Human Security Portfolio Analyst

El PNUD trabaja en cerca de 170 países y territorios, ayudando a reducir la pobreza, las desigualdades y la exclusión. Apoyamos a los países a desarrollar políticas, capacidades de liderazgo, de asociación y a fortalecer sus instituciones, además de crear resiliencia con el fin de obtener resultados concretos en materia de desarrollo.

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas tiene presencia en Venezuela desde 1954 a través del Programa Ampliado de las Naciones Unidas para la Asistencia Técnica, alianza que a partir de 1971 y por invitación del Gobierno nacional, se convirtió en el Programa de la Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD).

Las funciones del PNUD en Venezuela tienen como base el prestar asistencia técnica a través de iniciativas y experiencias exitosas orientadas al desarrollo de capacidades y la gestión del conocimiento con un enfoque multidimensional; generar capacidades nacionales y transferir conocimientos desde y hacia Venezuela a través de la cooperación Sur- Sur; promover alianzas entre los diferentes actores del desarrollo para la integración multidimensional de áreas temáticas en la construcción de medios de vida sostenibles, acceso y calidad de servicios básicos y gestión integral de riesgos.

In the past decade, Venezuela has been facing a complex and interconnected political, social and economic crisis that has resulted in a reduction of its GDP by 75%, the migration of an estimated 8 million Venezuelans abroad, and where an estimated 7.5 million Venezuelans still face humanitarian needs, as well as an entrenched political crisis as shown in the events that ensued the latest presidential elections held in 2024.

To better address the complexity and magnitude of this crisis, UNDP is adopting innovative approaches that focus on systems transformation through its recently revamped portfolio-based approach. Portfolios are a methodology that seeks to develop, test, learn and scale (where appropriate) a suite of interventions that are complementary and can shift complex systems by focusing on multiple intervention points at a given time. In this way, the portfolio is a platform for strategic learning and action: to understand the dynamics that occupy the problem space, and over time more accurately understand the aligned interventions.

UNDP is currently implementing in Venezuela three interconnected portfolios on community resilience, reinforcing trust and promoting gender equality.

The portfolio on community resilience is implemented jointly with FAO and UNHCR aims at addressing the increased vulnerabilities and risks of returnees and the population that receives them, focusing on social protection and self-protection, the development of productive capacities, the strengthening of the social fabric and the mitigation of risks associated with human mobility as key elements to achieve this. Switzerland, through SDC, is currently considering supporting this portfolio.

The Gender portfolio, implemented with UN Women, seeks to:  drive transformative actions to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; transform the institutional framework and achieve an inclusive governance model; and, consolidate an egalitarian and fairer society, free of violence and harmful social norms with solid institutions that guarantee the conditions for the empowerment of women and girls. 

The portfolio on Trust, in collaboration with the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs of the UN Secretariat, aims to promote initiatives and inclusive dialogues that help bridge different narratives among national actors, thereby strengthening the social fabric and fostering social cohesion while creating the enabling conditions for an inclusive and sustainable recovery in the country. Switzerland, through the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, is currently supporting this initiative.

The three portfolios are interconnected, both operationally, by adopting similar techniques linked to portfolio implementation and targeting the same geographical areas, among others, and conceptually since they are mutually reinforcing and contribute to an overarching objective, which is to foster human security in Venezuela through a triple humanitarian-development-peace approach.

To further foster this interconnection among portfolios, the UNDP Venezuela Country Office is already conducting a series of initiatives such as inter-portfolio field missions and workshops and fostering joint assessments and interventions.

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative, the UN Youth Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

- Inter-portfolio coordination: Provide direct support (both technically and operationally) to the implementation of activities that foster the interconnectedness of the three human security portfolios, such as:
a) supporting the organization of peer learning sessions, joint workshops, and field missions;
b) designing joint assessments and activities; coordinating knowledge capture across workstreams; synthesizing learnings and insights from implementation and develop knowledge products for dissemination

- Portfolio approach implementation: Together with the strategic innovation associate and in close collaboration with the Strategic Innovation Unit of UNDP in Istanbul, support the development and implementation of the portfolio approach in the three portfolios by coordinating with the different specific portfolio teams and ensuring pace and learning activities and supporting capability building for portfolio management targeting UNDP teams, partners and other stakeholders

- Human security and HDP nexus mainstreaming: Provide support to strengthen the integration of the human security and the HDP nexus approaches in the three portfolios and in UNDP programming in general; design and deploy capacity development activities in these areas.

- Partnerships: Participate in interagency discussions and programmatic efforts, especially within the framework of the Nexus Interagency Advisory Group, the Interagency Programme Group and the Humanitarian Coordination Team; monitor and identify resource mobilization and partnership opportunities in areas covered by the human security portfolios; support in the organization of activities that foster partnerships (organization of development partner meetings) and lead to resource mobilization (prepare technical proposals for donors and submissions for call for proposals).