Peace Forest Initiative programme support - PFI fragility financing report

Overview

The role involves preparing a comprehensive desk-study to inform a policy brief on fragility financing, focusing on de-risking investment related to climate security, environmental restoration, and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

Tasks Summary

• - Prepare a fully referenced scoping paper on fragility financing, focusing on de-risking investment related to climate security, environmental restoration, and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
• - Conduct a stocktaking of published information, reports, documents, and academic literature, and synthesize findings into a coherent analytical paper.
• - Review key issues related to fragility financing, including climate security, emergency and development aid, de-risking options for land management and governance, land use planning/change and restoration, and gender considerations.
• - Examine linkages between land degradation, climate impacts, conflict risks, violent dynamics, crisis, and conflict prevention and resolution.
• - Analyze existing financing mechanisms, policies, and tools related to natural resource management, land restoration and management, climate security, conflict prevention, and identify gaps and opportunities.
• - Formulate clearly articulated narratives and actionable policy recommendations.
• - Assist with the substantive preparation of meetings, workshops, and consultations related to the assignment.
• - Support the secretariat in technical cooperation and coordination with external experts, institutions, and partners.

Experience Requirements

• - A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in natural resource management, environmental policy, development economics, development studies, or related fields, preferably at the intersection of environmental sustainability, natural resource governance and policies, climate policy, peacebuilding, humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus, or related fields is required.
• - Demonstrated experience conducting interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research involving environmental, socio-political, and economic dimensions is desirable.
• - Solid knowledge of the UNCCD, related UN and intergovernmental processes is desirable.
• - Proven experience in research and publishing in the field of relevant disciplines, preferably related to natural resource management and governance, climate security, security and peacebuilding, including non-scientific communications is desirable.
• - Substantial record of experience in transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary work is desirable.
• - Experience analyzing or working with climate security, fragility assessments, crisis prevention, or conflict-sensitive approaches is desirable.

Qualification Requirements

• - An advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in one or more relevant disciplines, such as natural resource management, environmental policy, development economics, development studies or other related interdisciplinary fields is required.
• - A combination of degrees from different disciplines relevant to the assignment (e.g., environment and political science; economics and natural resources; climate and security studies) will be considered an asset.

Other Details

Languages Required: Fluency in spoken and written English is required.

Languages Preferred: Knowledge of an additional official UN language is an advantage.

Contract Duration: 06 months between 28 February to 27 August 2026.

Work Modality: Home-based(part-time).

Remuneration: