Historique
- Risks from climate-induced floods and landslides reduced in the economic and industrial hub of Bhutan;
- Community resilience to climate-induced risks (droughts, floods, landslides, windstorms, forest fires) strengthened in at least four districts;
- Relevant information about climate-related risks and threats shared across community-based organizations and planners in climate-sensitive policy sectors on a timely and reliable basis.
Devoirs et responsabilités
- Define and submit a detailed methodology and work plan in consultation with the national consultant;
- Provide guidance and review technical assessments and studies carried out by the RGoB and national consultants as part of the project preparation, including providing information and resources about international/regional best practices;
- Develop Strategic Results Framework based on field assessments and inputs from national stakeholders and consultants, including Project Objective, Outcomes, Outputs and indicative activities and ensure compliance of the Full Size Project monitoring framework with UNDP/GEF quality requirements including the GEF AMAT Framework (particularly that the indicators used are specific, measurable, appropriate, relevant and time bound);
- Oversee definition of the project baseline (i.e. current policies, strategies, current capacities and activities, baseline M&E indicators) and contribute to the synthesis of relevant baseline information (gender-disaggregated if possible), including identification of gaps in baseline data and information and suggestions for further required studies;
- Verify and validate the technical, institutional, operational and financial scope and strategy of the project as presented in the PIF;
- Establish criteria for the selection of pilot sites and adaptation options, based on field assessments and inputs from national stakeholders and consultants, and verify analysis of current and projected climate change risks in target areas;
- Frame a consistent climate change additionality argument for the project in line with findings from field assessments;
- Based on inputs from the national consultant and the RGoB, verify suitability, technical and financial feasibility of the selected adaptation options and ensure that they increase adaptive capacity and reduce long-term climate-change-induced vulnerability.
- Finalize management arrangement for the project in consultation with the RGoB and UNDP, including decision making and hierarchical structure, roles and responsibilities and appropriate financial and technical workflow arrangements;
- Define monitoring, evaluation and reporting budget and arrangements in compliance of the Full Size Project monitoring framework with UNDP/GEF quality requirements;
- Define the project sustainability and exit strategy to ensure replication of project benefits beyond the lifetime of the project;
- Finalize knowledge management strategy for the project.
- Guide implementation of the PPG phase, including PPG inception meeting;
- Ensure that stakeholder consultations with relevant public and private authorities take place including mobilization of project beneficiaries in defining project components, including mapping climate change adaptation needs and gaps;
- Provide advice and quality control for the design and implementation of an appropriate stakeholder involvement strategy;
- Support awareness raising for climate change adaptation and capacity building of key stakeholders throughout the PPG phase through meetings/consultations;
- Ensure that the development of the overall project framework is participatory, gender-sensitive and based on a wide range of project stakeholder/beneficiary engagement;
- Facilitate and guide appropriate alignment of the project with related activities of other government, development partner and private sector-driven activities on climate change adaptation and otherwise, inter alia, the first LDCF project and relevant UNDP assistance.
- Ensure that appropriate co-financing for the project is identified and that co-financing agreements and endorsement letters are available at the end of the PPG phase;
- Ensure cost-effectiveness of the project design;
- Prepare project budget, including detailed co-financing arrangements for each project component.
- Consolidate inputs by the national consultant and RGoB into a full-size UNDP/GEF compliant climate change adaptation project document;
- Review the findings of the technical assessments undertaken during the preparatory phase and synthesize them in the relevant sections of the final project document;
- Discuss and agree on the indicative project activities for project implementation;
- Prepare UNDP/GEF compliant CEO endorsement document.
Compétences
- International/regional consultant with academic and professional background in fields related to climate change adaptation, disaster risk management, environment management and sustainable development or a related field;
- Demonstrated track record in the design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects and establishing/facilitating relationships between international organizations and national governments.
Qualifications et expériences requises
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience;
- Substantive technical experience with project formulation (English language), preferably with GEF full-size project formulation requirements;
- Familiarity with the challenges facing developing countries in adapting to climate change, in particular on those relevant to Bhutan or similar countries;
- Excellent human relations, coordination, planning and team work skills;
- Excellent English writing and communication skills.