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NATIONAL FIRM TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING ON CLIMATE BUDGET TAGGING FOR SECTORS
Procurement Process
RFP - Request for proposal
Office
UNDP-RWA - RWANDA
Deadline
08-Dec-25 @ 10:00 AM (New York time)
Published on
21-Nov-25 @ 12:00 AM (New York time)
Reference Number
UNDP-RWA-00311
Contact
Procurement Unit - procurement.rw@undp.org
Introduction
1. BACKGROUND
The Government of Rwanda is strongly committed to deal with the impacts of climate change. This commitment is built into national plans, budgets, and institutions. Rwanda uses clear policies to protect the environment and conserve ecosystems for both local and national development. The Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (2023) is the long-term blueprint to 2050. The Nationally Determined Contributions translate the Paris Agreement into Rwanda’s own targets. The National Investment Policy now “climate-proofs” public investments, with project selection and appraisal guidelines that consider adaptation and mitigation alongside socio-economic returns. Given this progress, the challenge remains in tracking the climate finance flows in the country. Rwanda is committed to fulfilling its obligations under the Paris Agreement, including the implementation of an Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) to accurately track climate finance flow in the country. That was the genesis of introducing the Climate Budget Statement (CBT).
In line with the above, Rwanda has updated the National investment policy to include a section on climate proofing the National investments. This policy change goes hand in hand with the development of the selection and appraisal process guidelines to support selection of projects that respond to social and economic development but also considers the adaptation and/or mitigation of the impacts of climate change. To effectively address the challenge of tracking the climate finance flows in the country, Rwanda introduced the Climate Budget Tagging (CBT) to tag and report climate- related spending within the national budget cycle. This assignment will make the CBT stronger and easier to use.
While the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) has made significant progress in operationalizing the CBT in IFMIS, there is still limited technical capacity at both sectoral and district level. Designing practical, hands- on training manuals, guidelines and developing standardized activities among others will continue to strengthen capacities of planners and budget officers and foster their understanding and application of CBT to ensure that climate finance is effectively mainstreamed into sectoral and district planning, budgeting, and reporting frameworks.
2. OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
General Objective
Build sector and district-level capacity and practical skills to implement Climate Budget Tagging (CBT) in line with national systems to ensure climate spending is correctly identified, tagged, budgeted, and reported for better planning, monitoring, and accountability.
Specific objectives
1. Operational manual: Develop an easy-to-use CBT manual with a practical toolkit (taxonomy, decision trees, templates, worked examples) aligned to national rules.
2. Skills & coaching: Train sector and district-level stakeholders through workshops and on-the-job clinics, with priority on a “train-the-trainer” cohort for ongoing support.
3. Data & reporting alignment: Define clear data flows, roles, and timelines so MDAs CBT entries feed smoothly into national systems and standardized reports.
4. Quality assurance & learning: Introduce quick QA checks, peer review, and periodic refreshers to improve the accuracy and consistency of CBT tagging over time.
5. Budget-cycle integration: Embed CBT steps in annual planning, appraisal, budgeting, and reporting so tagging becomes routine practice for Ministries, Districts and Agencies (MDAs).
3. SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The consultancy firm will assess the needs across budget agencies regarding what institutions require to effectively implement Climate Budget Tagging (CBT). This will be done based on the existing CBT guidelines and the current approaches used to tag climate related interventions into the IFMIS system. The consultancy firm will assess and strengthen the ability of budget agencies to apply Climate Budget Tagging (CBT) in line with existing national systems. It will: (i) review current CBT guidelines and how climate-related interventions are tagged in IFMIS; (ii) identify practical gaps in skills, processes, and data flows at national and district levels; and (iii) provide simple tools and training that make tagging accurate, consistent, and routine across all sectors and districts.
The scope will cover all sectors and 30 districts aligning and in close collaboration with the relevant central institutions involved in CBT (MINECOFIN, MoE, REMA, and provincial planning teams). Work will proceed in three stages: (1) diagnosis, mapping the current tagging practices and needs; (2) design, co-creating district-level guidance and training materials aligned with national rules and IFMIS procedures; and (3) delivery, piloting and rolling out training, standardizing activities for mitigation, adaptation and, both (Mitigation and Adaption) and quality-assurance. Deliverables include an assessed needs report, district CBT guidelines, a practical training manual (with IFMIS data-entry steps), a standardized activity list and policy brief, and workshop/training completion reports.
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