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Consultancy Background
The UN Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in Paris in December 2015 was a success in many respects. One of the key reasons was the momentum across national governments to develop their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) before the COP. Although NDCs are about countries’ climate policy commitments, many countries also use the opportunity to embed climate policies within their broader development agenda and highlight cross-cutting priorities such as gender issues. For example, according to an analysis by Women Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), 64 of 190 analyzed NDCs reference women or gender and all 64 countries are non-Annex I parties and most commonly about climate change adaptation. Among 64 countries, the most common way that the position/ role of women is identified as a vulnerable group. Moreover, gender equality in climate actions is also recognized in the Preamble of the Paris Agreement and Articles on Adaptation Action and Capacity Development.
The 2030 Agenda aims to shift global development to sustainability and resilience. Gender equality is integral to the agenda and cannot be separated from the challenges of poverty, hunger, poor health, well-being, hardship, environmental burden, etc. Besides, climate change also cuts across all the SDGs. It is recognized to have the potential to increase resource scarcity, undermine livelihoods, and increase migration and forced displacement pressures.
Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, has a key role to play in delivering the aims of the Paris Agreement in the continent of Africa. Today, one fifth of Africans, some 200 million people, are Nigerians. The World Bank projects that Nigeria will become the world’s third most populous country by 2050, with over 400 million people. Nigeria has an important leadership role as a country that is both highly vulnerable to climate change's impacts and one of the largest emitters of GHG emissions across Africa.
Nigeria submitted its first NDC in 2015 and the revised NDC in 2021. Nigeria recommits to its unconditional contribution of reducing emissions by 20% below the business-as-usual scenario by 2030 and increased its conditional target to a 47% reduction in emissions by the same year. In the updated NDC, Nigeria has increased its ambitions with newly added sectors, including the waste and water sectors, and new gases, including short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The updated NDC broadens the scope and coverage of the country's climate commitments in the energy and efficiency, agriculture, oil and gas, power, infrastructure and housing sectors. Nigeria strives to achieve net zero by 2060.
Nigeria is currently in the process of revising the third version of its NDC, with the support of United Nations agencies, financial institutions and other key development partners, a rigorous process that reviews every detail of the previous NDC commitment with current findings changes in contexts and other national and international developments. It is anticipated that the NDC 3.0 will be richly gender inclusive across all sectors and have gender as a standalone component to foster gender equality and social inclusion in the implementation of the framework.
The submission for the government approval is expected in the 2nd quarter of 2025.
In this process, the Gender Core group (a team of gender experts from various UN agencies, government, consultants and development partners) will continue to provide technical support to NCCC on gender mainstreaming in the NDC revision process, focusing on providing recommendations on gender issues in the NDC and capacity building for government officers in line ministries on gender and climate change. UN Women is seeking a national consultant to provide advisory support on gender equality and social inclusion, conduct assessments of the seven NDC sectors (water, power, waste management, agriculture & forestry, oil & gas, industry, and transportation), conduct Focus group discussions with a gender focus, make recommendations for each sector based on the findings from the assessment, and support the capacity-building activities throughout the drafting process of the NDC 3.0.
Objective
The overall objective of the consultancy is to provide advisory support to the NDC facilitator for a gender-sensitive review of the NDC 3.0, covering all seven sectors (water, power, waste management, agriculture & forestry, oil & gas, industry, and transportation). The purpose of this consultancy is:
Specific Tasks
The national consultancy will collaborate with National Council on Climate Change (NCCC), UN Women, other UN agencies, development partners, and government agencies to support gender mainstreaming in the NDC revision process. The national consultant is expected to fulfil the following specific tasks:
Outputs
Under the direct guidance and overall supervision of the Programme Specialist, Women Economic Empowerment, the National Consultant will undertake the tasks outlined in section five below. To facilitate the delivery of the above outputs, UN Women will provide the consultant with available documents and relevant templates.
Deliverable Expected completion time (due day) Written inputs into the technical brief on gender and NDC. Inputs on the NDC revision process, proposing clear and realistic recommendations for integrating gender equality and social inclusion into the NDC revision and NDC Technical Report. Provide direct recommendations of gender content to be integrated and agreed upon by the NDC review team gender core group in this crucial policy, realizing Nigeria’s commitment within the framework of the Paris Agreement. March 2025Conduct FDG and assessment on gender gaps in the 7 NDC sectors.
March 2025 Facilitate a workshop on gender and NDC for gender machineries, Women’s Union and NGOs. March 2025Facilitate a capacity building training on gender and NDC for NDC focal points from line ministries.
March 2025Support UN Women and the NCCC in the review of the Gender Action Plan review.
March 2025 Presentations on key gender recommendations and strategy for implementation at consultation/meetings/workshops organized by UN Women & NCCC March 2025Final technical brief on gender and NDC
March 2025Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This consultancy requires travel within the six geopolitical zones for the FDGs.
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