Background

UNDP’s Strategic Plan (2014 – 2017) lays out a commitment to strengthening sustainable development pathways and building resilience in developing countries. In this context, UNDP is currently supporting a number of countries to implement a large portfolio of climate change adaptation projects, which have designated sets of indicators to track project activities and impact. Among these initiatives is one that focuses on supporting countries to advance their national adaptation plan (NAP) process, which is meant to result in the integration of climate change considerations into planning and budgeting systems at the country level. Several sources of financing including the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and bilateral funding from the Government of Japan and Germany, are also supporting this body of work.

In this context, UNDP is seeking a consultant to support a set of initiatives that are underway which focus on supporting LDCs and developing countries, with the National Adaptation Plans process. The support through this consultancy focuses mainly on French speaking countries

Duties and Responsibilities

Objective

The consultant will assist the LDCF-funded “Expanding the ongoing support to LDCs with country -driven processes to advance National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) with technical support activities, writing as well as research works related to NAP-GSP and project development, especially for French-speaking countries.

Scope of Work

Under the supervision of the Lead Technical Specialist and under guidance of the Senior Technical Consultant, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

3.1 Policy and analysis:

• Undertake policy analysis of appropriate climate and development frameworks of countries in order to identify entry points for the NAP process particularly for LDCs as well as Francophone countries

• Compile and draft narrative reports on country support for NAP related projects

• Conduct background research and provide technical input into project concept notes and documents

• Provide technical inputs on other NAP-related activities, UNFCCC processes and outreach opportunities

• Provide technical input for NAP regional workshops

• Provide technical input for the drafting and review of presentations, notes, publications and other related technical documents

• Provide and/or supervise translations in French of technical documents, guidelines, papers, power- points and other NAP materials

3.2 Country support

• Prepare NAP technical support terms of reference (ToR) in consultation with UNFCCC focal points and related national institutions in coordination with NAP-GSP team and UNDP country offices (UNDP COs)

• Facilitate training sessions for NAPs in cooperation with UNDP COs and Governments in French-speaking countries

• Facilitate in-country foundational work on NAPs, including stocktaking and stakeholders´ consultations

• Prepare narrative reports summarizing areas for future programme follow-up for the NAP process and areas for project development

• Provide advice and guidance on best practices drawing from in-country support missions

• Draft and review NAP Papers based on desk-review and fact-finding missions

• Prepare NAP-related reference documents to assist countries with the NAP process

• Review NAP documented outputs and provide technical feedback in French and English

• Facilitate the identification of technical expertise to support countries in advancing their NAP process, including for applying climate scenarios, conducting risk and vulnerability assessments, identifying and appraising adaptation options, creating effective linkages with the broader development agenda, monitoring and evaluating climate adaptation action, addressing cross-cutting issues, and accessing funding

• Identify entry points and opportunities for UNDP assistance in French-speaking countries

• Identify linkages between the NAP technical support proposals and climate finance readiness activities and reflect accordingly in the NAP support proposal

• Provide input into or prepare project proposals to assist countries in accessing funding for NAPs

• Provide guidance and facilitate countries´ move towards implementation upon approval of project proposals, including by preparing relevant documents, and cooperating with the project management team

3.3 Learning, knowledge management and communication

• Support to the evaluation, capturing, synthetizing of lessons learnt and best practice and knowledge, including the development of toolkits and other knowledge material (case studies, best practice write ups)

• Prepare case studies and best practice write-ups to inform outreach for the NAP and associated projects based on country missions

• Support to the organization of side events and other related outreach events in the frame of the UNFCCC and other related processes

• Contribute to a French version of the e-news-letter, in coordination with the Knowledge Management consultant

• Provide inputs to the Knowledge Management consultant for the revision and update of the website pages

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

Institutional Arrangement

The consultant will report directly to the Senior Technical Consultant under direct supervision of the Lead Technical Specialist and will effectively work with the NAP-GSP team on a routine basis and coordinate his/her efforts to match the timelines of the assignments throughout the consultancy.

Duration of the Work: 1 May 2019 – 31 December 2019 (Up to 100 working days)

Duty Station: Home based with possible travel (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and/or other LDC countries to be confirmed)

Competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;

• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;

• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;

• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Required Skills and Experience

Education Qualification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Environmental Economics, Climate Change and Development, Social Sciences or closely-related field.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in environmental policy analysis and policy development

• Experience in capacity building, organization and delivery of trainings related to climate change and development

• Experience working with and supporting Governments in developing and/or Least Developed Countries, especially in Africa.

• Experience in working in fields related to climate change, sustainable human development, environmental management issues, adaptation, vulnerability and impact assessments.Work experience in an international organization.

• Good communications skills, both oral and written;

Language:

• Excellent English and French (proficiency in both at the level of being able to do technical drafting)

Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments

The contract will be based on Daily Fee

Consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal. If applicable, travel or daily allowance cost (if any work is to be done outside the IC’s duty station) should be identified separately. Payments shall be done on a monthly basis based on actual days worked, upon verification of completion of deliverables and approval by the IC’s supervisor of a Time Sheet indicating the days worked in the period.

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.

Travel costs shall be reimbursed at actual but not exceeding the quotation from UNDP approved travel agent.  The provided living allowance will not be exceeding UNDP DSA rates. Repatriation travel cost from home to duty station in Bangkok and return shall not be covered by UNDP.

Evaluation Method and Criteria

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology;

Cumulative analysis

The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as a) responsive/compliant/acceptable; and b) having received the highest score out of set of weighted technical criteria (70%) and financial criteria (30%).

• Only those applications which are responsive and compliant will be evaluated;

• The technical criteria (education, experience, language) will be worth a maximum 100 points. Only the top 3 candidates that have achieved a minimum of 70 points (70%) from the review of the education, experience, and language will be invited for an interview

• Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced qualified proposal received by UNDP for the assignment.

Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points)

• Criteria 1: Relevant education- Max 10 points;

• Criteria 2: Relevant working experience- Max 20 points;

• Criteria 3: Experience in capacity building, organization and delivery of trainings related to climate change and development - Max 15 points;

• Criteria 4: Experience working with and supporting Governments in developing and/or Least Developed Countries, especially in Africa - Max 20 points;

• Criteria 5: Experience in working in fields related to climate change, sustainable human development, environmental management issues, adaptation, vulnerability and impact assessments.   Work experience in an international organization- Max 15 points.

• Criteria 6: Proficiency in English and French (both at the level of being able to do technical drafting) - Max 20 points.

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for interview and Financial Evaluation respectively.

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 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.

• Technical proposal, including a brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment.

• Financial proposal, as per template provided in Annex II. Note: National consultant must quote price in U.S. Dollar that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided. If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP.

Incomplete proposals may not be considered. The shortlisted candidates may be contacted and the successful candidate will be notified.

To download FORMS FOR SUBMISSION and TOR, please click the link below:

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=54233