Project Description:
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a significant area of intact tropical forest covering 77.8% of the country’s 46.9m ha of land. Together with the forest of West Papua (Island of New Guinea) they represent one of the largest areas of intact tropical forest in the world. These forests are critical to the livelihoods and economy of the country and a commercial logging industry has for a long period been a central part of the economy.
These forests, however, have been impacted by development activities linked to a rapidly growing population and efforts towards economic development. These impacts while unavoidable in some areas have been identified as being excessive in other areas and as result the Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) has started efforts towards developing an approach to reducing those impacts through engagement in the mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, the Sustainable Management of Forests and
the Conservation and Enhancement of Forest Carbon Stocks (REDD+) as laid out under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
With support from the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s (FCPF) REDD+ Readiness Funds implemented by UNDP Country Office in PNG, the GoPNG developed key elements of the Warsaw Framework on REDD+ including a Forest Reference Level (submitted to the UNFCCC in 2017) and a National REDD+ Strategy, approved by National Executive Council (NEC) under Decision 126/2017 in 2017. Based on these documents the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) with continuing support from FCPF and in partnership with other government agencies and development partners has worked to develop a REDD+ Finance and Investment Plan (RFIP) that identifies the potential costs and benefits of implementing the National REDD+ Strategy (NRS). The RFIP provides a basis for the GoPNG to make more informed policy decisions relating to the potential costs and impacts of different action areas within the NRS. With the nature of international markets for REDD+ continuing to evolve and a need for the GoPNG to be able to both access additional international and domestic finance to support the implementation of the RFIP further support is required to increase understanding of the potential financing options available to the GoPNG and the steps and structures needed to access these, as well as to support action to access upfront finance to implement the RFIP.
The International Consultant will work closely with the CCDA General Manager for REDD+ and Mitigation, FCPF Chief Technical Advisor (CTA) as well as other development partners specifically UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Australian Government in supporting consultation on key elements of the RFIP document and improving assessments of finance and benefit sharing based on work done during 2019. The International Consultant will:
(a) the use of proceeds and non-carbon benefits (Section C2), the investment framework (Section D) and the legal and institutional framework (Section F), and any other relevant sections of the RBP proposal are consistent with the outputs of this consultancy and
(b) information generated through this consultancy is shared promptly and transparently with the RBP proposal development team, and vice versa.
The International Consultant will work as part of a team in close collaboration with other government agencies, development partners and consultants to:
Strengthening understanding of the potential costs of REDD+ actions under the NRS and how costs and benefits could be shared
This element of the assignment will include work to:
Strengthening understanding of linkages between national and sub-national approaches and requirements for ‘nesting’ of projects
This element of the assignment will include work to:
Strengthening approaches to guiding subnational projects
This element of the assignment will include work to:
Strengthening understanding and agreement on a REDD+ financing and investment framework and links with other programmes within the climate change space in PNG
This element will involve:
Sharing of lessons learned and knowledge from the FCPF REDD+ Project
This element will involve:
The work will be conducted remotely with regular video and audio conferencing with members of the FCPF team as well as other key stakeholders to support deeper understanding of the elements being developed during the assignment. Should travel become possible time in country will be supported directly by the FCPF team.
Deliverables:
The International Consultant will be responsible for delivering the following outputs:
Deliverables/ Outputs
Estimated Duration to Complete the assignment
Target Due Dates
Payment Percentage
Certifying/ Authorizing officer
Payment on acceptance of an outline inception report detailing proposed work plan, timelines and means of engaging effectively with country stakeholders
5
30 July 2020
15%
CTA
Payment on acceptance of updated financial management and benefit distribution system structure and the revised financial and economic assessment of proposed action areas within the RFIP
30
31 August 2020
30%
CTA
Payment on acceptance of an assessment of potential options for nesting in PNG and the review of and initial inputs into PNG REDD+ guidelines
20
30 September 2020
20%
CTA
Payment on acceptance of updated REDD+ Finance and Investment Plan
10
30 October 2020
20%
CTA
Payment on acceptance of three lesson learned and knowledge products
10
30 November 2020
15%
CTA
Education
Work experience
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Submission Instructions
Proposals may be submitted on or before the deadline as indicated below. Proposals must be submitted using this generic email procurement.png@undp.org address only.
Incomplete proposals and failure to comply with proposal submission instruction may not be considered or may result in disqualification of proposal.
Completed proposals should be submitted using no later than 8 July 2020.
For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to Procurement Officer on procurement.pg@undp.org
UNDP looks forward to receiving your Proposal and thank you in advance for your interest in UNDP procurement opportunities.
This vacancy is archived.