Director, International Poverty Centre (IPC)
Through the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals the world is addressing the many dimensions of human development, including halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015. Developing countries are working to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs and priorities. UNDP advocates for these nationally-owned solutions and helps to make them effective through ensuring a greater voice for poor people, expanding access to productive assets and economic opportunities, and linking poverty programmes with countries' international economic and financial policies. At the same time, UNDP contributes to efforts at reforming trade, debt relief and investment arrangements to better support national poverty reduction and make globalisation work for poor people. In recent times, the global development landscape has also changed, with changes in growth centres, emerging economic powers, South-South collaboration. New development challenges in terms of multiple crises, climate change, conflicts, food insecurity, and demographic transition have emerged. Issues like environmental sustainability, green economy, and development effectiveness also dominate development debates and dialogues. Conferences in Busan, Durban and Rio would add dynamism to this scenario. At the same time, dialogues have started on a post-2015 development agenda. UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2008-2013 articulates the corporate requirement to bring timely and effective substantive and technical services to the Country Offices through strengthened practice architecture at the global, regional, and country level. The UNDP Practice Architecture serves as a framework for better organizing UNDP to provide consistent policy advisory services, more relevant and substantive policy knowledge, better linking of policy and programming and capacity development. The value of the practice architecture lies in its comprehensive structure to solidify UNDP and its staff into a global team that ensures coherence, consistency, alignment and quality assurance in the way UNDP delivers service internally and to development partners and programme countries. The proposed Agenda for Change in UNDP would redefine the priorities of the organization and also the way we carry out our work. The Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) is responsible for articulating UNDP’s global development policy, using evidence gathered through country applications, regional experiences and global interactions. BDP has a key role to play in helping Country Offices to accelerate human development by supporting them in the design and implementation of programmes and projects that effectively contribute to the national-level policies and results. Driven by demand, and working through the Regional Bureaux and the RSC, BDP provides the global tools, analysis and capacities that Country Offices need to make a real difference in UNDP’s practice areas. In this context, BDP has three thematic centres or centres of excellence – one on poverty in Brasilia (in collaboration with the Government of Brazil), one on governance in Oslo (in collaboration with the Government on Norway); and a dry land centre in Nairobi. In the future, more UNDP global thematic centres may emerge and/or become operational. Practice Context: The core services of the Poverty Practice are structured around three thematic clusters: Inclusive Development, Inclusive Globalization, and MDG Support to countries. In addition, UNDP's work was reinforced by the International Poverty Centre, a joint project between UNDP and the Brazilian Government that promotes applied research on inclusive growth, social protection, inequalities, environmental sustainability and serves as a platform for knowledge dissemination and South-South Collaboration of development experiences, good practices and innovative approaches. The services of the Practice also benefits from its Community of Practioners. The Poverty Practice contributes substantively to global debates and dialogues through knowledge products. Its core services to support national efforts to reduce poverty and inequities involve: Policy advice and technical support; Strengthening capacity of institutions and individuals; Advocacy, communications, and public information; Promoting and brokering dialogue; and Knowledge networking and sharing of good practices. The Practice also provides as a platform for intra-regional and inter-regional dissemination of knowledge, particularly for South-South collaboration. The Practice is also on the forefront of substantive contributions towards a post-2015 development agenda. In the context of the UNDP Strategic Plan (2008-2013), its focus on inclusive growth as a major instrument for overcoming poverty and inequality, the Bureau context of having thematic centres or centres of excellence and the Practice Context of analytical and policy research, knowledge products and knowledge dissemination, south-south partnership in areas of inclusive growth, poverty and inequality as well as cross-practice work on institutions and governance, the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), a joint initiative between the Government of Brazil and UNDP will be an global institution, set up in Brasilia, focusing on institutional innovations towards inclusive growth, cutting-edge analytical and policy research, economic and social policy alternatives, south-south collaboration, particularly in the context of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South-Africa) on southern development solutions and policy experiences in such areas as inclusive growth, social inclusion, technology and institutional innovations. The ICIG will also be a platform for facilitating substantive training in thematic and analytical areas and will also contribute to developing a community of practice (COP). | |
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Within the above-mentioned overall vision, the Director of IPC-IG, will lead the Centre in terms of providing strategic leadership and vision to it – both substantively and operationally, implement the work plan of the Centre including the management of assigned staff resources, and effective use of resources and timely delivery of outputs. He/She will provide intellectual and managerial leadership in developing and implementing the Centre’s work plan; will contribute to the Centre’s research, training and knowledge generation activities; will make sure that the IPC-IG contributes to global knowledge and capacity development, and will ensure the provision of highest caliber policy advice and the integration of latest thinking and practice in the field of inclusive growth, social inclusion, technology and institutional innovation. The Director will substantively lead the Centre in south-south collaboration, particularly in the context of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South-Africa) on southern development solutions and policy experiences. He/she will be responsible for developing structured links with top-class research institutes and think tanks that provide knowledge and expertise for UNDP and its partners globally. The Director will collaborate with his colleagues and counterparts in the Government of Brazil, its specific institutions and work closely with Cluster Leaders in the Poverty Practice and other colleagues both in New York and other Regional Service Centres. He/she will work in a cross-practice and cutting way with close interaction with the Governance Practice, the Capacity Development Group, the Gender Team and the Special Unit on South-South Cooperation. He/She will actively interact and collaborate with other UNDP global thematic centres. The Director will be a member of the Project Board of the IPC-IG. Duties and Responsibilities Reporting to the Director of the Poverty Practice, UNDP, New York, the IPC-IG Director will have the following specific responsibilities:
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