| Overview : Kenya is a Party to the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement and is taking measures to implement relevant decisions. The country’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) under the Paris Agreement includes mitigation and adaptation contributions. On adaptation, Kenya plans to ensure enhanced resilience to climate change towards the attainment of Vision 2030 by mainstreaming climate change into the Medium-Term Plans (MTPs) and implementing adaptation actions. In mitigation, Kenya seeks to abate its GHG emissions by 30% by 2030 relative to the BAU scenario of 143 MtCO2eq. Achievement of the NDC will require both international support and investment in the form of finance, investment, technology development and transfer and capacity development as well as domestic implementation efforts. A robust MRV system is important for national policy decisions and is a key requirement under UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. Kenya is expected to participate in existing MRV arrangements of the UNFCCC including preparation and submission of National GHG inventory reports, National Communications and biennial update reports as well international consultation and analysis processes. Further, Kenya will be required to participate in the enhanced transparency framework established under the Paris Agreement, which builds on the existing arrangements. Kenya enacted the Climate Change Act in 2016, which provides an enhanced response to climate change action and provides mechanisms and measures to achieve low carbon and climate resilient development. The Act has key provisions on measurement, reporting and verification related provisions. Section 9 of the Act provides for the coordination of Measurement, Reporting and Verification processes by the Climate Change Directorate. The Directorate is required to coordinate adherence to the country's international obligations
including reporting requirements. In addition, section 15 and 16 establishes climate change duties for the public and private entities and requires all entities to regularly report on climate change actions including on sectoral greenhouse gas emissions for the national inventory. Further, Section 22 of the Act requires the Cabinet Secretary in charge of climate change matters to make regulations to guide the reporting and verification of climate change actions. The Cabinet secretary is also required to biennially report to parliament on status of implementation of international and national obligations to respond to climate change, and progress towards attainment of low carbon climate resilient development. The Act also provides for the development of the National Climate Change Action Plans (NCCAP) as a five-year iterative tool for the mainstreaming of adaptation and mitigation actions into sector functions at the National and County Government levels. The country is finalizing the development of its National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) for the period 2018-2022. The NCCAP forms the framework under which Kenya is implementing its NDC. The NCCAP defines Kenya’s MRV framework as “an integrated framework for measuring, monitoring, evaluating, verifying and reporting results of mitigation actions, adaptation actions and the synergies between them; and support.” The MRV+ system generates information for national and international reporting requirements. The Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development (LECRD) project supported the development of the second NCCAP. The project through an additional funding window under the UNDP NDC Support Programme will facilitate implementation of the NDC and Climate Change Act, 2016. Through this window of funding a gender lens will be applied to enable a more gender-responsive approach to the NDC planning and implementation processes thereby enriching national and county level outcomes. To support the operationalisation of relevant MRV provisions of Climate Change Act, and thus establish a robust MRV system to report on climate actions including NDC implementation, the NDC support programme is supporting the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to update the design of the national MRV system as well as develop regulations for the same. The Ministry is thus seeking the services of a short-term consultancy to design and develop a National MRV system. This assignment will provide a good basis for the development of the Regulations on the same under the Act. The main objective of the assignment is to design and develop an effective, implementable and robust National MRV system for Kenya. The designed MRV system will facilitate operationalisation of specific provisions in Climate Change Act and support Kenya implement MRV provisions under the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement. Application Process Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications which should include the following: 1. Detailed Curriculum Vitae 2. Proposal for implementing the assignment - template provided 3. Offerors letter to UNDP- template provided Note: The successful applicant will be required to complete a UNDP Personal History Form (P11) form prior to contracting. Applications should be sent to consultants.ken@undp.org to reach us not later than 11.59 P.M (GMT+3.00) on Monday, 28 January 2019 Please quote KEN-IC-2019-002 – Measurement Reporting and Verification System in Kenya on the subject line. Firms are not eligible for this consultancy assignment. Open to international individual consultants only (NB. International implies experience and NOT Nationality). DO NOT COPY ANY OTHER RECIPIENT | 
