Graphic Design Support for Multilayered Vulnerability Assessment Reports

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the agency for human settlements mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. UN-HABITAT helps governments and the urban poor by transforming cities into safer, healthier, greener places with better opportunities where everyone can live in with dignity. It works with organizations at every level, including all spheres of government, civil society and the private sector to help build, manage, plan and finance sustainable urban development. In Lao PDR, the UN-Habitat country office was opened in 2005, and now operates as a regional hub for water and sanitation programmes in the Mekong sub-region in South-East Asia. The office works in close collaboration with several different Ministries on various urban topics and community-based initiatives in urban and peri-urban areas throughout Lao PDR.

Recognizing heightened climate, biodiversity and unplanned urbanization risks and vulnerabilities in LDCs and developing countries, and a lack of access to climate finance, this project will enhance capacities of national and local governments in least-developed countries and small island developing states, especially Lao PDR, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and South Africa, on financing for urban sustainable, net-zero, climate resilient and nature positive development. Through south-south, regional and interregional cooperation between the four countries, the valuable exchange of knowledge, lessons, resources and technical know-how will collectively build and strengthen the capacities of national and local governments in technical topics relating to the project. The project will further seek to mobilize finance for accelerating climate adaptation and resilience efforts where the cascading and compounding urban risks and vulnerabilities are the highest. The project will assess multi-layered urban risks and vulnerabilities to climate change, biodiversity degradation, and urbanization, propose responsive action, and prioritize the development of bankable urban climate action proposals in LDCs and developing countries. These will be presented to bi- and multilateral climate donors, investors and funds to accelerate access to climate finance for LDCs and developing countries. The project will further highlight the urban multi-layered vulnerabilities of climate change, biodiversity degradation, and urbanization and the recent new commitments to local governments and urban practitioners through the Innovate4Cities partnership, facilitated by UN-Habitat's Montreal Office for Climate Change and Biodiversity Solutions, in partnership with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and to policy makers at the UNFCCC and CBD COPs, the World Urban Forum (in particular WUF12), and other relevant events. Further, the project will build on existing synergies with the SURGe Initiative, including connecting to the global network, build on learning from SURGe as well as use SURGe as an opportunity to scale the project up globally. Building on the efforts of establishing a RISE UP Secretariat, the overall objective of the project is to enhance interregional knowledge exchange and capacities of national and local governments in Lao PDR, Madagascar, South Africa, and Sri Lanka for urban sustainable, net-zero, climate resilient and nature positive development for the most vulnerable urban communities. Long-term, the project will support the integration of urban climate issues into NDCs, NAPs and municipal and national climate policy.

We are looking for 2 Online Volunteers (OV) who under the guidance of Head of UN-Habitat Lao PDR and in close collaboration with the project team will produce two of InDesign-formatted reports for Multilayered Vulnerability Assessment Report. In particular, each Online Volunteer is asked to: - Each Online Volunteer will take the lead on the layout and design of one full report (approx. 80 pages) using Adobe InDesign. - Creating a professional and visually coherent layout in InDesign based on content provided by the project team. - Applying UN-Habitat corporate design guidelines (to be shared in advance). - Supporting final formatting and preparation of print-ready and/or digital-ready files. - Each Online Volunteer will also cross-review the second report to ensure consistency in layout, formatting, and application of corporate branding guidelines. The Online Volunteers will have the opportunity to build connections with the project team at UN-Habitat Lao PDR and learn about the ways in which graphic design can support the creation of Multilayered Vulnerability Assessment Reports.