UNDP Jobs - 51317- IC/UNDP/EU-TNC/111/2014/Expert for Development of

IC/UNDP/EU-TNC/111/2014/Expert for Development of National Guideline for MRV

Location :

Jakarta, INDONESIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

01-Dec-2014

Application Deadline :

20-Nov-14 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

7 Months (110 days)

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

7 Months

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

Indonesia signed the Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC, United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Rio in 1992, which was then ratified in 1994 through Law no. 6 year 1994. Under this framework, Indonesia, which is a non-Annex 1 country, is committed to fully implementing the convention. Under one of the requirements of the convention, Indonesia has to report its activities aimed at addressing the climate change to the UNFCCC through the National Communication on Climate Change. The National Communication contains information on national circumstances, GHG inventory and projection, mitigation action plan (including related cost, expected funding and relevant policies), vulnerability and adaptation assessment (including action plan for adaptation, related costs, expected funding and relevant policies), institutional arrangement, and plan for improvement of future national communication.

Following the Decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 60, the Conference of the Parties decided to enhance the reporting in national communications, including inventories from non-Annex I Parties, on mitigation actions and their effects, and support received. In this regards as defined in the Decision 2/CP.17, the non-Annex I Parties should also submit Biennial Update Report (BUR) consistent with their capabilities and the level of support provided for reporting. The Purpose of the BUR is to provide an update to the most recently submitted National Communication. The BUR will provide: (i) updates of national GHG inventories including a national inventory report; (ii) information on mitigation actions including a description, analysis of the impacts and associated methodologies and assumptions, progress in implementation and information on domestic measurement, reporting and verification; and (iii) needs and support received. Indonesia is now preparing its First BUR and the Third National Communication (TNC).

The Government of Indonesia has issued the Presidential Regulation No. 71 on national GHG inventory in 2011. This regulation provide mandate to undertake verification “of the GHG inventory process and results, including the results of GHG emissions reduction achievement from national climate change mitigation activities” (Article 6, paragraph 1 and 2).

At the same year, the government has also issued the Presidential Regulation 61 Year 2011 on the National Action Plan for GHG Emissions Reduction which requires line ministries to draw up a National Action Plan for GHG Emissions Reduction (RAN-GRK) and provinces to prepare their Regional Action Plan on GHG Emissions Reduction (RAD-GRK). As a follow up, Bappenas develop an instrument for Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (MER), which aims to determine the implementation and achievement of GHG emissions reduction actions. With this instrument, all related Ministries are required to report their achievement of RAN-GRK periodically through MER report of RAN-GRK, and the Provinces to report their achievement of RAD-GRK periodically (every year) through MER report of RAD-GRK.

Following up these Presidential Regulations, to determine achievement of Climate Change Mitigation actions to ensure their accuracy, transparency, and accountability, the Ministry of Environment has published a Ministry of Environment Regulation 15 Year 2013 on the MRV (Measurement, Reporting and Verification) of Climate Change Mitigation Actions. The Ministerial Regulation also described about responsible parties for the MRV system. These parties including: the Ministry of Environment, MRV Secretariat, Commission of National MRV, Technical Team and Verifier.

With the above consideration, there are needs to map the role, functions, and standard operating procedure (SOP) of each Party which will be involved in the MRV institution. Also, to facilitate relevant Parties in understanding the overall verification procedures along with the methodology for GHG emissions reduction calculation, it is necessary to provide a detailed technical guidance that serve as a reference. This Technical Guidance is intended as a guide for all those involved in carrying out the verification process to be certified and registered under the national registration system.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the National Project Manager (NPM) and the National Project Director of TNC, the consultant will have to deliver several documents and outputs as follow:

Development of a General Guidance for the National MRV Institutional Development

This chapter describes about regulations related to MRV institutional development, including: Presidential Regulation 61 Year 2011, Presidential Regulation 71 Year 2011, Ministry of Environment Regulation 15 Year 2013, Presidential Regulation 62 Year 2013, decision in each line ministry related to MRV or climate change Working Group establisment , etc. MRV Institutional Scheme and its relation with other institutions / agencies.

This chapter describes the flow of mitigation actions initiated by government and non-government from the planning stage to implementation and verification as well as the registration into a national registration system. It also needs to describes about the MRV process linkages with other instruments or scheme that are going to / already running at this time, such as the Monitoring Evaluation Reporting (Pemantauan Evaluasi Pelaporan, PEP) RAN-/RAD-GRK and the RAN-GRK Secretariat under the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), Clean Development Mechanism under the supervision of National Commitee on Clean Develoment Mechanism, Joint Crediting Mechanism under supervision of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic, the planned Nusantara Carbon Scheme developed by National Council on Climate Change, and GHG inventories and SIGN Centre under the supervision of the Ministry of Environment along with the role of each party.

This chapter also explains briefly about the MRV transition process scheme and the responsible parties. The transition period is the period where the competence certification schemes for verifier is not yet formed, so that the independent verifier are not yet available. Therefore KLH should prepare a temporary scheme to verify climate change mitigation actions.

Registry account management and its relation with Private Sector entities (and other institution / agency). This chapter provides a comprehensive assessment of the Registry account management and its relation with Private Sector entities (and other institution / agency), with regard to emissions reduction units retirement in the Registry account of a Private Sector entity (or ‘Company account’). Furthermore, a specific ‘unit identification number’ system to be developed on the Registry account system is described, with examples on the unit transaction activity, and unit retirement to a Company account, and also on its GHG inventory reporting system / procedures.

On the other hand, emissions reduction units from other scheme (e.g. CDM, VCS, and the upcoming NCS, BCOM, other scheme) would need to be recognized by the National Registry system, where a compatible ‘unit identification number’ can be assigned on each emissions reduction unit from other scheme, to avoid double counting (establishing assurance, provided the unit has not been retired under the other scheme). Similarly, examples on transaction and retirement of such unit is described, with proper linkage and compatibility to the Registry system administration.

Reporting and Monitoring

For administrative and operational matters, the selected individual consultant will report to the Project Assistant of the TNC.

For substantive matters and to ensure overall cohesiveness of the data collection process, the selected individual consultant will also need to communicate regularly with the National Project Manager (NPM) of TNC Project and the National Project Director of TNC Project.

Competencies

Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
Focuses on result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.

Required Skills and Experience

The successful Individual Consultant shall have the following qualifications:

Education:

Master degree in any background studies. Preferably from environment, engineering, industry, or physical science.

Experience :

Demonstrated professional competency in climate change mitigation or environmental issues at least for 21 years;
Strong expertise and experience in carbon trading mechanism, including Project Design Document (PDD) development, validation, registration, MRV, and issuance (both compliance and voluntary markets) at least for 5 years;
Strong network with government institutions, particularly with the Ministry of Environment and Bappenas.

Language:

High quality report writing skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia

Application:

For interest candidate and to access confirmation of interest and financial proposal document, pleasego to the Procurement Notice Ref IC/UNDP/EU-TNC/111/2014/Expert for Development of National Guideline for MRV with the link

http://www.id.undp.org/content/indonesia/en/home/operations/procurement/.

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