Copyediting support for the Sustainable Energy Academy

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Mission and objectives

The UNDP Sustainable Energy Hub is a network of partners that work alongside countries to transform energy systems though an integrated agenda focused on the policy, technology and financial shifts that shape sustainable economic development. We help countries build net-zero, people-centered societies driven by a just, sustainable energy transition. Our core principle is to promote an integrated agenda that supports energy for development, including by mobilizing partners to enable 500 million additional people to have access to sustainable, reliable, affordable energy by 2025, leaving no-one behind.   
The global transformation of energy systems has already started, but is being altered by the current geopolitical context. However, this transformation must be accelerated, and it must be done in a way that advances the Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Energy Hub is UNDP’s answer to these challenges. To drive the systems-level change needed, the Sustainable Energy Hub aims to bring about a completely new way of thinking, doing business, connecting people and knowledge.  
UNDP’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan has put sustainable energy at the heart of a joint corporate mission, and UN-Energy has pledged to reaching key energy milestones by 2025. UNDP will focus efforts on mobilizing partners and catalzing action to provide access to sustainable, affordable, and reliable energy – both electricity and clean cooking – to 500 million people by 2025, focusing on the world’s poorest communities. UNDP will not do this alone – our role here is to mobilize strong, meaningful, impactful partnerships to deliver action on the ground. We aim to bring about a new way of thinking about energy and advocate for an integrated, inclusive approach, where all stakeholders participate meaningfully in its design.

Context

The Sustainable Energy Hub (SEH) is a network of partners that work alongside countries to transform energy systems though an integrated agenda focused on the policy, technology and financial shifts that shape sustainable economic development. We help countries build net-zero, people-centered societies driven by a just, sustainable energy transition. Our core principle is to promote an integrated agenda that supports energy for development, including by mobilizing partners to enable 500 million additional people to have access to sustainable, reliable, affordable energy by 2025, leaving no-one behind.   
One of the three pillars of the SEH offer is Thought Leadership, which includes a development of materials to guide the conversation and agenda on sustainable energy in order to contribute to global strategic objectives and policy. To this end, the SEH is seeking online volunteers to support in copyediting for thought leadership outputs, including especially training materials within the Sustainable Energy Academy as well as other policy briefs, frameworks, and case studies.

Task description

Copyediting research publications related to energy and the sustainable development nexus, the volunteers will contribute to thought leadership publications including bulletins, policy briefs, talking points, and training materials to support development stakeholders in sustainable energy and support global policy. This task will be conducted in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts and stakeholders to exchange knowledge and insights.
The final outputs from this assignment include to provide copyediting for:
– 20 country case studies on sustainable energy (1 page per case study)
– 3 modules of the Sustainable Energy Academy (50 pages per module)
– 2 policy briefs or frameworks on a thematic related to sustainable energy (20 pages each)
Copyediting will be conducted through 1-3 rounds of edits and review for each document.