UNESCO has released a call for an external consultant for its Diversity of Cultural Expressions programme, based at its Paris headquarters.
UNESCO Diversity of Cultural Expressions Entity promotes the diversity of cultural expressions and the creative economy as vectors for sustainable development. Its mission is to ensure the effective implementation and monitoring of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the 1980 Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artist. The Entity fosters international cooperation by providing assistance to governments around the world to design, monitor, and evaluate policies. It also provides support to the sound decision-making of the Convention’s governing bodies through knowledge sharing and data collection, analysis, and distribution. Since 2014, UNESCO Diversity of Cultural Expressions Entity has implemented, with funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), a global cooperation programme at the intersection of culture, policymaking and sustainable development.
In that framework, under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Culture, the general supervision of the Chief of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the direct supervision of the Head of the Programme Specialist from the Programme and Capacity Building Unit, the consultant shall:
1. Completion of the SIDA III project “Reshaping policies for creativity and artistic freedom”
- Finalise the external evaluation report process of phase III following internal consultation review.
- Elaborate the final project report, including consolidation of the results achieved, promotion of the actions carried out, and integration of the conclusions and recommendations of the external evaluation.
2. Design of the new cooperation programme with Sweden
- Carry out the conceptual development of the new program with a focus on gender equality in the cultural sector, based on an assessment of gender projects implemented by the Entity and the Culture Sector as well as on consultations of concerned UNESCO staff.
- Draft a comprehensive project document including implementation strategies, performance indicators based on the results-based management (RBM) framework, and an indicative budget.
- Develop a methodological guide for UNESCO field offices for implementation.
The contract duration is up to six months. Selected consultant will receive a competitive consulting fee, to be quoted in EUR (or USD) on a monthly basis, according to the candidate’s proposal.
