UNHCR Homebased Research Consultant Positions for 2025. (Joint AfDB-UNHCR Flagship Study) Apply Now!
Deadline for Applications: February 21, 2025
Contract Duration: Until June 30, 2025,
Target Start Date: March 1, 2025
Staff Member Type: International Consultant
UNHCR is seeking to hire two individual consultants – one Senior Researcher and one Researcher – to conduct the Joint AfDB-UNHCR Flagship Study on Development Responses to Forced Displacement in Africa to inform MDB and DFI approaches and investments on preventing and addressing displacement crises (refugees, IDPs, returnees and hosting communities) in Africa. It will make recommendations concerning prevention and mitigation of forced displacement, emphasizing leveraging existing financing instruments and underscoring the economic benefits of refugees-inclusive development policies.
UNHCR Homebased Research Consultant Positions for 2025. (Joint AfDB-UNHCR Flagship Study) Apply Now!
The Research Consultant will support the senior research consultant to produce the Flagship Study by:
- Conducting a review and analysis of the AfDB, MDB and UNHCR portfolios (on the African continent) and datasets on engagement in forced displacement contexts.
- Prepare business cases which demonstrate the socio-economic benefits of including refugees in national operations, leveraging evidence and studies that highlight the positive return on investment (ROI) from integrating non-national communities into host countries’ economies, i.e. showcasing value for money of investments in self-reliance of refugees
- Mapping out best practices on specific areas of interventions in and approaches to forced displacement contexts.
- Identify lessons learned in previous and current engagement of MDBs and identify areas for increased and/or more effective engagement, enhanced coordination, sharpened selectivity and boosted integrated solutions (e.g. via complementarities and synergies).
- Outlining specific policy and operational recommendations on enhancing MDB strategic engagement in forced displacement contexts in Africa and systematic UNHCR-AfDB and other MDB collaboration in Africa , including but beyond coordination, on policy reforms, operational and programmatic responses over the next four years until the third GRF in December 2027.
- Proposing a set of recommendations on how MDBs can jointly advance and expand their portfolios on the forced displacement agenda on the continent and how the MDB platform can play a coordination role in the implementation.
- Propose any other, practical and implementable, innovative solutions based on international development finance best practices and latest knowledge that could help respond at scale and speed to the magnitude of the forced displacement crisis in Africa. This will include specific references on innovative financing and mobilization of climate finance to prevent and address forced displacements at scale and speed required considering current trends and dynamics. Chapters and Supplementary Annexes shall be suitable to become sector ‘Guidance Notes” for AfDB and MDB Practitioners.
Also read:
- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is offering x13 Remote Jobs. Apply Now!!
- UNICEF Is Hiring x10 Home-Based Jobs. Apply For 2025
- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Is Hiring x17 Internship Jobs . Apply Now!!
- The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is hiring x33 Consultants. Apply Now!!
Required qualifications, language(s) and work experience of the Research Consultant:
Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in International Development, Economics, Law, Political Science, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• 5 years of work experience
• Familiarity with forced displacement issues in Africa, including the socio-economic and political contexts.
• Experience in contributing to projects addressing forced displacement, including refugees, IDPs, returnees, and host communities.
• Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative research in a development setting.
• Familiarity with MDBs’ operational frameworks, financing instruments, and strategic priorities including climate finance and private sector engagement in development contexts.
• Good analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex information and data.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English; knowledge of French is an asset.
• Capacity to handle discussions with diplomacy and tact is critical
Hi,do you still have job opportunities in Kenya today