Climate Change Strategic and Institutional Specialist
Procurement Process
RFP - Request for proposal
Office
UNDP Pacific - FIJI
Deadline
31-Aug-19
Published on
19-Aug-19
Reference Number
58502
Documents
TOR_Climate Change Strategic SpecialistConditions of Contract
Template for Confirmation of Interest and Submission of Financial Proposal
Overview
Terms of Reference
Ref: PN/FJI/054/19
Consultancy Title: Climate Change Strategic and Institutional Specialist Joint UN System Approach to Support the Pacific Island Countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions |
Project Name: Pacific Resilience and Sustainable Development Support
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Duty Station: Homebased with 2 missions to Suva, Fiji (10 and 4 working days) and 1 mission to Apia, Samoa (5 working days)
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Duration of the Contract
Consultancy Proposal (CV & Financial proposal Template, Methodology and workplan ) should be uploaded on UNDP Jobshop website(https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm?cur_rgn_id_c=RAS) no later than, 31st August 2019 (Fiji Time) clearly stating the title of consultancy applied for. Any proposals received after this date/time will not be accepted. Any request for clarification must be sent in writing, or by standard electronic communication to procurement.fj@undp.org. UNDP will respond in writing or by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all consultants. Incomplete, late and joint proposals will not be considered and only offers for which there is further interest will be contacted. Failure to submit your application as stated as per the application submission guide (Procurement Notice) on the above link will be considered incomplete and therefore application will not be considered. NOTE: Proposals must be sent through UNDP job shop web page. Candidates need to upload their CV and financial proposal -using UNDP template ,Methodology and workplan- This should be scanned as 1 PDF document Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted If the selected/successful Candidate is over 65 years of age and required to travel outside his home country; He/She will be required provide a full medical report at their expense prior to issuance to contract. Contract will only be issued when Proposed candidate is deemed medically fit to undertake the assignment.
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Objectives The objectives of the assignment are to:
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Background According to Article 4 of the Paris Agreement, each Party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is required to prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to support the achievement of the long-term goal of keeping global temperature rise well-below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial level. All PICs have submitted NDCs and the Republic of Marshall Island (RMI) submitted its second in November 2018. Most Pacific Parties indicate either a 5 or 10-year implementation period (all except Tonga and Samoa with 2020 as the starting point) and a few has included a longer-term vision for low-emission (carbon-neutral) development. The NDCs address some of the major sources of national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and most of them include a GHG emission reduction target, however their focus is on the energy sector and the targets are predominantly on renewable-energy based power generation, but some include energy efficiency and transport. Some aim for 100% renewable energy-based penetration, including Fiji, PNG, Samoa, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The energy sector targets in the NDCs are the same renewable and energy efficient targets that PICs have already included in their energy sector policy and/or action plan documents. Priority actions for Adaptation and Loss and Damage are less explicit in many Pacific NDCs. Accordingly, key plans and strategies that identify priority adaptation actions were referenced in several Pacific NDCs.
Recent outcomes of the 24th Conference of the Parties to UNFCCC (COP24) in Katowice demonstrated however, that current NDCs submitted under the Paris Agreement are insufficient to keep global temperature rise well-below 2°C in this century. Globally there is an urgent need to accelerate the implementation of NDCs and to identify ways for increased ambition. COP24 sets out procedures and mechanisms to operationalize the Paris Agreement. It provides guidance on how the NDCs are to be presented, the contents and approach of the mitigation goals and activities and the modalities for operation and use of the public NDC registry. Furthermore, it defines procedures and guidelines for the Enhanced Transparency Framework, including the information to be provided in the first and subsequent Biennial Transparency Reports on tracking the progress of the implementation and achievement of NDCs.
Globally, UN organizations have a critical role in supporting countries to meet the goals and requirements of the Paris Agreement. Supporting the preparation and delivery of ambitious NDCs however require a focused and coordinated effort across the whole UN system. In February 2019 the UN Deputy Secretary-General (DSG) called on all Resident Coordinators to drive this UN effort at country-level and fulfil the commitment of a joint UN system effort to galvanize ambitious climate action. Under this Joint Approach, UNDP among others has been tasked with leading the implementation of NDCs at the country level and helping to facilitate coordination among UN Agencies and other partners.
To assess the status of NDC planning and implementation and to get a better understanding of key gaps and needs of countries in accelerating the achievement of their NDCs and raising ambition, UNDP is currently conducting a global survey with participation of Government counterparts and UNDP Country Offices. Building on this and other relevant information, a consultant is needed to assess the status of the NDC process (planning and implementation) across the Pacific Island Countries (PICs), to assess UN system support towards the process in the PICs, including identifying any bottlenecks, and, provide recommendations to enhance UN system support to the NDC process across the PICs. |
Scope of Work Activities for the consultancy will include, but not necessarily be limited to the following in relation to specific deliverables:
Inception Note
DEBRIEFING NOTE
Assessment Report
Workshop Report
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Input Provided UNDP
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Supervision/Reporting The consultant will be contracted by UNDP and report to the Team Leader, Resilience and Sustainable Development (RSD), UNDP Pacific – Fiji Office (or his/her designate). |
Requirement for Qualifications & Experience
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Payment Schedule
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Evaluation The proposals will be evaluated using the cumulative analysis method with a split 70% technical and 30% financial scoring. The proposal with the highest cumulative scoring will be awarded the contract. Applications will be evaluated technically, and points are attributed based on how well the proposal meets the requirements of the Terms of Reference using the guidelines detailed in the table below.
When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract may be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points in the Technical Evaluation would be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Interviews may be conducted as part of technical assessment for shortlisted proposals.
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Proposal Requirements Technical Proposal
Financial Proposal
Consultant must send a financial proposal based on a Lump Sum Amount. The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include all costs components required to perform the deliverables identified in the TOR, including professional fee, travel costs, living allowance (if any work is to be done outside the Individual Consultants (IC´s) duty station) and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment. The contract price will be fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration. Payments will be done upon completion of the deliverables/outputs. In general, UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources. In the event of unforeseeable travel not anticipated in this TOR, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the IC, prior to travel and will be reimbursed
Template for confirmation of interest and Submission of Financial Proposal is available under the procurement section of UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji website (www.pacific.undp.org)
Women candidates are encouraged to apply
Interested Candidates must accept UNDP General Terms and Conditions for Individual Consultants |