National Consultant to conduct a review of national and regional strategic documents to operationalize the National Agricultural and Rural Development Strategy
Vacancy Number: Pr16/01319
Contacts:
Ms. Stela Alexei.
Background
The overall objective of the project is to encourage confidence building in ATU Gagauzia and Taraclia district, including neighboring communities, through improved development opportunities leading to enhanced competitiveness of the agro-food sector, promotion of local entrepreneurship, creation of jobs, and raising incomes. The project has the following components:
Component 1: Enhanced Dialogue and Community Empowerment;
Component 2: Local entrepreneurship and SMEs development;
Component 3: Small-Scale Infrastructure Refurbishment and Promotion of Inter-Municipal Cooperation.
The project will be implemented in line with the confidence building approach, connecting region’s authorities and structures to the national ones, facilitating dialogue and inclusion in development of national strategies, as well as connecting neighboring villages through inter municipal cooperation.
The proposed intervention will aim to address key gaps identified in the main strategic document of the region’s development in line with Moldova 2020 Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Strategy for SME Development 2020, as well as National Regional Development Strategy.
Scope of work
The Objective of the Assignment is Review of existing national and regional strategic documents (ARDS, Regional Development Strategies for Gagauzia and South Region, Socio-Economic Development Strategy for ATU Gagauzia etc.) in view of identifying opportunities for supporting the implementation of the National Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development in the targeted region. The findings of this study will be utilized for Development/Update of regional Development Strategies as well as for support of the implementation of the National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy in the targeted regions, particularly TAU Gagauzia and Taraclia district.
The study should focus on:
- Identification of all relevant strategies, studies, national and regional legislation and executive acts and decisions, publications and other materials to be reviewed (the list is attached but not limited to);
- Conduct a thorough review of the content of main strategic documents and identify discrepancies between National ARDS and regional strategies, focusing on Agriculture and Rural development;
- Assess the efficiency of National and regional strategies implementation pace to date;
- Point out to concrete drawbacks, omissions, incorrect interpretations and assess their influence to Agriculture and Rural Development in targeted regions;
- Provide practical recommendations for mainstreaming the priorities from ARDS into national/regional/local strategic documents from the targeted region.
Interim report at this stage will be presented to SARD CBM/UNDP for review and coordination of further stage.
- Outline recommendations on step-by-step measures, both on National and regional levels to fully operationalize the National ARDS in targeted regions;
- Describe lessons learnt and recommend methodology, priorities and major principles to be utilized for upcoming development/update of ATU Gagauzia and Taraclia district Strategies of Socio-Economic Development
- Final Report.
For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1 – Terms of Reference.
Requirements for experience
Academic Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree or equivalent (5-year university education) in Public administration, Political Sciences, Social sciences, or other relevant field;
Working experience:
- At least 5 years of proven previous experience in institutional development and strategy development;
- Previous experience in working with international development partners and stakeholders in public sector development programs, especially in the area of strategy development;
- Previous working experience associated with the National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy is a strong asset;
Competencies:
- A solid experience in the areas of economic development, poverty analysis, development and planning, strategic planning of the projects focused on economic development through providing evidence-based policy advice;
- Practical experience in organization management, strategic planning of associations and public organizations at the national and regional level;
- Experience in formulating development strategies and policies;
- Excellent public speaking and presentation skills;
- Excellent writing, editing, and oral communication skills in English, Romanian and Russian;
- Ability to meet deadlines and prioritize multiple tasks
- Knowledge of Gagauzian or Bulgarian languages is an asset.
Documents to be included
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
- Proposal:
- Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work;
- Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable);
- Financial proposal;
- Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references.
Financial proposal
The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including fees, taxes, travel costs, accommodation costs, communication, and number of anticipated working days).
Travel
All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.
In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed
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