Recently, the UNOPS, UN Development
Programme (UNDP) and UN Women developed the ...
Recently, the UNOPS, UN Development
Programme (UNDP) and UN Women developed the joint programme in Bangladesh which
aims to sustain the resilience of human and economic development in Bangladesh
through inclusive, gender responsive disaster management and risk informed
environment. This joint programme
focuses on developing national capacities in the areas of: risk-informed and render-responsive
development planning, capacities to address mega disasters in gender responsive
manner, improved capacities of selected public institutions to achieve
resilient institutions through risk-informed, gender-responsive infrastructure
systems, enhance women’s leadership disaster response and management; and
finally, to strengthen community-level preparedness, response and recovery
capacities.
Under the Joint Programme, UNOPS in
particular is providing technical assistance to Local Government Engineering
Department (LGED) and other public institutions to achieve resilience outcomes
through designing and constructing risk-informed, gender responsive
infrastructure system and lay the foundations for long-term resilience actions
in socially inclusive infrastructure systems in Bangladesh. In particular,
UNOPS will contribute to the achievement of the over-all programme by:
- Strengthening LGED asset management
system and decision making capacities for determining priorities associated
with new development, maintenance and/or retrofitting of existing assets;
- Strengthening project evaluation criteria
and capacities within LGED and other divisions, improve coordination and reduce
duplication;
- Creating an applied understanding and
capacity to introduce the concept of failure analysis to enhance
build-back-better in reconstruction;
- Strengthening LGED professional
capacities for Junior and mid-level engineers in the areas of design,
construction and management/maintenance of resilient infrastructures;
Within this
context, UNOPS is a need of Project Associate that will provide support to the
project implementation in the areas of liaison, reporting, training and
coordination.
The Project Associate shall have a direct reporting line
to the Team Leader and will support the overall coordination of activities with
the implementing partners, assist in report preparations and coordination of
training activities.