Purpose and Scope of Assignment
The scope of this
assignment is to support the ...
Purpose and Scope of Assignment
The scope of this
assignment is to support the quality of JWP activities by providing substantive
input, drafting, assessing, reviewing and evaluating and facilitating selected
activities under the supervision of the Programme Management Unit of the JWP,
which is based at the Cities Alliance Secretariat. Under the guidance of the
Secretariat, the assignment may also entail collaboration and complementarity,
as appropriate, with other relevant assignments/consultants carrying out
expertise work for the Cities Alliance in similar or related areas/dossiers.
The assignment
covers the following areas:
- Area 1. How urban
development in general, and the role of city and regional governments in
particular, can be advanced internationally, based on the global sustainability
agendas recently adopted.
- Area 2. The use of the urban and
territorial lens for integrated monitoring and review of the SDGs.
- Area 3. Input and reaction around the
first New Urban Agenda Global Progress Report as well as the High-Level
Political Forum (HLPF) on sustainable development.
Monitoring and
Progress Controls
The assignment will
include the following tasks:
Area 1. How urban development in general, and the
role of city and regional governments in particular, can be advanced
internationally, based on the global sustainability agendas adopted in recent
years.
Work in this area
will aim to:
- Provide clarity on how the global sustainability
agendas impact on enabling environments (institutional, legal,
financial) for urban sustainability at the national and sub-national levels, as
well as on the mandates of sub-national governments.
- Identify effective
ways and map ongoing initiatives to interconnect and integrate these global
sustainability agendas at the national and sub-national levels for the purpose
of sustainable and equitable cities.
- Elaborate narrative
that resonates with and engages urban actors, such as organisations of the
urban poor, civil society organisations, philanthropy and local and national
private sectors.
- Contribute to
understanding what are the implications of the global sustainability agendas for sustainable urban
development reporting.
- Serve as basis for
clear guidance that both uses and promotes these global sustainability agendas
in a more coherent fashion; and, that promotes the common understanding, better
mobilisation and collaboration so essential for their effective implementation
and follow-up and review at the national and sub-national levels.
- Elaborate short background
papers on issues relevant for the implementation of the global agendas such as:
municipal finance, urban economics (formal and informal economy), urban governance
and planning and forced evictions.
Area 2. The use of the urban and territorial lens
for integrated monitoring and review of the SDGs.
Work in this area
will aim to:
- Demonstrate that
whether or not the convergent implementation of SDGs contributes to addressing
major human challenges depends to a great extent on planning, implementation
and monitoring strategies that have integration and interlinkages as
foundations.
- Go beyond the
common association of urban development and cities with SDG 11, which
significantly understates the many other SDGs and targets that are
indispensable to urban and territorial sustainability; as well as the potential
of the urban lens to accelerate the implementation of other SDGs.
- Develop
understanding about how multi-dimensional and interconnected challenges and
opportunities, as well as the multi-stakeholder partnerships so inherent to
cities are key vectors for accelerating the integrated implementation,
monitoring and review of all SDGs through multi-scale and cross-sectoral solutions.
- Provide diagnostic work on progress on the implementation of SDG11 and
the urban & territorial dimension of all SDGs, including from a regional
perspective.
- Provide clarity on how the implementation of the global sustainability
agendas offer opportunities for the engagement of sub-national governments and
local actors in follow-up and review mechanisms, including from national and
regional perspectives.
Area 3. Input and reaction around the first New
Urban Agenda Global Progress Report as well as the High-Level Political Forum
(HLPF) on sustainable development.
- Work in this area will aim to:
- Identify areas for engagement in the first Global Progress Report of the
New Urban.
- Identify areas for engagement in the HLPF.
- Provide diagnostic work on progress on the implementation of the New
Urban Agenda, including from national and regional perspectives.
- Support a clear articulation of the New Urban Agenda with other relevant
global agreements, including the SDGs at the international, national and sub-national
levels.
- Support the Programme Management Unit by mapping
relevant initiatives and stakeholders which could link to the JWP
In all three areas, the consultant will support the Programme Management
Unit with substantive input, drafting and peer review of knowledge products; as
well as with substantive input to and facilitation of the preparation and
proceedings of public events at international milestone gatherings.
Successful candidates will be contracted between the period of 2018 and
2019.
The time of service
will be up to a total of 50 days for service in any (one or more) of the above
areas.