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Risk Financing Consultant, Regional Bureau for Western Africa



Référence 120819
Localisation Dakar / Sénégal
Type contrat CDD
Expiration 30 Septembre 2021
Offre visitée 409 fois
Catégories
Comptabilité, Finances, Gestion
Qualité, Sécurité, Environnement
Métiers Agriculture, Elevage, Rural
Consultance, Freelance
Organisation non gouvernementale, Association
Santé, Social, Sport
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Description de l'offre

Risk Financing Consultant, Regional Bureau for Western Africa

World Food Programme Dakar, Sénégal
CDD ou mission ponctuelle · Manager

Job Title: Risk Financing Consultant, Regional Bureau for Western Africa
Type of Contract: Regular Consultancy / CST
Contract duration: ASAP to December 2021 (possibility of renewal)
Duty Station: Dakar, Senegal (Regional Bureau)

BACKGROUND OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide.
We are currently seeking for a consultant to fill the position of Climate Risk Financing Consultant to design a coherent Risk Financing strategy for the West Africa region well integrated with and support existing resilience, social protection, and emergency preparedness portfolios. This position will be based at the West Africa Regional Bureau in Dakar, Senegal but will involve extensive travel in the region.
The Sahel is one of the most vulnerable and exposed regions in Africa. The region is already deeply impacted by weather shocks, conflict and fragility, and the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbating these vulnerabilities.
The global recession resulting from the pandemic has already hit the Sahel hard, potentially setting back poverty reduction and food security objectives for years.
Through collaboration with a range of public and private sector partners, WFP has become a global leader in the development of climate risk finance solutions that help governments and vulnerable households to anticipate, absorb and rapidly recover from climate shocks.
These solutions rely on three essential and interrelated pillars: pre-arranged finance; triggers that are based on independent, verifiable, and frequently reported data points; predefined action plans that get executed either before or immediately after a shock occurs and operational delivery systems.
The essence of climate risk finance is that ex-post decisions are minimized, thus enabling predictable management of risks through targeted preventive action at the moment when it is most needed.
Climate risk finance tools are more effective when implemented as part of an integrated risk management strategy that promotes investments in reducing and absorbing disaster risk, with the most appropriate combination of tools adapted to the risk profile of the country.
WFP is also active with climate risk finance initiatives in the region, including the development of microinsurance solutions under the R4 integrated approach, the expansion of sovereign insurance under the ARC Replica Plus initiative and the design of Forecast triggered contingency funding mechanisms. In 2021, the ARC Replica Plus programme portfolio will significantly expand in scope to also include a complementary contingency funding mechanism, while starting 2022 WFP will be in charge of executing the microinsurance component of a large regional programme covering seven countries, funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and implemented by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and the AfDB (African Development Bank).
With several countries in the region in the process of building climate risk financing solutions into their portfolios, there is the need to develop a coherent regional strategy to ensure that WFP Country Offices can be adequately guided on the design of solutions that are adapted to their country contexts as well as to identify complementary sources of funding to set up pre-arranged financing mechanisms in a sustainable way.
When risk-based financing is linked with social protection systems it has the potential to not only help smooth climate-related shocks, avoiding setbacks in development but also to enable poor and vulnerable people to manage climate risks more effectively and in a proactive manner.
This includes connecting the social protection system with predictable finance that allows it to become more self-sustaining in the long term.
Linkages of social protection systems with risk-based financing can facilitate the vertical and horizontal expansion of social protection programmes, in advance of a shock and could also help to increase the timeliness of interventions.
In the Sahel, where social protection systems are developing, ensuring these are risk-informed and prepared to expand to respond to shocks is critical. As these efforts progress, risk-based financing mechanisms need to be put in place to provide sustainable funding for shock response through social protection systems.
This can be done by integrating social protection into wider risk-based financing mechanisms or integrating risk-based financing into existing social protection systems, depending on contexts.
Ongoing efforts are developed by country offices, supported by the Regional Bureau, to strengthen the risk information and shock-responsiveness of social protection systems, in particular across the Sahel. A joint-WFP-UNICEF project funded by BMZ for a total amount of 54 million euros, in Mali, Mauritania and Niger, will support coordinated capacity strengthening activities to support national governments developing their social protection systems and their ability to respond to shocks.

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

To deliver against the above, WFP’s Regional Bureau is seeking a Risk-based Financing specialist to guide regional positioning and countries in the definition and implementation of initiatives to strengthen the risk-based financing pillar of national social protection systems responsive to shocks, and develop proposals to support risk-based programmes, linking social protection, emergency preparedness and response and resilience.
The incumbent will operate under the direct supervision of the Regional Social Protection Advisor, and the overall guidance of the Head of the Programme Support Unit and Deputy Regional Director and will work in close collaboration with the Heads of the Emergency Preparedness and Response and Resilience Units.
The incumbent will be responsible for carrying out the following tasks and responsibilities:

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Review the current humanitarian framework in the region, and Sahel in particular, and document humanitarian responses by regional Government and donors in the last 10 years in terms of magnitude, timing and impact.
2. Analyse the shock responsive social protection systems across the Sahel through their financing pillars, analyse the strengths and weaknesses of their financing pillars, develop recommendations to support these efforts.
3. Coordinate with RAM, to have an inventory of existing regional food security monitoring systems, in particular the Cadre Harmonisé, and describe how the information process translates into funding decisions and into actions.
4. In focus countries, document existing risk financing initiatives by WFP, the Government and/or other partners, and conduct a donor mapping.
5. Provide technical support to country offices to develop or strengthen risk-based financing mechanisms linked with social protection systems.
6. Identify options for further engagement for WFP linking risk-based financing with social protection, humanitarian action and resilience-building interventions, in particular for rural communities that are exposed to a variety of climate-related hazards.
7. Identify capacity building and/or support needs to address identified gaps in, country climate/disaster risk financing and management approach.
8. Document good practice and lessons learned from WFP or other agencies in the Sahelian region, in terms of setting up risk financing mechanisms, including insurance and other funds and instruments, for drought and other major hazards.
9. Provide strategic guidance to country offices in their formulation of country strategic planning to consider risk financing and management and advising on partnerships with donors and various stakeholders in the area of risk financing and risk management, in particular linked with social protection systems, in line with ongoing efforts and dialogue with partners.
10. Support country offices through the development of risk financing project concept notes and proposals.
11. Produce a funding proposal for a regional initiative supporting the establishment of a coherent risk financing programme led by WFP in the Sahel region that complements and supports existing social protection and resilience initiatives.
12. Other duties, as required.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

EDUCATION:
Advanced University degree, or University degree with experience and training/courses in one or more of the following disciplines: Economics, environmental studies, agriculture and food security, development studies or related area.

EXPERIENCE:
· At least eight (08) years post-graduate, progressively responsible, job-related experience in Risk Financing, food security analysis, policy, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction or related area,
· Understanding of adaptive/shock responsive social protection, and experience linking risk-based financing mechanisms with social protection systems.
· Experience in the Sahel Region.
· Prior experience working within, or in connection with, WFP, a UN system organization or a Development Organisation will be highly regarded.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:
· Project management skills; knowledge management skills; reporting skills
· Familiarity with WFP’s core areas of business.
· Familiarity with donor rules and regulations including with climate finance multilateral funds.
· Proficiency in Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
· Competencies: Cognitive Capacity, Teamwork, Action Management, Innovation, Partnering, Client Orientation.

LANGUAGE:
· Excellent written and spoken French (level C) and English intermediate (level B); or excellent written and spoken English (level C) and French intermediate (level B).

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS: 30 SEPTEMBER 2021



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