Background:

The Paris Agreement in 2015 was a landmark in the fight against climate change. After years of negotiating, every one of the 196 countries, plus the European Union, all Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), agreed on a set of principles to curb greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change head on.

The aim of the Paris Agreement is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure that global temperatures don’t rise more than 2C above pre-industrial levels this century, and ultimately pursue a scenario where temperature rise remains below 1.5C

NDC stands for a Nationally Determined Contribution. For the Paris Agreement goals to be achieved, every country needs to play its part. Because countries have different circumstances, resources and abilities, the agreement was designed so each country defines their own pledges, in terms of what they can contribute to the 2030 Agenda. These country pledges are the NDCs. Each country produced a document outlining these contributions and how they will be achieved. Nearly all the NDCs include a target to reduce CO2 emissions by a certain amount over a given time. Most of them also highlight how climatic changes will affect their country, and how they intend to adapt to these changes. The last decade was the hottest in history. Critical new research has also emerged since 2015 demonstrating the potential devastating impacts of a 1.5o rise in temperature. In 2021, the devastation of COVID-19 has made the whole world more vulnerable to shocks and changes and illustrated the potentially severe effect of global crises.

A critical aspect of the Paris Agreement is that every five years, countries are required to update their national pledges with more ambitious targets.

NDCs Progress in Sudan.

Sudan’s current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) has been prepared before the adoption of the Paris Agreement (PA) in Dec 2015, however, it includes ambitious contributions, in line with Art.3 of the PA, on both climate change mitigation and adaptation. After the entry into force of the PA and the recent adoption of work programme for its implementation, Sudan decided to further develop its NDC and building an enabling environment, to access international finance and technical support to implement its determined contributions. This would enable Sudan to transition its development sectors into a more resilient and low emission pathway, in line with the objectives of the PA and the national development priorities. Following Climate promise planning guideline, UNDP has developed the first NDC report under the autopsy of UNDP of Sudan in 2021. The NDC2020 document was then submitted for approval by the highest government authority (Higher Council for Ministry) but unfortunately and due to political circumstances, the report was not endorsed.  The Climate Promise II offered new opportunity to Sudan to continue its mission on tackling NDC cause, building on the previous experience.

UNDP, on a global level is transforming the way it works, thinks, and implement its projects as we enter the Decade of Action that calls for the acceleration of sustainable solutions to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Anchored in the 2030 Agenda and committed to the principles of universality, equality and leaving no one behind, is the new UNDP People for 2030 strategy that aims at progressively transforming UNDP’s culture and capacity to better face and resolve the ever-changing challenges impacting our world.

UNDP has also launched a Global digital strategy (2022 – 2025) that sets out the vision for the evolution of the organization over the next three years, responding to a changing digital development landscape and the evolving needs of our partners. In line with the global digital strategy, the Zambia Country Office (CO) will make necessary strides to digitize and digitalize how we work internally and with our partners. This includes increasing our ability to leverage existing, emerging, and future digital technologies in a structured manner to improve how we create and deliver value. The Zambia Country Office Digital Strategy (2022-2025) describes how the office will transform its operational systems and structures through three (3) main pillars. 1. Digital Transformation 2. Digitize programme and operations 3. Digital empowerment. The Country Office will not only use digital technologies to enhance business processes but will take this opportunity to train staff on the use of digital technology as we approach the fourth industrial revolution. In addition, this strategy will support the achievement of the Strategic Plan (2022-2025) by fostering new ways of collaborating with other partners, creating environments and systems that drive and support innovation, and building new capabilities to develop and apply digital solutions that will enhance quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of our work.

Keeping in line with the corporate and CO Digital Strategy, UNDP Zambia will implement a SharePoint Online Project aimed at improving and optimizing the way the CO manages documents with smart attachments and sharing with external personnel; collaboration among team members with easier co-editing and sharing of calendar and allowing business process automation.

UNDP Zambia seeks to engage an intern to assist with the development and implementation of the SharePoint Online Project. The SharePoint Coordinator intern will work closely with the Digital Team to support the implementation of the #NEXGEN CO SharePoint Project under the direct supervision of the Management Analyst.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

UNDP is the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and planet. Learn more at undp.org or follow at @UNDP.

UNDP Country - Indonesia  is looking to hire a Procurement Assistant . Under the overall guidance of Procurement Associate  and the Head of Procurement UNDP, the Procurement Assistant ensures execution of transparent and efficient procurement services and processes consistent with UNDP rules and regulations.

Scope of Work

Under the supervision of  Procurement Associate or his delegated, the Procurement Assistant supports by ensuring high quality of work, accurate, timely and properly recorded/documented service delivery to cover procurement functions. The main role of the Assistant is to support delivery of the programme/ projects by entering and managing project data in systems and by providing daily technical/procurement support to programme/project implementation consistent with UNDP rules and regulations.

The incumbent will also conduct project quality assurance for submission of procurement cases, and deal with relevant operational issues including support to regular monitoring.

The incumbent works in close collaboration with the procurement team, other operations units, and programme staff in the office to resolve complex procurement-related issues and to ensure adequate exchange of information

The UN Secretary-General established the UN SDG Action Campaign to inspire people and organizations from all backgrounds and every part of the world to take actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, while holding decision-makers to account for progress society-wide. The UN SDG Action Campaign is hosted and supported by UNDP and is based in Bonn (Germany) with a lean team that marshals rapid support for new initiatives as opportunities arise and provides partners with on-demand strategic creative services that inspire SDG action with an engaged community of activists and concerned individuals.

The UN SDG Action Campaign is working closely with cities and local governments to showcase how they are actively contributing to implement Agenda 2030, accelerating transformative action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals for all, and everywhere.

Within this context, the UN SDG Action Campaign is seeking to recruit a Procurement Officer on Local Public Private Partnerships to support municipal service provision in support of SDGs. Local and regional governments are already responsible of over 65% of the SDG targets, most of them linked to basic service provision from water, sanitation, mobility, climate action, health or education. A big part of that service provision happens in partnership with private sector providers, municipalities across the world need to innovate and improve their procurement procedures and establish more strategic relations with the private sector within the framework of the accelerated action required to implement the SDGs in time for year 2030.

SDGs are genuinely interlinked with service provision at local level. To be able to deliver on Agenda 2030, local and regional governments need to establish contractual relationships with capable and trustworthy private sector providers, mostly through PPPs (Public Private Partnerships). The Procurement Officer will support UNDP cities and their partners to generate knowledge through the exchange of experiences and by sharing common concerns and possible solutions to improve the effectiveness of PPPs for SDG delivery at local level.

The Procurement Officer will support participant local and regional governments to improve their PPPs efficiency to align and deliver on Agenda 2030. 

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations System efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Afghanistan is one of the world’s most complex emergencies, and the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Afghan people are grappling with the impact of conflict, poverty, economic decline, and natural disasters. In this context, Afghan women and girls face unique vulnerabilities and require urgent support as gender inequality is interwoven with conflict dynamics and humanitarian needs. It is essential that Afghan women and girls can continue to shape the development of their country, and that their gains are protected. UN Women remains fully committed to supporting Afghan women and girls and to putting them at the center of the global response to the crisis in Afghanistan.

UN Women has been in Afghanistan for two decades. UN Women’s programming approach is informed by analysis of the political, economic and humanitarian situation, risks to and capacities of partner organizations, and needs of Afghan women and girls. UN Women Afghanistan currently has four key programme priorities: (1) Gender in Humanitarian Action, (2) Ending Violence Against Women, (3) Women’s Economic Empowerment, and (4) Women, Peace and Security.

Reporting to Programme Specialist, the Programme Analyst contributes to the effective management of UN Women programmes in ACO by providing substantive inputs to programme design, formulation, implementation and evaluation. 

The Programme Analyst guides and facilitates the delivery of UN Women programmes by monitoring results achieved during implementation and ensuring appropriate application of systems and procedures and develops enhancements if necessary.  The Programme Analyst works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, UN Women HQ personnel, Government officials, multi and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women programme implementation under portfolio.