International Consultancy: Support to the EU-UNDP Climate Change Capacity Building Project for Uganda

UNDP and Government of Uganda’s experience in supporting sustainable development shows that the most important success factor in addressing Uganda’s social and economic challenges due to climate change is the alignment of activities/actions with national and local priorities. In this regard, the European Union is partnering with UNDP to support a Climate Change Capacity Building project with the aim of supporting Uganda’s climate change mainstreaming process, low carbon development, socio-economic and human development efforts in a changing environment.

Based on this, the project is providing a total of US$30,000 for a context-assessment exercise and project proposal formulation.

The context-assessment exercise has two symbiotic streams namely:

• A stocktaking and review aimed at identifying previous and current strategy and policy documents, activities and projects, as well as engaged stakeholders climate and climate change related activities relevant to the implementation of the project. The stocktaking should encompass all relevant national activities, not restricted to UNDP or the host government.
• Consultations with relevant stakeholders within government ministries and agencies; in key sectors of private industries; the domestic donor and development partners community; and civil society in relation to climate change.
  The assessment exercise will assist the cross-sectoral and multi-skilled national team responsible for the preparation of the project proposal to: (i) conduct a systematic analysis of Climate Change relevant work including assessments, research and ongoing and previously carried out capacity building activities; (ii) identify gaps, lessons learned, capacity needs for among others in-depth studies; (iii) through stakeholder consultations, identify and validate priority areas, strategies and institutional arrangements for the project.

The context-assessment exercise will generate the information and process required for the preparation of the project proposal. More specifically, it will build a consensus among stakeholders on the most appropriate components and modules (Public Sector and Private Sector) for Uganda to pursue of GHG Inventories, NAMAs, LEDS, MRV and medium to long term adaptation strategies (NAPs) & NAPA implementation based on the menu-approach of the Global EU-UNDP Climate Change Capacity Building Programme.
On the basis of outcomes of the context-assessment, the consultants together with a Ugandan national team (taskforce) will formulate and submit a Climate Change Capacity Building Project proposal to UNDP through the Climate Change Unit (CCU), Ministry of Water and Environment, the project executing agency.

Duties and responsibilities of Consultant:

• Be the team leader responsible for the preparation and presentation of the inception report, first draft and final documents in conjunction with the National Consultant;
• Provide strategic and technical advice to the national/study team members and coordinate assessment activities;
• Initiate and coordinate high-level stakeholder meetings and provide regular progress reports to EU-UNDP through CCU;
• Coordinate and conduct interviews and consultations with decision makers and technical staff in relevant national line ministries and target provinces to develop an understanding of existing capacity or lack of, regarding development planning and technical issues related to NAMAs, LEDS, MRVs GHG inventory, NAPs and other climate change mitigation and adaptation issues;
• In collaboration with the National Consultant and other specialists in the TA team/national team, develop and implement a capacity building programme for decision makers and technical staff in relevant national line ministries and target areas;
• Coordinate the collection of baseline data on selected climate capacity initiatives in Uganda and relevant donor contributions;
• Liaise with the National Consultant, external specialists and government representatives to finalize detailed methodology for GHG climate change inventory, including baseline data requirements, choice of models, modeling periods, modeling scenarios etc.
• Coordinate the identification of key GHG mitigation and medium to long term adaptation plans/options and rank them based on technical and economic viability, political acceptance and ease of implementation for Uganda;
• Coordinate a baseline survey and consultations with communities and civil society members to evaluate the existing capacity of climate change-related issues including development impacts, costs and benefits and tradeoffs;
• Coordinate in collaboration with the National consultant the development of a database system to collect and manage data on GHG emissions, NAMAs, NAPs, etc.

Expected deliverables:

The following are the specific outputs of the assignment:

• An inception report;
• A first draft project proposal;
• A final draft project proposal.

Duration, timing and reporting:

• The duration of this consultant is 12 working days spread between October and December 2011;
• The consultancy shall be responsible to UNDP in consultation with the Climate Change Unit in the Ministry of Water and Environment;
• The day to day reporting of the Consultant will be to the National Coordinator of Climate Change Unit in the Ministry of Water and Environment;
• The Coordinator of CCU will provide technical backstopping to the Consultant;
• UNDP will provide quality assurance to the consultant and will be responsible for approving the outputs and paying the Consultant.

Remuneration:

• The Consultant’s payment shall be based on the financial proposal developed for this consultancy;
• Payment shall be made in two installments of 30% and 70%, respectively; 
• The initial payment will be made upon submission of an inception report acceptable to the client. This will be made in  five days with effect from signing the Contract;
• The second and final payment will be effected upon submission of an acceptable final draft Project proposal;
• The final payment will be made upon submission of all final outputs.

Office space, logistics and transport shall be provided by UNDP in consultation with the Climate Change Unit.

The Consultant should have excellent skills in policy review and formulation.

The consultant should also have knowledge and practical experience in development policies and processes such as National Development Plans (NDPs), National communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the National Adaptation Programme of Action on Climate Change among others.

The Consultant should have at least a Masters Degree in Climate Change related areas, with known national level experience of at least 5 years in capacity building initiatives.

He/she should have best practices knowledge and experience of capacity building and basic knowledge in both Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation.

Application Procedure

The applicants are required to submit an application and proposals, which include the following:

Technical Proposal:

• Letter of Expression of Interest
• Explanation as to why they consider themselves suitable for the assignment
• Brief methodology on the approach and implementation of the assignment (4 pages maximal).

Personal CV(s):

• Highlighting past experience in similar projects
• Work references - contact details (e-mail addresses) of referees.

Financial Proposal

• Please submit a financial proposal indicating consultancy fees in USD, lump sum fee or unit price together with any other expenses related to the assignment.