UN Environnement recrute un Consultant international, évaluation du marché des services climatiques à Nairobi au Kenya.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action.
This consultancy is managed by UNEP’s Early Warning and Assessment Division. The Early Warning and Assessment Division is responsible for analyzing the state of the global environment, providing early warning information, and assessing global and regional environmental trends to catalyse and promote international cooperation and action on the environment. In response to requests from the Member States, the Climate Services and Capacity Building Branch builds country capacities in the collection, management, and use of environmental and climate data, information, and knowledge for early warning, planning, policymaking, preparedness, and response actions.
The consultant will serve to implement portions of the USD 49.9 million GCF programme, “Enhancing Climate
Information and Knowledge Services for resilience in 5 island countries of the Pacific Ocean”. The
programme is UNEP’s largest project, and the programme will contribute to ensuring that accurate, timely and actionable climate information is used in policy, planning and response actions, and enable sectors and communities in the five Pacific Island countries (Cook Islands, Niue, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Palau, and Tuvalu) to adapt to increasing climate variability and change. The consultant will contribute to activities in the five Pacific Island countries programme under Sub-Activity
1.1.2, “Conduct Market Assessment to explore viable opportunities for climate information services in sectors and businesses,” that will lead to Result 1 “Strengthened delivery model for climate information services and MHEWS covering oceans and islands”. In addition, this component will also contribute to SubActivity 1.1.4, “Develop national policies for financing climate services.” This will be conducted separately from the Market Assessment. The consultant is expected to develop detailed market assessments in each country to assess private/public
sector engagement in climate services and identify opportunities for: i) development of value-added climate products and services; ii) public-private partnerships in the generation, translation, and transfer function.
Based on the market assessments, the consultant will also develop national financing policies focused on the sustainable financial management of climate services, that will enable the 5 NMHSs to have the means to sustain and ensure ongoing operation of their mandated services in order to mitigate weather-, climate-, and water-related risks. Private/public sector engagement will improve the cost-effectiveness of NMHSs and increase potential for catalysing innovation in climate information technologies.
Specific tasks and responsibilities
Under the Supervision of the Programme Coordinator of the Early Warning and Assessment Division, UNEP, based in Apia, Samoa, the International Consultant, Climate Services Market Assessment will perform the following assignment/s;
1. Review documentation relevant to the assignment
• Convene a virtual inception meeting with the 5 countries, UNEP, and other relevant stakeholders.
The inception meeting will discuss the programme of work, confirm work schedules, and activity
requirements, seek clarification on issues critical to the assignment, and plan logistics
• Prepare an inception report of no more than 20 pages to include (i) detailed work plan for the
execution of the assignment, (ii) methodology to be followed, and (iii) timeline for the
accomplishment of the tasks of the assignment, (iv) information required; (v) summary of agreed
issues to be investigated; (vi) administration requirements and roles of PMU, NPIU and consultant;
(vii) potential barriers/ challenges to the conduct of the assignment and suggested approaches to
mitigating the impacts.
2. In-country consultation reports
Facilitate in-country consultations/meetings to review, update and validate the draft market
assessment report. In addition to gather information/ feedback that will be inform the development
of the financing policy.
• (Travel) Conduct in-country stakeholder consultations/meetings to inform the development and/or
validation of the Market Assessments in Cook Islands (1x/year), Niue (1x/year), Palau (1x/year),
RMI (1x/year) and Tuvalu (1x/year)
3. The consultant is expected to assess the following as part of the market assessment:
o Involved actors in climate services – including providers, intermediaries, and users.
o Regulatory environment – including identification of policy incentives to unlock barriers to
private sector investment in climate information and early warning services.
o Supply and demand analysis – including identification of sector and business needs for
climate services (for example, level of information, scales and access required).
o Private sector engagement – including identification of private sector sponsors’ interest in
the generation, translation, and transfer function and in purchasing climate-related
information; and
o Business models – including analysis of viable business models that are successful in other
countries.
• Undertake institutional, market and policy analysis through actions such as mapping of existing
policies, mechanisms and other initiatives for mobilizing and deploying climate finance resources,
including public private partnerships at the national level; review of the current roles and jurisdictions
of public and private sector agents; mapping existing national and international institutional partners
and in country capacity; mapping of the private sector in regard to structure and capacity of the
market and financial system including the national credit rating system where relevant, and
summarise identified gaps, weaknesses and opportunities.
• Finalise Market Assessment reports for the countries.
4. Develop roadmap informed by the Market Assessment and NFCS with recommendations on the
development of the National Financing Policies for the countries.
• The consultant to develop the roadmap in line with the World Bank Guidance to consider the
following:
o Opportunities for greater cooperation between the public and private sectors and academia given
that many economic sectors increasingly depend on meteorological information for safe and
efficient operations.
o Opportunities for win-win situations that fulfil the public sector responsibility to help the economically disadvantaged while meeting the needs of enterprises for climate services. To this end, the Programme will ensure partner governments are made aware of the economic value of climate information in, for instance, reducing the need for dangerous marine rescues, reducing the need for transport of drinking water to outer islands in drought, and reducing the costs of recovery from cyclone damage. o Opportunities to coordinate and/or integrate financing for climate services and disaster risk management to strengthen existing disaster relief funds and establish reliable funding for
disaster preparedness activities, which are often limited to ad-hoc donor funding. This would
facilitate a more efficient and streamlined approach to implementing often overlapping actions
for climate change adaptation and disaster risk management.
o Identification of the elements for a sustainable financial model for NMHSs based on the climate
services value chain, which highlights the different roles of NMHSs in providing basic forecasts
and warnings to protect society from the adverse effects of severe weather (a public good
typically supported by governments, for which predictable national budget allocations need to be
ensured) but also in providing specialised value-added services to sectoral government agencies
and individual businesses (which may offer opportunities for cost-recovery from governmental
and non-governmental sources beyond the Programme’s lifespan).
Potential to establish National Climate Funds (NCFs) as mechanisms that support countries to
manage their engagement with climate finance by facilitating the collection, blending,
coordination of, and accounting for climate finance directed towards climate services.1
According to UNDP guidance 2, these funds could have the following goals: i) collect sources of
funds and direct them toward climate change activities that promote national priorities; ii) blend
finance from public, private, multilateral and bilateral sources to maximise a country’s ability to
advance national climate priorities; iii) coordinate country-wide climate change activities to
ensure that climate change priorities are effectively implemented; and iv) strengthen capacities
for national ownership and management of climate finance, including for “direct access” to funds.
Functions of NCFs could include: i) support goal setting and the development of programmatic
strategies for climate resilience; ii) fund capitalisation; iii) management of partnerships; iv)
provide project approval and support implementation; v) supply policy assurance; vi) provide
financial control; vii) manage performance measurement, including monitoring and reporting on
activities and resource disbursement; and vii) provide and support knowledge and information
management.
Potential for continued support from the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) as part of the Alliance for Hydromet Development, which was launched in December 2019 by 12 international organizations including UNEP. The SOFF is envisaged to ensure provision of basic systematic observations as a global public good by providing equitable, predictable, sustainable, and performance-based finance as well as technical assistance to developing countries for the provision of foundational observational data as per the Global Basic Observing Network (GBON) standard adopted by the WMO Congress. GBON aims to improve the global availability of the most essential surface-based data by defining the obligation for countries to implement a minimal set of surface-based observations for which international exchange of observational data will be mandatory.
• Compile lessons learnt and prepare a comprehensive Final Report.
An advanced university degree (Master’s or Higher) in public policy, climate change or climate financing, economics or a similar related field is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in climate financing, market assessments, donor assistance programmes for development/ climate change financing, public private partnerships is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in conducting market assessments for climate financing opportunities, demonstrated experience in developing financing policies for climate related areas is desirable.
• Experience in working and collaborating with governments and Hydromet Services in the Pacific region is desirable.
• Previous work experience undertaking similar activities in the Pacific region is highly desirable.
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the
consultancy, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another UN Language is
desirable.
Close on 4 Jul 2023