Graphic design for UNCT Annual Results Report 2023

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Mission and objectives

The United Nations Multi-Country Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework in the Caribbean (MSDCF), which is aligned to the SDGs, identifies a single framework for the UN to partner with the region for joint Caribbean development. This document is a plan for UN development activities in the 22 countries within the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean for a five-year period. These activities support the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. The current MSDCF runs from 2022 to 2026. This particular plan specifically takes into account the need to ‘Build Back Better’ from the Covid-19 pandemic, and to address structural vulnerabilities unique to the Caribbean as a whole. All 17 Sustainable Development Goals are covered by this plan, but strategic priority was given to 73 of the total 169 SDG targets. Twenty-two UN Funds, programmes and agencies work together for the UN system. The UN partners with governments, public sector entities, regional institutions, private sector, civil society, the media, and other entities to achieve the objectives of the MSDCF. This MSDCF organises the UN's development work in the Caribbean around four major thematic areas: Shared Prosperity and Economic Resilience; Equality, Well-being and Leaving No One Behind; Resilience to Climate Change/Shocks and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources; Peace, Safety, Justice and the Rule of Law. To ensure the MSDCF is rolled out in Trinidad and Tobago in alignment with the country's national agenda for sustainable development, the UN Country Team partners with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago on a Country Implementation Plan (CIP). A CIP is drafted and implemented annually for the duration of the five-year MSDCF cycle, with the UN Country Team delivering annual reports to account for the work done in the previous year's CIP.

Context

The UN Country Results Report presents the status of UN system-wide implementation of the Cooperation Framework as well as other planning documents between the UN and the Government. The report is prepared annually to ensure accountability to programme countries and to make this publicly available. The Online Volunteer will have the opportunity to build connections with the Resident Coordinator Office in Trinidad and Tobago and learn about the results achieved by the UN through its various partnerships. A well-designed report will support visibility of the UN System's transformative work in supporting the national agenda for sustainable development. The skills to graphically design the report are required to ensure the main audience for this report - Government - can clearly and comprehensively take stock of the UN System's work in the countries served by the RCO, and to make visible the UN System partnerships with Governments, donors and implementing partners towards the achievement of the SDGs.

Task description

We are looking for one Online Volunteer, who under the guidance of the Programme Communications and Advocacy Officer, and in close collaboration with the UN Communications Group, will support us by producing the cover page design, full report design and layout complete with data visualizations and Adobe Illustrator illustrations where needed, for the 2023 Annual Results Report. In particular, the Online Volunteer is asked to: - Based on the draft Annual Results Report provide a design and layout that meets the specifications of the Guidelines on Annual Results Reports from the Development Coordination Office - Integrate photos and captions supplied by the Programme Communications and Advocacy Officer and the UN Communications Group into the report's layout and design - Develop data visualizations, sidebars, visualisations and illustrations to provide visual alternatives to text-dense information The design/layout should follow our corporate design guidelines which will be shared with the Online Volunteers in advance. The Online Volunteer/s will have the opportunity to build connections with the Resident Coordinator's Office in Trinidad and Tobago and learn about the ways in which graphic design can support visibility of the UN System's transformative work in supporting the national agenda for sustainable development.