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Background
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), acting as an implementing agency of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is providing assistance to the Government of Timor-Leste in the implementation of the GEF Medium Size Project (MSP) “ Strengthening targeted national capacities to improve decision-making and mainstreaming global environmental obligations into national development priorities”. Timor-Leste is fully committed to meet its obligations under the Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), with this project (among other related projects) intended to facilitate an important step towards developing the capacities in Timor-Leste for an effective national environmental management framework.
The project is assisting the Government of Timor-Leste to achieve the national priorities it has set in its National Strategic Development Plan for 2011 to 2030, and in its current annual National Priorities by enhancing national capacities. This project is designed to build the capacity of the agencies to engage effectively together in the series of concurrent national assessment and planning exercises, the subsequent development and implementation of policies and substantial programme, and the monitoring of results and strengthening of future planning and actions. More specifically, this project will address specific cross-cutting capacity development priorities identified in the NCSA in order to catalyze Timor-Leste’s more effective participation in environmentally sound and sustainable development in a way that produces co-benefits for the global environment. Thus, the goal of this project is for the Timor-Leste to be better enabled to meet their obligations under the three Rio Conventions. This requires the country to have the necessary capacities to coordinate efforts, as well as best practices for integrating global environmental priorities into planning, decision-making, and reporting processes. To that end, the objective of this project is to strengthen institutional capacity for effectively managing information systems for national MEA obligations and monitoring impact and progress.
This project will be carried out via four linked components: Component 1 focuses on enhanced institutional and technical capacities to use data and information for planning and decision-making; Component 2 focuses on coordination of technical directorates; Component 3 focuses on global environmental obligations mainstreamed into select sectoral policies, legislation, plans and programmes; and Component 4 focuses on enhanced awareness and value of the global environment.
Project’s Component 4: Enhanced awareness and value of the global environment to meet socio-economic priorities among other activities will focus on developing educational curricula for civil servants and academic institutions that promote better environmental information management and emphasize global environmental values and best practice approaches.
Duties and Responsibilities
OBJECTIVES AND ASSIGNMENT
The objective of the assignment is to develop an environmental awareness module for secondary schools on the global environment and on Rio Conventions mainstreaming.
The scope of work includes:
- Curriculum Development: Develop educational curricula for secondary schools that promote better environmental information management and emphasize global environmental values and best practice approaches developed and under implementation.
- Scoping of Existing Curriculums: Undertake a scoping study to review the existing curriculum of the Government of Timor-Leste (i.e., Ministry of Education, Secretary of State for Environment), schools, and universities with respect to the environment and the Rio Conventions and a needs and gap assessment of existing curriculum.
KEY DELIVERABLES AND TIME FRAME
Deliverable
Number of Days
Due date
D-1
Inception report with methodology and work plan
10 days
15 May 2022
D-2
A report on the existing curriculum, including a needs and gap assessment with respect to the environment and the Rio Conventions
15 days
07 June 2022
D-3
A draft educational curricula modules for secondary schools.
Convene 3 technical workshops at the subnational level and 1 workshop at the national level to finalize the draft curricula modules.
25 Days
18 July 2022
D4
Final Curriculum Submission: Submit the finalized/validate modules to be used by the Government.
10 Days
30 August 2022
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
- The IC will work under direct supervision from CCCD Project Manager with guidance from the UNDP Resident Representative and Head of Climate Change and Sustainable Ecosystem as/when required.
- The IC is expected to liaise on a regular basis with relevant government officials, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other key partners of the Project.
- The final approval authority for the outputs of the consultant is under Resident Representative attest.
- The IC will maintain pro-active communications with the Project Manager and the team and provide interim reports, highlighting main findings and any specific concerns or issues that need to be addressed during subsequent meetings and discussions.
- Shall any unexpected travel (authorized by UNDP) arise to municipalities outside Dili, it would be reimbursed by UNDP in accordance with current policies and procedures.
DUTY STATION AND DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The duty station of the assignment: Dili, Timor-Leste. The duration of the assignment is 60 days over a period of three months, ( May - August 2022).
Competencies
Competencies:
- Proven ability to work with other experts
- Excellent writing skills
- Demonstrated ability to liaise and co-operate with various stakeholders
- Pro-active approach to problem-solving
Language:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English; knowledge of Portuguese would be advantageous.
Required Skills and Experience
Academic Qualifications:
- A postgraduate degree (masters or higher) in a subject related to environmental education, environmental science, environmental management, sustainable development, international development, or a closely relevant field.
Experience and skills:
- Demonstrated experience in developing an environmental curriculum.
- Working experience of minimum 8 years in curriculum development or related field;
- Demonstrated understanding of the three Rio Conventions and associated obligations for developing countries;
- Working experience with international organizations, like UNDP for similar assignments would be an asset;
- Knowledge of Environmental issues and capacity constraints in Timor-Leste or similar developing countries will be an asset
SCOPE OF PRICE PROPOSAL AND SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS
Lump-Sum Contract
The financial proposal must be expressed in the form of a LUMP SUM amount that is all-inclusive of all costs, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per the template provided. The amount should be inclusive of professional fees, travel costs (travel to duty station and repatriation), living allowance (not exceeding UN’s standard DSA rates as approved by ICSC for Timor-Leste), insurance, communication etc.
In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the Consultant wish to travel business class he/she should do so using their own resources. If a Consultant is employed by an organization or company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under a Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Consultant must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP.
Schedule of Payments
Deliverable
Number of Days
Due date
D-1
Inception report with methodology and work plan
10 days
15%
D-2
A report on the existing curriculum, including a needs and gap assessment with respect to the environment and the Rio Conventions
15 days
25%
D-3
A draft educational curricula modules for secondary schools.
Convene 3 technical workshops at the subnational level and 1 workshop at the national level to finalize the draft curricula modules.
25 Days
40%
D4
Final Curriculum Submission: Submit the finalized/validate modules to be used by the Government.
10 Days
20%
Total
60 days
100%
RECOMMENDED PRESENTATION OF OFFER
Individual consultants interested in the assignment must submit the following documents to demonstrate their qualification;
- Duly accomplished Letter of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP (the template to be downloaded from the procurement notice link).
- Personal CV and P11, indicating all experience from similar projects as well as contact details including e-mail and phone number of the candidate and at least three (3) professional references (to be downloaded from the procurement notice link).
- Proposed Methodology of the assignment.
- Financial proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a break-down of costs, as per template provided (the template to be downloaded from the procurement notice link).
The candidates will be evaluated based on the following methodology:
Cumulative analysis OR combined scoring method
The applications will be evaluated using the weighted scoring method, where the award to the contract should 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.
- Technical Criteria weight; 70%
- Financial Criteria weight; 30%
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points of the technical criteria will be considered for the Financial Evaluation.
Detail Criteria
Technical Criteria
Weight
Max. Point
Education
A postgraduate degree (masters or higher) in a subject related to environmental education, environmental law, environmental science, environmental management, sustainable development, international development, or a closely relevant field.
20%
20
Professional Experience and Knowledge of Sector
Working experience of minimum 8 years in related field;
35%
7
Demonstrated understanding of the three Rio Conventions and associated obligations for developing countries
8
Working experience with international organizations, like UNDP for similar assignments, would be an asset;
5
Knowledge of Environmental issues and capacity constraints in Timor-Leste or similar developing
countries will be an asset
5
Demonstrated experience in developing an environmental curriculum.
10
Language
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English; knowledge of Portuguese
would be advantageous
15%
15
Total technical score
70%
70
Financial
30%
30
Final Score
100%
100
Annexes (click on the hyperlink to access the documents):
Annex 1 - IC Contract Template (for information);
Annex 2 - Financial Proposal Template using the template provided by UNDP (to be completed at later stage upon request by UNDP);
- Annex 3 – IC General Terms and Conditions (for information);
- Annex 4 – RLA Template (if consultant wishes to be recruited through an employer) - (for information).
- Annex 5: Annexes to the ToR
Incomplete applications will not be considered and will be disqualified automatically.