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Development challenges in the Pacific Islands Countries are multi-faceted and complex. To respond to these challenges, the UNDP Multi-Country Office (MCO) based in Apia concentrates its efforts on strengthening the capacity of the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tokelau to promote inclusive, blue-green and sustainable growth, effective governance for the future, and sustainable and resilient development that leverages innovation and digital transformation and catalyzes financing for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We help our partners identify relevant solutions to their most significant development challenges and offer policy advisory and implementation services to address these challenges.
Guided by the UNDP Multi-Country Programme Document (MCPD) for the Pacific Island Countries and Territories 2023-27, the MCO’s policy, advisory, programmatic, and implementation services focuses on the following areas:
- Peace: inclusive, agile and future ready governance, justice and peace
- Prosperity: inclusive, blue-green and sustainable growth
- Planet: climate and disaster resilience and management, climate finance, sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity conservation.
UNDP’s programme is anchored in the principle of leaving no one behind, with specific focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment including the fight to end violence against women and girls, and empowerment and engagement of youth and Persons with Disabilities.
The Programme team, comprising of the Governance and Prosperity team and Environment and Climate Change team, works to support achievement of UNDP strategic objectives to create a world where people and planet thrive together, and to help the MCO act with both ambition and scale to address urgent problems facing the four countries as well as global climate deteriorating conditions. Programme staff assist the MCO in formulating and implementing programme strategies that go beyond solving immediate development challenges to create future smart and integrated systemic changes in resilience and capacity building within the four countries
In addition, UNDP has the mandate to support SDG Integration to ensure faster progress on sustainable development and offers support in four areas, (1) integrated policy and programming solutions, (2) SDG metrics, data and analysis using state-of-the-art tools for modelling and forecasting, (3) knowledge and innovation and (4) SDG Financing options to help countries identify innovative ways to expand public and private contributions to reach the 2030 agenda. Lastly, the COVID-19 pandemic has also highlighted an urgent need to adopt a Systems Approach that is oriented towards building Resilience to future shocks through continuously reviewed scenario analyses.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
The Climate Finance and Development Economist works under the guidance of the Resident Representative (UNDP Multi County Office, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tokelau) and s/he will work closely with the programme and operations teams in the country office, Accelerator Labs team, and staff in the Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) and New York both in Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific as well as the Global Policy Network (GPN) of UNDP. S/he will also collaborate with the Asia-Pacific regional network of country economists. This will include systematic engagement with and oversight from the lead regional economic advisors based in Bangkok and New York. S/he is also expected to develop and maintain a network of colleagues across development partner agencies, government institutions, academe, the private sector, and civil society at the country level.
UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.
Key duties and accountabilities include:
- Provision of strategic policy advice to the UNDP country office management and national government counterparts on climate finance, green/blue economy and SDG acceleration.
- Advise and support to the development of new climate finance programming initiatives and partnerships with multilateral development banks, vertical funds (GEF, GCF), bilateral donors, and the private sector (corporates, investors).
- Provision of technical advisory support to the implementation of blue/green economy and sustainable financing programme.
- Contribution to UNDP’s work across the Asia-Pacific region, including collaboration with the regional economist network and analysis of priority regional thematic areas.
