Gcf2 Intern

**GCF2 Intern**:
**Location**:

- Hanoi, VIET NAM**Application Deadline**:

- 02-Jul-23
- **(Midnight New York, USA)**

**Time left**:

- 9d 7h 53m**Type of Contract**:

- Internship**Post Level**:

- Intern**Languages Required**:

- English**Background**:
**Corporate Background**

UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results.

UNDP is working to strengthen new frameworks for development, disaster risk reduction and climate change. We support countries' efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, which will guide global development priorities through 2030. The key 2030 Agenda principle of leaving no one behind and stamping out inequality is at the core of everything we do.

UNDP focuses on helping countries build and share solutions in three main areas:

- Sustainable development
- Democratic governance and peacebuilding
- Climate and disaster resilience

In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women, minorities and the poorest and most vulnerable.

**Project Background**

Viet Nam is particularly vulnerable to climate change and already impacted by more irregular and intense climate variability and change. Two of the regions most vulnerable to droughts-exacerbated by climate change affecting smallholder farmers are the Central Highlands and South-Central Coast. Changes in precipitation are leading to increasing deficits in surface and ground water availability for agricultural production with longer periods of severe water scarcity during the dry season and increased frequency and intensity of droughts. Overall agricultural productivity is falling, with corresponding declines in yields and incomes particularly harmful to small-scale farmers vulnerable to reduced water availability on rain fed lands and within this group, poor and near-poor, ethnic minority and women farmers.

UNDP is collaborating with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI, as the GCF National Designated Authority), and the five participating provinces of Dak Lak, Dak, Nong, Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan, and Khanh Hoa to implement the GCF-financed project “Strengthening the resilience of smallholder agriculture to climate change-induced water insecurity in the Central Highlands and South-Central Coast regions of Vietnam” (herein after referred to as “the GFC2 Project”).

The objective of this project is to empower vulnerable smallholders in five provinces of the Central Highlands and South-Central Coast regions of Vietnam - particularly women and ethnic minority farmers - to manage increasing climate risks to agricultural production. To achieve its objective, the project will enable smallholder farmers to adapt to climate-driven rainfall variability and drought through implementation of two linked Outputs integrating GCF and co-financing resources from the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Vietnam:

- improved access to water for vulnerable smallholder farmers for climate-resilient agricultural production in the face of climate-induced rainfall variability and droughts, and

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Objectives**

Overall, the National Intern is expected to support the GCF2 project team with the successful implementation of the abovementioned project through effective administrative and communication support to UNDP.

In return, UNDP will provide the intern with hands-on involvement in development work, exposure to the working environment of a multilateral organization, and a better understanding of UNDP Vietnam’s goals and activities.

**Scope of Work**

The National Intern will be working in close coordination with UNDP/project staff, including but not limited to the UNDP Programme Officer, local and international consultants.

Tasks may include, but are not limited to:

- Providing support in organizing meetings and events including conferences, workshops, webinars, and study visits, including interpreting, notes, coordination with co
- organizers for supporting logístical & travel arrangements, and substantive preparations along with note and photo-taking and technical support including at webinars (especially during COVID-19, since some of these meetings may be online). Specifically, providing support to the organization of national workshop(s) and/or forum(s) in collaboration with project partners for ensuring the smoothness of the meeting/events;
- Translating publications, papers, web content, and other materials from English to Vietnamese and vice-versa;
- Supporting administrative and communications tasks as necessary in day-to-day office operations;
- Supporting some financial tasks under instruction of GCF2 Budget & fin