Background
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The UN-REDD Programme is the United
Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The
Programme was launched in 2008 and builds on the convening role and
technical expertise of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The UN-REDD
Programme supports nationally-led REDD+ processes and promotes the
informed and meaningful involvement of all stakeholders, including
Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities, in national
and international REDD+ implementation.
The Programme
supports national REDD+ readiness efforts in 56 partner countries,
spanning Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, in two ways:
- (i) Direct support to the design and implementation of UN-REDD National Programmes; and
- (ii)
Complementary support to national REDD+ action through common
approaches, analyses, methodologies, tools, data and best practices
developed through the UN-REDD Global Programme.
Uganda
became a Participant of FCPF in 2008 and in 2009 received a first
US$200,000 Grant through the World Bank to prepare a REDD+ Readiness
Preparation Proposal (R-PP). Uganda embarked on R-PP preparation phase
in March 2010 which was approved during the ninth Participants’
Committee meeting in Oslo in June, 2011 with comments. Uganda submitted
an acceptable and updated R-PP in May 2012 after which a second
US$3,634,000 Readiness Preparation Grant Agreement was signed on July
10, 2013 between the Government of Uganda (GoU) and the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD/World Bank). Additional
support has been received from the Grant Agreement with Austrian
Development Agency (ADA – US$ 870,000) and UN-REDD Targeted Support (US$
75,000) and GoU contribution (US$ 472,000 in kind).
The approved R-PP comprises the following 4 key component including:
- (a)
Readiness Organization and Consultation including setting up national
REDD+ management arrangements and advancing consultation, participation
and outreach;
- (b) REDD+ Strategy Preparation, including
assessment of land use, land use change drivers, forest law, policy and
governance, REDD+ strategy options, implementation framework and social
and environmental impacts;
- (c) Reference Emissions
Level/Reference Levels, and; (d) Monitoring Systems for Forests and
Safeguards, including NFMS and information system for multiple benefits
other impacts, governance and safeguards.
Uganda was
furthermore retained by the UN-REDD Policy Board as priority country
from Africa, and requested to express interest in National Programme
(NP) support, to which Uganda responded favourably. Uganda’s UN-REDD NP
was approved by the UN-REDD Programme 13th Policy Board in November 2014
in Arusha, Tanzania (US$ 1,798,670 until January 2017).
The
overall NP goal is to enable Uganda to be ready for REDD+
implementation, including development of necessary institutions,
policies, instruments and capacities, in a collaborative and leveraging
way with other REDD+ readiness partners. The NP has three major outcomes
- led by UNDP, FAO and UNEP, respectively:
- Outcome 1 – A
transformational national REDD+ strategy is designed through substantial
multi-sectorial technical and policy dialogue, including robust policy
options and measures, mainstreamed and anchored in national development
vision, planning and framework;
- Outcome 2 – A National Forest
Monitoring System (NFMS) is designed and set up, with appropriate
Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) functions; and
- Outcome
3 – Subnational implementation of the REDD+ national strategy is
prepared and facilitated through an “integrated landscape management”
approach, building on a comprehensive set of analytical work, engagement
and capacity building of stakeholders, and early actions.
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Duties and Responsibilities
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Scope of Work
The National Consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Familiarize
with and understand the Uganda national REDD+ process including its
activities, roadmap, stakeholders and political economy;
- Provide technical advice and support for REDD+ analysis and policy dialogue;
- Provide
robust and comprehensive analytical input to the national strategy on
structural and macro-economic challenges and options for forests.
The consultancy shall include the following specific tasks:
- Assessing
issues and options for REDD+ in private and community forested lands
(including both policy options and local forest management arrangements
such as typologies of land tenure / activities / owner profile);
- Analyzing community-based approaches to REDD+ implementation;
- Analyzing practices, challenges, potential and opportunities for forest protection and reforestation;
- Analyzing
and synthesizing updated and in-depth information of drivers of
deforestation and potential policies and measures to address them
(strategic options);
- Supporting field missions and consultations;
- Formulating, appraising and validating a policy report summarizing the results of the desktop reviews and field surveys.
Institutional Arrangement
The
national consultant will be under the direct guidance of the Chief
Technical Advisor and overall guidance of the Climate Change Policy
Committee, which is co-chaired by Permanent Secretary of MoWE and UN
Resident Coordinator, under the close supervision of Country Director of
UNDP Country Office in Uganda and the National REDD+ Focal Point, and
work in close collaboration with other consultants recruited to support
the various elements of the National REDD+ Strategy, specifically the
Lead Technical Advisor.
The project will be able to provide
support personnel, support service, or logistical support in terms of
phone and transport while on duty outside Kampala Duty station, when
needed and requested for during the course of the assignment. Costs to
arrange workshop venues, field visits, etc. shall be paid by UNDP in
collaboration with the Ministry of Water and Environment.
Duration of the Work:
- Expected duration of this assignment is 120 working days on full time basis;
- The target date for the start of work is June 1st 2015 and expected completion date end of December 2015;
- The
estimated lead time to be given by the Consultant for the REDD+
Secretariat and UNDP to review outputs, given comments, certify
approval/ acceptance of outputs should be 15 working days.
Duty Station
The
Contractor’s duty station shall be Kampala located within the REDD+
National Secretariat but with possible duty travel to other parts of
Uganda in pursuit of relevant activities.
The Contractor will be
required to be present full time at the National REDD+ Secretariat
offices during the work and shall report on a monthly basis . |
Competencies
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Corporate Competences:
- Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating Organizational Precedents;
- Building support and political acumen;
- Building staff competence, Creating an environment of creativity and innovation;
- Building and promoting effective teams;
- Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
- Creating an emotionally intelligent organization;
- Leveraging conflict & setting standards;
- Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning;
- Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking.
Functional Competencies:
- Advocacy / Advancing Policy Oriented Agenda: analysis and creation of messages and strategies;
- Creates effective advocacy strategies;
- Contributes to the elaboration of advocacy strategies by identifying and prioritizing audiences and communication means;
- Performs analysis of political situations and scenarios, and contributes to the formulation of institutional responses;
- Uses the opportunity to bring forward and disseminate materials for advocacy work.
Building Strategic Partnerships: Identifying and building partnerships:
- Effectively
networks with partners seizing opportunities to build strategic
alliances relevant to the UN’s mandate and strategic agenda related to
REDD+;
- Sensitizes UN Partners, donors and other international
organizations to UN-REDD’s strategic agenda, identifying areas for joint
efforts;
- Develops positive ties with civil society to build/strengthen UN-REDD’s mandate;
- Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners;
- Displays initiative, sets challenging outputs for him/herself and willingly accepts new work assignments;
- Takes responsibility for achieving agreed outputs within set deadlines and strives until successful outputs are achieved.
Innovation and Marketing new Approaches: Developing new approaches:
- Seeks a broad range of perspectives in developing project proposals;
- Generates for regional and innovative ideas and effective solutions to problems;
- Looks at experience critically, drawing lessons, and building them into the design of new approaches;
- Identifies new approaches and promotes their use in other situations;
- Documents successes and uses them to project a positive image;
- Creates an environment that fosters innovation and innovative thinking;
- Makes the case for innovative ideas from the team with own supervisor.
Promoting Organizational learning and Knowledge Sharing: Developing tools and mechanisms:
- Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches;
- Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms;
- Develops
and/or participates in the development of tools and mechanisms,
including identifying new approaches to promote individual and
organizational learning and knowledge sharing using formal and informal
methodologies.
Job Knowledge and Technical Expertise: In-depth knowledge of REDD+:
- Understands more advanced aspects of REDD+ as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines;
- Serves as internal consultant in the area of expertise and shares knowledge with staff;
- Continues to seeks new and improved methods and systems for accomplishing the work of the Secretariat;
- Keeps
abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline and
REDD+ knowledge and seeks to develop him/herself professionally;
- Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
- Demonstrates
comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and
project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work
assignments;
- Strong communication, facilitation and coordination skills.
Global Leadership and Advocacy for UN-REDD’s Goals: Analysis and creation of messages and strategies:
- Creates effective global advocacy messages/strategies;
- Contributes to the elaboration of a global advocacy strategy by identifying and prioritizing audiences and messages;
- Performs analysis of political situations and scenarios, and contributes to the formulation of institutional responses;
- Uses the opportunity to bring forward and disseminate materials for global advocacy work and adapts it for use at country level.
Client Orientation: Contributing to positive outcomes for the REDD+ Secretariat:
- Anticipates the REDD+ Secretariat and GoU needs;
- Works towards creating an enabling environment for a smooth relationship between the GoU and stakeholders
- Demonstrates understanding of GoU’s perspective;
- Keeps the REDD+ Secretariat informed of problems or delays in the provision of services;
- Uses
discretion and flexibility in interpreting rules in order to meet GoU
needs and achieve organizational goals more effectively,
- Solicits feedback on service provision and quality.
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Required Skills and Experience
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Education:
- Master’s degree in Management, Environmental
Science, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Economics, Geography
or Social Sciences, Forestry or similar.
Experience:
- At
least 4 years of working experience on REDD+, conservation, resource
management, forest economic policy and community development
livelihoods, with experience in Uganda or East Africa preferable;
- Experience of working in multinational teams to implement programmes involving different funding and implementing agencies;
- Experience of implementing programmes across the UN agencies and across Government are definite advantages;
- Experience the REDD+ developments at international, national and local levels;
- Knowledge
on the UNFCCC negotiations, COP-decisions related to REDD and
guidelines for national systems in the context of REDD+, as well as
national and international best practices within REDD+ and other natural
resource management initiatives.
Langauge:
- Excellent written and spoken english.
Payment Schedule
Payment will be made in four installments as follows;
- Accepted inception report describing scope of work, methodology, timeline, field visits, output, and deliverables - 10%;
- Acceptable
draft synthesis report for issues and options for REDD+ in private and
community forested lands, including experiences with community-based
approaches to REDD+ implementation and strategic options to address
drivers of deforestation – 30%;
- Final draft synthesis report for issues and options for REDD+ in private and community forested lands – 30%;
- A proposal/concept note on “REDD+ strategic options in Uganda Preparing the basis for policy dialogue on REDD+” – 30%
Notes:
- The Consultant should submit an all-inclusive price financial proposal;
- The
term “All inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, travel
costs, living allowances, communications, consumables, etc.) that could
possibly be incurred by the Contractor are already factored into the
final amounts submitted in the proposal.
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:
- Responsive/compliant/acceptable; and
- Having
received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted
technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation. Example
70%-30%.
Technical Criteria weight; 70%
Financial Criteria weight; 30%
Only
candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical
points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation
Technical Criteria –70 points:
- Criteria A. Relevant Education based on qualification requirements above - 5 points
- Criteria B . Special skills, Language - 5 Points;
- Criteria C. Relevance of experience - 30 points;
- Criteria
D. Description of approach/methodology to assignment.(if applicable) -
20 Points + 10 Points if Interview is not applicable;
- Criteria E Interview (if applicable) –10 points - This may be applicable.
Interested
individual consultants must submit the following documents/information
to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document uploaded
on this website:
- Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP (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.
For clarifications, please send your email to justine.naiga-bagonza@undp.org; fredah.zawedde@undp.org and diana.nabbanja@undp.org. |
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