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UN VOLUNTEER DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT1. UNV Assignment Title: Volunteering and Post 2015 National Coordinator (UNV2015NC)2. Type of Assignment: National UN Volunteer Specialist3. Project Title: Volunteering and Sustainable Development: Rio + 20 Follow up, theMDGs and Post 2015 Agenda4. Duration: 12 months5. Location, Country: 6. Expected Starting Date: July 20127. Brief Project Description:“Volunteering and Sustainable Development: Rio + 20 Follow up, the MDGs and Post 2015Agenda” is at project initiation stage.The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held in June 2012and subsequent MDG related events in 2013 and 2014, particularly the UN General AssemblySpecial Event on MDG achievement in September 2013, present a unique opportunity for the UNto bring a people-centred and more inclusive approach to peace and sustainable development.An aspect of this UNV project, relevant to the UNDG-led country Consultations on the Post 2015Development Agenda, is to provide capacity to enable the RCs and the UNCTs to put communitylevel volunteering at the centre of the national policy discussions. An expected result, from thenational dialogue, emanating from the Rio+20 Conference and in lead up to the global MDGreview and development of a Post 2015 development framework, is that community levelvolunteering is recognised as instrumental for sustainable MDG achievement. Through theproject, UNV will also strengthen the capacity of UNV Field Units and national volunteernetworks to provide inputs to the national level discussions on MDG achievement and thepost-2015 agenda. In addition, UNV hopes to develop targeted joint UN programming incollaboration with civil society and volunteer organizations and governments, to upscaleand replicate successful volunteer-based initiatives at the national, regional and global levels.UNDG is currently mobilising support around an initiative that aims to build a strategiccoalition of partners to shape the post-2015 development agenda through broad engagementof poor and vulnerable people, governments, NGOs and grassroots organisations, the privatesector, trade unions and workers, and the academic community. This intensive collaborativeeffort towards forming a post 2015-development agenda recognises that a more robust‘people-centred’ approach is required in a changing development context to address the criticalchallenges of our time, build on the momentum of and lessons learned from the MDGsall of which need to be clearly underpinned by core UN norms, values and commitments.To facilitate the process, the following activities are in preparation: Inclusive nationalconsultations process to stimulate the debate on the post-2015 development agenda, May 2012 –January 2013. These outreach exercises would complement formal consultations led by the UN’sDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) on behalf of the General Assembly (GA), andothers that the UN is supporting such as those in preparation of the UN Conference on SustainableDevelopment (Rio+20). In an initial step, UNDP will support 50 countries to holdnational consultations.UNV will support this national consultation process by facilitating and leveraging engagementof civil society, governments, UN entities and communities, especially through national, localand regional consultations and global networking. An important component of the project willalso focus on knowledge building and sharing through national level consultations to informnational and regional MDG reports and recommendations and volunteerism connections to the same.40Post-2015 Development Agenda Process: Guideline for Consultations