Male
| Job Location: | Kapisa |
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| Nationality: | Afghan |
| Category: | Consultant |
| Employment Type: | Full Time |
| Salary: | As per organization salary scale |
| Vacancy Number: | VAC-24784 |
| No. Of Jobs: | 2 |
| City: | Nijrab District |
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| Organization: | CTG |
| Years of Experience: | Experience in community mobilization and experience in implementation of community-based projects, shelter projects. |
| Contract Duration: | 8 Months |
| Gender: | Male/Female |
| Education: | A School graduation with minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in social mobilization and community development programs with displaced Afghans Experience, bachelor’s degree in social sciences is preferrable. |
| Close date: | 2025-03-12 |
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Organizational Setting:
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. The UN-Habitat Afghanistan country office is part of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). The position is located in Kabul provinces, Afghanistan.
Learning from the experience in the last 30 years and recognizing the realities of the current context in the country, UN-Habitat in Afghanistan designs and implements projects in settlements of all sizes, putting the needs of people first, targeting the most vulnerable and meeting local needs by focusing on area-based and community-driven outputs. The portfolio currently covers projects ranging from humanitarian responses to supporting recovery and meeting basic human needs. UN-Habitat collaborates closely with the UN country team as well as with technical and financial partners in Afghanistan, in alignment with the UN Strategic Framework for Afghanistan (UNSFA) and the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plans (HRNP).
Afghanistan is experiencing a continuous humanitarian crisis, with over half a million people in the need of humanitarian assistance. Many people are displaced due to climate change, internal displacement or massive returns from neighbouring countries, and many have sought refuge in the relative safety of cities, which are growing rapidly. The number of people living in unplanned, underserviced and informal settlements, including in risk prone areas, is increasing and living conditions as well as access to services is inadequate. The unfolding crisis in Afghan cities, which is accelerated by climate change impacts and natural disasters, is occurring in a context of underlying vulnerabilities, including infrastructure deficits, insecure livelihoods and pervasive tenure insecurity. Most at risk are displaced people in informal settlements, with women, disabled and ethnic minorities being particularly vulnerable.
UN-Habitat applies a participatory and community-driven approach, using participatory spatial planning and action planning processes to enable communities to identify and implement priority service and infrastructure investments to support their socioeconomic recovery processes and creating an enabling environment for durable solutions. UN-Habitat's community-cantered “People's Process” is a proven and effective approach to reduce vulnerability at scale in the Afghan context. UN-Habitat builds upon its long tradition of partnering with communities in informal settlements to create sustainable and safe settlements, improve living conditions and adequate livelihood opportunities to those most in need.
Organizational Setting:
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. The UN-Habitat Afghanistan country office is part of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). The position is located in Kabul provinces, Afghanistan.
Learning from the experience in the last 30 years and recognizing the realities of the current context in the country, UN-Habitat in Afghanistan designs and implements projects in settlements of all sizes, putting the needs of people first, targeting the most vulnerable and meeting local needs by focusing on area-based and community-driven outputs. The portfolio currently covers projects ranging from humanitarian responses to supporting recovery and meeting basic human needs. UN-Habitat collaborates closely with the UN country team as well as with technical and financial partners in Afghanistan, in alignment with the UN Strategic Framework for Afghanistan (UNSFA) and the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plans (HRNP).
Afghanistan is experiencing a continuous humanitarian crisis, with over half a million people in the need of humanitarian assistance. Many people are displaced due to climate change, internal displacement or massive returns from neighbouring countries, and many have sought refuge in the relative safety of cities, which are growing rapidly. The number of people living in unplanned, underserviced and informal settlements, including in risk prone areas, is increasing and living conditions as well as access to services is inadequate. The unfolding crisis in Afghan cities, which is accelerated by climate change impacts and natural disasters, is occurring in a context of underlying vulnerabilities, including infrastructure deficits, insecure livelihoods and pervasive tenure insecurity. Most at risk are displaced people in informal settlements, with women, disabled and ethnic minorities being particularly vulnerable.
UN-Habitat applies a participatory and community-driven approach, using participatory spatial planning and action planning processes to enable communities to identify and implement priority service and infrastructure investments to support their socioeconomic recovery processes and creating an enabling environment for durable solutions. UN-Habitat's community-cantered “People's Process” is a proven and effective approach to reduce vulnerability at scale in the Afghan context. UN-Habitat builds upon its long tradition of partnering with communities in informal settlements to create sustainable and safe settlements, improve living conditions and adequate livelihood opportunities to those most in need.
About the Project:
Over 6.6 million people need shelter and NFI assistance in Afghanistan (HNRP 2024). In Kapisa, floods have displaced numerous households with 16 deaths, 4 people injured and 74 to 101 homes destroyed (Shelter Needs and Advocacy Dashboard on Floods and Heavy Rainfall Events, January–June 2024). Provision of the much-needed shelters has only reached to 61% of the planned beneficiaries in central region including Kapisa province (Afghanistan shelter cluster regional monthly update). The need for construction of transitional shelters remains with over 150 permanent shelters needed (UNHCR PARR fact sheet August 2024). The situation is exacerbated by the Afghan forced returnees from Pakistan with an additional 400,000 returns expected in 2024 (HNRP 2024). These situations have increased protection and shelter risks in areas of return, IDP and informal settlements
UN-Habitat is proposing a project called “Provision of Emergency Transitional Shelters to People Affected by Floods and Displacement in Nijrab District of Kapisa Province in Afghanistan Project” with the aim of “improving living conditions of households affected by floods and displacement by proving life-saving emergency assistance. UN-Habitat will also provide women hygiene/dignity kits to 20 vulnerable households with most needy females. The conditional cash modality has been reached in consultation with the communities. Overall, 2,050 people (IDP’s, returnees, and host communities) will directly benefit from the project.
Reporting Relationships
The Community Mobilizer will assist the provincial team and the Project Manager in implementing the technical components of the project in Kapisa Province, Nijrab District. This includes developing the work plan, preparing project-related documentation, and coordinating with the project team. The Shelter Engineer will report directly to the Project Officer on a day-to-day basis and will oversee the technical aspects of the AHF-funded project in the designated project areas.
Responsibilities
Results expected.
Ensure the completion of activities across the project according to their respective work plans
Qualifications
Good speaking, reading and writing in Dari and Pashto are required to communicate with staff and beneficiaries. English is one of the Official UN languages which is preferrable for this post.
Experience:
Experience in community mobilization and experience in implementation of community-based projects, shelter projects.
Build support with national counterparts, during the project period; Ensure high-quality and timely achievement of relevant activties and targets; Support capacity development efforts with project partners for the required components; Support UN-Habitat's contribution to multi-stakeholder national coordination and advocacy forums; Support 'learning by doing' capacity development efforts throughout the programme period with programme partners for improving local safety and security, especially for women, youth and marginalised urban groups; Support coordination with other partners’ programmes in target cities