The National Consultant will serve as the national focal point for all technical and stakeholder engagements, ensuring the quality, consistency, and timely delivery of analytical outputs.
The National Consultant will lead the analytical and coordination work under both the components: -Phase 1 – Scoping and Problem Specification of the Fiscal Policy Coherence (FPC) and the GRPB reform process.
Expected Output and Deliverables
The Consultant is expected to deliver the following:
Component 1 : Lead analytical and coordination work under Phase 1 of PFC approach: Under this output the consultant will lead national-level analytical and coordination work supporting the FPC Phase I process, ensuring that development dimensions such as gender, health, climate, social equity are systematically integrated into the fiscal coherence assessment.
A. Pre-Mission Support, the consultant will:
• Conduct desk research on national fiscal instruments, budget laws, SDG/NDC policies, and data sources.
• Collect and organize key fiscal (revenue, budget, expenditure, debt, subsidies) and socio-economic data.
• Develop data collection instruments, including an “interview guide” to be used with key actors for understanding fiscal practices and institutional capacities and challenges that is informed and aligned with UNDP’s FPC approach. Ensure information already acquired in strategic documents outlined above is not replicated but built upon in this guide.
• Support and ensure completion of Pre-Mission Guiding Questions and assist in adapting Mission Interview Guiding Questions.
• Support coordination and logistical arrangements for meetings and interviews.
• Identify institutional, regulatory, and operational gaps affecting coherence.
• Draft short analytical notes summarizing key cross-cutting fiscal challenges (Gender, Health, Climate, Social Equity, Governance etc).
B. On-Site Mission support
