Citizen Data National Consultant

Result of service

Expected outputs and delivery dates - by 1 september 2026: output 1: a draft workplan for the consultancy output 2: initial sets of curated documents based on earlier submissions/collections of documents output 3: draft structure of the handbook on capacity building for civil society on the production and use of data - by 30 november 2026: output 4: draft handbook output 5: final handbook, including the next steps to increase the capacity of civil society organisations in the field of statistics and monitoring of local sdgs performance indicators
• a clearly defined methodological approach.
• communication with the countries and the degree to which in-country contacts are handled diplomatically
• quality of the meeting organisation, contributions and reports, including the degree of them being reader-friendly, concise, clearly structured, organized and written.
• collaboration with the unsd project team and other key stakeholders to the project.
• timeliness of delivery of outputs

Work location

The consultant will be based in bishkek, kyrgyz republic. The consultancy is home-based with regular phone and web conference meetings with unsd, project countries and other partners, as well as in-country visits to partners and government offices. Travel or return travel time to government offices or other relevant institutions, as well as related expenses, are not part of the consultancy.

Expected duration

The initial consultancy is from 1 august to 30 november 2026, with a possible extension.

Duties and responsibilities

The data for now initiative (data4now), co-led by the united nations statistics division (unsd), the united nations development programme (undp), the world bank, the global partnership for sustainable development data (gpsdd), and the sustainable development solutions network (sdsn), aims to develop countries' capacities to deliver the information needed by local and national policy and decision-makers to achieve the 2030 agenda. As part of the implementation of the data4now initiative, the project supports the development of capacities to (1) use innovative sources, technologies and methods for the streamlined production and dissemination of better, more timely and disaggregated data for sustainable development and (2) make analytic insights derived from them readily available to policy and decision-makers, while strengthening partnerships with government, academia, civil society, and the private sector.

Mandated by the united nations statistical commission at its 54th session, the collaborative on citizen data (the collaborative) was established in 2023, in recognition of the potential of citizen data to support effective reporting and policy development. It brings together actors from different sectors, including civil society, human rights institutes, national statistical offices and other government institutions, multilateral agencies and academia, working jointly towards strengthening citizen participation and leveraging solutions to produce and use citizen data for impact.

Since its establishment, the collaborative has taken on a number of tasks, most notably the completion and implementation of the copenhagen framework on citizen data, meant to serve as a joint reference for governments, civil society actors and other citizen data protagonists around the globe, guiding them to work with citizen data that is "fit for purpose" as well as for official purposes, e.g. In monitoring and planning processes.

Kyrgyz republic, with the national statistical commission (nsc) in the lead, has identified integrating citizen data for more inclusive monitoring, reporting, and decision-making as one of the priority areas to be supported by the data for now initiative and the collaborative. Following request from the national statistical commission (nsc), a workshop on citizen data and participation in kyrgyz's voluntary national review was held in march 2025, supported by the data for now initiative, the collaborative on citizen data, paris
21, open data watch and the national statistical commission (nsc), highlighting the critical role that civil society organizations (csos)…