Anticipatory Finance Consultant

vor 2 Wochen

Geneve, Schweiz United Nations Vollzeit

Result of Service
National governments are capacitated to estimate an anticipatory finance envelope for prioritized hazards, and are better able to co-ordinate streams of anticipatory finance, including initiate thinking around re-shaping existing approaches and funding instruments to make them more conducive for anticipatory action and risk reduction.

Work Location
Home based

Expected duration
7.5 months

**Responsibilities**:
About UNDRR

UNDRR was established in 1999 as a dedicated secretariat to facilitate the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). It is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution (56/195) to serve as the focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations system and regional organizations and activities in socio-economic and humanitarian fields. Upon the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 by all UN member states in March 2015, UNDRR was tasked by the UN General Assembly to support the implementation, follow-up and review of the Framework. As a part of its normative mandate, UNDRR is supporting countries, in particular least developed and small island countries, in the development, implementation and monitoring of progress of national and local disaster risk reduction strategies. UNDRR thereby focuses particularly on ensuring a comprehensive and inclusive approach to disaster risk reduction, in raising awareness and engaging representatives of all relevant stakeholder groups in the strategy discussions.

Background and Context

Anticipatory action (AA) has increasingly gained traction in recent years given its potential to greatly reduce the multifaceted impacts of disasters, alleviate pressures on humanitarian response needs, and build resilience of communities and systems. By using forecasted parametric triggers and ex ante financing in early action windows, AA can provide more predictable funding compared to traditional, risk-averse humanitarian funding as well as reduce the lag between fully manifested impacts of disasters and release of funds. Anticipatory finance can enable the humanitarian system to act earlier, at scale, either before the shock has occurred to enable households to reduce risks, prepare and manage the consequences (“early action”), or very soon after the shock (“early” or “timely response”) to limit disaster impacts address humanitarian needs, and enhance recovery.

While anticipatory action initiatives are currently active in more than 60 countries in the world, most of them are limited to the pilot and testing stages. Additionally, current AA initiatives focus on managing residual risks rather than supplementing them to address political, economic, and institutional factors that limit preventative action or considering how anticipatory finance can be pre-positioned and triggered for other stages of disaster management cycle - recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation. Addressing these as well as expanding flexible and coordinated financing, investing in predictive risk analytics, building evidence frameworks, and investing in local capacity, ownership and sustainability will be critical to scale up AA significantly and systematically.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Programme Management Officer leading the work on Anticipatory Finance, the consultant will be responsible for developing and prototype testing an anticipatory finance diagnostic toolkit at country level for governments and humanitarian actors to assess historical financial needs for disaster-induced humanitarian actions, current landscape of humanitarian financing streams in the country, and which of these streams, including national, bilateral, and multilateral, can be coordinated for anticipatory finance. The tool will aim to support national governments to estimate an anticipatory finance envelope for prioritized hazards, provide a basis for co-ordination of existing anticipatory finance, support identification of new streams for anticipatory action, and more importantly, initiate thinking around re-shaping existing approaches and funding instruments to make them more conducive for anticipatory action and risk reduction. Key responsibilities of the consultant include:
Develop a detailed work plan to carry out the assignment which should include a contextual overview and background, the proposed approach and methodology to develop and test the tool in one country, activities and timelines, and a stakeholder analysis to define and convene an expert reference group1.

Conduct an in-dept review of studies, methodologies, and tools on humanitarian financing, pre-arranged finance, and disaster risk finance to assess critical gaps, opportunities and requirements which can inform the diagnostic tool design.

Conduct technical consultations with the expert refe

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