Individual Consultant - Professional Editing Services

                                                                                                               Individual Consultant [Professional Editing Services] 

Investment can contribute significantly to economic recovery, job creation and longer-term resilience in Nigerias fragile and conflict-affected states. It can strengthen productive capacity, expand market opportunities and support more resilient local economies and private sectors. Yet investment decisions in these contexts are shaped by risks that can interact across security and mobility, land and approvals, infrastructure, finance, institutional coordination, social legitimacy and market conditions. The challenge is therefore not simply to attract investment, but to strengthen the conditions in which viable investment can be confidently assessed, appropriately structured and sustainably implemented.

OBJECTIVES OF THE SERVICE / WORK

The consultant will work closely with the UNDP Nigeria Strategic Policy and SDG Implementation Unit, under the general guidance and supervision of the UNDP Nigeria National Economist, the consultant will undertake final content and line editing of the reports. The consultant will, specifically:

• Carry out content editing of the chapters and narrative sections of sub-national DFA report, derisking framework report, investment architecture report, baseline study on the readiness and performance of Nigeria’s State Investment Promotion Agencies report, building trust in Nigerias tax reform report, improve Nigeria credit rating architecture report, assess to finance for women in crises report with a view to ensuring clarity and continuity of the ideas, thought processes and policy focus; clarity of structure; internal consistency, both analytical and stylistic; and general readability and accessibility to a broad readership.

• Ensure that all sources/references/bibliographic information are in order and follow the standard format.

• Carry out line/copy-editing of the works, charts and statistical tables paying attention to style, punctuation, spelling and grammar.

• The consultant will pay special attention to and ensure presentation style using boxes, infographics and tables as appropriate with the objective of highlighting the different components of the reports.

• The editor will also ensure that there are seamless flow and clarity of argument, sequencing, consistency, especially between text and tables and figures and integration of text and boxes of the various written  works.

Individual Consultancy

Duty Station: Home based

Description of the Assignment: Professional Editing Services

Period of assignment/services: 105 days

Proposal should be submitted directly in the portal no later than indicated deadline.

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