International Consultancy, Development of Tagging Methodology to link budget revenues and expenditure accounts to SDG financing in Lao PDR - Home-based with possible travel to Lao PDR and Thailand

The main objective of the assignment, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) as the designated ministry of SDG reporting, is to support the MoF to examine the potentials and propose a design methodology to support the government to accurately report disaggregated SDG expenditure and revenues. The tagging system will take advantage of the current COA updating process and specifically work with the MoF COA committee and in partnership with UNDP, IMF and World Bank. This assignment will also complete a stock take of existing tagging systems deployed and in use (i.e., Nepal, Climate Tagging of National Accounts).

Leveraging this position and work, UNCDF, in partnership with UNDP and UNFPA are implementing the SDG Fund project “Efficiency and optimization of Lao PDR’s public budget to finance the SDGs through the National Plan”.

This joint programme will work to strengthen the national architecture for managing and allocating development finance to support more efficient and effective use of available resources at this critical moment. This will be done by drawing on the strengths of UN agencies to: support development of a practical financing strategy to support implementation of the plan; develop a context appropriate methodology to cost commitments made under the plan to support improved prioritization;? develop an evidence-based approach to supporting budget allocations through a pilot in the health sector; and implement an innovative budget tagging methodology that will allow actual spending to be tracked against priorities

Within the framework of the UNJP, UNCDF will undertake to develop and test an innovative budget tagging methodology that will allow optimized public sector budget formulation with revenues and expenditures being tracked against SDG priorities.

For detailed information please access: UNCDF Jobs - 96027- International Consultancy, Development of Tagging (undp.org)