Historique
The United Nations in Bangladesh is supporting the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) to find innovative solutions to its development challenges through the broad framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligning activities with the governments various national policies including but not limited to the 8th five-year plan. UNDP Bangladesh is exploring avenues to redefine its strategy in the development context of Bangladesh. Bangladesh will soon graduate to a lower middle-income country and UNDP Bangladesh will continue to engage with the Government during this transitional phase. The changing nature of engagement with donors and partners require that UNDP continuously demonstrates its value. In this context, UNDP is working on its strategic positioning in Bangladesh and how it organizes itself to be “fit for purpose” and able to support the alleviation of poverty and reduction of inequality and vulnerability in a relevant, efficient and effective manner.
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In Asia and the Pacific, UNDP is increasingly being requested to provide governance related services that support governments in articulating their response to climate change. These services include strengthening government’s institutional and administrative frameworks to be able to deliver integrated climate policy and programming within a range of sectors; strengthening government’s planning and budgeting processes to be able to account transparently for climate relate services and climate finance; strengthening parliament and civil society’s roles in holding governments to account for their response to climate change and supporting sector ministries and local governments in integrating climate related services into their programming.
To respond to the growing demands, UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) has established a multi-disciplinary team to deliver services which can support governments to develop comprehensive approaches to govern the challenge of climate change in ways that support their overall development. ‘Strengthening the Governance of Climate Finance to Enhance Gender Equality’ is a regional project that aims to ensure that more budget resources are allocated to address climate change and also promote gender equality in Asia Pacific. It also aims to strengthen the national and local planning and budgeting processes to enable public investments to deliver sustainable development goals in an integrated manner, focusing on enhancing gender equality whilst tackling climate change.
(A Climate Finance Network has now been established which will support select countries across Asia Pacific in fostering knowledge management across the region and provides support to the countries in implementation of climate finance reforms around six workstreams. One of the six workstream is tax and innovative finance. The project implementation will also mean an expansion in number of countries that are to be supported.)
The project, as part of its support to Ministries of Finance to integrate climate change into public financial management, seeks to enhance the focus on mitigation working at the national level and also through line ministries that can contribute the most to climate mitigation. There is emerging interest in carbon pricing in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific as a measure to enhance mitigation actions and domestic resource mobilisation and the project aims to respond by exploring the range of carbon pricing mechanisms which can be instrumental in reducing carbon emissions. Carbon pricing mechanisms include carbon taxes, emissions trading schemes, carbon offset mechanisms, results-based climate finance and internal carbon prices set by state owned or private organizations.
The Project supports country governments in assessing the feasibility of introducing various carbon pricing mechanisms with an initial emphasis on carbon tax schemes that are gender and socially responsive. While there have been a few academic studies at the regional level, e.g the ‘The Economy-wide Impact of a Uniform Carbon Tax in ASEAN’ Ditya A. Nurdianto and Budy P. Resosudarmo, actual country based studies that have been done under the auspices of respective Ministries of Finance have been limited. Moreover, these studies do not delve deep into the redistributive angle and how carbon tax will fit within the wider fiscal policy context.
UNDP partners with country level experts, research entities and think tanks for collaborative research with governments to provide policy options for carbon tax. It is important that the policy choice for a carbon pricing including carbon tax is driven by country requirements, the emission reduction targets, the overall climate and fiscal framework of the country and finally the potential impact of the policy on women, men, people with disability and other marginalized groups. If designed well, carbon pricing mechanism could help the private sector to realign its operations towards greener operations. Support will be provided to the selected countries to examine viability of carbon taxes which would look at the opportunity cost of the carbon tax for the targeted countries. The aim is to provide evidence and policy advice to the governments of these countries to reduce carbon emissions through using the appropriate carbon pricing and tax structures.
UNDP Bangladesh CO is also supporting the government of Bangladesh to prepare a smooth transition strategy as the country is scheduled to move out of the list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in 2026. One area of the smooth and sustainable transition is the potential impacts on climate change related issues including finance (as Bangladesh will no longer be able to receive LDC-specific concessions). Therefore, the country needs to prepare itself to address global commitments. |
Devoirs et responsabilités
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Compétences
Corporate Competencies:
- Promotes UN's Values and ethical standards (tolerance, integrity, respect, results orientation, impartiality)
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and sensitivity and adaptability
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling in the UN's values and ethical standards (human rights, peace, understanding between people and nations, tolerance, integrity, respect, results orientation, UNDP core ethics, impartiality.
Functional Competencies:
Knowledge Management and Learning
- Promotes knowledge management and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example, excellent knowledge of capacity building theory and the application of methodology, good understanding of capacity assessment methodologies, excellent ability to identify significant capacity building opportunities, ability to get capacity building, excellent ability to demonstrate national capacities building (mastery of the tools and their application)
- Excellent analytical skills in research and data collection, as evidence in relevant reports, consulting assignments, or publications. Please provide a list of publication/ assignment/ report with details of timeline and organization
- Excellent understanding of key relevant sectors and their stakeholders (ie, sectors heavily impacted by climate taxes).
- Strong understanding of relations between the three organs of the state and power/influence dynamics with thorough and demonstrated analysis.
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English
- Ability to provide top quality policy advice services on economic issues
- Established track record of delivering strong analytical products with policy relevance
- In-depth practical knowledge of inter-disciplinary development issues
Development and Operational Effectiveness
- Ability to engage with high-ranking UNDP Managers, Government Officials and international donor community and provide policy advisory support services
- Ability to identify opportunities, conceptualize and develop project reports
- Ability to effectively support in strategic planning, results-based management, and reporting
- Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/attitude change
- Ability to undertake result-based management and reporting
Management and Leadership
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
- Builds strong relationship with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback, timely responses to queries
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
- Demonstrates strong administrative skills and result oriented approach to work
- Provides inspiration and leadership to project staff as well as all the partners.
Communications and Networking
- Has an excellent oral communication skill in English and conflict resolution competency to manage inter-group dynamics and mediate conflicting interests of varied actors.
- Has an excellent written communication skill in English, with analytic capacity and ability to synthesize project outputs and relevant findings for the preparation of quality project reports.
Language:
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required in addition to national language.
- Working knowledge of another UN language would be an asset.
Qualifications et expériences requises
Academic qualifications:
Experience:
Institutional Arrangements: The Senior Strategic Advisor will work directly under the supervision of the Resident Representative of UNDP Bangladesh. The assignment will have 50 working days over a period of 7 months until 15th December 2022. The consultant will work with the Bangladesh Climate Change Specialist, the BRH Gender and Climate Finance Specialist, the Regional IRFF Specialist and the Regional Climate Mitigation Specialist.
EVALUATION
Evaluation of the Candidates:
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology.
Cumulative Analysis:
When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual Consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
* Technical Criteria weight; 70% * Financial Criteria weight; 30%
Only candidates obtaining a minimum 70% mark in technical evaluation will be considered eligible for financial evaluation.
Technical Evaluation Criteria (Total 70 marks):
Financial Evaluation (Total 30 marks):
All technical qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below. The maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals received points according to the following formula: p = y (µ/z) where: p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal µ = price of the lowest priced proposal z = price of the proposal being evaluated
Recommended Presentation of Offer
Interested individuals must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications.
Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows you to upload a maximum of one document. Note: The individual consultant who does not submit the above documents/requirements shall not be considered for further evaluation. For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to ebidbox@undp.org. |