UNDP Jobs - 56686- International Consultancy for Development of Low E

International Consultancy for Development of Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS) Framework

Location :

Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

29-May-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

45 work days

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

45 work days

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

Tanzania is one of the countries that continue to suffer from the adverse impacts of climate change and related hazards. Climate change poses serious risks to Tanzania’s development, poverty reduction efforts and to the economic and social fabric of the country. In the last 40 years for instance, Tanzania has experienced severe recurring droughts and floods events with devastating effects to agriculture, water and energy sectors among others. Tanzania’s ability to address the current and projected impacts of climate change is hindered by a number of factors including inadequate institutional arrangements, inadequate financial resources, insufficient technological capacities, low awareness and inadequate climate change information management.

The Government of United Republic of Tanzania has undertaken a number of initiatives to address climate change concerns in the country. It has ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol in 1996 and 2002 respectively as a step towards ensuring that climate change issues are addressed at the national level. Through the Division of Environment which is both the National Climate Change Focal Point and Designated National Authority (DNA) for Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has prepared the Initial National Communication in 2003, National Adaptation Action Plan (NAPA) in 2007, the National Environment Policy (1997) which is under review, the Environment Management Act (R.E Cap 191) and the National Climate Change Strategy (2012). The National Development Vision 2025 and National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP/MKUKUTA II, 2010/11-2015) that also address climate change issues.

The concept of NAMAs emerged from UNFCCC process and is broadly understood as an initiative that reduces greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in developing countries while contributing to sustainable development. NAMAs refer to any action that reduces emissions in developing countries andis prepared under the umbrella of a national government initiative. NAMAs can be in form of policies directed at transformational change within an economic sector, or actions across sectors for a broader national focus.

NAMAs are supported and enabled by technology, financing, and capacity-building and are aimed at achieving a reduction in emissions relative to 'business as usual' emissions by 2020. NAMAs are defined in two contexts:

At the National Level as a formal submission by Parties declaring intent to mitigate GHGs emissions in a manner commensurate with their capacity and in line with their National Development goals;
At the individual action level as detailed actions or groups of actions designed to help a country meet their mitigation objectives within the context of their national development goals.

According to the National Climate Change Strategy (2012), Tanzania has negligible contributions to the generation of GHG, with a per capital emission of 0.9 tons annually translating to an estimated 50 million tons annually for the entire Tanzanian population. Although Tanzania has negligible contribution to global GHG emissions it has joined global efforts in addressing emission reductions by promoting use of low carbon technologies in the context of sustainable development. The energy and transport sectors are some of potential sectors where national mitigation efforts can be promoted to contribute to global initiatives to reduce GHG emissions. For example, the transport sector in Tanzania consumes about 70% of fossil fuels.

Tanzania is among 25 countries which are implementing Low Emission Capacity Building (LECB) Programme. The programme aims at building capacities to design and implement low emission development through nationally appropriate mitigation actions in the public and/or private sectors.

The programme launched in January 2011 covers five broad areas of work namely:

Establishment of National Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) inventory management systems;
Formulation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and/or Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) in the context of the national development agenda;
Designing of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems to support implementation and evaluation of NAMAs and LEDS;
Facilitating the design and adoption of mitigation actions by selected industries; and
Supporting the design of the associated MRV systems for industrial mitigation measures.

In Tanzania, the LECB programme focuses on three areas:

Establishment of a robust national system for preparation of GHG emission inventories at national level;
Development of at least three NAMAs concepts for each, energy and transport sectors within the context of national development priorities, including the associated MRV systems; and
Support strengthening of National Sector Policies, legal and institutional framework for Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS).

In view of the above, Vice President’s Office is seeking to engage consultancy services to provide technical expertise to develop an overarching Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS) Framework building on the various relevant National policies, legal and institutional framework including the REDD+ Strategy and the National Climate Change Strategy (NCCS).

Duties and Responsibilities

With focus to energy and transport sectors the consultant/s will:

Assess and analyze LEDS and mitigation component of the NCCS and other national development planning processes and develop the LEDS frame work;
Assess the existing NCCS coordination mechanism in relation to LEDS;
Design the institutional structure for LEDS implementation on the basis of the NCCS coordination mechanism;
Determine the mitigation potential of a LEDS framework and its contribution to Tanzania’s economic growth and sustainable development;
Assess the policy and legal framework required to support the implementation of a LEDS framework and associated mitigation actions;
Make policy, legal and institutional recommendations based on the above analysis; and
Analyze co-benefits/sustainable development impacts of LEDS, including gender/poverty reduction impacts, building on approach developed for assessing sustainable development impacts of Tanzania’s NAMAs.

Competencies

Functional 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.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Advanced degree (Master’s or higher) in areas relevant to climate change, environment and energy

Experience:

A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in the area and demonstrate ability in developing policy measures, and implementation plans applicable to LEDS development;
Good knowledge of methodologies for GHGs emission mitigation and best practices;
Good knowledge of global and national climate change issues, including mitigation concepts and their links with sustainable development within the changing climate., RIO+20 and any other global initiatives with a view to contributing to the Convention objectives as defined in its Article 2 and the need to keep global temperature below 2 degrees centigrade while support the development agenda of developing counties within the changing climate.

Language:

Fluency in English.

Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than Friday 29th May 2015. icprocurement.tz@undp.org

Applicants should download the application documents (presented in compresses file) from UNDP Tanzania website;http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=22472
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;
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