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UNDP 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, 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
In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women, minorities and the poorest and most vulnerable.
The UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025 highlights the importance of digital as one of the key enablers to achieve UNDP’s mandate. UNDP’s Digital Strategy 2022-2025 builds upon the Strategic Plan and puts forth a vision whereby digital is an empowering force for people and the planet, in which the implementation of digital public goods is a strategic priority for enabling inclusive digital ecosystems globally.
UNDP’s digital transformation focuses on developing the organization’s capability to leverage existing, emerging and future digital technologies and the opportunities they offer to profoundly improve the way UNDP creates and delivers value and benefits for those we serve; UNDP’s recently finalized Digital Strategy 2022-2025 guides these efforts and builds off UNDP’s extensive range of digital initiatives spanning the country, regional, and global levels.
The position of Digital transformation Intern will be part of the team under the new Digitalisation, Innovation and Smart Cities Programme with a link to the UNDP Accelerator Lab.
III. INTERNSHIP OFFICE BACKGROUND:
The UNDP Executive Board approved UNDP Uganda’s Country Programme Document (CPD) for 2021-2025 in September 2020. The Country Programme cycle has prioritized catalytic digital transformation interventions through the Digitalization, Innovation and Smart Cities (DISC) Programme, to enable our integrated core programmes on governance and peace; nature, climate, energy and resilience (NCER); inclusive and sustainable growth (ISG) as well as the Country Office’s flagship programme on Youth for Development. The effective implementation of the DISC Programme is therefore a key success for the Country Office in 2022 and for the medium to long term.
Inspired by UNDP’s Digital Strategy, the DISC Programme aims to catalyze Uganda’s digital transformation goals in the country’s third National Development Plan (2021-2025) on increasing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) penetration and boosting the use of ICT services for social and economic development. The programme was co-designed with government, private sector and civil society to provide catalytic support to scale-up use of digital tools for online government and private sector services and drive-up digital content development and the growth of the ICT start-up ecosystem.
UNDP Uganda is seeking a digitally savvy Digital Transformation Intern with a career ambition in leading digital transformation. As an aspiring digital leader, you will have the knowledge, skills and passion to influence at every level, imparting your digital knowledge and skills in a constructive, empowering, and collaborative way. You will learn from other colleagues but also bring your knowledge of current digital trends to support colleagues change culture into one that will be required to truly transform the Country Office to a digital-first mindset.