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MiDL 7 National Consultants to facilitate local development activities.

Vacancy Number: Pr19/01821

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	30 Apr 2019, 17:00 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	07 May 2019
Reference to the project:	Integrated Migration Local Development Project
Expected Duration of Assignment:	March 2021 with possibility of extension
Submission Instructions: Proposals should be submitted on-line by pressing “Apply on-line” link, no later than 30 April 2019. Requests for clarification only must be sent by standard electronic communication to the following e-mail: oxana.maciuca@undp.org. UNDP will respond by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all applicants
Supporting Documents: Terms of Reference Individual Consultant Procurement Notice OFFEROR’S LETTER TO UNDP CONFIRMING INTEREST AND AVAILABILITY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTOR (IC) ASSIGNMENT UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract

Ms. Oxana Maciuca.

Background

Migration still remains an overwhelming issue in the Republic of Moldova, with a decisive impact both, at national and local level. According to various sources, overall 1/4 of the country’s population is still residing abroad. The rural area of the country is particularly affected, as it loses its economically active population in favor of international labor migration and with it, its long-term development perspective. On the other side, remittances continue to make a difference and create significant dependence.

The Moldovan Government (GoM) acknowledges that, if addressed and managed properly, human mobility can also bring many opportunities, changes and improvements in the country. Due to the Swiss development support, the GoM migration policy focus shifted from a management and control perspective to capitalizing on the opportunities provided by migration.

Building on the positive experience from 2016-2019, a new 4-year (2019-2022) phase of ‘Migration and Local Development Project’ has been decided to be implemented, with the financial support being provided by the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development.

The Overall Goal of this continuation is maximizing the impact of migration on the socio-economic development through an improved institutional framework and engaged Diaspora.

A special focus of the project will consist in devising and piloting of tailor-made and innovative solutions to boost local economic development in the Republic of Moldova, through promoting of an active engagement of private sector and building effective partnerships between local public authorities and local businesses. In this context, MiDL will pursue the economic empowerment of 35 pilot municipalities from all regions of Moldova, which will be selected through a nationwide transparent process.

Within the context of MiDL new phase implementation, there will be selected 35 target-municipalities (from all regions of Moldova) to be supported to actively engage with local public sector, aiming to promote innovative and efficient local economic development initiatives, which will result in increased local opportunities related to new jobs and income generation.  

Scope of work

The overall objective of the National Consultants assignment (hereinafter Consultants) is to facilitate the process of capacity building of targeted LPAs to actively engage private sector and migrants into local development process:

• Setting up local participatory project implementation mechanism in each target locality
• Perform preparatory activities to enhance the engagement of local actors in each target locality
• Conduct a Rapid Participatory Appraisal of local economic opportunities in each target locality
• Support local actors to harness the existing economic opportunities within a systemic implementation framework
• Complex support for establishing and building capacities of HTAs in 35 target communities to be able to engage with various stakeholders, to support LPAs in implementing local development initiatives aiming to contribute to their native locality.
• Support to partner LPAs and other local actors to effectively communicate with migrants and engage them in local development decision making process in a meaningful way.
• On-going support and coaching to local public and private actors, in each target locality

Active participation in all Project driven capacity building activities for target LPAs and HTAs.

The present Assignment consists of 7 (seven) LOTs. One consultant may apply for more LOTs and selected consultants will be contracted to work in maximum one LOT.

For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1 – Terms of Reference.

Requirements for experience

The following qualification criteria shall be applied for the selection of the consultant:

Education:

• University degree in the relevant field (economics, development studies, sociology, public administration, etc.).

Experience:

• At least 5 years of practical experience in the field of local development (working with public and/or private actors).
• Proven experience related to promoting of local economic development initiatives.
• Proven experience in assisting the implementation of investment projects to support local public and/or private actors (inclusively grants).
• Proven experience in facilitation, coaching, mentoring and/or delivering trainings to local actors.
• Knowledge of migration situation in the country and experience in diaspora and migration programing will be considered an asset.

Competences:

• Good knowledge of Moldovan rural area context;
• Knowledge and skills of MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
• Excellent command of Romanian and Russian, and at least basic knowledge of English language;

Abilities:

• Demonstrated capacity of team-orientation work, excellent planning and organizational skills;
• Good communication and writing skills
• Sensitivity and respect for human rights and gender equality
• Ability to achieve results and deadlines in a timely manner, maintaining a high standard throughout;

Documents to be included

All applicants shall submit the following submission package:

1. CV with at least 3 references persons;
2. Cover letter, stating their interest in and qualifications for the consultancy
3. Financial offer (1) fee per consultancy day in community, including transport costs; 2) fee per consultancy day in the office).

The United Nations Development Programme in Moldova is committed to workforce diversity. Women, persons with disabilities, Roma and other ethnic or religious minorities, persons living with HIV, as well as refugees and other non-citizens legally entitled to work in the Republic of Moldova, are particularly encouraged to apply.

Financial proposal

The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables ( in installments). Payments are based 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 (fee per day * days) of this lump sum amount (including fee, taxes, per diems, and number of anticipated working days). The overall assignment will involve working: in the field (65%) and in the office (35%), with payments made, as per submitted reports. 

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.