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Context
Supporting the Multi-Country Office’s (MCO) work plan and delivery, the UNV will get exposure to and support a range of rural development initiatives. This includes close collaboration with the borrowing governments and their line ministries, the project management teams in country implementing IFAD-supported projects and programmes, rural producers and their organizations, national and international partners and donor organizations, senior technical specialists and IFAD colleagues from several departments and their technical wings.
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The UNV will have the opportunity to closely work on a few projects and/or country strategic work, and in addition get wide exposure to the work of the MCO as a whole.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of The Country Representative, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
Monitoring and Evaluation
• Review country programmes Annual Work Plan and Budgets (AWPBs) & Procurement Plans (PPs) and provide inputs to the Country Director (CD) and country teams;
• Monitor execution of Country Programme implementation and compliance to key performance indicators/parameters;
• Monitor the Country Programme Performance on their Log-frames and update the IFAD monitoring systems – Operational Results Management System (ORMS) accordingly;
• Periodically review and monitor the performance of Country Programme Monitoring & Evaluation System in line with national and IFAD monitoring and evaluation requirements;
• Contribute to country project/programme’s design, and reviews including annual and midterm review;
• Contribute to Country Strategic Opportunities Programme (COSOP) preparation and review and monitor performance;
• Support compliance of projects and country programme’s with IFAD corporate level policies in food security in ORMS, Annual reviews, COSOP Review, Mid Term Re-views (MTRs), etc.;
• Monitor implementation status of project/programme’s supervision recommendations;
• Monitor programmes’ compliance to key deadlines, which may include meeting deadlines to recommendations of supervision missions, submission of key reports (annual and audit reports);
• Support the documentation, packaging and dissemination of lessons learnt;
• Periodically draft portfolio score cards and country performance sheet based on COSOP indicators. 2. Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing:
• Support the development and implementation of the MCO’s knowledge management strategy;
• Provide support to the Project Implementation Units in defining and implementing projects knowledge management plans;
• Work closely with colleagues in the Strategy and Knowledge Department to organize learning events and technical exchanges within the MCO and the broader East and Southern Africa Division;
• Coordinate and promote K&M activities and exchanges between the East and South-ern Africa Division, the SA Multi-country office and the in country Offices;
• Identify opportunities for partnership development with centers of excellence and other development partners;
• Help distil key information on lessons from implementation that will help improve IFAD’s future programming and designs; • Support the development and delivery of trainings for the operations/projects staff together with relevant IFAD’s departments and divisions;
• Assist with the development of material on best practices in programme management;
• Provide contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice. 3. Portfolio support:
• Support the overall country portfolio of IFAD in South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia and the countries pertaining to the MCO;
• Follow-up on supervision/implementation of missions’ agreed actions, planning of review meetings and engage around mission preparation and other key deliverables;
