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Climate change is already affecting the security of Ethiopia’s sustainable development because the livelihoods of the majority of the population are sensitive to climate-related shocks, including drought and flooding. This is due, in part, to the reliance of the economy on rainfed agricultural production. Additionally, as a result of the growing population (population growth rate is currently 2.6% per year), the per capita availability of environmental resources (including arable land, water, pasture, forest and biodiversity) is declining. Climate change threatens to exacerbate the impacts of the over- or mis-use of the country’s environmental resources (including arable land, water, pasture, forest and biodiversity), with concomitant impacts on Ethiopia’s environmental, food, water and energy securities. Currently, approximately 8.29 million people are already considered 'chronically' food insecure while approximately 6.71 million people face 'transitory' food insecurity, both of which are characterised by a weak resilience to withstand climate-related shocks, such as severe droughts.
The Ethiopian Government has acknowledged the climate change risk the country faces and has stated it as a priority development issue for the country. Currently, adaptation initiatives are being rolled out on a national- to local-scale, but these are primarily restricted to specific sectoral interventions (for example food security, or environmental protection, or disaster management) and are project-based; which means communities are often provided an incomplete set of tools from which to build their overall resilience to climate change. There remains a need to consolidate these interventions, ensure they are robust to a range of likely climate change-futures and integrated into comprehensive adaptation action.
The Project Objective is to support local communities and administrations at the lowest level of government to design and implement adaptation actions aimed at reducing vulnerability and building resilience, especially in those communities that are particularly vulnerable in Ethiopia. The project seeks to promote adaptation by communities and local Government by integrating climate risk reducing technologies and processes under a common area-based climate plan that ensures comprehensive gender-aware adaptation. The project will build capacity for local planners and communities to tailor local adaptation responses to the specific conditions in which the actions will take place, to promote mainstreaming of adaptation into local development plans. At the local level, new technologies, or traditional technologies used in new ways, will be required to ensure adaptation efforts can efficiently maintain the productivity, and sustainability, of development. Capacity development of local communities will be provided to enable the adaptive process without external aid and support.
The project site will include eight Woredas (districts) in each of the four main regions (Amhara, Oromiya, Tigray and SNNP). At each site, participants will test and then prepare the ground for scaled-up integrated adaptation action. In each Woreda, the project plans to work in five Kebeles (communities), although the exact numbers of households, and associated hectares of land expected to benefit from this project,will have to be defined during the PPG phase to ensure sufficient focus for cost-effective interventions.
A Project Identification Form (PIF) was approved by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in April 29 2010. A comprehensive project proposal must be prepared in the next 10 months. Technical assistance is required to provide expert advice in the area of climate change adaptation during the project preparation phase, and to lead in the drafting of the full scale project document for submission to GEF for consideration.
Funding for the project will come from the Least Developed Countries Adaptation Fund.
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Duties and Responsibilities
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Tasks
The international consultant (IC) will lead the drafting process for the development of the Ethiopia full size project document and CEO endorsement request, for endorsement by the GEF in April 2011. The IC will work closely with the NC, who will lead the in-country work of developing national ownership of the project and gathering information and developing technical inputs into the full size project document.
Tasks that the IC will be responsible for include:
- Contribution to the preparation of national workshops, including the inception workshop, and other activities in the project preparatory phase, in line with the project document requirements of the GEF.
- Completion of an inception report and an implementation plan for the project development phase
- Provision of advice and technical inputs to the project team on key outputs of the project preparatory phase, which would feed into the preparation of the comprehensive project proposal.
- Provision of quality control of the outputs of the project preparatory phase to the standard required by UNDP.
- Lead on drafting of the UNDP- compliant, full-sized Project Document for submission to the LDCF. The document will cover the following in detail:
Project definition
- A thorough baseline study that include a review of: i) on-going and planned investments in rural areas; and ii) policies, laws, executive regulations and decrees relevant to adaptation c) the extent of integrated climate planning at regional and local levels, d) the extent to which early warning weather information is used to inform land-use and e) the extent to which natural resource planning and disaster management activities are prepared.
- A review of sector-based climate risk assessments that outline key vulnerabilities per sector, their gender dimensions and opportunities for reducing vulnerability through joined-up action in the sectors of intervention through the proposed UNDP-GEF intervention.
- A set of recommended demonstration sites and interventions, which will be accompanied by clear supporting reports justifying their selection, and a clear definition of the target population.
- An articulation of the project’s objective, outcomes, outputs, activities and resource requirements;
- A logframe and description of an M&E system to be applied, including SMART, results-based indicators, aligned to the GEF Results Based Management Framework for Adaptation to Climate Change. The project should be designed and implemented in a gender-equitable way, and project indicators should measure progress on gender equity. Baseline values for the indicators will be gathered and included in the prodoc.
- Description of additionality which clearly justifies the project rationale and provides a strong case for mobilizing co-financing for the project.
- Preliminary cost-effectiveness analysis of the proposed interventions (which will be validated during project implementation). This should include cost estimates for the proposed intervention; to ensure affordability; a financial plan to ensure financial sustainability beyond the project grant, as well as estimates of potential benefits, where possible. The cost analysis should take into account lessons learned from past programming experiences in order to ensure that the LDCF interventions are designed in a least cost way.
- A stakeholder involvement plan for the project andan institutional delivery plan that describes the project management structure and implementation arrangements, including the roles and responsibilities of the main stakeholders;
- A communication strategy to facilitate stakeholder involvement and information sharing.
- A stakeholder consultation plan with measures for documenting and including community inputs during the project preparation period.
- A description of the adaptation learning points that the project will generate, eg how will the pilot interventions that are being tested help Government and other stakeholders build their knowledge on how to adapt to climate change.
- A detailed analysis of the risks that could affect project success and a mitigation plan for managing these risks.
Develop financing plan
This will comprise of two parts: a) developing the co-financing strategy with public and, where relevant/ appropriate, private sources of funding, and help the CO secure the requisite co-financing letters, and b) a detailed sustainability strategy to provide for continuation and replication of the project interventions beyond the period of LDCF support.
A project scale-up plan that outlines the actions and milestones for using this proposed LDCF project for catalyzing national-level action.
Definition of a detailed sustainability strategy in order to ensure the continuation of the project after the four years of project grant. The cost analysis undertaken in Component 1 should include a review of management options to ensure cost recovery for the continuation of the adaptation interventions beyond the project grant. Stakeholders should be fully involved in the design of the adaptation interventions, to ensure that they are designed in a financially sustainable way.
A Total Budget and Work Plan, and its distribution in a multi-year work plan.
Completion of a lessons learned template following completion of the preparatory phase.
Further details are provided in the PPG request.
Conduct of work
The IC will work the national project manager under the guidance of the Steering Committee for the project development phase (Government Focal Point, UNDP-Country Office (CO), and UNDP-Regional Coordination Unit-Pretoria) with day-to-day supervision by the Regional Technical Advisor (RTA) for Adaptation.
Frequent communication, and advisory services with the other team members, is expected from the IC.
The IC will attend at least two national stakeholder consultations, which will include:
an inception meeting/consultation in the week beginning 29 August and
final project validation meeting/consultation in March 2011.
The IC may undertake project site visits (subject to clearance by the RTA). The purpose the site visits may include (a) identification, verification and finalization of project activities; (b) clarifying monitoring and evaluation framework, including measurable impact indicators.
The IC will draw from existing reports, overviews and information sources and not conduct primary data collection or analysis. To the extent possible, information that already exists such as from the NAPA and other international documentation. Where necessary, and in discussion with the RTA, additional technical assessments may be undertaken.
The IC is encouraged to maintain a dialogue with the national counterpart, UNDP-CO and RTA as and when problems emerge during the preparation of the work if they affect the scope or perceived importance of the issues.
The IC will perform his duties from the home office through e-mail, telephone and fax correspondence combined with short, focused in-country missions (as approved by the UNDP RTA).
Timing
The IC will produce the inception report within 1 week from the completion of the inception workshop.
The outputs set out in Section 5 will be produced between August and April 2010. The timing for the production of the project document is as follows:
The PM will produce a first draft of the full-size project document including logical framework and financing plan by 16 March 2011. A second draft will be produced by 6 April 2011 and the third and final draft by 26 April 2011 . Final submission of the document should be 31 May 2011.
The IC will provide additional information as required by the GEF up until 31 July 2011.
Outputs
- An inception report which sets out the workplan for the project design phase, consultants needed, and budget lines. It should not exceed 5 pages
- A UNDP- compliant, full-sized Project Document for submission to the LDCF.
- Preparation of a GEF CEO endorsement request. UNDP will provide the template.
- The report of the project preparatory phase, which will set out the achievements of the project design phase, stakeholders that were consulted and budget spent. UNDP will provide the template.
- Completion of a lessons learned template following completion of the preparatory phase.
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Competencies
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- Excellent English written communication skills, with analytic capacity and ability to synthesise project outputs and relevant findings for the preparation of quality project reports.
- Ability to speak, read and write technical and conversational Portuguese.
- Ability to pick up new terminology and concepts easily and to turn information from various sources into a coherent project document.
- Skill in negotiating effectively in sensitive situations
- Skill in achieving results through persuading, influencing and working with others
- Skill in facilitating meetings effectively and efficiently and to resolve conflicts as they arise
- Maturity and confidence in dealing with senior and high-ranking members of international, regional and national institutions.
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
- Good oral communication skills and conflict resolution competency to manage inter-group dynamics and mediate conflicting interests of varied actors.
- Good team player, self starter, has ability to work under minimum supervision and maintain good relationships.
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Required Skills and Experience
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Demonstrated experience in:
- developing logframes and SMART-based indicators;
- developing climate change adaptation analysis;
- understanding of the socio-economic impacts of climate change to ecosystems;
- developing climate change adaptation problem analysis and critically examining potential solutions, and ways to measure progress on those solutions;
- understanding of how to conduct a cost effectiveness analysis of alternative adaptation actions;
- institutional assessment and development, including at decentralized levels;
- environmental and natural resource problem analysis.
Minimum requirements
- Masters degree in a relevant area such as natural resource management, agricultural development, land management, water resources management, environmental sciences;
- 10 years relevant work experience in climate change adaptation and natural resource management; carbon mitigation, including implementation at country level at national and decentralized levels;
- Project development and design experience;
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
- Fluency in English (spoken, written and reading).
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