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International Consultant –Technical Expert on addressing climate change risks faced by Persons with Disabilities

Home Based - May require travel

  • Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Location: Home Based - May require travel
  • Grade: Consultancy - International Consultant - Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Human Rights
    • Environment
    • Meteorology, Geology and Geography
    • Resilience and Climate Change
    • Climate Change
    • Disability Rights
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is an Implementing Agency of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), an Accredited Entity to the Green Climate Fund, and Multilateral Implementing Entity to the Adaptation Fund. UNDP’s Global Environmental Finance Unit supports developing countries in accessing funding from these vertical funds to finance activities that enhance their efforts to address climate change. It provides countries with highly specialized technical services for eligibility assessment, project design and formulation, identification and mobilization of project co-financing, project implementation management, project results management and evaluation, and knowledge management. UNDP staff support countries in identifying, designing and implementing financing mechanisms that can support and catalyze investments for climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation projects.

In this context, UNDP’s is engaging an international expert to provide technical support for the proposal formulation process for a disability inclusive climate change adaptation program in several countries within the Asia and Pacific region. This program will focus on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the context of climate change risk reduction measures at the sub-national and local level.

Duties and Responsibilities

Objective

The main objective of the consultancy is to provide technical support for the formulation of a project proposal, targeting interventions in multiple countries within the Asia and Pacific region, which will seek financing from a variety of sources. The incumbent will be expected to provide inputs for the preparation of programme, comprising of several sub-projects, each targeting a specific financier (to be determined by UNDP) to address the specific and targeted needs of persons with disabilities in the context of resilience against climate change induced risks. The incumbent will also coordinate with the work of other members of a UNDP led project development team. This will include coordination with other members of the team entrusted with the task of developing other relevant and supplementary documents (including feasibility assessment, investment appraisal, safeguards appraisal, gender analysis, procurement plans, and budget and workplan) so that the collective efforts results in the clear articulation of a programme, including sub-projects which meet UNDP standards for project design.

Scope of Work

The consultant’s main responsibilities are as follows:

Coordinate inputs from international and national consultants and relevant stakeholders

  • To initiate contact and liaise with the relevant experts in Government, NGOs, CSOs, Private Sector, and other Development Partners to obtain critical input, including expert advice and information that can feed into the preparation of a feasibility assessment, concept design and proposal development.
  • To organize, lead, participate and collate information, in the form of reports whose structure and content is pre-agreed with UNDP staff, based on a series of consultations with stakeholders
  • Conduct country consultations and site visits to scope out the elements for the project proposal and to identify relevant partners
  • To synthesize key information from existing documents of relevance, given the scope of the intended project, that can then be used as input to the development of a feasibility assessment, concept design and proposal development
  • To collate data received from consultations, discussion with stakeholders, ministries and UNDP to support the work of GCF project formulation technical expert.

 Design project Concept and Proposal

  • Support the Project Formulation technical expert to conduct technical analysis to flesh out project components and all technical sections of the proposal as per the Fund’s requirements;
  • Support the project formulation technical expert with background data to prepare the project logframe with well-defined indicators, targets, inputs and outputs;
  • Support project formulation technical expert with sufficient data to produce a draft feasibility report for the project concept based on the consultations, research and analysis conducted.
  • Support project formulation technical expert to undertake necessary consultations with relevant government agencies, stakeholders and experts to obtain comments/suggestions and incorporate these comments into the draft documents;
  • Support project formulation technical expert on outlining of financial structure of the project (with input from UNDP) and all main cost categories at the input level corresponding to all outcomes and outputs.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

The consultant is expected to produce the following:

Deliverable

Delivery Date

Stakeholder and partnership mapping of all relevant organizations and sectors in Climate Change/DRR/Disability space, including relevant Disabled Persons Organizations to invite as part of consultations

1st June 2018

Compilation of conclusions from the Regional Dialogue and identify elements to feed into the GCF Concept Note

15th June 2018

Contribute to the draft and finalization of Concept Note(s) for submission to the relevant Fund(s)

29th June 2018

Contribute towards the drafting and finalization of the Technical Feasibility Assessments

6th July 2018

Contribute towards the drafting and finalization of the full Proposal, including annexes for the full proposal

12th August 2018

 Institutional Arrangement

The consultant will report to the Head of Climate Change Adaptation and/or his designate on a routine basis and coordinate his/her efforts to match the timelines of the assignments. The consultant will work under an overall technical guidance of the UNDP task team lead and/or designate for the preparation of the intended project.

The consultant performance will be evaluated by supervisor upon the completion of each deliverable of the contract. The performance evaluation must yield satisfactory results, or the contract will be terminated based on the recommendation of the supervisor.

Duration of the Work: 1 May– 31 December 2018 (up to 60 working days).

Duty Station: Home based with possible travel.

Competencies

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
  • Strong analytical, reporting and writing abilities skills;
  • Openness to change and ability to receive/integrate feedback;
  • Ability to plan, organize, implement and report on work;
  • Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines;
  • Proficiency in the use of office IT applications and internet in conducting research;
  • Outstanding communication, project management and organizational skills;
  • Excellent presentation and facilitation skills.
  • Demonstrates integrity and ethical standards;
  • Positive, constructive attitude to work;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Required Skills and Experience

Educational Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in social sciences, international development, or environment and geography with specific academic or professional experience in working with persons with disabilities, social minorities or underrepresented populations.

Experience:

  • At least 5 years of experience related to disability work, advocacy, mobility planning, disability inclusion in disaster risk reduction, climate resilience or other closely related fields;
  • Experience providing technical research to experts in support of formulation of projects/programmes/proposals;
  • Experience developing multi-partner project proposals related to disability inclusion;
  • Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams, including local and expatriate technical experts;
  • Demonstrated experience in project development, implementation and management is an asset.

Language:

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English language;
  • Fluency in other UN languages is an advantage;
  • Fluency in Sign language would be a distinct advantage.

Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments

The contract will be based on Daily Fee

Consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal. If applicable, travel or daily allowance cost (if any work is to be done outside the IC’s duty station) should be identified separately. Payments shall be done on a monthly basis based on actual days worked, upon verification of completion of deliverables and approval by the IC’s supervisor of a Time Sheet indicating the days worked in the period.

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 Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.

Travel costs shall be reimbursed at actual but not exceeding the quotation from UNDP approved travel agent.  The provided living allowance will not be exceeding UNDP DSA rates. Repatriation travel cost from home to duty station in Bangkok and return shall not be covered by UNDP.

Evaluation Method and Criteria

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology;

Cumulative analysis

The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as a) responsive/compliant/acceptable; and b) having received the highest score out of set of weighted technical criteria (70%). and financial criteria (30%). Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received by UNDP for the assignment.

Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 100 points)

  • Criteria 1: Relevance in education-  Max 15 points;
  • Criteria 2: Experience working with and support People with Disabilities or other underrepresented population- Max 25 points;
  • Criteria 3: Experience working with and supporting Governments in developing countries especially in the Asia region - Max 25 points;
  • Criteria 4: Experience in environmental policy analysis and policy development, capacity building, organization and delivery of trainings related to human rights and development - Max 10 points;
  • Criteria 5: Experience in climate change, sustainable human development, environmental management issues adaptation, vulnerability and impact, or other related sustainable human development issues - Max 10 Points;
  • Criteria 6: Excellent English (proficiency in both at the level of being able to do technical drafting) - Max 15 Point.

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

Documentation required

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document:

  • Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided in Annex II.
  • Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references.
  • Financial proposal, as per template provided in Annex II. Note: National consultant must quote price in U.S. Dollar.

Incomplete proposals may not be considered. The shortlisted candidates may be contacted and the successful candidate will be notified.

To download  P- 11 form, Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability with Financial proposal form, please click the link below:

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=45419

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
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