Public Climate Finance Consultant

Result of ServiceThe incumbent will undertake a part time assignment to perform the following tasks and functional responsibilities: The Public Climate Finance Consultant will be the main researcher gathering data on Fiji’s public climate finance. This will include browsing public expenditures of the national budget of the years 2020 – 2024 (and if possible and available the year 2025) and then use a template co-prepared with UNEP to identify and designate climate-relevant expenditures and weigh expenditures for their climate relevance based on a pre-agreed methodology. The Public Climate Finance Consultant will therefore also have to remain available to validate the results in a workshop (Output 3), provide their insights on the process as part of the learning for this project (Output 4), and – if desired by the Fiji government - present at a capacity building workshop (output 5). The local consultant will benefit from her/his extensive local network in functioning as a liaison between the public sector in Fiji and the UNEP project team. Moreover, she/he will reach out the public stakeholders to engage them productively on this project. The local data gathering process will rely largely on the network of the local consultant and their efforts to undertake interview, gather documents and databases, and the like. Work LocationSuva, Fiji Expected durationPart-time / 5 months Duties and ResponsibilitiesThe UNEP team will support the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in Fiji in the development of Fiji's second Climate Finance Snapshot. The objective is to produce a climate finance snapshot that reflects the public and private climate investments and expenditures in the previous years. To this end, the support of a local Public Climate Finance Consultant is required. Under the direct supervision of the UNEP Project Manager, the Public Climate Finance Consultant will support the UNEP team with gathering public budgets and expenditure data and probing it for climate relevance in accordance with a pre-agreed categorization methodology. This data will form part of the climate finance snapshot in addition to private sector investment data. Under the direct supervision of the UNEP Project Manager, the Public Climate Finance Consultant will facilitate and coordinate the implementation of project activities in Fiji during the course of project implementation (6 months), such as coordination of project activities on the ground, stakeholder consultations, data and information gathering and workshop planning and implementation. The Local consultant will support a majority of the following work programme led by a UNEP team: Output 1: Inception Report 1.1 Desktop analysis to understand the process, final result and usage of the Climate Finance Snapshot 2016-2019, including lessons learnt and process/template improvement. Output 2: Stakeholder Engagement Plan Report 2.0 Stakeholder mapping exercise and stakeholder engagement plan produced. 2.1 Develop a workplan. 2.2 Finalise Snapshot Template. 2.3 Presentation to Climate Change Department (CCD) and Ministry Finance for validation of 1.1-2.2. Output 3: Climate Finance Snapshot 3.1 Delivery of a multistakeholder kick off meeting to ensure responsibilities, input requirements and timelines are clear. 3.2. Gather multi-stakeholder data. 3.3. Draft Climate Finance Snapshot 2020-2024 (2020-2025, if data is available). 3.4 Conduct a validation workshop and refine the Climate Finance Snapshot accordingly. 3.5. Finalise the content of the Climate Finance Snapshot and present to CCD and Min Finance. 3.6. Produce a graphicly designed publishable version of the Climate Finance Snapshot. 3.7. Present the final product to stakeholders. Output 4: Learnings and Recommendations Report 4.1. Hold a lessons learnt exercise with CCD and Min Finance. 4.2. Develop a lessons learnt report including recommendations (such as systems, tracking, records management, capacity and training needs of personal, process for the next snapshot etc). Output 5: Capacity Building 5.1 Deliver a capacity building workshop for up to 20 people on a key topic identified as a capacity gap throughout this process/through the lessons learnt discussions - relating to climate finance tracking/reporting and data management. The consultant is expected to conduct the aforementioned project activities and submit the two deliverables in a timely manner and at a level of quality satisfactory to the UNEP team. 1st deliverable – Review and technical inputs into Output 1 Inception; Production of Output 2 Stakeholder Engagement Plan Report. with relevant stakeholders (private sector, public sector, NGOs) with consideration of UNEP team’s feedback 2nd deliverable – Review of & technical inputs into Output 3, 4 and 5 including - Output 3 Preparation in excel of national public expenditure data years 2020-2024, and potentially 2025 (if available); Input into Climate finance snapshot template; Browsing public expenditures of the national budget of the years 2020 – 2024 (and if possible and available the year 2025) and then use a template co-prepared with UNEP to identify and designate climate-relevant expenditures and weigh expenditures for their climate relevance based on a pre-agreed methodology - Output 4 Review and inputs into Learnings and Recommendations Report - Output 5 If desired by the government- inputs into Output 5 Capacity Building Qualifications/special skillsA Master’s Degree or equivalent, in environmental engineering, finance, economics, development studies, business, management, administration or another relevant field is required. A minimum of 7 years of work experience in development project implementation in Fiji, working with national public institutions or private sector (including financial sector) Demonstrated experience advising Fiji public organisations on climate change mitigation and adaptation and in-depth understanding of mitigation and adaptation priorities in Fiji Expert understanding of what constitutes climate-change relevant public budgets and expenditure and ability to support UNEP in producing a snapshot of climate-change relevant expenditures in public spending based on a pre-agreed categorization methodology Experience working with Fijian institutions on climate finance. Understanding of the Fiji public budget process acquired for example as part of a Fijian ministry LanguagesFluency in written and spoken English is required. Additional InformationNot available. No FeeTHE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.