Design Research Analysis Support for UNDP

Established in 1965, UNDP is the United Nations’ global development network, operating in nearly 170 countries and territories. Its mission is to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities, and build resilience to crises and shocks. The Istanbul Regional Hub (IRH) is UNDP’s primary knowledge and advisory center for the Europe and Central Asia region.

To address systemic challenges, UNDP is diversifying its way of supporting governments, policymakers and partners by applying the portfolio approach. Portfolios are designed to provide expanded options (diverse yet coherent interventions), and development intelligence for decision-making (channeling resources, generating insights to adapt, and strategic direction). Working on system transformation is the cornerstone of the new Strategic Plan, and around 20 UNDP COs are already applying the portfolio approach. Within the Eurasia region, two key initiates are applying the ‘portfolio approach’ to help Mayors and cities better deal with the complex urban challenges faced today: the City Experiment Fund, and the Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG). This assignment will focus on the latter where the selected candidate will help with specific workstreams within M4EG. The candidate will focus on the discovery phase of the portfolio approach where they will support the design research and community listening process that will be carried out in the selected cities in the Eastern Partnership countries – Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.

We are seeking Online Volunteers to support with the following tasks related to the design research and community listening process: · Review and analyse the interview transcripts from diverse stakeholders from 2-4 cities (each with 25-40 interview transcripts) to examine and interpret qualitative data from each city · Synthesize the qualitative data from the interview transcripts to draw patterns on stakeholder needs, challenges, opportunities, perspectives on specific topics related to urban transformation and the city · Create a report on the patterns, findings and insights for each city (10 slides approx.) · Create a report on the patterns, findings and insights across cities (1-2 slides) · Support the production of visual representations of the data, process and research (1 slide) Although tasks are time sensitive, the successful candidate can be working from another time zone than Istanbul and work remotely and independently on the given tasks.