| Introduction : Institutionalize and integrate climate change into national planning and budgeting in Sri Lanka. A climate finance framework would facilitate the Government to navigate within the present crisis and support the Government to deliver a coherent response to climate change by clearly identifying climate financing needs and the financing gap, looking at innovative climate financing mechanisms to bridge this gap. Conducting Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR) and Climate Budget Tagging (CBT) are essential foundational blocks to access innovative financing, as they serve as transparency and tracking tools to identify baselines and further utilize in tracking the progress of KPIs. The CPEIR will also help to identify gaps in the financial architecture, this process shall be carried out every few years to support the Government in tracking progress. Against this backdrop, this assignment will conduct a CPEIR for Sri Lanka to ascertain Sri Lanka’s investments in climate change, engaging with national and sub-national government agencies and further conduct a scoping exercise on CBT. This will help set a firm foundation to institutionalize CBT and thereby also support to improve accuracy, precision, and replicability of future CPEIRs in Sri Lanka. UNDP has been at the forefront of climate finance reforms in the Asia Pacific region, supporting to mainstream climate change in the planning and budgeting process. The Climate Finance Network (CFN) implemented in Sri Lanka with the financial assistance of the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UKAid, will support to facilitate the CPEIR and CBT scoping exercise
OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF INTERVENTION
The objective of this assignment is to provide technical assistance to the Government of Sri Lanka to develop tools and conduct assessments to support the process of institutionalizing and integrating climate change into the national planning and budgeting process.
Scope
This assignment consists of two main components: (1) Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR): The service provider will conduct the CPEIR to capture the status of climate-related expenditure, especially the magnitude and trend of climate change expenditure, over the period 2016 – 2023. Further, the assignment will explore the extent to which climate budgeting aligns with the Government’s climate change priorities and shall provide recommendations for improving effectiveness of planning, budgeting, utilizing and mobilizing resources for climate change actions in future socio-economic development strategies and action plans for the period 2023 – 2030. (2) Climate Budget Tagging (CBT): CBT is a government-led process of identification, measurement, and monitoring of climate-relevant public expenditures. This will draw on the results from the CPEIR, the Climate Change Budget Integration Index Report (2023) and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Budget Tagging exercise Please refer to the TOR for details. Please indicate whether you intend to submit a bid by creating a draft response without submitting directly in the system. This will enable the system to send notifications in case of amendments of the tender requirements. Should you require further clarifications, kindly communicate using the messaging functionality in the system. Offers must be submitted directly in the system following this link: http://supplier.quantum.partneragencies.org using the profile you may have in the portal. In case you have never registered before, you can register a profile using the registration link shared via the procurement notice and following the instructions in guides available in UNDP website: https://www.undp.org/procurement/business/resources-for-bidders. Do not create a new profile if you already have one. Use the forgotten password feature in case you do not remember the password or the username from previous registration.
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