace normal revenues, on-budget abroad growth help and personal sector funds. The SSCO SI programme subsequently helps the Authorities of South Sudan and companions in finances monitoring and evaluation, proof era, PF4C consciousness actions and public participation in budgetary processes.

In 2021, the Nation Workplace supported South Sudan’s participation within the Open Funds Survey (OBS). The OBS is a fact-based analysis instrument that assesses budgetary processes pertained to transparency, participation, and oversight. South Sudan’s transparency index within the 2020 spherical of the OBS is 11 out of 100. In 2023, Nation Workplace continues to assist South Sudan’s participation the 2023 spherical of the survey. Different assist areas from Nation Workplace embrace on: 1) proof era (together with PETS/PER and Funds Briefs) to affect the design of nationwide and state-level social sector finances plans; 2) budgetary processes and capability constructing at nationwide and subnational ranges in order that governments commonly report on monetary assets acquired and utilized; 3) implementation of suggestions derived from key diagnostics such because the Schooling Sector PETS/PER and authorities PFM reform processes/agenda, and; 4) advocacy work with legislators pertained to allocations of nationwide finances to social providers, with give attention to training, well being, social and humanitarian sectors.

In 2023, UNICEF initiated a PFM assist for Abyei Administrative Space. The assist focuses on fundamental elements of Public Monetary Administration (PFM) pertained to planning, reporting, monitoring, and accounting. The Technical Help (TA) additionally entails direct on-the-job and one-to-one assist by a devoted human capability assist from each UNICEF and the Inter-Governmental Fiscal Relations Unit of the Funds & Income Directorate of Nationwide Ministry of Finance and 

Planning (MoFP), guided and led by the State Monitoring Switch Committee housed within the MoFP. The undertaking additionally covers different PFM elements pertained to oversight, finances transparency and proof era, masking Juba and the Abyei Administrative Space.

Scope of Work:

This particular person consultancy will assist Authorities generate important public finance for kids proof that may inform planning processes at each nationwide and sub-national ranges. The consultancy thus goals to generate proof on public finance for kids, notably Funds Briefs (nationwide and sectoral) and nationwide Residents’ Funds for the enacted finances.

Primary Duties and Duties:

Beneath the general steerage of the Deputy Consultant (Programme) and the direct supervision of the Social Coverage Specialist, the marketing consultant will produce the next items of proof:

a) Nationwide Funds Transient for FY 2023/2024, masking all sectors,
b) Schooling sector particular Funds Transient FY 2023/2024, with a light-weight contact funding case
c) Residents’ Funds FY 2023/2024
d) Funds Transient for Abyei Administrative Space FY 2023/2024 masking all sectors

Background paperwork shall be offered to the marketing consultant to familiarize himself/herself with the PFM/PF4C and growth context of South Sudan.

Output Outcome Assertion: In shut collaboration with the PFM companions in South Sudan, the capability of Authorities is enhanced to mobilize, allocate, spend, and report on assets for social providers, and Abyei sub-national PF4C work & Budgetary Help throughout authorities ranges.

The next deliverables (of this consultancy) will subsequently advance South Sudan’s PFM Nationwide agenda. The marketing consultant is predicted to ship/produce the next 5 paperwork:
Deliverables Timeline Value
1. Primarily based on UNICEF’s World PF4C programme and framework, produce a Nationwide Funds Transient (FY 2023/2024), masking all sectors

This can be a nationwide finances Transient. It should not be greater than 20 pages and will include infographics and footage. A pattern of a nationwide finances transient is right here: http://grss-mof.org/.

Two weeks (10 days) Delivered by Monday, 13 November 2023

2. Primarily based on UNICEF’s World PF4C programme and framework, produce a Residents’ Funds for South Sudan; a pattern is right here. Two weeks (10 days) Delivered by Monday, 27 November 2023

3. Primarily based on UNICEF’s World PF4C Programme, produce an Schooling Sector Funds Transient (FY 2023/2024)
This can be a modified Schooling Sector Funds Transient of no more than 30 pages, accompanied with a light-weight contact 3 weeks (15 days)

4. Primarily based on UNICEF’s World PF4C programme, produce one Funds Transient for Abyei Administrative Space for FY 2023/2024, masking all sectors

Like a Nationwide Funds Transient, this Abyei Funds Transient should not be greater than 20 pages and will include infographics and footage. A pattern of a nationwide finances transient is right here: http://grss-mof.org/.
Two weeks (10days) Delivered by Monday, 15 January 2023.

• Minimal {Qualifications} required: Information/Experience/Abilities required:

  • Grasp’s diploma in Economics or Social Science
  • 5 years’ expertise in PFM, with focus on PF4C
  • Extra 3 years of related expertise in lieu of a grasp’s diploma.
  • Sturdy verbal and written communication expertise.
  • Fluency in written and spoken English is required.

All purposes MUST be submitted with an in depth technical and monetary proposal.

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Remarks:  

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