National Climate Finance and Institutional Mapping Consultant

Yemen’s development challenges are deeply shaped by the intersection of climate impacts, fragility, and constrained service delivery, making climate-resilient and low-emission investments both urgent and complex. The Yemen Country Climate and Development Report highlights the development–conflict–climate nexus and underscores  the  need  for  coordinated  approaches  that  integrate  development  needs  with  climate  action, particularly given  climate-induced disasters such  as droughts,  floods, and extreme heat  that amplify existing vulnerabilities. 

In parallel, Yemen has demonstrated  commitment  to  strengthening  its national  climate planning  landscape, including  the NDC 3.0 vision and framework,  the National Adaptation Plan (NAP), and  the  Long-Term  / Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS). The development of a Climate Finance Strategy and Investment Plan is  intended  to  help  Yemen  better  understand  climate  finance  needs,  map  current  climate  finance  flows, strengthen institutional coordination, and identify feasible financing pathways aligned with national priorities and implementation realities. 

Our client has engaged an International Climate Finance Consultant to provide overall technical leadership, quality assurance, and drafting across the assignment. To support the in-country workstream,our client intends to engage two complementary field-based national consultants: (i) a National Climate Finance and Institutional Mapping Consultant; and  (ii)  a National  Climate Stakeholder Engagement and Validation Consultant. The two national consultants will work in close coordination under the technical supervision of the international consultant, but with  clearly  differentiated  roles  to  avoid  duplication  and  to  ensure  efficient  delivery  of  the  analytical  and consultative workstreams. 

Through this ToR, our client seeks a field-based National Climate Finance and Institutional Mapping Consultant to lead the in-country technical and analytical support stream related to institutional stocktaking, climate finance evidence compilation, data structuring, finance-flow mapping, and technical inputs to strategy formulation. To avoid duplication, stakeholder outreach  logistics, consultation scheduling, workshop organization, participant management, and structured validation facilitation will be led by the National Climate Stakeholder Engagement and  Validation  Consultant,  while  this  consultant  will  focus  primarily  on  technical  analysis,  datasets,  and institutional/finance mapping. 

In  coordination  with  the National Climate  Stakeholder Engagement and  Validation Consultant,  the National Climate  Finance  and  Institutional  Mapping  Consultant  will  provide  in-country  technical  support  for  the development of the Climate Finance Strategy and Investment Plan for Yemen. Under the technical supervision of the International Climate Finance Consultant and the overall guidance of our client Yemen, the consultant will serve as the lead national focal point for the analytical workstream related to institutional stocktaking, climate finance needs evidence, climate finance flow data collection and structuring, institutional mapping, finance-flow mapping, and technical documentation.

The consultant will support the consultative and validation process by providing technical  inputs, analytical summaries, and subject-matter clarification for meetings, consultations, and workshops organized primarily by the National Climate Stakeholder Engagement and Validation Consultant. 

Project Objectives: 

•  Activity 1a. Assess climate finance needs from existing plans, policies, institutional frameworks, and related costing for draft NDC 3.0. 

•  Activity  1b. Develop  basic  operational  definitions  for  climate  and  green  finance  relevant  to  public  and private  expenditures  on  ecosystems,  biodiversity,  and  climate  actions  (mitigation,  adaptation,  loss  and damage), aligned with UNFCCC reporting and informed by OECD DAC Rio Marker guidance. 

•  Activity  2.  Map  and  analyze  current  climate  finance  flows  (public/private,  domestic/international, grants/non-grants) and identify financing gaps against the needs from Activity 1.  

•  Activity 3. Formulate a Climate Finance Strategy, including the aspects relevant to medium-term fiscal policy and  planning,  and  recommendations  for  public  expenditure  alignment,  as well  as  private  domestic  and international financial mechanisms, and innovative blended finance approaches if/where feasible. 

•  Activity  4.  Conduct  a  capacity-building  and  validation  workshop  to  strengthen  coordination  and management of climate finance. 

Inception and methodological design 

•  Review  relevant  project  documents,  national  climate  policy/planning  instruments,  and  reference materials shared by our client and the international consultant. 

•  Contribute  to  refinement  of  the  in-country  evidence-gathering  approach,  analytical  templates,  data architecture, and work planning for institutional stocktaking and finance-flow mapping. 

•  Contribute to the development of templates/tools for data collection, institutional mapping, evidence registration, source logs, and dataset structuring. 

•  Provide practical advice on  in-country  feasibility,  institutional processes, data availability constraints, and analytical risks. 

Activity 1a. Comprehensive assessment of climate finance needs and institutional stocktake based on existing climate action plans and other relevant development plans and policies 

•  1a.1 Lead institutional stocktaking: identify and document relevant ministries, agencies, public entities, 

development partners,  financial  institutions, and other actors with roles  in climate-related planning, financing, coordination, or implementation. 

•  1a.2  Conduct  technical  evidence  gathering:  collect  and  organize  available  information  from  plans, 

policies, budgets, project documents, administrative records, and technical  inputs generated through stakeholder consultations. 

•  1a.3  Document  institutional  roles  and  constraints:  capture  mandates,  coordination  arrangements, functional  responsibilities,  existing  processes,  and  implementation  bottlenecks  relevant  to  climate finance mobilization, tracking, and deployment. 

•  1a.4  Maintain  evidence  records:  ensure  that  all  technical  evidence  is  clearly  referenced,  dated, organized,  and  linked  to  the  relevant  analytical  question,  with  limitations  and  verification  status recorded. 

•  1a.5 Support drafting and finalizing the Green/Climate Finance Needs and institutional Stocktake report through contributing to analytical findings, factual checks, institutional mapping products, and source materials. 

Activity 1b. Develop a climate and green finance flow measurement methodology aligned with LT-LEDS, NDCs, and the upcoming NAP (as feasible), for public and private sector expenditures. 

•  1b.1  Provide  in-country  institutional  inputs  required  to  contextualize  the  proposed  climate  finance tracking  framework,  including  institutional  responsibilities,  data  custodians,  and  feasible  reporting channels. 

•  1b.2  Identify and document available data sources, reporting practices, and  institutional entry points relevant to the classification and tracking of climate-related expenditures and finance flows. 

•  1b.3 Analyze technical feedback arising from consultations and validation sessions and translate it into methodological refinement notes for the international consultant. 

•  1b.4  Contribute  worked  examples,  assumptions,  and  contextual  notes  from  the  Yemeni  setting  to support finalization of the methodology. 

Activity 2. Map current climate finance flows (public/private, domestic/international, grants/non-grants) and identify financing gaps against the needs from Activity 1. 

•  2.1  Collect  and  compile  available  data  and  evidence  on  climate-related  finance  from  government entities, development partners, funds, financial institutions, and other relevant stakeholders, in line with the agreed methodology. 

•  2.2 Organize  the  data  into  a  structured  dataset  and  supporting  evidence  register,  including  source references, assumptions, limitations, data gaps, and verification status. 

•  2.3 Prepare institutional mapping and flow-mapping inputs showing trend of finance flow, key financing sources, instruments, channels, actors, and relationships relevant to climate finance in Yemen. 

•  2.4 Support comparison of mapped flows against identified needs and priorities by documenting broad areas of concentration, under-financing, uncertainty, or weak institutional coverage. 

•  2.5 Undertake follow-up technical verification of data, classifications, and mapping outputs, including clarification requests transmitted through the stakeholder engagement consultant where necessary. 

Activity 3. Formulate a Climate Finance Strategy linked to fiscal policy, financing mechanisms, and institutional arrangements. 

•  3.1 Provide practical inputs on institutional arrangements, coordination mechanisms, implementation constraints, and opportunities emerging from the stocktake and finance-flow analysis. 

•  3.2  Contribute  country-grounded  analytical  inputs  on  governance  issues,  feasibility  considerations, institutional responsibilities, and implementation sequencing relevant to strategy implementation. 

•  3.3 Review draft  strategy sections  from an  institutional and operational perspective and  flag factual inaccuracies, missing actors, or feasibility risks. 

•  3.4  Support  integration  of  stakeholder  feedback  by  translating  validated  comments  into  updated institutional  and  analytical  content,  with  attention  to  gender-responsiveness,  inclusiveness,  and alignment with Yemen’s national SDG priorities. 

Activity 4. Capacity building and validation workshop(s) for effective management and coordination 

•  4.1 Prepare technical briefs, analytical summaries, evidence tables, draft presentations, and substantive 

inputs required for consultations, validation meetings, and workshop organized by the National Climate Stakeholder Engagement and Validation Consultant. 

•  4.2 Participate in selected consultations and validation sessions as a technical resource person when requested by our client or the international consultant. 

•  4.3 Review consultation outputs, feedback matrices, and validation records to ensure accurate reflection of technical issues and implications for the analytical workstream. 

•  4.4 Contribute  technical  content  to workshop proceedings, outcome summaries, and  final  evidence packages supporting the Climate Finance Strategy and Investment Plan. 

The National Climate Finance and Institutional Mapping Consultant will report to the Project Manager. 

The consultant will work under the technical supervision of the International Climate Finance Consultant and in close coordination with the National Climate Stakeholder Engagement and Validation Consultant and relevant our client Yemen and regional team members, as applicable. 

•   Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, public policy, environmental policy, climate change,development studies, business administration, or a related discipline. 

•  Advanced university degree (Master’s level or higher) in a relevant field is highly desirable. 

•   Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in finance, public finance, development finance, institutional analysis, policy analysis, project research, or related analytical work. 

•  Demonstrated experience in data collection, evidence synthesis, institutional mapping, finance-related analysis, and preparation of analytical inputs or reports. 

• Experience working with government institutions, development partners, UN agencies, or international programmes on finance-related topics in Yemen. 

•  Experience  supporting  finance-related  assessments,  public  expenditure  reviews,  donor  mapping, climate-related projects, or policy/process mapping.   Experience on climate finance and green economy.  

•  Knowledge of Yemen’s climate, environmental, development, and institutional context is required. 

•  Strong  drafting,  documentation,  spreadsheet/data management,  and  analytical  skills,  including  the ability to maintain clear records of evidence, sources, classifications, and assumptions. 

•  Experience in fragile and conflict-affected settings is highly desirable. K.  Language: 

•  Fluency in written and spoken Arabic is required. 

•  Good working knowledge of written and spoken English is required. 

This role does not have team management responsibility.

Interested qualified and experienced consultants must apply through the CTG website and should submit detailed CVs, including past experience in similar assignments.