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Background: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the UN system’s designated entity for addressing environmental issues at global and regional levels.
In Sudan, UNEP has worked for over a decade with national and local actors to promote sustainable natural resource management, contributing to peace, recovery, and development through improved environmental governance and community-based approaches.
The ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, which began in April 2023, has caused widespread destruction and a severe humanitarian crisis. Critical infrastructure—including water, sanitation, energy, and health services—has been severely damaged, while the use of heavy weaponry in densely populated and industrial areas is suspected to have led to serious environmental contamination. The accumulation of debris, hazardous waste, and unburied bodies poses urgent environmental and public health risks. Ecosystems including agricultural land, forests, wetlands, and coastal zones have also been affected. In response to a request from the Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources, and in line with UNEA Resolution 6/12, UNEP has initiated remote assessments in partnership with CEOBS and is co-leading, with UNESCO, the establishment of an interagency working group to coordinate environmental monitoring and recovery planning. These efforts aim to ensure that recovery strategies are informed by reliable environmental data and that the conflict’s environmental impacts are continuously assessed.
UNEP’s Medium-Term Strategy 2022–2025 integrates peace and security as key pillars, with a focus on supporting UN peacebuilding and humanitarian missions. In Sudan, UNEP is conducting climate security and conflict assessments to inform conflict-sensitive programming and sustainable recovery efforts. These assessments, undertaken in collaboration with UN partners, aim to identify risks, resilience capacities, and the potential for natural resources to contribute to peacebuilding.
Against this background, the UNEP Sudan Office seeks to engage a Junior Programme Consultant to provide technical and advisory support across these interventions, as outlined in the deliverables and tasks below. |
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Duties and responsibilities: Objectives: The Programme Consultant will provide programmatic support, logistics, administration and financial management tasks for the Environmental Recovery Efforts. The Programme Consultant will liaise closely with Un agencies, government counterparts, INGOs, CSOs, academia and donors in order to support the environmental recovery coordination efforts and resources mobilization |
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Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
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