Under the supervision and overall guidance of the Directorate of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific and its communications adviser, based in NY Headquarters, and in close collaboration with the UNDP regional communications adviser in Bangkok, the consultant will perform the following tasks:
Read and review the success stories and related material received from UNDP Country Offices;Analyze the lessons learned from each of the stories and their relevance to the priorities laid out in the UNDP Strategic Plan;In consultation with the RBAP directorate, assist in selecting the stories that will be included in the compendium of success stories.The stories should represent priority programming areas, including poverty, local development, democratic governance, crisis and post conflict, and energy and environment.Prepare a write up for each of the success stories, and in doing so, adhere to the following requirements, which Country Offices have been requested to meet as well:
Accentuate how the selected projects help achieve development goals in the country of origin;Place special emphasis on the role that gender, capacity development, knowledge sharing and partnerships played in the achievement of results, considering especially the middle income context of most of the countries in the region;Specify the role that UNDP has played in carrying out the project. What is UNDP’s value added? What did it bring in terms of project implementation and approach that no other organization or entity could have provided?Explain how the results achieved at the project level contributed to addressing overall development outcomes and impacted on addressing the countries’ key development challenges;Adapt the language and contents to the target audiences, which comprise government officials, donor representatives, development practitioners and the general public;Prepare short and more punctuated versions of the write-ups for inclusion in the web-based platforms and systems, including the soon to be rolled out Content Management System;Assist in writing up the overarching narrative which helps link and bind the selected success stories together, under a common analytical framework aligned with UNDP corporate policy and priorities;Assist the regional communications specialists in seeking additional inputs and clarifications from UNDP staff and project personnel associated with the success stories and their publication.Outputs
The deliverables of the consultancy will comprise the following:
Fifteen (15) write ups of about 1200-1400 word each. These write-ups will be compiled into a single publication;Develop a coherent and consistent format for each story, based on existing templates for success stories, including web-based templates and the Content Management System;Correspond through established channels of communication (i.e. the RBAP communications advisers in NY and Bangkok) with focal points in country offices to review/validate written material and obtain clarifications, and or additional data, photos and materials as required;A 2-3 page executive summary for the publication;A final draft of the publication report, which should be about 60-80 pages in length depending on the number of stories and length of each story, font size and spacing, ready to be submitted to graphic designer.View the original article here
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