THOH
Thailand Operations Hub (THOH) is a UNOPS business unit under the UNOPS
Asia Regional Office and it was established to better support, develop and
oversee the UNOPS portfolio of projects in South East Asia and the Pacific.
The Hub comprises three main portfolios
–THOH Thailand, THOH Indonesia and THOH Pacific and provides a wide range of
services including Project Management, Transactional HR, Financial, and
Procurement to clients that include other UN entities, INGOs and
governments/government agencies donors.
BRG Programme
Seasonal peatland fires are now
compromising Indonesia’s economic and social development by creating
considerable threats to health, the environment, and the economy. In 2015 peat
fires and their related haze resulted in the hospitalization of more than half
a million people due to acute respiratory infections. These fires that raged
through 2.6 million hectares of forest and peatland areas in the islands of
Kalimantan and Sumatra released 1.6 Gts of CO2e, surpassing the annual CO2 emissions
of advanced industrialized nations such as Germany, France, and others. Direct
and indirect damages cost the Indonesian national economy an estimated USD 16
billion, about 2% of its annual GDP.
In recognition of the importance of
peatlands for biodiversity
conservation, water resource management, reducing forest and land fires,
livelihood support for local communities and carbon storage, the Government of Indonesia
through Presidential Regulation No 1/2016 constituted the Peatland Restoration
Agency (BRG). BRG has an important mandate: prevent forest fires, especially in
peatland areas, as well as restore 2 million hectares of peatlands devastated
by forest and land fires. The Agency identified 7 target provinces for peatland
restoration and fire prevention activities in Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West
Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Papua.
Since its establishment in 2016, Norway
has been supporting BRG, as current support to the BRG by the Norwegian
Government falls within the wider partnership between Norway and Indonesia
established in 2010 through the Letter of Intent (LOI) to reduce emissions from
deforestation and land degradation of forests and peatlands with USD 1 billion
over the next few years. The USD 1 billion support is part of an international
climate mitigation initiative (UNFCCC) supported programme that uses
international aid to counter forest degradation in various parts of the world,
and this is one of the largest ever contribution made to reduce deforestation.
In the framework of this background,
Norway and BRG have asked UNOPS to develop a flexible multiyear administrative
support mechanism for managing Norway’s financial support to BRG through the
establishment of the BRG Results Enabling Facility (BRG REF). The mechanism has
within its scope a back-office management component and a service, procurement,
grants management and a delivery component.
A strong Monitoring and Evaluation
(M&E) function is an integral part of the Fund management structure and in
this regard, THOH is hiring for the post of M&E Advisor. The purpose of
this post is to coordinate the effective monitoring and evaluation of BRG REF’s
work in line with its Programme Plan as well as to support BRG
in ensuring effective monitoring and evaluation of its various projects and
initiatives. The incumbent is expected to establish a
conceptual framework for the M&E practice, provide leadership to strengthen
BRG REF’s capacity, and to develop systems and engagement strategies to enable BRG
REF to:
- Effectively monitor and evaluate progress against its Programme Plan,
and regularly derive evidence-based data and information feeding into
organizational and wider sector knowledge and learning.
- Enhance BRG’s capacity in
effective M&E.
- Identify and collaborate on evaluation research initiatives of relevance
to the sector as a whole.
- Represent BRG Fund in inter-agency meetings and high-level forums on M&E.
- Develop partnerships and facilitate inter-institutional relations with relevant
key research institutions.