Environmental Policy Analyst

UNDP is the information frontier group for sustainable improvement within the UN Development System and serves because the integrator for collective motion to comprehend the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s coverage work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office ranges provides a spectrum of deep native information to cutting-edge world views and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in its Global Policy Network (GPN), a community of field-based and world technical experience throughout a variety of data domains and in help of the signature options and organizational capabilities envisioned in UNDP’s Strategic Plan. 

UNDP’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan highlights our continued dedication to eradicating poverty, accompanying international locations of their pathways in the direction of the SDGs and dealing in the direction of the Paris Agreement. As a part of the Global Policy Network within the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP’s Nature, Climate Change, Energy, and Waste (NCE&W) Hubs promote and scale up built-in whole-of-governance approaches and nature-based options that cut back poverty and inequalities, strengthen livelihoods and inclusive development, mitigate battle, pressured migration and displacement, and promote extra resilient governance methods that advance linked peace and safety agendas.

In latest a long time, biodiversity finance instruments and options have demonstrated their significance for attaining biodiversity targets and broader sustainable improvement goals. Improved alternative, design and implementation of efficient, well-tailored finance options will strengthen international locations’ probabilities of attaining nationwide and world biodiversity targets. Biodiversity Finance Plans have grow to be more and more acknowledged as a related software to assist international locations to determine and fill the biodiversity finance hole, together with by the work of the Biodiversity Finance Initiative www.biofin.org. In December 2022, events to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework. This included quite a few targets with relevance for financing. Target 19 on useful resource mobilization consists of reference for international locations to design and implement nationwide biodiversity finance plans. 

The GEF created a worldwide programme to help international locations to design a nationwide Biodiversity Finance Plan. A Biodiversity Finance Plan features a methods evaluation of a rustic’s financial system together with to map current financing mechanisms, subsidies with potential dangerous impacts on nature, drivers of biodiversity loss and acquire, private and non-private expenditures dedicated in the direction of biodiversity goals and a rustic’s nationwide monetary wants for biodiversity. The biodiversity finance plan itself consists of a sequence of actions with the purpose to considerably scale up obtainable funding, inexperienced or part out dangerous finance flows and enhance the effectiveness of obtainable expenditures. The programme permits for energetic sharing of experiences throughout international locations and features a information sharing platform and the supply of steady technical help to nation groups. 

The implementation of the challenge in Ghana falls beneath the GEF8 Umbrella programme for the event of the primary National Biodiversity Finance Plan. The total implementation of the challenge can be led by the Project Lead/Senior Finance Specialist with the help of a technical group and in coordination to a authorities challenge director and the National Steering Committee.  

For the implementation of the GEF8-BFP Umbrella program on the nationwide degree, UNDP is recruiting a nationwide group composed of a Senior Finance Specialist (Project Lead), a Project Support Associate, an Environmental Policy Analyst r and a Biodiversity Finance Manager. 

The Environmental Policy Analyst will lead the manufacturing of the Policy and Institutional Review and can present preliminary enter to help the Project Lead to develop the Biodiversity Finance Plan. 

Under the over-all steerage of the Senior Finance Specialist (Project Lead), the Environmental Policy Analyst is predicted to guide the manufacturing of the Policy and Institutional Review (PIR) and supply preliminary inputs to begin improvement of the Biodiversity Finance Plan, following the steerage offered by the newest model of the BIOFIN Workbook and with detailed information.

The Environmental Policy Analyst may even, as a lot as attainable, present enter to all different nationwide outputs, together with important stakeholder evaluation for the Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER) and summarize important priorities and insurance policies for the newest a part of the methodology Biodiversity Finance Plan. The Environmental Policy Analyst ought to present enter to the suggestions on the BIOFIN methodological framework. 

The Environmental Policy Analyst will assess and describe main biodiversity associated insurance policies, authorized framework and determine current finance options related to biodiversity finance as described in the latest model of the BIOFIN Workbook. The Environmental Policy Analyst will give attention to the latest National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) that may ideally be within the means of alignment with the brand new Kunming Montreal GBF Framework.   

The Environmental Policy Analyst will produce drafts and analyses that can be reviewed and finally validated by the Senior Finance Specialist (Project Lead) and the BIOFIN Global Team.

• Advise and help the Senior Finance Specialist (Project Lead) within the conception and preparation of the PIR;
• Plan and implement the PIR step of the BIOFIN methodology;
• Identify related stakeholders to tell and take part this step;
• Stock take and analyze related biodiversity associated coverage devices and research (resembling dangerous subsidies evaluation that is perhaps delivered prior or parallel to this step of the methodology), these embrace NBSAPs and past;
• Develop a list of current Biodiversity Financing Mechanisms within the nation;
• Review current financial valuation research related to the BIOFIN course of;
• Review authorized framework related to the BIOFIN course of;
• Review different sources related to BD finance; 
• Identify current nationwide optimistic and adverse incentives/subsidies following obtainable steerage.
   

• Describe related stakeholders, sectors and establishments to tell the BER evaluation.

3.) Contribute to the Biodiversity Finance Needs Assessment (FNA)

• Provide related findings of monetary mechanisms that contribute to biodiversity finance and potential areas in want of finance.

• Support the Senior Finance Specialist (Project Lead) with abstract of findings, finance mechanism baseline and preliminary preparation steerage of the BFP. 
• Support detailed feasibility analyses on a variety of financing mechanisms relying on information and expertise.

• Preparation of workshops, conferences, networking and displays as required, to finish the Policy and Institutional Review.
• Provide substantive feedback and suggestions on tips on how to enhance the present methodologies.

• Document choices and assumptions made whereas finishing the Policy and Institutional Review (PIR); 
• Document classes realized from conducting the BFP challenge starting from institutional concerns to technical points;
• Prepare reviews and case research, as required, for submission to world conferences (e.g. CBD COP);
• Provide insights and proposals for the BFP

Institutional Arrangement

The Environmental Policy Analyst can be beneath the direct supervision of the Senior Finance Expert (Project Lead). UNDP shall be entitled to mental property and different proprietary rights over all supplies which have a direct relation to the challenge.

1. Expected length of labor 2.5 years.
2. Indicate goal date for the beginning of labor and anticipated completion date, together with situations to figuring out each dates, if any.
3. Provide the estimated lead time for UNDP or Project Implementing Partners to evaluate outputs, give feedback, certify approval/acceptance of outputs, and so forth. 
4. The PIR is step one of the BIOFIN Methodology, any type of delay within the completion of the work may delay completion of remainder of steps and eventually BFP supply.

2030 Agenda- Planet : Nature     

• Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme: Nature-positive financial system and Biodiversity Finance 

Business Direction and Strategy  System considering: 

• Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated components coexist inside an total course of or system, and to think about how altering one component can affect on different elements of the system.

Business Development: Collective Intelligence Design      

• Ability to convey collectively various teams of individuals, information, info, concepts, and know-how to unravel issues and design options or providers. Knowledge and understanding of Collective Intelligence Design ideas, methodology and practices. 

Digital & Innovation: Data storytelling and communications          

• Skilled in constructing a story round a set of information and its accompanying visualizations to assist convey the that means of that information in a robust and compelling trend.

Digital & Innovation: Data Governance   

• Knowledge of information science, expertise to develop information administration instruments, set up and preserve databases and function information visualization applied sciences

Digital & Innovation: Data Collection

• Being expert in Data Sorting, Data Cleaning, Survey Administration, Presentation and Reporting together with assortment of Real-Time Data (e.g. cell information, satellite tv for pc information, sensor information).

Digital & Innovation: Data evaluation           

• Ability to extract, analyze and visualize information (together with Real-Time Data) to type significant insights and assist efficient choice making