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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
This project goals to conduct a complete study on financing choices for shock-responsive social safety in Viet Nam.
Background:
Viet Nam’s fast financial improvement in the previous many years has put super strain on the setting. The nation has skilled fast urbanization and industrialization, resulting in elevated ranges of air pollution, notably in city facilities. Air and water air pollution, waste administration points, and useful resource depletion have been exacerbated by the quick tempo of financial progress. Viet Nam was ranked the thirteenth most affected nation globally by local weather vulnerability and excessive climate occasions between 2000 and 2019 with an estimated lack of 3.2 per cent of GDP in 2020. Over the final three many years, Viet Nam has suffered a mean annual lack of 1-1.5 per cent of GDP and a mean of 430 deaths attributable to climate-related disasters. The impression of local weather change has been extra extreme, together with rising sea ranges and saline intrusion affecting the plain areas such because the Mekong Delta; excessive weather conditions eroding agriculture, tourism, and infrastructure; rising warmth affecting labor productiveness throughout financial sectors; and extra extreme and frequent floods and droughts. Climate adjustments has elevated youngsters’s vulnerability, particularly in Viet Nam the place 95% of youngsters are uncovered to 4 or extra local weather dangers – in comparability to 68% in the East Asia and the Pacific area and 38% globally.
Currently, Viet Nam continues to be making vital efforts to reply to the devastating impacts of Typhoon Yagi, probably the most highly effective storm in 30 years. Government stories point out that greater than 350 individuals are both useless or lacking. The hardest-hit provinces are home to over 19 million individuals, together with 5.5 million youngsters. Among them, greater than 150,000 youngsters with disabilities reside in the affected areas. Homes, healthcare amenities, faculties, and water and energy techniques have been broken, severely impacting thousands and thousands of households. The estimated complete value of injury from Typhoon Yagi is roughly US$1.6 billion. Overall, Viet Nam is prone to incur, on common, VND 30.2 trillion (USD 1.4 billion) per yr in direct losses from floods, typhoons, and earthquakes.
Shock responsive social safety is a brand new idea in Viet Nam. However, there’s a vary of challenges in the creation of an efficient and environment friendly, fast, and sufficient emergency response system. There are only a few catastrophe threat insurance coverage merchandise in Viet Nam and primarily focused at giant organizations and company, energy vegetation, industrial vegetation and authorities companies. As a end result, affected populations typically don’t obtain an sufficient stage of assist in comparability to the injury {that a} catastrophe might have brought about to their livelihoods. The application course of for further funds from central authorities by native governments tends to take time, typically ensuing in individuals failing to obtain well timed assist. Furthermore, native authorities’s predominant focus is on short-term emergency reduction, offered instantly after pure disasters and principally via in-kind support. Cash assist is barely offered in chosen circumstances in response to the just lately revised Decree 20 (in July 2024) on social help and never based mostly on wants evaluation however property injury. Finally, there’s restricted native capability to forecast want for efficient and environment friendly planning and budgeting for emergency response in addition to capacity to evaluate injury and determine individuals’s wants, dangers and vulnerabilities.
In 2021, UNICEF carried out a feasibility evaluation on delivering money help for youngsters in emergencies in Viet Nam (report accessible through this hyperlink). With the rising challenges posed by excessive climate occasions and local weather change, it’s essential to undertake an in-depth study on the coverage and monetary choices for shock-responsive social safety in the nation. The study may also unpack the bottlenecks/ or the enabling institutional and systemic points that must be addressed for environment friendly response and likewise environment friendly utilization of the funds. This study may also search to strengthen the connections between shock-responsive social safety techniques and anticipatory motion, guaranteeing a more practical and well timed response to future local weather crises.
Scope of Work:
The study goals to research the supply (together with adequacy and impacts) and financing mechanisms of shock-responsive social safety (SRSP) in Viet Nam and suggest viable and sustainable financing choices to boost the effectiveness of SRSP.
Specific goals embrace:
– Update the state of affairs evaluation: Conduct a complete evaluation of Viet Nam’s context relating to excessive climate occasions and local weather change and price of inaction evaluation, alongside the prevailing shock-responsive social safety (SRSP) system, authorized frameworks, and insurance policies. This ought to embrace evaluating the design, performance and vertical and horizontal capability of the system in addressing and mitigating residual dangers, in addition to enhancing the effectiveness and effectivity of shock response efforts.
– Assess present supply techniques for SRSP/money switch in emergencies: Perform an in-depth evaluation of present supply techniques and/or fashions for money transfers throughout emergencies. This will contain figuring out key stakeholders, their particular roles, present coordination mechanisms and bottlenecks that hinder the facilitation of shock-responsive social safety (SRSP) in addition to key enablers for the finance to work higher. Focus on how present financing mechanisms are allotted and utilized for delivering money in emergencies, notably in mild of response efforts following the latest Yagi hurricane.
– Identify financing choices: Explore appropriate financing choices for shock-responsive social safety (SRSP) by proposing a spread of devices, together with ex-ante, post-ante, and progressive approaches. Emphasize each home and exterior financing sources whereas contemplating potential local weather funding, notably in mild of the challenges posed by local weather change.
– Develop coverage suggestions: Formulate coverage suggestions geared toward bettering the financing and facilitation of SRSP. This will embrace making a roadmap that outlines clear entry factors, key actors and strategic interventions for coverage and follow adjustments associated to SRSP in the context of Viet Nam.
Key Research Questions:
– How weak is Viet Nam to excessive climate occasions and local weather change, and which populations are most affected?
– What are the strengths and gaps in Viet Nam’s shock-responsive social safety system (SRSP) for addressing these vulnerabilities? (particularly in relation to set off mechanisms, challenges associated to early warning system, limitation associated to vulnerability evaluation, beneficiary focusing on, identification and registration, and present social registry).
– What has been the impression of SRSP on weak populations throughout previous emergencies, and what components have influenced its success or failure?
– What fashions exist for money transfers throughout emergencies, and what are their key parts? What bottlenecks have been recognized in the supply of money transfers (notably throughout Typhoon Yagi), and who’re the important thing stakeholders concerned?
– What are the present and potential financing mechanisms for SRSP in Viet Nam, and the way can they be optimized, together with via progressive or climate-related funding?
– What coverage, authorized and institutional reforms are crucial to enhance the effectivity, effectiveness and protection of SRSP in Viet Nam, and what alternatives exist for these reforms?
– How can enhanced stakeholder coordination and engagement, together with participatory approaches, enhance the design and implementation of SRSP in Viet Nam?
– What methods might be employed to strengthen capability to forecast want for efficient and environment friendly planning and budgeting for emergency response?
Proposed Methodologies:
The worldwide advisor is predicted to suggest a sturdy methodology for this study. The following are instructed strategies for consideration:
– Literature and coverage assessment: Review related educational papers, authorities stories, coverage paperwork, and worldwide case research and good practices/requirements to assemble secondary knowledge on present financing and monetary mechanisms for social safety, risk-informed PFM practices, and progressive monetary devices used globally. This consists of the evaluation of various methods/fashions in which the Government and different stakeholders used to supply money help to affected households by the latest hurricane Yagi. Importantly, the desk assessment additionally consists of the evaluation of present authorized frameworks, capacities and insurance policies in addition to future law-making and reform agenda in relation to SRPS. The anticipated output shall be a complete baseline of present practices, key bottlenecks, authorized gaps, alternative home windows for coverage adjustments and profitable fashions from different nations.
– Stakeholder interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs): to assemble insights from key stakeholders concerned in SRSP, finance, and catastrophe threat administration, together with authorities officers (at each nationwide and sub-national ranges in chosen places), donors, NGOs, and monetary establishments. The anticipated output shall be an in-depth understanding of operational bottlenecks, coordination points, and areas of enchancment in monetary mechanisms.
– Case research of financing and monetary fashions for SRSP and local weather financing: study how different nations or areas have efficiently mobilized finance for SRSP via blended monetary mechanisms. It is recommended to pick out 3-5 nations with related SPSP and PFM techniques and conduct comparative case research. Use some simulations or macro modelling for fiscal house evaluation to recommend finacing choices and eventualities for shock-responsive social safety. Explore their use of contingent funds, local weather finance, insurance coverage schemes, and many others. (cash in) and monetary mechanisms for funds disbursement (cash out). The output will embrace a set of fine practices and transferable classes and instructed monetary choices for SRSP in the context of Viet Nam.
– Policy evaluation and session workshop: refine the study findings and focus on potential coverage suggestions with stakeholders from authorities, native organizations, and worldwide companions via a participatory workshop the place key findings are offered, and contributors collaborate to finalize coverage suggestions and motion plans. The anticipated output shall be a validated set of coverage suggestions with a highway map that outlines clear entry factors for coverage and follow adjustments associated to SRSP in the context of Viet Nam.
Final Deliverables:
– Comprehensive study report (most 50 pages with Executive Summary): Detailed findings on present SRSP, monetary and financing mechanisms (together with stakeholder evaluation, bottlenecks and PFM gaps), worldwide good practices for financing SRSP, financing choices, and strategic and sensible coverage suggestions for Viet Nam.
– Policy Brief (3-5 pages): Concise summaries of key findings and suggestions for policymakers.
– Workshop shows: Available presentation in EnergyPoints and different types if applicable to share and focus on the study’s findings with key stakeholders.
Supervision and Management:
The advisor will work underneath the direct supervision of UNICEF’s Social Policy and Governance Specialist and the general administration of UNICEF’s Chief of the Social Policy and Governance Programme. He/she’s going to guarantee a participatory course of that comes with technical views and steering from all related UNICEF programmes.
The worldwide advisor is predicted to work carefully with UNICEF and Viet Nam Disaster and Dike Management Authority (VDDMA) all through your complete project. She/he shall be supported by two nationwide consultants (nationwide advisor on disasters and emergency and the opposite on public finance for social safety). The worldwide advisor will retain total duty and accountability for the standard of the ultimate report.
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Minimum Qualifications required:
– A minimal of a grasp’s diploma in social sciences, Public Policy, Economics, Development Economics, or a associated discipline.
– At least 10 years of related expertise in social safety, with a spotlight on shock-responsive social safety.
– Experience in financing for shock-responsive social safety is a bonus.
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
– Strong understanding of Viet Nam’s political panorama, authorized framework, and insurance policies, notably in relation to social safety and shock-responsive mechanisms.
– Demonstrated experience in analysis and analytical writing, with a spotlight on social safety, shock-responsive social safety, monetary evaluation for shock-responsive techniques, and public finance for social safety.
– Excellent command of each written and spoken English.
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Assessment standards:
For analysis and choice technique, the Cumulative Analysis Method (weight mixed rating technique) shall be used for this recruitment:
a) Technical Qualification weight 75 factors:
Educational background (15 factors):
– A minimal of a grasp’s diploma in social sciences, Public Policy, Economics, Development Economics, or a associated discipline.
Relevant work expertise (40 factors):
– At least 10 years of related expertise in social safety, with a spotlight on shock-responsive social safety.
– Experience in financing for shock-responsive social safety is a bonus.
– Strong understanding of Viet Nam’s political panorama, authorized framework, and insurance policies, notably in relation to social safety and shock-responsive mechanisms.
Skills (20 factors):
– Demonstrated experience in analysis and analytical writing, with a spotlight on social safety, shock-responsive social safety, monetary evaluation for shock-responsive techniques, and public finance for social safety.
– Excellent command of each written and spoken English.
– Submission of at the very least 2 samples of written work required.
b) Financial Proposal (Maximum 25 Points)
All costs/charges quoted should be unique of all taxes as UNICEF is a tax-exempt group.
Financial proposal must be all-inclusive lump-sum value together with consultancy charge, journey and any associated prices for the project.
The most variety of factors shall be allotted to the bottom Financial Proposal that’s opened/evaluated and in contrast amongst these technical certified candidates in the technical analysis. Other Financial Proposals will obtain factors in inverse proportion to the bottom value.
The contract shall be awarded to the candidate with the best complete rating, based mostly on these standards, guaranteeing that the chosen advisor possesses the mandatory academic background, related expertise, and technical abilities.
Submission of functions:
a. Letter of curiosity/CV;
b. Three references of related earlier project(s);
c. At least 2 samples of written work;
d. Financial proposal: All-inclusive lump-sum value together with consultancy charge, journey and some other related prices for this project.
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Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “staff members” underneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (corresponding to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service shall be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.
Individual International Consultant for Study on Financing Options for Shock Responsive Social Protection in Viet Nam
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