UNOPS Bangladesh
UNOPS has been
present in Bangladesh since 2003, initially providing operational support
programme focusing on police reforms and disaster management. The presence has
significantly grown since then with UNOPS being appointed as Local Fund Agent
for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Bangladesh.
In 2014, UNOPS
established formal representation in Bangladesh as a response to a request from
the Executive Board of UNOPS to provide more substantial support to the
Government of Bangladesh (GOB) across various areas, including organisational
capacity development and integrating resilient infrastructure approaches. The
office provided capacity development support to several GOB infrastructure-related
agencies and key national NGOs focusing on improving operational capacities
within the sectors of procurement, human resources management, finance and
internal control, and project management.
Moving
forward, UNOPS, in line with its global priorities is expanding its portfolio
within Bangladesh to provide more significant support in the sectors of
resilient infrastructure, fund management and operational efficiency with an
emphasis on building national capacities, improving resilience of communities
and supporting in the implementation of SDGs.
Building on
its global expertise in Fund Management, UNOPS is working with development
partners in the country in setting up a development fund that will support
humanitarian, disaster management and early recovery sectors.
General Background on the Assignment
Strengthening
Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Programme (SHPR)
DFID–Bangladesh (DfID-B) Strengthening
Humanitarian Preparedness and Response (SHPR) programme aims to provide more
effective, timely and predictable humanitarian support to refugees in
Bangladesh and to vulnerable communities following disasters. It also aims to
strengthen the ability of the Government of Bangladesh to effectively meet the
needs of these groups, and to reduce the scale of impact of disasters when they
occur.
The principal objectives of the SHPR are
articulated around three Pillars:
Pillar 1: Augment disaster
preparedness and disaster risk reduction including for large‐scale catastrophic
emergencies and recurrent, predictable events;
Pillar 2: Respond to the impact of
disaster events through the provision of predictable, timely and high quality
humanitarian support;
Pillar 3: Deliver urgent humanitarian
support to Rohingya refugees and needy host communities as well as creating an
enabling environment for Rohingya related relief agencies through support to
coordination fora.
The SHPR will be initially established
as a facility to support DFID funding only. Depending on its successful
implementation, and possible appetite from other donors to coordinate their
humanitarian funding through a joint platform, the Programme may be upgraded to
a multi donor programme at a later stage.
DFID has requested UNOPS to provide fund
management services for SHPR. As the Fund Manager, UNOPS will be responsible for
multiple functions vis-à-vis the SHPR Programme including, design of an early
recovery/emergency response facility, fiduciary management, legal and technical
oversight, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, quality assurance and communication. UNOPS will also be required
to support DFID in its humanitarian agenda from the onset of this project.
Purpose and Scope of Assignment
UNOPS seeks an
experienced humanitarian professional to support, inform and help shape SHPR’s
humanitarian actions. The position requires a deep knowledge of the country’s humanitarian
and DRR agenda, it’s humanitarian architecture and the key actors in the sector.