The crisis that affected the North West and South West regions of Cameroon has damaged public infrastructures, broken social cohesion and slowed down economic development. With the aim to resolve the crisis, the President of the Republic called for a Major National Dialogue, that brought together more than 600 participants from all 10 regions of the country. Third quarter of participants to the Dialogue came from the NWSW regions. The Head of State instructed the Prime Minister, Head of the Government to preside over the Major National Dialogue. Among other recommendations, the Major National Dialogue recommended the reconstruction of North West and South West regions.
The Government of Cameroon and UNDP collaborated to the formulation of the Presidential Plan for Reconstruction and Development (PPRD) of the North West and South West regions. The PPRD is a component of the National Development Plan 2020-2030 (post DSCE), aiming at reducing the effects of the socio-political and security crisis for the affected communities in the NW/SW regions. The PPRD feeds into the government efforts to resolve the current crisis. This initiative is complementary to other key reforms such as the establishment of a Special Status for the NW/SW regions.
Confronted with complex development challenges, the Government intends to emphasize on governance, economic recovery and crisis prevention in order to consolidate the peace process. Through the PPRD, the government aims at reinforcing the resilience and development of the populations in the affected regions of North West and South West. The Government envisages to restore social cohesion, provide livelihood opportunities and increase access to basic services for communities in the NW/SW regions. Finally, through the PPRD, the Government ambitions to bring about short and medium terms transformational changes.
The United Nations Development Programme is the implementing partner and fund manager of the PPRD. The program will be implemented through a dedicated accelerated execution modality over a period of 2 years. UNDP will build on its extensive experience to implement similar Recovery and Reconstruction large programs. The PPRD will consolidate peace in the NW/SW regions, by building capacity at national and local levels to address the underlying structural causes of vulnerability, marginalization and insecurity. To this end, the PPRD is articulated around 3 key pillars: social cohesion, rehabilitation of infrastructures for basic services and local economic revitalization.
Under the overall guidance of the RR and the direct supervision of the DRR and PPRDPM, The GIS specialist is responsible for the design and implementation of a GIS (Geographic Information System) and the Programme databases.
Core
Expected skills:
- Knowledge in photogrammetry-interpretation and remote sensing;
- Knowledge of GPS surveys and their integration with GIS;
- Knowledge of community development approaches;
- Pedagogical competence to ensure the training of one or more members of the team.
Functional Competencies:
- Serve and contribute to the vision, mission, values and strategic objectives of the UPCD;
- Participate effectively in an environment based on teamwork, information sharing, collaboration and cooperation with other partners;
- Respond flexibly and positively to change through active participation;
- Foster a learning environment; facilitates the development of personal and collective skills;
- Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new and more effective ways of doing things;
- Results Oriented: Plans and produces quality results to achieve objectives;
- Demonstrate Innovation and Discernment;
- Strive to provide quality, client-centered services in decision making (both internally and externally);
- Contribute to the search for innovative and practical solutions to deal with complex situations.
Basic skills:
- Promotes ethics and professional integrity;
- Builds and promotes effective teamwork;
- Take initiative;
- Facilitates and encourages open communication within the team, communicates effectively;
- Creates synergies through self-control.
Education:
At least a Master's degree in Geography, specializing in Geographic Information Systems or Geomatics
Contract Duration: ONE YEAR
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