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Meeting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will require unprecedented investments from different sources of finance (public, private, domestic, and international) and ambitious strategies and public reforms needed to increase efficiencies and value for money. Indeed, the challenge for governments will be to ensure that resources are raised, channeled to and translated into concrete and measurable development results on the ground, to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNDP has developed a unique and integrated approach to support countries financing the SDGs more efficiently and effectively with the related expertise and focus on linking financing, planning and good governance. UNDP’s analyses and activities in various regions have highlighted one main challenge on the financing front: the need to build a better understanding of financial flows, and how they contribute to the SDGs through a development planning angle, in order to inform governments in various regions on the necessary Public Financial Management (PFM) measures or reforms needed to better align finance with inclusive growth and sustainable development objectives. Building on the UNDP’s overall methodology on Budgeting for SDGs, UNDP can support countries to perform budget and policy analysis of public finance through PFM frameworks reviews and analysis for integrating SDGs into PFM systems and processes.
South Sudan is a young country with rich resource endowment, vast landscapes, and a young population. The achievement of South Sudan’s development objectives and priority SDGs, however, has been challenged by the lack of a financing strategy that details how the government can implement an integrated approach to development financing and planning. In the absence of a results framework and a monitoring strategy, the outcomes of the implementation of the 2018 – 2021 National Development Strategy (NDS) are not well documented, and the lack of alignment and insufficient mobilization of resources also point to low levels of overall operationalization.
The Government of South Sudan, supported by UNDP and other Development Partners, has engaged in a comprehensive review of the 2018 – 2021 NDS. The review aims for greater policy coherence between the NDS and Revitalized Agreement for Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) and builds on several building blocks such as an updated fragility assessment, country-wide stakeholder consultations, the integration of the SDGs, Gender mainstreaming and the incubation of a financing strategy. This will lead to a revised NDS for the period 2021 -2024 and lay the grounds for a more holistic planning and financing process towards the implementation of the priority SDGs for South Sudan by 2030.
Effective budgeting for SDGs with a gender lens, together with the ongoing Development Finance Assessment (DFA) process supported by UNDP, will be crucial for this revision and corresponds to the NDS review objectives to undertake an inclusive planning process that ensures national ownership, strengthen the development finance landscape and lay the foundation for an Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF). UNDP is looking for a consultant to technically support South Sudan in its gender-responsive SDGs budgeting reforms.
- Scope of work
The consultant will provide guidance and support in providing timely technical support to respond to country demands on gender-responsive SDG Budgeting in South Sudan. The consultant will have the overall responsibility for the review, drafting, quality assurance and timely completion of analysis, research, training, drafting analytical reports and provision of policy recommendations in the area of Gender-responsive SDG Budgeting. The support will entail working with the UNDP country team to support in discussions with the Ministry of Finance and Planning and State Governments in implementation of budgeting reforms with technical inputs (briefs, adaptation of methodological tools to local context) that help in making planning and budgetary system gender- and SDG-responsive in South Sudan.
Expected scope of the SDG Budgeting support will focus on gender-responsive budgeting for the SDGs, aligned with UNDP global guidance on Budgeting for SDGs:
- Support capacity development and technical assistance on gender budget classification (gender tagging, coding), including via upgrading of Financial Management Information System (FMIS) to ensure gender indicators and targets are explicitly reflected in budgets as part of the budget information system, and gender budget allocations and expenditures are effectively tracked.
- Support development of gender policy-budget mapping table (for manual/automated processes, with/without changes in the chart of accounts), development of frameworks/methods for gender budget statements, and integration of gender-responsive budget requirements in budget circulars.
- Support Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews with gender lens; gender budget watchdog reports; sector-based gender-responsive budget analysis, including sex-disaggregated benefit incidence analysis of expenditures and unit cost analyses; gender impact analysis of budget and policies.
- Support advocacy on macroeconomic impact of gender-responsive policies and expenditures.
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