| Overview : Description of the assignment: UNDP-Nepal is supporting Government of Nepal, Ministry of Finance to implement Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support to continue and strengthen the current efforts to effectively and efficiently plan for, access, manage, deploy and monitor climate financing through GCF. Nepal aims to strategically and systematically build the national capacity at different levels to ensure that the knowledge, process and mechanism are transferred to extent possible and thus contributing to sustainable capacity building efforts. The purpose of the part of the project under this contract is to take stock of existing policies along with reports prepared by the BMU funded Readiness and GCF’s investment priorities and strategic impact areas. The Readiness Programme is procuring a services of a GCF Technical Specialist (International) who will be tasked with designing and preparing elaborative guidance document for prepration of full funding proposal processes for GCF along with technical guidance and support to the direct accessess entities on their accreditation application and capacity needs. Project name: Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme (GCFRPS) Period of assignment/services (if applicable): 80 days spread over four months. (Home based – 63 days, 2 missions to Nepal and spent at least seventeen working days.) Proposal should be submitted by email to procurement.np@undp.org not later than 1730 hours (Nepal Standard Time) of 19 January 2020 mentioning reference No. UNDP/PN/01/2020 – GCF Technical Specialist. | 
