Site **Malaysia**, **Putrajaya**, **Putrajaya**: Sector: **Nonprofit/Community/Social Services/International Cooperation**: Role: **Other**:Date**:31/07/2023** (Expiry date**:11/08/2023**)BackgroundUNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, and institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results.UNDP is working to strengthen new frameworks for development, disaster risk reduction and climate change. We support countries' efforts to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals, which will guide global development priorities through 2030. The key 2030 Agenda principle of leaving no one behind and stamping out inequality is at the core of everything we do.UNDP focuses on helping countries build and share solutions in three main areas:- Sustainable development- Democratic governance and peacebuilding- Climate and disaster resilience**INTERNSHIP OFFICE BACKGROUND**:UNDP's technical assistance programmes date from the country's independence in 1957. Began in the late 1950s, earlier than the 1961 establishment of its physical office in Kuala Lumpur was realized. For the last 5 decades, UNDP's assistance has been in stride with Malaysia's own five-year national development plans, strategic agendas and policy priorities encompassing inclusive growth and economic development, poverty eradication, gender empowerment, promoting good governance and anti-corruption, sustainable and resilient development, strengthening renewable energy and energy efficiency approaches, mainstreaming environmental management and protection, rationalizing public sector reform, as well as promotion of South-South Cooperation for global development.Through this partnership and the successful implementation of hundreds of projects, UNDP has helped to strengthen the technical capacity of key national institutions, provided critical policy inputs, piloted innovative development projects, and contributed to significant progress in promoting human development in Malaysia. Over the years, Malaysia's progress has been impressive and the country has achieved or is on track to attaining the SDGs at the aggregate level by 2030.In line with its position as an upper middle-income country, the country office is fully focused on upstream policies in supporting the design of Malaysia's national development priorities and the implementation of national medium and long-term development plans (12th Malaysia Plan 2021-2025) and sectoral development policies and strategies. In addition, UNDP also strengthens the development of strategic upstream policy initiatives through downstream pilot projects and enabling on the ground realities to inform national policy development with credible and quantifiable evidence base data, innovative approaches, digitalization, analysis, stakeholder feedback and policy options. Policy and programmatic strategies are identified jointly with the Economic Planning Unit in the Prime Minister's Department and implemented by over 15 ministries and agencies, civil society organizations, academic institutions, think tanks and the private sector. The office also serves as a liaison for UNDP offices worldwide in their engagements with the Government of Singapore and Brunei Darussalam.In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women, minorities and the poorest and most vulnerable.**Responsibilities**:The intern will assist in the following duties and responsibilities:**No****Duties and responsibilities****% of time**1**Knowledge Support**- Assist in desktop research, data collection and management, including identifying unusual or untapped data sources- Assist in liaising with data providers and partners**60%**2**Project and programme support**- Assist in event management and logistics for stakeholder consultations- Assist in communications and publicity, including but not limited to developing blog pieces and social media posts**30%**3**Other Support**- Support other/ad hoc activities for the Country Office as relevant and needed**10%**The intern will work with the Inclusive Growth and Prosperity team on the Sustainable Tourism Recovery Project. The project is designed to address several challenges affecting the tourism industry in three specific geographical areas of Malaysia (Mersing, Setiu and Manjung). It centres on the Government's ambition to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the domestic tourism sector by rebuilding the resilience of destination communities and MSME businesses. This is in line with the 12th Malaysia Plan, in particular, "Theme 1: Resetting the Economy, Chapter 3, Strategy A5: Re-energising the Tourism Industry"; Chapter 5, Strategy E2: Accelerating Socioeconomic Development of Orang
