Recruitment of Individual International Consultant to Study Impact of Climate Change on Africa’s Economic Transformation

Africa is registering phenomenal economic growth from an average annual growth rate of real output of 1.8% in the ‘80s, 2.6% in the 90’s and 5.3% from 2000-2010. Africa is richly endowed with natural resources such as oil, gas, minerals, forests, arable land and others that have driven the rapid economic growth. Africa’s average growth rate was 2% higher than the average growth rate of the world economy and some African economies

Aplication instructions:

Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the IC Proposal Submission Form uploaded hereto.

Group of Individuals and/or Firms are not eligible for this consultancy assignment (only at an individual level).

Documents required:

Interested and potential National Individual Consultants can download all required documents from the link:

http://procurement-notices-admin.undp.org/edit_notice.cfm?notice_id=26199

The following proposals must be prepared as per the prescribed standard format accompanied in the Procurement Notice. The Proposals shall be submitted before application deadline November 10, 2015 via UNDP Ethiopia Secured mail address: procurement.et@undp.org

Technical Proposal in pdf.

Financial Proposal in pdf.

Please note that these proposals shall be submitted to the designated secured email into two files but in one email unless both Files are Greater than 9MB file size.

Important note:

Failing to submit anyone of the documents stated above will automatically disqualify the candidate from further technical evaluation;

Those prospect consultants who fail to submit both Technical and financial proposals as per the STtandard Format and to the designated secured email will not be further considered for evaluation.

Email subject line while submitting proposal:

While submitting your proposals to procurement.et@undp.org be sure your email subject line is RSC-IC-2015-030.

The consultant will be expected to:

• Contextualize impacts of climate change to transformative growth in Africa;
• Review recent climate economic impact studies undertaken;
• Identify sources of wealth creation for transformative growth in Africa;
• Investigate the impact of climate change on these sources;
• Review Africa’s position on sustainable development goals (SDGs ) and analyse the climate sensitivity of the proposed SDGs and targets;
• Review African country studies on assessment of investment and financial flows[1];
• Analyse the range of options for adaptation and mitigation measures to safeguard Africa’s economic growth.

• Demonstrates integrity by modelling 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;
• Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to set out a coherent argument in presentations and group interactions.

Education:

• Masters level degree in Economics, Climate change, Agricultural sciences, natural sciences or any other relevant field.

Experience:

• A minimum of 7 solid years of experience in conducting research on topical Africa development issues including climate change;
• Solid understanding of Africa’s economic transformation agenda ;
• Proven past experiencing in quantifying climate economic impacts ;
• Sound knowledge of other key development issues in Africa and major Africa-wide policies/strategies including Africa position on 2015 global development agendas on SDGs, climate change, DRR and financing for development ;
• An understanding of climate science and climate finance architecture ;
• Previous experience in drafting research papers on key development issues in Africa as part of a team of experts or individually and presenting issues/technical papers in regional and global development forum ;
• Previous work experience or association with renowned  Africa and global think  tanks on climate change issues ;
• Knowledge and experience of global negotiation processes  on climate change, Disaster risk Reduction, SDGs and others and
• Familiarity with UNDP is an asset.

Language:

• Excellent knowledge of both French and English