Gender and vulnerable communities’ expert

Result of ServiceThe final output for the consultant is the project's Deliverable 3: Detailed report on the review and analysis of NDC targets integrating cross-cutting issues, including gender and vulnerable communities’ perspective. Work LocationRemote, La Paz, Bolivia Expected durationPart-time Duties and ResponsibilitiesThroughout UNEP's work, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change marks a turning point to an emerging climate regime that brings all the states and actors together to a new global platform to address the growing risks to our planet. According to IPCC reports, warming in the climate system is unequivocal, as is human influence. At a global level, Bolivia is among the countries most affected by the impacts of climate change throughout its territory and in its cultural, social, productive, energy, and industrial structure. The climate crisis poses high risks for human, economic, social, productive, and natural systems, and the negative ecological, economic, and social impacts are expected to be exacerbated. According to the 2021 Global Climate Risk Index (CRI), Bolivia is the tenth most vulnerable country globally, considering the impacts of extreme climate events and associated socioeconomic data. Historically, Bolivia has been exposed to floods and droughts. Approximately four out of 10 people live in flood-prone plots, and more than 16% of the population live in areas at risk of drought. During the last decade, Bolivia’s weather patterns have undergone significant changes: extreme rainfall, floods, landslides, and droughts have pushed the poorest and most marginalized communities beyond their ability to respond and have significantly affected the state of watersheds and other climate-sensitive landscapes. Poverty persists at 55% and is much higher in rural areas than in urban areas at 31%, concentrated in the Altiplano and Valles. Poverty can be attributed to poor access to land and services, both social and productive, and the marginalization of women in organizations and restrictions on women's activities outside the home. Women continue to have less access to decision-making, training, and other services despite their growing role in production. Despite the confluence of the climate crisis and the socioeconomic conditions of the country, Bolivia has made efforts to advance towards a more comprehensive development with a growth in annual public investment in the last 14 years from 629 (2005) to 3,769 million US dollars annually (2019), highlighting that there is a more significant international commitment to confront the climate crisis, including managing losses and damages. Additionally, Bolivia has committed to reducing its carbon emissions and increasing its climate resilience by updating its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which maintains the characteristic ambition of the first document and commits Bolivia to take actions aligned with a trajectory consistent with the global goal of limiting the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 °C, with climate justice in the framework of the principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capacities, in light of national circumstances. At the same time, the actions resulting from the contributions raised in the update of the NDCs will increase the country's adaptive capacity, strengthen its resilience, and reduce its vulnerability to the climate crisis. The NDC update also includes a commitment to greater transparency in monitoring the proposed adaptation, mitigation, and implementation goals. Through the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth (APMT, given its acronym in Spanish), Bolivia is prioritizing efforts for the revision and update of the country’s NDC targets. The need to review the 32 NDC targets (2021-2030) arises in response to new challenges and opportunities identified in the agriculture, water, energy, and forestry sectors, along with the inclusion of key sectors such as waste and industry. This update ensures that Bolivia upholds its international commitments while strengthening its capacity for adaptation and mitigation in the face of climate change. By updating the baseline data and indicators, Bolivia strengthens its ability to measure and monitor progress more accurately, contributing to the coherence between national policies. Planning instruments and the Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) are currently under development. In this regard, the goal is to leverage existing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions modelling analyses and identified mitigation actions, ensuring that the NDC 3.0 targets are both realistic and achievable, while maximizing the efficiency of mitigation actions. This strategic integration between NDC 3.0 and LT-LEDS will enable the identification of synergies and opportunities for efficiency, strengthening both the planning and implementation process, avoiding duplication, and enhancing national efforts towards low-emission development. Furthermore, the integration of a gender perspective ensures that climate policies are inclusive and equitable, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international demands for social and climate justice. Similarly, by aligning the NDC targets with the sectoral greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories following the IPCC methodology, Bolivia improves its technical capacity to report progress transparently, ensuring greater alignment with international monitoring and reporting requirements. Finally, the inclusion of new sectors and the alignment of targets with climate finance reinforces NDC 3.0, facilitating investment in concrete mitigation and adaptation projects, and promoting greater climate ambition at both national and subnational levels. This contributes to the strategic alignment between national low-emission development commitments and the goals of the international community. Considering the above, UNEP and the government of Bolivia, through the APMT, designed the project “Enhancement of NDC (NDC 3.0)” for the Partnership Action Fund (PAF), funded by the NDC Partnership (Nationally Determined Contributions Partnership). The fund supports NDC enhancement and implementation by reinforcing technical expertise and capacities to address gaps in developing country members. The PAF will complement the NDC Partnership's implementing and development partners' existing support offerings to catalyze further climate action. Therefore, this project will support the update of the country's NDCs to include additional prioritized sectors to the current four: energy, water, forests, and agriculture, as well as increasing ambition, including gender perspective and defining GHG targets for all the measures within the NDC. In this sense, UNEP is recruiting different local experts in Bolivia and a few international positions to spearhead the execution of the project activities and support the government, the Project Manager and Sr. Advisors at UNEP-CCC on specific topics, in this case, the inclusion of gender and vulnerable communities perspective. The consultant will support the integration of cross-cutting approaches within the NDC 3.0 update process, including gender equality, interculturality, youth participation, indigenous peoples’ rights, environmental education, and participatory MRV. These elements are essential to ensure that climate action is socially inclusive, culturally relevant, and aligned with Bolivia’s legal frameworks and international commitments. The consultant will report to the Project Manager and will work in close collaboration with the local team, Ministry of Environment and Water and APMT located in La Paz, Bolivia. The consultancy is product-based and allows for a hybrid work model, enabling the consultant to work remotely while participating in in-person activities as described in the workplan. 5-month contract. The consultant is expected to work from home and have regular meetings at the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth (APMT) of Bolivia. Each payment will be disbursed upon deliverables and invoices duly approved by the Project Manager. The final payment will require a final evaluation duly signed by the Project Manager. PHASE 3: Gender Inclusivity Perspective Project Outputs: o Gender and vulnerable communities’ perspective in all the targets of NDC 3.0, including recommendations, indicators and impact identification. ● Consultant Activities: o Review all existing and new NDC targets to identify potential gender and vulnerable communities differentiated impacts. o Analyze how gender aspects impact each sector under consideration and strengthen capacities to integrate social inclusion – including marginalized communities- and gender considerations into the NDC 3.0. o Conduct consultations with women-led groups, indigenous peoples, youth organizations, and other marginalized communities to assess differentiated climate impacts and adaptation needs. o Develop gender-sensitive and socially inclusive indicators that capture the unique vulnerabilities and contributions of these groups to climate action. o Conduct a workshop to generate consultations with gender experts and relevant organizations to ensure the gender and vulnerable communities analysis is thorough and aligned with international best practices. o Collect feedback from women-led groups and marginalized communities to include it in the recommendations. o Prepare a report with gender and vulnerable communities' sensitive indicators and expected impacts for each NDC target. The consultant will report directly to the Project Manager at UNEP-CCC and will provide subject support for the other experts and stakeholder coordination. Main responsibilities include: ● Report on advances to the Project Manager at UNEP-CCC. ● Support the coordination of the cross-cutting issues working group for NDC 3.0, in close coordination with the national technical team and sectoral consultants. This group will serve as a technical platform to integrate cross-cutting approaches such as gender, indigenous peoples, youth, interculturality, human rights, and other inclusion and sustainability principles. The consultant will lead regular meetings of the working group, facilitate the incorporation of these approaches into sectoral NDC targets, systematize joint recommendations, and coordinate with APMT, UN WOMEN and other key stakeholders to ensure their integration into the final deliverables of the process. ● Conduct a rapid diagnosis on the current integration of cross-cutting issues ● Support the Project Manager on activities related to PHASE 3 “Gender Inclusivity Perspective\". ● Conduct consultations with key stakeholders (women-led groups, indigenous peoples, youth organizations, and other marginalized communities) to assess differentiated climate impacts and adaptation needs. ● Provide technical inputs for the draft and final version of the cross-cutting chapter of th NDC 3.0 ● Ensure that the NDC 3.0 process is inclusive and participatory, incorporating feedback from historically underrepresented populations. ● Articulate his or her work with the Bolivian Gender and Climate Change Action Plan and other documents being developed with the support of UN Women and other documents generated. This could include coordinating alignment meetings with experts and the APMT to ensure consistency between the instruments generated and the NDC 3.0. ● Prepare and validate a roadmap for institutionalizing the Mesa beyond the NDC3.0 cycle. Qualifications/special skills● Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent), preferably in climate change, gender studies, economics or other and/or related fields. ● Have practical experience of minimum nine (9) years of relevant work experience with Bachelors degree or a minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience with masters degree, in ensuring a gender and vulnerable communities perspective in climate change mitigation and adaptation working in Latin-American countries. ● Knowledge of Bolivia’s national climate and environmental governance frameworks is highly desirable. ● Demonstrated experience in preparing policy and strategy reports for national governments and in the technical review of national reports and relevant international documents (Required). ● Minimum four (4) years of relevant experience including a gender perspective in the formulation and/or monitoring of Nationally Determined Contributions (Desirable). ● Relevant experience in consulting work. ● Minimum three (3) years of experience facilitating workshops and stakeholder consultation (required). ● Relevant experience integrating gender considerations into formulating, planning, and implementing projects or public policies. This includes designing gender-sensitive methodologies to collect and evaluate baseline data, evaluate products, and monitor project results where appropriate (required). ● Key Competencies: Report writing and attention to detail; respecting political, social and environmental sensitivities; Management of MS Office, Internet and electronic communication. ● Experience working with the public institutions in Bolivia related to climate change planning (Desirable). ● Demonstrated analytical capacity to contribute to developing technical products related to gender perspective in climate change planning (Required). ● Experience working with the public institutions in Bolivia related to gender and vulnerable communities integration (Desirable). Languages● Fluency in Spanish (Required). ● Confident in English (Required). Additional InformationNot available. 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