UN-World Bank Liaison Specialist

The UN – World Bank partnership in Somalia has grown considerably because the World Bank’s re-engagement in 2012. Since 2017, a devoted UN – World Bank Liaison operate has supported an growing strategic, operational and analytical partnership. The UN-WB Liaison Specialist has efficiently superior areas of joint curiosity specializing in state- and institution-building processes, together with the development of humanitarian and growth collaboration within the context of a number of shocks and the institution of strategic partnership priorities throughout UN and World Bank. 

Since IDA re-engagement in March 2020, the UN and the World Bank have elevated their operational partnership. The ‘hybrid implementation mannequin” permits the federal government to contract UN companies for service supply in World Bank financed operations. The UN – World Bank Liaison Specialist has supported World Bank Country Management, activity groups, the federal government in addition to UN companies all through the operational engagement, within the context of a number of shocks, akin to flood and drought response. This contains recommendation on contractual elements, danger administration and monitoring of this operational partnership. To date, about US$450 million has been dedicated by Government to UN companies throughout six initiatives, with further contracts which are forthcoming.

UN and World Bank management proceed to reaffirm their dedication to the partnership and cite the liaison operate as world finest follow to help an efficient partnership between each organisations. In the context of the rising strategic, analytical and strategic partnership, expanded help for a technique and operations place is an element of a bigger proposal aimed toward strengthening the UN-WB partnership in Somalia, constructing on progress thus far.

The UN-World Bank Liaison Specialist helps UN and World Bank management in advancing the strategic and operational UN-World Bank partnership in Somalia. The Liaison Specialist will help the alignment, coherence, and complementarity of nation engagement frameworks between the FGS, UN and the World Bank to help complementary help to state- and institution-building. The Specialist will improve danger administration throughout UN and World Bank operations and lead the event of information administration of the UN-World Bank partnership.

• Advance the strategic & operational partnership in a post-HIPC setting to proceed the joint help to state- and institution-building capabilities.
• Provide liaison help throughout the UN and World Bank at each strategic and technical ranges.
• Facilitate common discussions between UN-WB management on the partnership at nation stage, together with an annual assessment of commitments on agreed priorities for the partnership.
• Produce analytical merchandise and updates on operational UN-WB partnership to tell nation stage management. 
• Advise UN and World Bank management on transition preparations to Federal Government of Somalia in UN applied, World Bank financed operations.
• Promote collaboration and innovation between the UN and World Bank on cross-cutting points, notably youth inclusion, gender equality and ladies’s empowerment, resilience and restoration, and the setting and local weather change.
• Strengthen the complementarity of geographic and family stage focusing on, together with relating to gender inclusivity and inter-operability of various response modalities, particularly for cash-based help.

• Advise and help UN, World Bank and Government within the formulation and implementation of nation engagement paperwork together with company and nationwide assessments and plans, together with for inclusion of gender views (NDP, Country Partnership Framework, UNSDCF and many others.).
• Advise and help authorities, UN, WB and donor group with the event and monitoring of joint precedence framework following HIPC completion (such because the Mutual Accountability Framework) with substantive preparations for top stage coverage boards.

• Monitor and report on challenges throughout the operational portfolio and recommend options if and the place attainable.
• Advise UN and World Bank management, UN companies and World Bank Task Teams on finest follow on danger administration for UN implementation contracts in World Bank financed operations. 
• Strengthen danger administration approaches particularly relating to focusing on, monitoring and implementation associated dangers in World Bank financed operations with UN implementation help.

• Produce analytical merchandise and updates on operational UN-WB partnership to trace progress and inform coordination efforts at each a strategic and technical stage. These also needs to be shared at nation and world stage to tell world coverage dialogue.
• Promote info sharing and dialogue throughout the UN-WB, with authorities and the Somalia Donor Group.
• Develop classes and good follow on operational engagement in addition to challenges requiring additional motion.

• Advise and help growth and monitoring of UN commitments on the ‘’Use of Country Systems’’ (UCS) via a devoted roadmap.
• Promote strengthening of and improved UCS from “on plan” to “on treasury.”
• In collaboration with Risk Management Unit, help the annual reporting of UN contributions “on budget” and
• Advise and help monitoring of capability help to authorities and advance using nation techniques for UN-led capability strengthening.

• Core Competencies:

Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align difficult, achievable goals for a number of initiatives, have lasting influence.

Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential dangers, develop new concepts to unravel complicated issues.

Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on alternatives to develop horizons, diversify experiences.

Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively provoke and champion change, handle a number of competing calls for 

Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think past rapid activity/limitations and take motion to realize better outcomes.

Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complicated panorama, champion inter-agency collaboration.

Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate advantages of various workforce and champion inclusivity.

• Cross Functional and  Technical Competencies:

Partnership administration – Strategic engagement: Ability to seize and maintain consideration, curiosity and settlement of high-level, influential coverage and determination makers and safe their buy-in of high-level imaginative and prescient and goals.