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To apply, interested persons should upload the combined* Technical Proposal/Methodology (if applicable), CV and Offeror’s Letter to “UNDP Jobs” by navigating to the link below and clicking “APPLY NOW”, no later than the date indicated on the “UNDP Jobs” website. Applications submitted via email will not be accepted**: -

UNDP Job Site – https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=106089 (cut and paste into browser address bar if the link does not work)

* PLEASE NOTE: The system allows the upload of one (1) document ONLY – if you are required to submit a Technical Proposal/Methodology, this document along with your CV/P11 and Offeror’s Letter, MUST be combined and uploaded as one.

NOTE: The Financial Proposal should not be uploaded to “UNDP Jobs”**.

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**Please email the password-protected Financial Proposal to [email protected]. The subject line of your email must contain the following: “BBRSO175264 Financial Proposal – Your Name”

If the password for your Financial Proposal is required, it will be requested by the Procurement Unit.

Any request for clarification must be sent in writing to [email protected] within three (3) days of the publication of this notice, ensuring that the reference number above is included in the subject line. The UNDP Barbados & the OECS Procurement Unit will post the responses*** two (2) days later, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to: -

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=90189 (cut and paste into browser address bar if the link does not work)

A detailed Procurement Notice, TOR, and all annexes can be found by clicking the above link.

*** UNDP shall endeavour to provide such responses to clarifications in an expeditious manner, but any delay in such response shall not cause an obligation on the part of UNDP to extend the submission date of the Proposals, unless UNDP deems that such an extension is justified and necessary

BACKGROUND

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations (UN) global development network. UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping Governments achieve their own development solutions to achieve the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. UNDP facilitates the development of policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and enhancement of resilience in order to sustain development results and especially achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

On October 21, 1974, the United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Barbados entered into an agreement (the Standard Basic Framework Agreement – SBBA) to “support and supplement the national efforts of developing countries at solving the most important problems of their economic development and to promote social progress and better standards of life.”

Subsequently, similar agreements were entered with Governments of the ten countries and territories that the UNDP Multi-Country Office (MCO) for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean serves: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The agreements have established the framework within which UNDP serves and is the foundation on which programme documents such as the UN Multi-Country Sustainable Development Framework and the Sub-regional Country Programme Document are built. Our work in the region continues to evolve and is now classified under three main pillars (1) Sustainable Solutions, Energy and Climate Change (SSECC) (2) Prevention, Recovery and Resilience (PRR) and (3) Poverty and Governance (P&G).

The three aforementioned pillars of work follow the "Blue Economy for Green Islands approach" that incorporates the deep interlinkages between blue and green while encompassing an entire island system and its maritime waters as one interlinked economic, social and environmental system.   This  approach aims at promoting economic diversification, job creation and resilience.

Some of the activities that will be described below such as the Blue Economy Scoping Studies and the SDG Fund Component 1 have positioned the MCO as a leader in the blue economy space in the Eastern Caribbean.

The objective of the consultancy is to develop the MCO’s current Resource Mobilization Strategy to better enable the organization to mobilize resources to meet the development priorities of Governments in the region.