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Organizational Setting and Reporting Relationships:

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 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

The takeover of government in Afghanistan by the DFA in August 2021 triggered a dire humanitarian crisis in the country, leading to serious violations of human rights, poor governance, and a sharp decline in socioeconomic development. With an estimated 23.7 million people, more than half of Afghanistan’s population, in need of humanitarian assistance in 2024 and over 90% living in poverty, international aid has reached vulnerable populations across the country considering life-saving services, but poor residents in urban areas have been often left behind, resulting in increased urban vulnerability.

Decision-makers frequently assume that poverty, vulnerability, and social exclusion are features of rural areas, not cities. This is, however, not the case. Urban populations are facing more financial barriers than people in rural areas, spending more income on meeting their needs, contributing to increasing urban poverty. In addition, rapid migration into urban areas has also been remarkable; Some macro-level analysis indicates that in 1950, only 1 out of every 20 Afghans lived in cities, but in 2022, 1 out of every 4 lived in cities, and by 2060, it is estimated that 1 out of every 2 – 50% of the total population – will live in cities (UN DESA, UN-Habitat, World Bank). While many Afghans are fleeing from frequent natural disasters, seeking better employment opportunities, and living environment, Afghanistan has been experiencing a massive increase in the arrival of Afghan returnees from Pakistan following a government decree in September 2023. In Kabul and Herat, the two most populous provinces in Afghanistan, rapid urbanization and a changing climate increases the urban poor’s vulnerability to hazards.

A critical but often overlooked factor impacting urban life is the poor state of the country’s key infrastructure related to the provision of essential services. In Kabul and Herat, the essential infrastructure for ensuring basic living environment to protect human rights of vulnerable populations is insufficient, even quantitatively and qualitatively. The protracted humanitarian crisis has strained the public health system, with most facilities having poor infrastructure and limited capacity to provide healthcare services. Deteriorating buildings, outdated equipment, and power issues hinder operations for basic services.

The inadequate hygiene and sanitation facilities including clean water sources and waste disposal systems not only hampers healthcare access but also plays a critical role in the spread of diseases. Infectious diseases are the consequence and catalyst of poor humanitarian conditions, including poor sanitation, water quality and quantity, malnutrition, reduced school attendance, poor health, and reduced income. Infrastructure for socially vulnerable populations, particularly women, is not well developed.

Against this backdrop, the project aims to improve the living environment of the urban poor through rehabilitating essential community infrastructure in Kabul and Herat Provinces in a sustained and disaster-resilient manner. The target locations will be 20 GA in the 10 most vulnerable Police Districts (PDs) of Kabul and earthquake-affected villages of Zindajan District in Herat.

Reporting Relationships

The Community Mobilizer will assist and provincial team leaders and project Engineers in implementation of overall project components ( Household profiling, CAP and PHVCA workshops, vocational training, cash-for-work (CFW), Infrastructure activates ) in Kabul city and Herat Zandajan district and development of the JICA project details community mobilization plan with close coordination with project Engineers and provincial team leader, and reporting on a day-to-day basis to the provincial team leader. S/he will have the following duties and responsibilities

Responsibilities

• With Support of provincial team leaders, conducting training and workshops for local communities and vocational training sessions for beneficiaries on JICA project objective, development of community action plan (CAP), participatory hazards, vulnerability, and capacity assessment (PHVCA), and project monitoring and ensure they understand the project implementation modality.
• Discuss project activities regularly with local communities and receive their feedback on the activities.
• Identifying the social related issues in the project area and providing possible solutions to the field teams.
• Conduct regular field surveys and assessments; map information and ensure documentation.
• Prepare weekly monitoring reports based on standard formats for submission to the provincial team leader.
• Prepare monthly progress reports on community mobilization and training submission to provincial team leaders.
• Development of training and workshop agenda on community mobilization in line with the People’s Process.
• Supporting communities on documentation processes including finance and procurement and developing a system for quality assurance of community-based initiatives of the sub project.
• Support project engineers and project GIS, Urban planner to implement technical project activities of JICA funded project in Kabul city and Herat Zandajan district.
• Monitor and ensure that community consultation, meetings, training, demonstration activities, area mapping, community action, hazard mapping plan and capacity building of the community are done on a timely basis as per the agreed standards
• Maintain good liaison with the local authorities at the district level, project partners and communities and conduct regular field surveys and assessments; map information and ensure documentation.
• Ensure adherence to UN-Habitat operational policies, procedures and standards of conduct
• Perform any other task assigned by the supervisor(s).

  Qualifications

• 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. 
• Language:

• 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.

• Other:  
• Build support with national counterparts, during the programme period; Ensure high-quality and timely achievement of relevant activities and targets; Support capacity development efforts with programme 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

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