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THE “URBAN, RESILIENCE AND LAND” (GPURL) GLOBAL PRACTICE
The World Bank Group (WBG) is embarking on its first FCV strategy, given the IDA 18/19 mandate for enhanced investments in FCV countries in Africa. To that end, the World Bank is pushing itself to learn, innovate, and adapt to develop approaches and operational models that provide critical development assistance at scale. The WBG’s experience in Africa offers important source of insight, drawing on an array of lessons learned from multi-sector operations in FCV or disaster-conflict nexus situations, such as in Somalia, North Eastern Nigeria, and Zimbabwe where at times no IDA funding could be provided to government due to their non-accrual status and the direct and innovative use of UN agencies was warranted.
For example, the 2017 Somalia Emergency Drought Response and Recovery Project (P163830) directly contracted through ICRC and FAO, while the 2019 Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project (P171114) disbursed to UN Office for Project Services, which is working with four other UN agencies for project implementation. In crisis-ridden North Eastern Nigeria, the 2016 Multi-sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (P157891) is implementing through government, bolstering citizen’s trust in the state to advance crisis recovery and peacebuilding. Further, given Somalia’s recent arrears clearance, the Bank approved the Somalia Crisis Recovery Project (P173315) in May 2020, which will utilize a hybrid approach by providing direct financing to government with implementation support through the civil society and UN technical agencies. Leveraging this learning and experience, the Africa GPURL DRM team in undertaking further multi-sector recovery and resilience programming, including ongoing and new operations.
Moreover the design and implementation of such crisis recovery operations require the conduct of state-of-the art post disaster assessments (PDNAs), recovery and peace building assessments (RPBAs), hybrid rapid assessments tools across PDNAs and RPBAs, and the development and operationalization of programmatic Recovery Frameworks through supplementary (often trust fund supported) technical assistance programs, which help ensure coordinated and synchronized crisis or disaster recovery across multiple partners and projects. An example of such an ongoing program is the DFID-funded ENSURE (Ensuring Sustained Recovery in the North East) in Nigeria, which is supporting a host of ongoing projects such as the Bank’s MCRP and other partner projects. Additionally, a number of COVID-19 related diagnostics and programmatic adjustments are required for the design and implementation of these ongoing and upcoming FCV operations.
The Africa Urban, Resilience and Land Unit would like to engage an ET Consultant (ETC) to provide specialized project preparation, technical assistance, and implementation support to the Task Teams on the above ongoing and upcoming FCV and conflict-disaster nexus operations and technical assistance programs in Somalia and Zimbabwe.
Duties And Responsibilities
The ET Consultant will undertake the following functions in support of the various Bank DRM Task Teams engaged in FCV, disaster-conflict nexus and COVID-19 operations in Somalia and Zimbabwe.
Support For Project Preparation In Somalia And Zimbabwe
Implementation Support For Ongoing Operations
Selection Criteria
This internal requisition is open to WBG and IMF staff only (including short-term and extended term consultants/ temporaries). External candidates are requested not to apply. In case an external candidate applies, their application will not be considered.
Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable for an additional one year, at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET Appointment of two years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their second-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.
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