The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has announced a consultancy job for a national consultant to lead the execution of the UNFPA CPD10 Sustainable Financing Roadmap in Uganda. The consultant will integrate financing analytics and drive evidence-informed policy dialogue aligned with the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) 2015 budget calendar and Programme-Based Budgeting (PBB) architecture. This will be under the Human Capital Development Programme Working Groups. The consultant will work in Kampala, Uganda.
The consultant's key duties and responsibilities will be divided into four pillars. Pillar 1 involves building evidence and analytics, including updating and adapting economic evidence on the cost of inaction regarding teenage pregnancy, SRHR, and DD. The consultant will also develop targeted budget notes, financing factsheets, and policy briefs to quantify financing gaps and demonstrate Return on Investment (ROI) to key fiscal decision-makers. This will involve identifying potential fiscal space opportunities and modeling efficiency gains in current health and social sector spending.
Under Pillar 2, the consultant will influence public financing to protect, create, and scale domestic budget allocations for DD, SRHR, teenage pregnancy prevention, and TPSR implementation at national and District Local Government (DLG) levels. This will involve driving evidence-informed advocacy across critical decision points in the Ugandan budget calendar. The consultant will work with the Ministry of Health and the Human Capital Development Programme Working Group to ensure adolescent SRHR and TPSR priorities are integrated into the Programme Budget Framework Paper (PBFP) ceilings.
The consultant will also provide technical support to pilot and scale-up districts during regional LG budget consultations to ensure UNFPA CPD10 indicative planning figures, TPSR surveillance, and SRHR/DD indicators are captured in DLG BFPs. Additionally, the consultant will prepare concise Budget Advocacy Briefs for the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development ahead of the final National Budget Framework Paper (NBFP) submission to Parliament. The consultant will also provide technical support to draft and negotiate co-financing MOUs with the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development and the Ministry of Local Government.
Under Pillar 3, the consultant will improve spending efficiency by diagnosing Public Financial Management (PFM) bottlenecks, optimizing budget execution rates, and ensuring public investments in DD, SRHR, and TPSR yield high value-for-money and equitable outcomes. This will involve analyzing quarterly fund release audits and assessing execution bottlenecks affecting adolescent SRHR commodity procurement and district TPSR operations. The consultant will also conduct a targeted PFM review of how domestic resources flow from the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development to other ministries and downstream to district health teams and health facilities.
The consultant will also evaluate unit costs and equity distribution of health and social sector spending to ensure funds reach high-burden, vulnerable adolescent populations. This will involve identifying operational double-counting or programmatic inefficiencies and providing actionable options to reallocate savings directly into core SRHR/DD/TPSR surveillance and response activities. Furthermore, under Pillar 4, the consultant will diversify financing sources by broadening the SRHR and adolescent health financing architecture beyond traditional public budgets.
The consultant will leverage International Financial Institutions (IFIs), results-based mechanisms, and innovative private sector partnerships to support SRHR and adolescent health financing. This will involve mapping ongoing and pipeline IFI loan and grant operations in Uganda and developing technical briefs to embed TPSR and adolescent health disbursement-linked indicators or results conditions into IFI programs. The application for this consultancy position closed on October 13.
Key points
- The consultant will lead the execution of the UNFPA CPD10 Sustainable Financing Roadmap in Uganda.
- The consultant's role involves four pillars: building evidence and analytics, influencing public financing, improving spending efficiency, and diversifying financing sources.
- The consultant will work closely with various government ministries, departments, and agencies to ensure effective implementation of the Sustainable Financing Roadmap.
