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UNDP is the UN Development Programme and works in some 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. UNDP helps countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results. UNDP supports the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as they help shape global sustainable development for the next 10 years.
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Background
UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, reduction of inequalities and building resilience to crises, shocks and disaster/climate risks in an effort to safeguard development. UNDP helps countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and access cutting edge technical and advisory support in the pursuit of their sustainable development objectives.
Recognizing the imperatives brought about by rapidly evolving development and risk management landscape, UNDP’s Global Policy Network (GPN) works across knowledge domains and thematic areas to support countries and communities identify context specific development interventions, in support of the signature solutions and outcomes envisioned in the UNDP Strategic Plan (2022-2025).
Within the GPN, the Crisis Bureau (CB) guides UNDP’s corporate crisis-related strategies and vision for risk reduction, crisis prevention, response and recovery and the Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience Team (DRT) supports the implementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR (2015-2030) by providing integrated policy and programme support on disaster risk reduction and recovery in the context of UNDP’s broader approach to resilience building. It fosters mainstreaming of disaster/climate risk reduction as a key element to deliver sustainable development at the national, sub-national, city/municipal and sectoral level with a focus on integrated approaches.
One of the key focus areas under DRT’s strategy and its technical, policy and programmatic support to countries/cities relates to urban risk management and resilience. Given the rapidly urbanizing world, concentration of socio-economic development assets and increasing evidence of accumulation of disaster and climate risks in urban areas, the primacy of addressing urban risk management and fostering resilience has become a sine qua non for achieving the objectives of the 2030 Agenda including the SDGs, the New Urban Agenda, Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework.
Over the past decade, UNDP has implemented several urban risk management projects at regional, country and city level to support local and municipal authorities on different facets of urban risk management and resilience. Recognizing the convergence of climate adaptation and mitigation, sustainable development, inclusive growth, local governance, poverty eradication, migration, crisis prevention, fragility and risk reduction etc. in urban contexts, the need to advance an integrated approach addressing different dimensions of resilience and all typologies of risks in a comprehensive manner has been strongly felt. As a key milestone in the process, DRT has undertaken an analysis of the policy and programmatic work on urban risks and resilience over the past decade identifying existing demands and emerging needs in ‘A Decade of Urban Resilience: An Analytical Review’, which informed the development of the ‘Urban Risk Management and Resilience Strategy’ to advance policy, programmatic and technical action at national and city level.
The need to strengthen UNDP’s urban risk management and resilience practice and augment partnerships with key actors and stakeholders to implement global, regional, national and city-level urban resilience programs has gained urgency. This includes identifying digital technology-based interventions to improve effectiveness of urban governance, services, risk analytics and stakeholder engagement and others. It will have positive impacts on the resilience of different urban population groups and ensure no one is left behind.
Duties and Responsibilities
In line with the needs and priorities above, one of the key action areas to support the same entails harnessing the potential offered by latest technological advancements viz. AI, ML etc. to assess risks, identify resilience priorities and provide real-time development solutions to the complex challenges faced by cities and their communities including for vulnerable sectors like water and hazards like the heatwaves.
With a view to support the process of programmatic advancement of the urban risk management and resilience building strategy, the scope of work and key objectives of the assignment as envisaged to be performed by the Intern are as follows viz.
Competencies
Required Skills and Experience
Applicants to the UNDP internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:
(a) Enrolment in Engineering programs in advanced Bachelors or Master’s degree program with focus on (i) computer programming, AI, Machine Learning (ML) and related technological focus and (ii) urban planning, architecture, disaster management, climate change, environment, public policy and related academic areas;
(b) Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation;
(c) Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.
The applicant should be enrolled in a programme, as stated in requirements (a).
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Institutional and Management Arrangements:
The intern will be part of UNDP’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience Team. The Internship will be carried out under the overall guidance of the Head, DRT and Team Leader, DRR and in close day-to-day consultation with Policy Specialist, Disaster/Climate Risk Governance and Thematic Lead for Urban Resilience, and the Intern will support timely delivery of the key tasks and deliverables as envisaged and any other tasks as required.
The Intern will be responsible for organizing her/his own laptop and other IT resources to support the assignment and UNDP will not be responsible for meeting any expenditure incurred thereon including internet and other IT support services over the duration of the Internship.
Travel: The assignment does not entail or envisage any travel. However, depending on the need, any travel outside the regular place of stay (home/office) by the Intern, if required, would be paid for separately.
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Type of contract: Internship
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Level of experience: Entry level, less than 1 year
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Type of organisation: Multilateral Organisations
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