UNDP Jobs - 46310- Consultancy to Design a National Climate Change Fi

Consultancy to Design a National Climate Change Financing Mechanism (NCFM) for Tanzania

Location :

Dar Es Salaam, TANZANIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

22-May-14 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

60 working days

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

Climate Change is one of the most pressing threats to global development today. Addressing climate change challenges requires countries to transform their economies and grow in a different way —Climate Change and development planning must be integrated so that country’s policies and actions across multiple sectors can address these challenges and deliver development to people.

A study conducted by the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership and partners in 2011 (the economics of climate change in Tanzania), revealed that Climate change is a core development challenge in Tanzania, and the potential costs of inaction are significant. Economic costs of annual events are in excess of 1% of GDP, and occur regularly thus, reducing long-term growth and affecting millions of people and livelihoods. Economic modelling indicates that future climate change could lead to large economic costs and will add to this, an additional net economic cost burden equivalent to a further 1 to 2% of GDP per year by 2030.

Tanzania is responding to climate change risks at the highest levels of strategic planning. Tanzania’s first Five Year Development Plan (2011/12–2015/16) recognizes climate change as a threat to economic growth. To this end, the Plan includes the development of a climate change strategy, and institutional framework to identify, mobilize and monitor global climate finance respectively, as two of its key outputs by 2015. Further, the National Strategy for Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth (MKUKUTA) also includes climate change as a cross-cutting issue to address in terms of both reducing poverty and protecting investments.

In addition to the national development plans, Tanzania has prepared several strategic-level tools specifically for climate change planning. These include the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA, 2007), National REDD+ Strategy and corresponding Action Plan (2013), and the National Strategy on Gender and Climate Change (2011).
In March 2013 the Government met a key milestone through adopting the National Climate Change Strategy (NCCS) which outlines climate change risks and strategic interventions to mitigate those risks. The NCCS provides a broad framework that tasks Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Local Governments Authorities (LGAs) to prepare climate change action plans for implementation of the priorities identified in the Strategy. It also emphasize cooperation with other ministries such as the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to enhance existing resource mobilization and financial management systems to cope with increasing demand in financial support for addressing climate change.

Duties and Responsibilities

The NCFM is expected to be a country driven, flexible frame, with various options that can allow taping resources from various sources using different aid delivery modalities such as projects, general budget support, trusts, facility, basket or programmes. This will be a broad-objectives based NCFM for funding all Climate change aspects (mitigation and adaptation) with possibility of introducing specific windows such as REDD+, NAMAs.

The Consultant will specifically:

Identify and outline a range of objectives that will address the challenges of climate change financing;
Identify the functions of the NCFM to achieve its objectives and in turn, support the achievements of Tanzania’s climate change priorities;
Specify the timeframe of the NCFM with possible phased capitalization based on Tanzanian planning cycles;
Conduct stakeholders analysis and advise on the best way to operationalize the NCFM; and
Review any existing financing programmes/arrangement and recommend a modality for possible relations with the NFCM.

In developing the capitalization and resources mobilization action plan, the consultant will specifically:

Identify appropriate sources of funds that will facilitate the achievement of the objectives and functions of the NCFM;
Propose the size and sources of capitalization that will match the size, governance and implementing arrangements of the fund;
Propose innovative sources of funds to leverage conventional sources;
Identify any specific structures necessary to support the fund’s capitalization (e.g. laws or policies, partnership agreements); and
Develop action plan for capitalization and strategy for resources mobilization based on the time frame of the NCFM.

During the design of the governance structure for effective operationalization of the NCFM, the consultant will specifically:

Design appropriate governance structure necessary to ensure effective operations of NCFM and coordination of the interventions to be funded;
Propose appropriate representation of stakeholders in the governing bodies at all levels, taking into consideration gender concerns;
Specify decisions-making processes at different levels;
Propose the effective procedures for submission of project proposal, approval process, safeguards and oversight;
Propose relationship and linkage of the NCFM with other existing bodies related to Climate change aspects such as disasters management committees etc.

In designing an effective implementation arrangement, the following tasks will be performed:

Establishing appropriate programmatic instruments (e.g., grants and/or loans) for the NCFM and their applicability;
Proposing relevant eligible actors and associated selection criteria;
Identifying the most possible and effective relations between the NCFM and the implementers (e.g., oversight);
Identifying an approach to mobilize investment from the private sector for the NCFM,
Proposing an efficient modality for delivery of funds to the actors;
Developing oversight and legal responsibility structure over implementation;
Analyzing the possibility of NCFM having relation to lending domestic institutions, as well as domestic and international funds by considering associated risks and advantages, in terms of fiduciary management and profitability;
Identifying the need for fees and propose the structure; and
Preparing guidelines for operationalization of the NCFM, taking into consideration of the gender-sensitive use of climate change resources.

Develop system for ensuring sound fiduciary management of NCFM. Specific activities involved will be:

Proposing an appropriate institution to serve as the Trustee and provide criteria for such selection.
Explaining the relationship that will exist between the government or domestic financial institution and the Financial Management of the NCFM other than the Trusteeship service;
Identifying the services to be provided by the trustee (e.g. fund management, legal, reporting);
Devising mechanism for resolving conflict of interest between the Trustee and the governing or implementing bodies;
Ascertaining fees to be paid to the Trustee;
Depending on the time frame of the fund, the trustee service may be interim where the framework is permanent develop capacity building needs for the national Trustee.

Design an effective Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) framework of the NCFM, which involves the following activities:

Identifying programmatic (performance) or financial information to be reported with reporting frequency as well as identify the users of such information;
Establishing the linkages between the MRV results and project effectiveness (eg. Pay- for- performance options);
Providing advice on the appropriate auditing modality (how to procure auditing firm, internal or external audit);
Identifying an institution to oversee the MRV process at all levels;
Identifying guidance materials available or need to be created for the MRV framework;
Proposing MRV capacity building activities to be undertaken; and
Establishing the existence of MRV systems upon which the NCFM MRV can be built.

Competencies

Functions Competencies:

Ability to work under minimum supervision to meet short deadlines;
Commitment and drive to achieve challenging goals, and problem solving attitude;
A team player with strong inter-personal skills and the ability to deal with multiple teams located in multiple institutions;
Ability to identify client needs and deliver them promptly and accurately.

Corporate competencies:

Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

An advanced degree in finance, economics, political economy, Business, Naturals Sciences, Natural Resources/Environment management, and/or Social Sciences or a related field.

Experience:

At least 10 years working experience in the government, research institutions, private sector or NGOs, coupled with great understanding and knowledge on International climate change diplomacy, in particular the financing mechanism and the field of institutional analysis, development and financing;
Expert knowledge of climate change governance and experience designing institutional reforms;
Knowledge of domestic and global environment and climate finance infrastructure;
A good understanding of the broader political and economic drivers of climate change;
Ability to work in close coordination with government;
Excellent analytical skills, including experience synthesizing clear, actionable insights from a large volume of documents;
Superior writing and communication skills;
Knowledge of global development, gender, environment and climate change related issues, as well as Tanzanian specific context, will be added advantage.

Language:

Fluency in English and Swahili essential.

How to submit proposals:

Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than 19 May 2014 icprocurement.tz@undp.org;
Applicants should download the application documents (presented in compresses file) from UNDP Tanzania website;
Applicants should separate technical and financial proposals;
Applications with no financial offer or missing P11 form and CV or the required documents for the technical evaluation will not be considered for evaluation;
Applications without submitting a financial offer instead of other format will not be considered due to the ease comparison of the received offers;
All necessary information for this post (TOR, Deliverables, Target dates, etc. are presented in the ICPN) therefore applicant must download it from the website as mentioned above;
Do not send CV only to the Email account mentioned above without Cover Letter and Methodology (if requested) as it will be considered as incomplete application;
The documents are available in PDF (the TOR, ICPN and IC guidelines) download them from (http://www.undp.org/content/tanzania), format: this is the only format available and it will not be provided in other formats;
Each email should be less than 8MB; emails over this size will not be received to the above mentioned account.