The United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Malaysia is currently developing its first United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) for the period of 2021-2015, which is in perfect timing with the development of the Government’s next five-year development plan i.e. the 12th Malaysia Plan for the same �2021-2025 period and as agencies such UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA and WHO develop their next Country Programme Document (CPD). �Malaysia is part of the first cohort of countries that will be developing this new generation UNSDCF under the UN Reform that came in to force in January 2019 in accordance with UN General Resolution A/Res/72/279. ��As stipulated under the Management and Accountability Framework (MAF: https://undg.org/document/management-and-accountability-framework-of-the-un-development-and-resident-coordinator-system/) and the UNSDCF Guidance document, the UNSDCF will be the primary document “in articulating Government’s expectations of the UN development system and in driving major UN development system contributions at the country level; and UN development system entity country development programmes are derived from the UNSDCF and not vice versa”.

As a prerequisite to the development of the UNSDCF, a Common Country Analysis (CCA) has been jointly undertaken by the UNCT, pursuant to a CCA Workshop on 8-9 August 2019, and is expected to be completed by the end of September 2019. �The CCA will nevertheless, be a living document to be periodically updated by the UNCT and thematic inter-agency Results Groups. The broad issue areas that emerged from the CCA workshop are as follows:

1. Social cohesion
2. Leaving no one behind (inclusivity and wellbeing)
3. Human rights and governance
4. SDG compliance of �new sources of economic growth (e.g. the Industrial Revolution 4.0, Green Growth etc.)
5. Environmental sustainability
6. Sustainable urbanization
7. Gender equality

In the lead-up to the development of the UNSDCF, a number workshops and consultations have been planned as follows:

1. Results Based Management (RBM) and Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) refresher training for UN staff on 25 September 2019.
2. High-level closed-door dialogue with Government to validate the broad-based issue areas emerging out of the CCA on 30 September 2019.
3. Consultations with the Malaysia CSO-SDG Alliance (representing over 300 CSOs, NGOs, and think-tanks) on 10 October 2019.
4. Theory of Change Workshop on 2-3 October 2019.
5. National SDG Summit 2019 on 6-7 November 2019.
6. Strategic Prioritisation Retreat with Government on 4 December 2019.
7. Other consultations and dialogues as may be needed.

UN Country Team (UNCT) in Malaysia

The UNCT in Malaysia consists of the following agencies:

1. Resident agencies: UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNU-IIGH, WHO, IOM, WFP-UNHRD and UNDSS.
2. Non-resident agencies: OHCHR, UNAIDS, UNIDO, UNESCO, ILO, UN-Habitat, UNEP, UN Women, IAEA, UNTIL, UNCDF and UNODC.

The UNCT meets on a monthly basis under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinator to coordinate UN support and to discuss and decide jointly on programmatic and operational issues in line with the UN Reform.

The joint work of the United Nations system in Malaysia is also taken forward via the following inter-agency Results Groups (RG):

1. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) RG (chaired by the UN RC)
2. Human Rights and Governance RG (chaired by the UN RC)
3. Inclusivity and Wellbeing RG (co-chaired by UNICEF and UNDP)
4. Economic and Environmental Sustainability RG (chaired by UNDP)
5. Gender RG (chaired by UNFPA)
6. A Humanitarian Country Team than includes Government and key humanitarian actors in the country

The UNCT works closely with Government [i.e. the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA), the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) and other ministries and agencies] as well as with multiple-stakeholders (the CSO-SDG Alliance, the Global Compact Malaysia, the Human Rights 365 group and others) on mainstreaming and localizing the 2030 Agenda and SDGs, Data, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting. Examples include the development of the National SDG Roadmap 2018-2020; the SDG Progress Monitoring System ( http://mysdg.dosm.gov.my/ ), Malaysia Voluntary National Review (VNR) to the 2017 High-level Political Forum, the National SDG Portal (https://mysdg.my/) and the TogetherforSDGs Hub (an integrated SDG solutions, crowd-sourcing, supply-matching system and database of “who” is doing “what”, “where” towards channeling the right solutions to the right place at the right time), among others.

United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) �

The UNSDCF is “the most important instrument for planning and implementation of UN development activities at country level in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda)”. Given the ambition of the 2030 Agenda and the urgency of its timeline, the resolution represents a significant shift. The Cooperation Framework now guides the entire programme cycle, driving planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of collective UN support for achieving the 2030 Agenda and SDGs. The Cooperation Framework determines and reflects the UN development system’s contributions in the country and shapes the configuration of UN assets required inside and outside the country.

Please download the Terms of reference, Letter of Interest and financial proposal template and General Terms of Conditions.

For those who have any concern with travelling, please note that additional on-site days in lieu of travel is a flexibility that can be accommodated.

Interested candidate, please submit the letter of interest, Financial proposal and CVs to [email protected]