Consultant to provide functional support for Zimbabwe’ s Revised Nationally Determine Contribution (NDC) Implementation Plan

Result of Service 1. Alignment and linkage with the National Development Strategy 1 (2021-2025) and its M&E Plan, using existing NDC Partnership Plan (1st NDC Implementation Plan) and NDC Implementation Framework (2019)

2. Coordination of NDC Technical Assistance providers

3. Revised NDC Implementation Plan for Zimbabwe

Work Location Ethiopia

Expected duration The duration of the contract will be for 3 months.

Duties and Responsibilities BACKGROUND

The African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is a centre for knowledge generation and delivery to strengthen, influence and enable the transition to climate-resilient, inclusive and sustainable development through responsive policies, plans and programmes towards transformed economies, healthy ecosystems and human wellbeing. ACPC was established in 2008 at the First Joint Annual Meetings of the African Union (AU) Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (COM) and became operational in 2010 with the dual mandate to provide climate policy guidance to member countries AND to serve as the secretariat of the Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa) programme.

ACPC, in collaboration with its partners, has been at the forefront of efforts to promote climate change knowledge and awareness across the Africa continent. The Republic of Zimbabwe in 2015 submitted a conditional Nationally Determined Contribution focused primarily on the energy sector seeking to reduce energy-related emissions by 33% below projected BAU emissions by 2030. Zimbabwe has subsequently developed an economy-wide Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS) with mid-century mitigation options. The LEDS covers mitigation measures across the four Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sectors, that is, Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU), Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) and Waste which later informed the country’s revised NDCs. The revised NDCs identified seventeen mitigation strategies across various sectors that will result in a 40% per capita greenhouse gas emissions reduction target below the projected business as usual scenario by 2030 complemented by four adaptation strategies. The successful implementation of these programs will result in Zimbabwe developing in a new trajectory hinged on green growth/low emission as pronounced in the country’s National Development Strategy 1 (2021-2025).

It is on this note that the Government of Zimbabwe with financial support from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) seeks to engage a consultant to develop a revised NDC Implementation Plan for Zimbabwe.

The main objective of the consultant will be to build on existing processes and plans in Zimbabwe, the 1st NDC Implementation Plan that was developed with support from the NDC Partnership, where key national stakeholders were engaged to define climate change sectoral priorities and reflect those into a results-based framework that serves as a planning, coordination, tracking and resource mobilization tool. The NDC Implementation Plan also includes development partners’ initiatives and their respective information.

Under the direct supervision of the Director of Climate Change on day-to-day administrative aspects, and UNECA’s ACPC Chief of Section, the consultant will assume the following duties and responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate, facilitate, and lead, under the guidance of Government focal points in the Climate Change Management Department, Ministry of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, and the NDC Partnership Support Unit (SU) the elaboration of Zimbabwe’s 10-year NDC Implementation Plan.
• Review National and Sectoral Policies and Plans to map update priorities and linkages to climate action (mitigation and adaptation) in the first NDC Implementation Plan (NDC Partnership Plan)
• Lead the revision of the NDC Implementation Plan through the engagement of the different Ministries to ensure alignment with sectoral priorities, and prioritization of outcomes, outputs and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the period 2021-2030
• Prepare and conduct sectoral meetings to update and consolidate the content of the NDC Implementation Plan as specified in the NDC Partnership Plan template
• Prepare and conduct meetings with development partners to update current and planned contributions in the NDC Implementation Plan
• Update the NDC Implementation Plan for Zimbabwe using the updated template of the NDC Partnership Plan
• Prepare and facilitate multi-stakeholder workshops to consolidate and validate the content of the NDC Implementation Plan
• Conduct orientation sessions with the Climate Change Management Department in order to build and strengthen national capacities on the design, implementation, and update of the NDC Implementation Plan

• Support the preparation and all related material for the high-level validation of the Plan.

  Qualifications/special skills Academic Qualifications: Academic Qualifications: Advanced university master’s degree (MS) in Environmental Studies, Public Policy, Economics, related field is required. A first level university degree in a combination of additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the master’s degree.

Experience: A minimum of five years of work experience in public, private or third sector institutions with a special focus on coordination and articulation of different actors, preparation and implementation of multi-stakeholder work plans, resource mobilization, preparation of proposals for climate actions, projects monitoring, evaluation and project management is required.

Language: English and French are the working languages of the UN Secretariat. For this consultancy, fluency in English is required. Working language of the other is desirable. Knowledge of French language is desirable.

No Fee THE 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.