The Thailand
Operations Hub for South East Asia and the Pacific (THOH)
The Thail...
The Thailand
Operations Hub for South East Asia and the Pacific (THOH)
The Thailand Operations Hub (THOH), established in 2017,
supports, develops and oversees the UNOPS portfolio of projects in South East
Asia and Pacific. With its head office in Bangkok, the Hub comprises of three
main offices: THOH Thailand, THOH Indonesia and the THOH Pacific Cluster.
The THOH Pacific Cluster, established in early 2018, was
formed to support the implementation of infrastructure design, procurement,
construction of infrastructure, training, programme management, and facilitate
access to funding sources across 12 Pacific Small Islands Developing States
(PSIDS), including: Palau; Federated States of Micronesia; Marshall Islands;
Nauru; Kiribati; Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands; Tuvalu; Vanuatu; Fiji;
Tonga; Western Samoa.
Activities currently explored to support Pacific Small
Islands Developing States (PSIDS) deal with challenges and constraints
associated with a combination of Pacific countries’ remoteness, availability of
resources, demography, weather or a combination of all these factors. Many
PSIDS in fact continue to suffer from diseconomies of scale in production and
exchange of goods and services and access to export markets, due to their
geographic characteristics, and the main economic activities remain centered
around tourism, fisheries, forestry and agriculture, with remittances still
playing a significant role in the economy of several Pacific SIDS. The result has
been limited progress in structural transformations, slower development of
productive capacities and increased vulnerability to external shocks, such as
those arising from volatile commodity prices, climate change and natural
disasters.
In the framework of the above challenges, UNOPS is exploring
options to work with Pacific countries and support the attainment of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through expertise, best practices and
collaborations to fill the missing financing and technical know-how gaps needed
to develop sustainable projects.
In line with this background and with UNOPS’ corporate goal
to expand its operations across the Pacific, the Thailand Operational Hub
(THOH) is creating the position of Resource Mobilization Specialist to
specifically assist in the identification of new project opportunities in Papua
New Guinea.