| Overview : Raising climate action ambition is critical to the success of the Paris Agreement on climate change. UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls it “the defining threat of our time”, and calls countries to raise their “ambition’ in regard to their commitments to address climate change. For UNDP, UN partners and the wider international community, the mission is clear: to mobilize countries, communities and the private sector to scale up ambition by 2020. In this context, the Secretary General will hold a UN Climate Summit in September 2019, to mobilize the policy makers and the international community for urgent and ambitious action on climate. A number of critical events will underscore the goal of the summit, and the official ‘start year’ of the Paris climate commitments in 2020. As a major supporter of climate action in more than 140 countries, UNDP is currently engaged in over 700 climate change mitigation and adaptation projects globally, with a total portfolio of over US$3 billion in grant finance. Under the one-UN approach, UNDP has been tasked to lead implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement at the country level, helping to facilitate coordination among UN Agencies and other partners. (UNDP also assists countries with the successful realization of the 2030 Agenda and the Sendai Framework for Action). UNDP is an important voice in the global climate agenda, while simultaneously working with countries to implement their climate plans. A dedicated flagship programme - the NDC Support Programme – assists countries with the delivery on their climate commitments or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in a number of key areas including leadership, climate finance, gender-responsive planning and implementation of climate plans, whole-of-society approach for governance and climate data tracking. Details are provided in the Terms of Reference as advertised on UNDP job site (VA # 83823 click on this link https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=84296 Interested bidders are requested to submit their application using the following link: VA # 84296 (https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=84296) as per the instruction in the notice and using templates provided. Any request for clarification must be sent by email to cpu.bids@undp.org. The UNDP Central Procurement Unit will respond by email and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all applicants. | 
