UNDP Policy Advisor, Parliamentary Development
UNDP Practice architecture UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2008-2013 and the 2008 regionalization paper articulate the corporate vision for bringing timely and effective substantive and technical services to the country offices through strengthened practice architecture at the global, regional and country level. The value of the practice architecture lies in its comprehensive structure, which solidifies UNDP’s staff into a global team and ensures coherence, consistency, alignment and quality assurance in the way UNDP delivers service internally and to development partners and programme countries. The Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) is responsible for articulating UNDP’s development policy, using evidence gathered through country applications, regional experiences and global interactions. Driven by demand, and working through the Regional Bureaux and the Regional Service Centres (RSCs), BDP provides the tools, analysis and strategic guidance that country offices need to make a real difference in UNDP’s practice areas. BDP’s support of UNDP’s strategic plan 2008-2013 is focused in 4 practices (Poverty Reduction, Democratic Governance, Energy and Environment, and HIV/AIDS) and 2 thematic areas (Capacity Development and Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment). Democratic Governance To provide timely and quality policy advisory services and knowledge products in democratic governance, the Democratic Governance Group (DGG) has organized its interventions in three core areas: fostering inclusive participation, strengthening responsive institutions, and promoting international norms and principles. The Inclusive participation cluster supports the efforts for expanding opportunities for civic engagement by the poor, women, youth, indigenous people, and other marginalized groups in the core channels of interaction with the state, at the national, regional and local levels. The Responsive institutions cluster promotes the core channels of representation and accountability of the national, regional and local levels institutions to ensure they reflect and serve the needs, priorities, and interests of all people. The International Norms and Principles cluster promotes integration of UN principles policies, practices, and strategies (on human rights, anti-corruption and gender) within and outside of the UN family.
UNDP’s current work in the area of parliamentary development UNDP’s parliamentary development portfolio comprises activities rooted at the global, regional and national levels. Strategic support to national parliaments, promoting inclusive and participative political institutions and engaging parliaments on addressing key challenges around sustainable development and crisis prevention are at the core of UNDP’s activities, with a dedicated focus on women and youth. At the regional level, UNDP supports parliamentary working groups to develop new avenues for dialogue on sensitive topics and agree on regional benchmarks. Globally, web-based social networks invite the exchange of information and ideas. Two cutting-edge tools are iKNOW Politics (www.iknowpolitics.org) for the political empowerment of women and Agora (www.agora-parl.org), the portal for parliamentary development. UNDP also works with its partners to develop regional and global benchmarks for democratic parliaments and to create cutting-edge knowledge products on parliamentary development (such as the Global Parliamentary report recently launched with the Inter-Parliamentary Union). Two new flagship projects managed by the Parliamentary development team include: Parliamentary Action on Renewable Energy (2012-2014). This project seeks to strengthen the capacity of parliaments in Africa, the Arab States and in South Asia to elaborate coherent and effective policy frameworks in support of renewable energy and climate change mitigation. The project has 3 outcomes:
A second flagship project relates to “Inclusive and Participative Political Institutions in Select Arab States”, by promoting a new approach to UNDP’s work on political process reform through an integrated approach to support both parliaments and political parties in select Arab States through joint support from BDP / DGG parliamentary development team and the BCPR crisis & governance team. The project will meet important milestones for parliaments and political parties that have the structure, legal framework and capacity to engage all citizens in the political process and are able to be positive actors in preventing conflict. | |
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The position of Policy Advisor on Parliamentary development involves responsibilities in the areas of inclusive political institutions, including parliamentary development, political party support and women’s political empowerment. The incumbent will be responsible for the following main outputs: Primarily provide policy advice and support to country offices and ensure that the highest caliber advisory consulting services are provided to UNDP-supported programmes, in the practice area of democratic governance particularly in parliamentary development and political party support programmes. Specific duties cover policy advisory, programming support services and representation to:
Lead and further develop UNDP’s new and cutting-edge initiatives in parliamentary development.
Play a strong advocacy role in fostering democratic governance for development with a view to deepening political commitment and reforms in this area, including partnership building and resource mobilization.
Provide strategic guidance and oversight to all projects managed by the parliamentary development Team, which are the main tools for policy development and alignment within the parliamentary development service area of UNDP. This includes:
Lead the development and strengthening of the community of practice among UNDP practitioners in the area of parliamentary development. This includes:
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