Tender for Coordination and Online Course Content Development...

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP), INDIA
Address: UNDP India Country Office, UNDP, Post Box
Country: India
Email: vijay.thapliyal@undp.org
Website: www.in.undp.org

Tender's Details

Tenders Are Invited Home-based Description of the Assignment: Coordination and Online Course Content Development Consultant Period of assignment/services: March-June 2024 UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (ICPSD) is the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s globalpolicy center mandated to leverage the role of the private sector in development. The ICPSD was established in Istanbul based on the Partnership Framework Agreement signed between the Government of Tuerkiye and the UNDP in 2011. The Center supports UNDP's global work on the private sector and foundations to become transformative partners in development through research, advocacy for inclusive business, facilitation of public-private dialogue and multi stakeholder-partnerships. UNDP ICPSD provides various advisory, technical assistance and capacity development services to UNDP Country Offices, government bodies and private sector organizations. It is one of the five global thematic policy centers of UNDP, advocating and facilitating the contribution of the private sector to human development and inclusive growth through the following thematic priority areas:- Private Sector Engagement through South-South Cooperation for the SDGs- Private Sector Engagement in Skills Development- Impact Investing- Resilience and Crisis Response Building on the complementing principles of Islamic finance and impact investing, Global Islamic Finance and Impact Investing Platform(GIFIIP) was established jointly by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (ICPSD) in 2016, to create a promising avenue supporting the implementation of Agenda 2030. Engaging the private sector, governments, and key stakeholdersoperating in the Islamic finance and impact investing markets; the Platform aims to promote market-based solutions to sustainable development challenges by fostering linkages, policy dialogue and advocacy. GIFIIP envisions positioning Islamic finance and impact investing as a leading enabler of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation through private sector engagement. The Platform strategizes to foster a thriving Islamic finance and impact investing business ecosystem by creating a collaborative working space among these actors and serves as a knowledge hub for capacity development initiatives.A previously completed ICPSD project, the MOOC "Islamic Finance for the Sustainable Development Goals", is a good example of the product that will be created at the end of this project. https://gifiip.org/service/massive-open-online-course/. As in MOOC, the Online Course learningcontent material will involve video lectures and interactive teaching tools. It is planned to be ready for publication in the fourth quarter of 2024, aiming to reach a broad base of audience from Islamic finance and development sectors.The Online Course will consist of five modules with 20-30 minutes of video lecture each, as well as interactive teaching tools. The video lecture content will be developed in a few steps including the writing of the tailored narratives by the subject matter expert, reviews and approvals by the relevant project stakeholders, quality assurance clearance, and textto speech arrangements resulting in speech scripts (Content Development Stage 1). The speech scripts will then be spoken/presented by the course instructors in the video lectures which will be developed through a video recording and post-production stage (Content Development Stage 2). Both the subject matter expert and the course instructors will be identified/appointed by the ICPSD Islamic finance portfolio. The project management is expected to engage one subject matter expert and five course instructors.UNDP ICPSD is seeking a Project Coordinator as an Individual Consultant (IC the Consultant) to be responsible for the coordination of the Online Course project. The Consultant is expected to complete the Content Development Stage 1, and make the required arrangements for the project to be ready to move to Content Development Stage 2.Proposal should be submitted directly in the portal no later than indicated deadline.Any request for clarification must be sent in writing via messaging functionality in the portal. UNDP will respond in writing including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry.Please indicate whether you intend to submit a bid by creating a draft response without submitting directly in the system. 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