Individual Contract Environmental Policy Specialist
Procurement Process
IC - Individual contractor
Office
UNDP-AGO - ANGOLA
Deadline
13-Nov-25 @ 12:00 PM (New York time)
Published on
30-Oct-25 @ 12:00 AM (New York time)
Reference Number
UNDP-AGO-00223
Contact
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Introduction
Country: Angola
Background
UNDP's 2022-2025 Strategic Plan highlights our continued commitment to eradicating poverty, accompanying countries in their pathways towards the SDGs and working towards the Paris Agreement. As part of the Global Policy Network in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP's Nature, Climate Change, Energy, and Waste (NCE&W) Hubs promote and scale up integrated whole-of-governance approaches and nature-based solutions that reduce poverty and inequalities, strengthen livelihoods and inclusive growth, mitigate conflict, forced migration and displacement, and promote more resilient governance systems that advance linked peace and security agendas.
In recent decades, biodiversity finance tools and solutions have demonstrated their importance for achieving biodiversity goals and broader sustainable development objectives. Improved choice, design and implementation of effective, well-tailored finance solutions will strengthen countriesโ chances of achieving national and global biodiversity targets. Biodiversity Finance Plans have become increasingly recognised as a relevant tool to help countries to identify and fill the biodiversity finance gap, including through the work of the Biodiversity Finance Initiative www.biofin.org. In December 2022, parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework. This included numerous targets with relevance for financing. Target 19 on resource mobilisation includes reference for countries to design and implement national biodiversity finance plans.
Scope of Work
Objective
The consultant will also, as much as possible, provide input to all other national outputs, including critical stakeholder analysis for the Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER) and summarise critical priorities and policies for the latest part of the methodology, the Biodiversity Finance Plan. The specialist should provide input on the feedback on the BIOFIN methodological framework.
The specialist will assess and describe major biodiversity-related policies, legal framework, and identify existing finance solutions relevant to biodiversity finance as described in the most recent version of the BIOFIN Workbook. The specialist will focus on the most recent National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), which is ideally in the process of alignment with the new Kunming-Montreal GBF Framework.
The Environmental Policy Specialist will produce drafts and analyses that will be reviewed and ultimately validated by the Program team Leader (Project Lead) and the BIOFIN Global Team.
Period of assignment/services: 30 within 60 working days
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