Consultancy – On-Call Consultant, Private Sector Due Diligence, Research Analyst

Overview :

Dear Sir/Madam,

Private sector plays an important role as an engine of economic growth and job creation in developing countries. It provides goods and services, generates tax revenues to finance essential social and economic infrastructure, and helps combating climate change and developing new and innovative solutions to tackle development challenges. As such, the private sector is an important strategic partner for UNDP in achieving its vision to help eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities and exclusion within broader sustainable development.

UNDP has projects related to private sector development or engagement in most of the over 170 countries and territories where we provide assistance. UNDP works with companies from a variety of sectors, for example, water, energy, extractives, food and agriculture, consumer products, healthcare, finance and information technology. UNDP’s work related to the private sector takes various forms, for example:

• Facilitating public-private dialogues on a specific development theme or industry sector;
• Helping developing countries create policy frameworks and an environment that supports responsible, inclusive and sustainable business development and scale up;
• Finding solutions for development challenges through core business activities and initiatives that include low-income groups into value chains as producers, suppliers, employees and consumers;
• Mobilizing private sector financial and in-kind resources for development projects; and
• Leveraging innovative technologies and solutions for development.

While engagement with the private sector presents many opportunities, there are also risks. Therefore, UNDP has a mandatory due diligence process that must be conducted to inform the decision on engaging or not in any kind of a partnership with a private sector entity, as stated in the UNDP Policy for Due Diligence and Partnerships with the Private Sector (2013).?

More information about UNDP’s private sector related work can be found online at www.iicpsd.org and www.undp.org/private sector.

The purpose of this procurement exercise is to contract a consultant on Long Term Agreement who will support private sector due diligence as part of UNDP’s Development Impact Group (on call).

For further information please visit: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=78623

Any request for clarification must be sent by email to cpu.bids@undp.org