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Mission and objectives
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System. It serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a continuous spectrum of in-depth local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN Guiding Principles) is widely recognized as the most authoritative, normative framework guiding efforts to reduce or eliminate the adverse impact of business operations on human rights. Experts have described it as the single most important innovation in promoting sustainable business practices in the last 25 years – a role that is reinforced by its inclusion as one of the Means of Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda).
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN Guiding Principles) is widely recognized as the most authoritative, normative framework guiding efforts to reduce or eliminate the adverse impact of business operations on human rights. Experts have described it as the single most important innovation in promoting sustainable business practices in the last 25 years – a role that is reinforced by its inclusion as one of the Means of Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda).
Context
The Peace Support Facility (PSF) is a Government of Ethiopia endorsed UNDP mechanism that supports stabilization and early recovery in conflict-affected areas of Tigray, Amhara, and Afar. It was established to help bridge the gap between humanitarian response and longer-term reconstruction by enabling local authorities to restore essential services, re-establish governance, and create the conditions for sustainable peace.
Rather than acting as an implementing project, the PSF functions as a facilitator and learning platform. It strengthens national and regional systems, supports local administrations to plan and deliver integrated recovery interventions, and documents practical lessons that inform policy and programming. Its area-based, stabilization-first approach has proven effective in re-building trust, accelerating returns, and preventing renewed conflict.
Through the Integrated Woreda Action Plan (iWAP) process, the PSF works with woreda administrations and communities to identify priorities and design short, sequenced packages of interventions that deliver visible results within 12–14 months. These typically include the rehabilitation of local governance and justice offices, health and education facilities, and water schemes; the re-activation of community peace and dialogue platforms; and support for income-generating activities—particularly for women, youth, and displaced households. The Facility’s focus on joint planning, technical accompaniment, and participatory monitoring ensures that recovery efforts are locally owned and aligned with regional and national frameworks.
Since its establishment, the PSF has supported over twenty woredas, helping restore 248 government institutions, rehabilitate 65 water schemes, 64 schools, and 22 health facilities, and enable more than 11,000 people to restart income-generating activities. It has also provided psychosocial support to nearly 9,000 individuals and trained over 3,500 peace and justice actors. Several of the woredas and justice offices supported through the PSF have since received national awards for innovation and performance—recognition of a model that combines speed, quality, and local leadership.
The Facility operates through the National Implementation Modality, under the leadership of the Ministry of Finance and the Regional Recovery and Reconstruction Offices (RROs). These structures ensure government ownership and coordination across sectors, while the PSF provides technical support, quality assurance, and adaptive management tools, including a GIS-based monitoring system and micro-survey mechanisms.
As Ethiopia’s only dedicated stabilization platform, the PSF demonstrates that targeted, well-sequenced investments can deliver measurable peace dividends. It strengthens the legitimacy of local institutions, promotes social cohesion, and enables displaced families to rebuild their lives. The next programme cycle will expand the Facility’s reach to new woredas and consolidate its role as a trusted mechanism for government-led stabilization and learning.
Geographic Focus: Based in Mekelle with regular travel in Tigray and occasional travel to Addis Ababa and other regions. Tigray, Mekelle with frequent travel to target woredas
Rather than acting as an implementing project, the PSF functions as a facilitator and learning platform. It strengthens national and regional systems, supports local administrations to plan and deliver integrated recovery interventions, and documents practical lessons that inform policy and programming. Its area-based, stabilization-first approach has proven effective in re-building trust, accelerating returns, and preventing renewed conflict.
Through the Integrated Woreda Action Plan (iWAP) process, the PSF works with woreda administrations and communities to identify priorities and design short, sequenced packages of interventions that deliver visible results within 12–14 months. These typically include the rehabilitation of local governance and justice offices, health and education facilities, and water schemes; the re-activation of community peace and dialogue platforms; and support for income-generating activities—particularly for women, youth, and displaced households. The Facility’s focus on joint planning, technical accompaniment, and participatory monitoring ensures that recovery efforts are locally owned and aligned with regional and national frameworks.
Since its establishment, the PSF has supported over twenty woredas, helping restore 248 government institutions, rehabilitate 65 water schemes, 64 schools, and 22 health facilities, and enable more than 11,000 people to restart income-generating activities. It has also provided psychosocial support to nearly 9,000 individuals and trained over 3,500 peace and justice actors. Several of the woredas and justice offices supported through the PSF have since received national awards for innovation and performance—recognition of a model that combines speed, quality, and local leadership.
The Facility operates through the National Implementation Modality, under the leadership of the Ministry of Finance and the Regional Recovery and Reconstruction Offices (RROs). These structures ensure government ownership and coordination across sectors, while the PSF provides technical support, quality assurance, and adaptive management tools, including a GIS-based monitoring system and micro-survey mechanisms.
As Ethiopia’s only dedicated stabilization platform, the PSF demonstrates that targeted, well-sequenced investments can deliver measurable peace dividends. It strengthens the legitimacy of local institutions, promotes social cohesion, and enables displaced families to rebuild their lives. The next programme cycle will expand the Facility’s reach to new woredas and consolidate its role as a trusted mechanism for government-led stabilization and learning.
Geographic Focus: Based in Mekelle with regular travel in Tigray and occasional travel to Addis Ababa and other regions. Tigray, Mekelle with frequent travel to target woredas
Task description
The overall scope of Work expected Roles and responsibilities for the specialist Incumbent will include.
Area 1: Area-Based Assessment and Action Planning (iWAPs and AWPs)
Under the overall guidance of the Senior Peace Support Specialist, the Livelihood and Economic Recovery Specialist will support government-led, area-based planning processes that translate local recovery priorities into actionable, sequenced, and costed plans.
• Support the design and implementation of area-based economic recovery and livelihoods assessments in PSF target woredas, in close collaboration with regional, woreda, and kebele authorities.
• Lead and coordinate the collection, consolidation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data related to local economic conditions, livelihood systems, market functionality, MSMEs, cooperatives, and vulnerable population groups, including IDPs, returnees, women, and youth.
• Facilitate structured consultations and participatory planning processes with regional bureaus, woreda sector offices, kebele administrations, community representatives, and local economic actors to identify priorities, constraints, and opportunities for economic recovery and livelihood restoration.
• Support local authorities and communities to prioritize recovery actions using transparent and conflict-sensitive criteria, ensuring inclusion, feasibility, and alignment with stabilization objectives.
• Contribute to the drafting and consolidation of Integrated Woreda Action Plans (iWAPs), with a specific focus on livelihoods and local economic recovery components, including objectives, intervention packages, sequencing, roles and responsibilities, cost estimates, and monitoring indicators.
• Ensure iWAPs are aligned with regional and national recovery frameworks, PSF stabilization principles, and relevant sectoral strategies, and that they are validated and endorsed through government-led processes.
• Translate approved iWAP priorities into Annual Work Plans (AWPs) by supporting the definition of concrete activities, deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, and implementation arrangements.
• Provide technical guidance and quality assurance to ensure that iWAPs and AWPs are realistic, implementable within PSF timeframes, and grounded in local capacities and market conditions.
• Support capacity strengthening of woreda and kebele counterparts on assessment methodologies, participatory planning, and results-based action planning, as required.
• Document key findings, planning assumptions, and decision points from assessment and planning processes to support PSF monitoring, learning, and adaptive management.
Area 2: Implementation Support and Operational Accompaniment of Livelihood and Economic Recovery Interventions
The Livelihood and Economic Recovery Specialist will support the effective roll-out of approved iWAP and AWP livelihood and economic recovery interventions in target woredas.
• Provide technical accompaniment to regional and woreda authorities during the implementation of livelihood and local economic recovery activities defined in the iWAPs and AWPs.
• Support the operationalization of income-generating activities, including support to MSMEs, cooperatives, women and youth groups, and displacement-affected households, ensuring alignment with approved plans and budgets.
• Assist local authorities in the preparation of implementation packages, including beneficiary targeting criteria, activity sequencing, and basic operational guidelines.
• Conduct regular field visits to monitor progress, identify bottlenecks, and support problem-solving with local counterparts in real time.
• Provide technical advice on market-based approaches, value chain strengthening, entrepreneurship support, and local business recovery strategies adapted to post-conflict contexts.
• Ensure that interventions integrate conflict sensitivity, social cohesion considerations, and inclusion of vulnerable groups.
• Support coordination with relevant humanitarian, development, and private sector actors at local level to avoid duplication and promote complementarities.
• Contribute to monitoring and reporting by tracking outputs, identifying implementation risks, and proposing corrective measures where needed.
• Capture implementation lessons, practical challenges, and emerging good practices to inform adaptive management and future planning cycles.
Area 3: Knowledge Management, Learning, and Policy Feedback
The Livelihood and Economic Recovery Specialist will support systematic learning from implementation to strengthen programme quality, accountability, and policy engagement.
• Support the design and implementation of data collection systems for livelihoods and economic recovery interventions, ensuring alignment with PSF monitoring frameworks and tools, including the GIS platform, dashboards, micro-surveys, and other digital monitoring systems.
• Collect, validate, and analyze implementation data from iWAPs and AWPs to track progress, identify trends, and inform adaptive management at woreda, regional, and national levels.
• Contribute to the preparation of high-quality knowledge products, including analytical briefs, case studies, lessons-learned notes, and thematic reports on livelihoods and local economic recovery in post-conflict settings.
• Document good practices, operational innovations, and effective delivery models emerging from PSF-supported interventions, with attention to scalability and policy relevance.
• Identify implementation challenges, constraints, and enabling factors, and translate these into actionable recommendations for programme adjustment and future planning cycles.
• Prepare human-interest stories and field-based narratives that highlight community-level impact, beneficiary perspectives, and peace dividends linked to economic recovery interventions.
• Contribute to the preparation of annual reports, donor updates, and internal progress reports related to livelihoods and economic recovery components of the PSF.
• Support structured learning processes, including after-action reviews, reflection workshops, and joint learning sessions with government counterparts and partners.
• Ensure systematic storage, organization, and accessibility of livelihoods-related data, documentation, and learning products within PSF knowledge repositories.
• Feed evidence, lessons learned, and field insights into policy dialogue, programme design discussions, and resource mobilization efforts led by UNDP and government counterparts.
Area 4: Cross-Cutting Technical Support and Programme Integration
The Livelihood and Economic Recovery Specialist will provide cross-cutting technical support across PSF programme areas, contributing to integrated planning, implementation, and learning.
• Provide flexible technical support to PSF teams across sectors, including governance, peacebuilding, basic services, and social cohesion, ensuring that economic recovery and livelihoods perspectives are integrated into all relevant interventions.
• Contribute to joint assessments, planning processes, and field missions with other PSF thematic teams, supporting integrated and area-based programming at woreda and community levels.
• Support the integration of livelihoods and economic recovery considerations into non-economic interventions, including infrastructure rehabilitation, basic service restoration, peace platforms, and return and reintegration initiatives.
• Provide surge support during peak planning, implementation, or reporting periods, responding to evolving programme needs and operational priorities.
• Contribute to internal coordination, information sharing, and quality assurance processes across PSF teams, including participation in internal review meetings and technical working sessions.
• Support the preparation of cross-sectoral reports, briefing notes, presentations, and donor-facing materials that require integrated analysis and inputs across programme areas.
• Act as a technical resource person for economic recovery and livelihoods within PSF, responding to ad hoc technical requests from programme management and other thematic leads.
• Promote coherence and complementarity across PSF-supported interventions by identifying linkages, synergies, and sequencing opportunities between livelihoods, governance, peacebuilding, and basic service recovery.
• Support capacity strengthening of government counterparts and partners on integrated, area-based recovery approaches, as required. and Contribute to a collaborative team culture by working across functional boundaries and supporting collective delivery of PSF objectives.
Area 1: Area-Based Assessment and Action Planning (iWAPs and AWPs)
Under the overall guidance of the Senior Peace Support Specialist, the Livelihood and Economic Recovery Specialist will support government-led, area-based planning processes that translate local recovery priorities into actionable, sequenced, and costed plans.
• Support the design and implementation of area-based economic recovery and livelihoods assessments in PSF target woredas, in close collaboration with regional, woreda, and kebele authorities.
• Lead and coordinate the collection, consolidation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data related to local economic conditions, livelihood systems, market functionality, MSMEs, cooperatives, and vulnerable population groups, including IDPs, returnees, women, and youth.
• Facilitate structured consultations and participatory planning processes with regional bureaus, woreda sector offices, kebele administrations, community representatives, and local economic actors to identify priorities, constraints, and opportunities for economic recovery and livelihood restoration.
• Support local authorities and communities to prioritize recovery actions using transparent and conflict-sensitive criteria, ensuring inclusion, feasibility, and alignment with stabilization objectives.
• Contribute to the drafting and consolidation of Integrated Woreda Action Plans (iWAPs), with a specific focus on livelihoods and local economic recovery components, including objectives, intervention packages, sequencing, roles and responsibilities, cost estimates, and monitoring indicators.
• Ensure iWAPs are aligned with regional and national recovery frameworks, PSF stabilization principles, and relevant sectoral strategies, and that they are validated and endorsed through government-led processes.
• Translate approved iWAP priorities into Annual Work Plans (AWPs) by supporting the definition of concrete activities, deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, and implementation arrangements.
• Provide technical guidance and quality assurance to ensure that iWAPs and AWPs are realistic, implementable within PSF timeframes, and grounded in local capacities and market conditions.
• Support capacity strengthening of woreda and kebele counterparts on assessment methodologies, participatory planning, and results-based action planning, as required.
• Document key findings, planning assumptions, and decision points from assessment and planning processes to support PSF monitoring, learning, and adaptive management.
Area 2: Implementation Support and Operational Accompaniment of Livelihood and Economic Recovery Interventions
The Livelihood and Economic Recovery Specialist will support the effective roll-out of approved iWAP and AWP livelihood and economic recovery interventions in target woredas.
• Provide technical accompaniment to regional and woreda authorities during the implementation of livelihood and local economic recovery activities defined in the iWAPs and AWPs.
• Support the operationalization of income-generating activities, including support to MSMEs, cooperatives, women and youth groups, and displacement-affected households, ensuring alignment with approved plans and budgets.
• Assist local authorities in the preparation of implementation packages, including beneficiary targeting criteria, activity sequencing, and basic operational guidelines.
• Conduct regular field visits to monitor progress, identify bottlenecks, and support problem-solving with local counterparts in real time.
• Provide technical advice on market-based approaches, value chain strengthening, entrepreneurship support, and local business recovery strategies adapted to post-conflict contexts.
• Ensure that interventions integrate conflict sensitivity, social cohesion considerations, and inclusion of vulnerable groups.
• Support coordination with relevant humanitarian, development, and private sector actors at local level to avoid duplication and promote complementarities.
• Contribute to monitoring and reporting by tracking outputs, identifying implementation risks, and proposing corrective measures where needed.
• Capture implementation lessons, practical challenges, and emerging good practices to inform adaptive management and future planning cycles.
Area 3: Knowledge Management, Learning, and Policy Feedback
The Livelihood and Economic Recovery Specialist will support systematic learning from implementation to strengthen programme quality, accountability, and policy engagement.
• Support the design and implementation of data collection systems for livelihoods and economic recovery interventions, ensuring alignment with PSF monitoring frameworks and tools, including the GIS platform, dashboards, micro-surveys, and other digital monitoring systems.
• Collect, validate, and analyze implementation data from iWAPs and AWPs to track progress, identify trends, and inform adaptive management at woreda, regional, and national levels.
• Contribute to the preparation of high-quality knowledge products, including analytical briefs, case studies, lessons-learned notes, and thematic reports on livelihoods and local economic recovery in post-conflict settings.
• Document good practices, operational innovations, and effective delivery models emerging from PSF-supported interventions, with attention to scalability and policy relevance.
• Identify implementation challenges, constraints, and enabling factors, and translate these into actionable recommendations for programme adjustment and future planning cycles.
• Prepare human-interest stories and field-based narratives that highlight community-level impact, beneficiary perspectives, and peace dividends linked to economic recovery interventions.
• Contribute to the preparation of annual reports, donor updates, and internal progress reports related to livelihoods and economic recovery components of the PSF.
• Support structured learning processes, including after-action reviews, reflection workshops, and joint learning sessions with government counterparts and partners.
• Ensure systematic storage, organization, and accessibility of livelihoods-related data, documentation, and learning products within PSF knowledge repositories.
• Feed evidence, lessons learned, and field insights into policy dialogue, programme design discussions, and resource mobilization efforts led by UNDP and government counterparts.
Area 4: Cross-Cutting Technical Support and Programme Integration
The Livelihood and Economic Recovery Specialist will provide cross-cutting technical support across PSF programme areas, contributing to integrated planning, implementation, and learning.
• Provide flexible technical support to PSF teams across sectors, including governance, peacebuilding, basic services, and social cohesion, ensuring that economic recovery and livelihoods perspectives are integrated into all relevant interventions.
• Contribute to joint assessments, planning processes, and field missions with other PSF thematic teams, supporting integrated and area-based programming at woreda and community levels.
• Support the integration of livelihoods and economic recovery considerations into non-economic interventions, including infrastructure rehabilitation, basic service restoration, peace platforms, and return and reintegration initiatives.
• Provide surge support during peak planning, implementation, or reporting periods, responding to evolving programme needs and operational priorities.
• Contribute to internal coordination, information sharing, and quality assurance processes across PSF teams, including participation in internal review meetings and technical working sessions.
• Support the preparation of cross-sectoral reports, briefing notes, presentations, and donor-facing materials that require integrated analysis and inputs across programme areas.
• Act as a technical resource person for economic recovery and livelihoods within PSF, responding to ad hoc technical requests from programme management and other thematic leads.
• Promote coherence and complementarity across PSF-supported interventions by identifying linkages, synergies, and sequencing opportunities between livelihoods, governance, peacebuilding, and basic service recovery.
• Support capacity strengthening of government counterparts and partners on integrated, area-based recovery approaches, as required. and Contribute to a collaborative team culture by working across functional boundaries and supporting collective delivery of PSF objectives.
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