Background

UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) supports countries in Asia-Pacific in many development agenda including Governance of Climate Change Finance. The Strengthening the Governance of Climate Change Finance to Benefit the Poor and Vulnerable in Asia Pacific (2012-16) is a regional programme implemented by UNDP and supported by Swedish SIDA and UKaid. The programme is part of a larger UNDP regional programme on Governance of Climate Change Finance and Development Effectiveness. The project’s overall objective aims to improve the governance of international and domestic climate change finance, particularly for the poor and vulnerable in Asia & the Pacific by integrating and mainstreaming climate change into national planning and budgeting process.

The Expected Outcome of the Project is “equitable use of climate finance widely recognized as a national policy priority within Asia and the Pacific, with specific measures put in place to channel resources to the poor and vulnerable” and the expected results at the output level are:

  • Fiscal policies are formulated and institutions are strengthened to facilitate the delivery of climate change finance to the poor in countries of Asia and the Pacific;
  • Government budgets delivering more climate change programmes that reach the poor and vulnerable;
  • Capacity of regional institutions strengthened to provide products, services and skills that better meet the climate finance needs of Asia and the Pacific.

This Asia-Pacific regional programme has specific sets of actions in six focused countries namely Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand. While each country has its own specific context, the programme is prioritising the central role of Ministries of Finance and/or Budget Bureau and linkages with sector ministries by contributing to the generation and replication of knowledge and good practice across Asia-Pacific region.  It does this through various tools including policy and technical briefs, advocacy communications, workshops, South-South exchange dialogues.

Key Project Activities Include:

  • Conducting Climate Change Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews (CPEIRs) at national and provincial levels to generate evidence to better track public expenditures relevant to climate change;
  • Elaborating a suite of policy and institutional reforms to engender a conducive “climate change financing or fiscal framework” (CFF);
  • Tailoring with countries’ specific context, conducting technical analysis with key findings to feed into budget formulation, policy and institutional reforms. This includes but not limited to “Climate Change cost-benefit analysis” and “Adaptive social protection analysis”;
  • Linked to above, conducting hands-on capacity and skills building with practitioners in Ministries of Finance and sector ministries to institute various technical and process changes in budgetary systems;
  • Skills-based training and capacity building of practitioners in linking public finance and climate change;
  • Facilitating regional South-South exchange dialogues, bringing the results and experience of Asia-Pacific region to global platforms and producing knowledge products to share regionally.

Duties and Responsibilities

Objective:

Building on (i) the lessons learnt from the CPEIR and CFF processes, (ii) the methodologies developed to implement the CPEIR, (iii) the progresses made in piloting of climate finance index and (iv) the progresses made in developing strategies to disseminate better the findings and core policy messages of the Governance of Climate Change Finance.

The analyst or the consultant is expected to support the governance of climate change finance cross-practice team achieving the following objectives:

  • Consolidating climate change expenditure data to continue building and expanding the climate change finance database;
  • Lead the ground research for the piloting the climate change integration index in a selected group of countries, particularly, Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines in collaboration with UNDP country office counterparts and in close coordination with the Regional Peer Learning Network (RPLN) Officers;
  • Develop a methodology for a climate change policy and institutional index for the regional program and help implement it in at least three countries including Cambodia, Nepal and the Philippines;
  • Support the team developing the strategy that would help position the quantitative information and metrics it develops strategically for policy advocacy, research and programming opportunity purposes.

Scope of Work:

Preparatory Work:

 In order to effectively execute his/her tasks, the analyst or the consultant will review in depth some of the key documents produced by the program including:

  • CPEIR Lessons Learnt paper also known as “Budgeting for Climate Change: How governments have used national budgets to articulate a response to climate change Lessons Learned from over twenty Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews”;
  • CPEIR Methodological Guidebook;
  • Climate Change Finance Index Methodology;
  • Climate Finance Governance Index Concept Note;
  • Indonesia Mitigation Fiscal Framework;
  • Bangladesh Climate Fiscal Framework;
  • Climate Change Benefit Analysis Guidebook;
  • Dissemination strategy for climate change finance database.

The documents above are all available on our web-site (exc. Climate Finance Governance Index Concept Note and Dissemination strategy for climate change finance database) and candidates are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with their content to understand better the work of the project.

 Web-site: http://climatefinance-developmenteffectiveness.org/

 Specific Responsibilities of the Analyst or the Consultant Include:

 Climate Change Finance Database

  • Review the current climate finance database structure, verify if it user friendly, consistent and mistake free and make recommendations to improve it;
  • Identify all countries that have conducted CPEIRs but are not included in the database. Gather and review the data and include it in the database.

 Climate Change Integration Index

  • Work with the PFM specialist to understand the methodology behind the climate change integration index and how it was implemented in Pakistan and Nepal;
  • Lead the research for the piloting of climate change integration index in Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines in collaboration with UNDP country offices and RPLN Officers.

 Climate Change Policy and Institutional Index

  • Design a methodology that would help the program develop a climate change policy and institutional index based on discussions with the governance of climate change finance team;
  • Pilot the index in 3 strategic countries: Philippines (most advanced in terms of mainstreaming and useful in terms of benchmarking), Cambodia (county covered by the SIDA programme and relatively advanced in terms of policy and institutional mainstreaming) and Nepal (country covered by DfID programme).

 Strategy for Better Usage of Quantitative and Metrical information

  • Work with the Governance of climate change finance expert to develop a strategy that would help optimize the use climate finance database as well as climate change policy, finance and institutional indices for policy advocacy, research and program opportunity seeking purposes.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

  • 7 July 2016:  Work plan mapping how the objectives will be achieved over the 3-month contract duration.
  • 31 July 2016:  (i) 33 percent of progress in the database.  (ii) Two country research background studies prepared for the piloting of the Climate Change Integration Index.  (iii) Draft Methodology for Climate Change and Institutional.
  • 31 August 2016:    (i) 66 percent of progress in the database.  (ii) One additional country research background study prepared for the piloting of the Climate Change Integration Index. (iii) Final methodology for Climate Change Policy and Institutional Index. (iv) Draft Strategy Paper for Quantitative Information Use and Optimization.
  • 30 Spetember 2016:  (i) Database completed.  (ii) 3 Climate Change Policy and Institutional Indies Piloted.  (iii) Final Strategy Paper for Quantitative Information Use and Optimization.

All deliverables / outputs are subject to the review and approval of the Governance, Climate Change Finance and Development Effectiveness Advisor.

Institutional Arrangement

The analyst or the consultant will work under the supervision of the PFM public finance management specialist and the UNDP BRH Governance, Climate Change Finance and Development Effectiveness Advisor. Specific tasks might require additional supervision as mentioned in the scope of work section.

Duration of the Work

This assignment is anticipated to take place between 1 July 2016 and 30 September 2016.

Duty Station

It will be based in UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub, Thailand.  No travel required.

Competencies

Functional Competencies

  • Strong interpersonal skills, communication and diplomatic skills;
  • Openness to change and ability to receive and integrate feedback;
  • Strong analytical, reporting and writing abilities;
  • Excellent speaking and presentation skills.

Required Skills and Experience

Education

  • Bachelor degree in Engineering, Statistics and Economics or other related field.

Experience

  • At least 2 years of proven experience in developing databases, surveys and/or modelling;
  • Experience in climate change is a distinct advantage;
  • Experience working in Asia-Pacific region is an asset.

Language Requirements

  • Excellent spoken and written English language skills required;
  • Knowledge of languages of the program countries an asset, but not required.

Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments

The analyst or the consultant must send a financial proposal based on Output-Based Lump Sum Amount.  The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include all costs components required to perform the deliverables identified in the TOR, including professional fee, travel costs, living allowance (if any work is to be done outside the IC´s duty station) and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment. The contract price will be fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration. Payment will be made after satisfactory acceptance and certification of the deliverables by or before the due dates as agreed with the Governance of Climate Change Finance team and in accordance with UNDP procedures:  Payments will be done upon completion of the deliverables/outputs and as per below percentages:

  • Deliverable 1 Submission and acceptance of work plan: 20% of total contract amount
  • Deliverable 2 Submission and acceptance of first deliverable set as defined in Section 5 – Final Products in TOR: 20% of total contract amount
  • Deliverable 3 Submission and acceptance of second deliverable set as defined in Section 5 – Final Products in TOR: 30% of total contract amount
  • Deliverable 4 Submission and acceptance of final deliverable set as defined in Section 5 – Final Products in TOR: 30% of total contract amount

In general, UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.

In the event of unforeseeable travel not anticipated in this TOR, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.

Evaluation Method and Criteria

Candidates will be Evaluated by Combined Scoring Method – where the qualifications and methodology will be weighted a maximum of 70%, and combined with the price offer which will be weighted a maximum of 30%.

Technical Criteria Will be Evaluated as Following: 

  • 30% : Experience in developing databases, surveys and/or modelling
  • 20% : Experience in climate change
  • 15% : Experience working in Asia-Pacific region
  • 15% : Education
  • 10% : Availability
  • 10% : Language

Candidates under consideration will be contacted for exam and interview.

Documentation required

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document:

  • Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided in Annex II.
  • Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references.
  • Financial proposal, that indicates the daily rate/fee of the candidate, in US dollars, as per template provided in Annex II.

Incomplete proposals may not be considered.

To download relevant documents, please visit the below link

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=29686

 For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to brh.gef.procurement@undp.org