Public Financial Management (PFM) Consultant

Duties and Responsibilities

Inception and Coordination

• Organize and participate in inception calls and progress meetings with OPM and MoFPED and other relevant central finance agencies (e.g. Budget Directorate, Treasury Services, Accountant General, Internal Audit).
• Introduce and sensitize stakeholders to project objectives, methodology, and expected outputs.
• Coordinate closely with UNDRR and national focal points throughout the assignment.

PFM-for-Recovery Assessments

• Review and input to UNDRR’s PFM-for-Recovery Assessment Guide.
• Collect and review relevant documentation on the national PFM system, including but not limited to
• Legal and regulatory frameworks governing public finance
• National budget processes and fiscal decentralization arrangements
• Disaster risk financing instruments and contingency mechanisms
• Climate finance and public investment management frameworks
• Previous PFM‑related assessments (e.g. PEFA, climate‑PFM, DRF studies)
• Compile background information necessary for the PFM assessment based on the PFM-for-Recovery Assessment Guide, leveraging information from previous PFM assessments.
• Organize and conduct interviews and consultations with key stakeholders, including but not limited to
• MoFPED departments and agencies
• Office of the Auditor General
• National Planning Authority
• Office of the Prime Minister (including disaster management functions)
• Select sector ministries and local government representatives (as relevant). Apply and conduct analysis based a structured PFM-for-Recovery assessment framework tailored to the Ugandan context
• Identify data gaps relevant to disaster responsive PFM, identifying:
• Priority institutional and capacity gaps
• Policy and regulatory reform needs
• System and process improvements to support resilient recovery
• Ensure gender-responsive and inclusive analysis, including consideration of differential impacts on women and at‑risk and marginalized groups.
• Organize and facilitate validation sessions/workshops with government and stakeholders to review and confirm findings. This includes developing workshop agenda, supporting logistics preparations, facilitating sessions, and drafting/finalizing workshop reports.
• Prepare a draft PFM assessment report for Uganda, and corresponding PowerPoint presentation materials, including analytical findings
• Practical and prioritized recommendations
• Clear linkages to recovery financing and readiness.
• Revise the report based on feedback from validation workshops.
• Ensure that PFM findings inform the National Recovery Readiness Roadmap, particularly financial preparedness for recovery and reconstruction.

3. Capacity Building on PFM for Recovery

• Develop PowerPoint presentations and supporting training materials for two capacity-building workshops on PFM for disaster and climate‑resilient recovery
• Tailor materials to the Ugandan institutional and fiscal context, with focus on:
• Risk‑informed fiscal planning
• Budget allocation and tagging for disaster and climate risks
• Public investment and recovery financing
• Transparency, accountability, and audit in recovery spending
• Support organization of two capacity-building workshops in coordination with OPM-DMD, MoFPED and UNDRR
• Support facilitation of interactive sessions and collection of participant feedback using structured feedback tools
• Document workshop proceedings, outcomes, key lessons learned, and recommendations for follow-up capacity development The Consultant will work Under the overall supervision of UNDRR Economic Affairs Officer.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in public finance, economics, public policy, development studies, or related fields is required.
• A first-level university degree in any of these fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Five (5) years of relevant experience in public financial management (PFM), fiscal policy, or public sector reform is required.
• Experience in PFM diagnostics or assessments e.g. Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment or climate‑related PFM is required.
• Experience in capacity building and facilitation with government officials is required.
• Experience in working with Ministries of Finance; experience in Uganda is required.
• Experience in gender-responsive budgeting or inclusive public finance is desirable.