Individual Consultant for Development of the Bottom-Up Costed Action Plan for Lao PDR's National Demographic Dividend Roadmap

The consultant will help Lao PDR translate its Demographic Dividend Roadmap into a bottom-up, activity-based costed action plan by guiding sector ministries, reconciling costs with fiscal constraints, identifying funding gaps and packaging investment cases for policy and resource mobilisation.

Department: Population and Development Team

• Define the activity-based costing methodology and protocols for proxy and reference costs
• Lead ministry workshops to itemise and validate inputs across five demographic-dividend pillars
• Consolidate sector inputs into a time-phased financial model and identify programme funding gaps
• Reconcile roadmap costs with the national financing strategy and human-capital budget envelope
• Map costing codes for integration with the government financial management and monitoring systems
• Prepare investment briefs and a revenue-packaging pipeline using return-on-investment evidence
• Coach finance officials and line-ministry focal points in expenditure tracking and costing

• Advanced university degree in development economics, health economics, public finance, social policy, statistics or a closely related field
• At least seven years of progressive experience in programme costing, medium-term expenditure frameworks, public financial management or activity-based planning
• Demonstrated experience working with ministries of finance, national statistics offices or central planning authorities
• Proven experience facilitating multisectoral capacity-development workshops
• High-level spoken and written English

• Assignment comprises 40 working days through November 2026
• Hybrid delivery includes remote coaching and one targeted mission to Vientiane
• UNFPA covers authorised mission travel
• Payments are split into two instalments following technical approval of milestones