| Description |
Under supervision of Pro-Poor Economic Growth Team Leader, the National Climate Change Specialists will:
- Promote Policy Dialogue on climate change with government and development partners, building on and ensuring consistency with international policy guidance on climate change provided by HQ
- Engage in climate change policy dialogue at national level with key partners -- including key line Ministries, donors, NGOs, private sector, and civil society -- on preparing for a post-2012 institutional and financial regime, using technical guidance available at the regional and global level and ensuring consistency with international climate policy guidance provided by HQ.
- Provide substantive inputs on national low-carbon, climate-resilient development strategies and plans and review of sector policies, which can provide the foundation for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), building on and ensuring consistency with international climate policy guidance provided by HQ.
- Source expertise and backstop on economic climate change impact assessments for vulnerable sectors of a country’s economy, as required, using technical guidance available at the regional and global level.
- Support capacity development of government agencies to programme climate change-related resources and provide advice on the effective use and management of different climate financing mechanisms, drawing on the EEG Environmental Finance facilities.
- Observe and engage in national and international climate change policy debates within the overarching UNDP climate change policy framework.
- Identify areas of comparative advantage for interventions where UNDP can add value and inform the Regional Service Centre and HQ.
- Advise UNDP senior management on all climate related policy issues to provide strategic advice and guidance with a specific focus on adaptation.
- Serve as a resource person on capacity development activities on climate change for the UNDP Country Office and UNCT.
- Support a UN-wide approach to climate change and promote UNDP’s role, including policy and programmatic initiatives, ensuring consistency and integration with regional and global approaches, methodologies, and strategies
- Support development of a programmatic approach at the UNDP/UNCT level to integrate climate risk management in the existing framework documents (UNDAF, CPAP) and project portfolios across all practice areas.
- Screen and “climate proof” UNDP’s ongoing and planned programmes and projects in all practice areas such as governance, poverty, environment, CPR, gender, capacity development) within UNDP as well as within the UN system.
- Identify and elaborate UNDP components of the UN approach.
- Promote cross practice collaboration (poverty, governance, CPR, gender, capacity development) within UNDP as well as within the UN system.
- Support strategic partnerships and knowledge management
- Adapt global and regional technical and strategic position papers, presentations, advisory and briefing notes, for national circumstances.
- Prepare and adapt inputs to policy briefs/position papers that address links between climate change and other development concerns, in collaboration with other practices such as governance, poverty reduction, gender, crisis prevention and recovery, and capacity development.
- Under guidance of Country Office, and in collaboration with the Regional Service Centre and EEG, strengthen strategic and thematic partnerships with key stakeholders, particularly government, donors, private sector to identify opportunities, formulate joint initiatives with maximum impacts and efficiency, minimize duplication of efforts and reduce transaction costs.
- Explore the potential for private sector partnerships on climate change and explore opportunities for carbon/environmental financing.
- Support resource mobilization efforts of the government on climate change, especially tapping into the climate change specific financing mechanisms such as the MDG Carbon Facility, CDM, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) scheme, and the UN Multi-Donor Trust Fund, etc.
- Promote information sharing and facilitate dialogue within the donor community by initiating and/or participating in consultative meetings and preparing briefs and policy papers on climate change.
- Provide regular briefings on the status of international climate change negotiations and forthcoming events, using disseminated inputs from EEG and the Regional Service Centres. These inputs should contribute to the development and strengthening common UN positions regarding climate change issues.
- Ensure optimal flow of information about initiatives, projects, international climate negotiations, and related issues between CO and other partners, in particular the Regional Service Centres and HQ.
- Manage Country Office climate change portfolio (50% of time)
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