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I. Output 1. NDC implementation plan for the vitality, forests, water, and agriculture sectors: Bolivia, by way of the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth (APMT by its initials in Spanish), is prioritizing efforts to attain the 32 NDC targets in 4 sectors: vitality, water, forests, and agriculture. This NDC implementation plan is the strategic and operational instrument permitting authorities establishments to combine local weather commitments and objectives with prioritized actions in every sector and facilitate their success. Additionally, the Plan will enable the identification and evaluation of monetary, technical, and regulatory gaps in actions established in the NDC, and will take into accounts any related updates all through the NDC 3.0 course of. It will set up an in depth important path for implementing local weather actions and measure and monitor progress in reaching the NDC goal. Product No.1

• One technical evaluation of the current laws, governance buildings (incl. stakeholder mapping), associated plans and applications, accessible monetary devices, in addition to the progress in the implementation of the NDC targets, particularly for the vitality sector in Bolivia whereas guaranteeing alignment with the NDC 3.0 replace course of. The evaluation ought to embrace: (Activity 1.1 of the PAF venture scope of labor). Review of current laws: Identify and consider the insurance policies, legal guidelines, and laws that impression the vitality sector, and analyze their alignment with NDC objectives. Integrate up to date information and methodologies from the NDC 3.0 course of the place accessible. Assessment of governance buildings: Conduct an in depth mapping of stakeholders, together with authorities establishments which can be part of the Energy sector Working Group to know their position in the implementation of the NDCs and their alignment with new roles or priorities recognized beneath NDC 3.0. Analysis of plans and applications: Review nationwide (PDES) and sectoral (PSDEI) plans, together with current monetary devices, to judge their present and potential contribution to reaching NDC objectives in the vitality sector. Incorporate findings from the NDC 3.0 replace course of concerning gaps, alternatives, and subnational disaggregation of indicators. Progress in objective implementation: Complement and replace the prognosis of the standing of vitality sector objectives (as much as 2023). Including any up to date baseline information or indicators proposed in the NDC 3.0. Propose options for further information assortment and essential methodological changes to make sure alignment with the NDC 3.0 objectives. Stakeholder session and doc assessment: Conduct consultations with key stakeholders and carry out a radical doc assessment, together with authorities paperwork and gray literature, to help the evaluation, guaranteeing consistency with inputs and findings from the NDC 3.0 course of. Product No.2
• One evaluation of the major institutional, technical, technological, and financing gaps, obstacles, wants and priorities which will restrain the achievement of the vitality sector NDC targets or hinder their efficient implementation, together with limitations in present roles, features, and infrastructure, amongst others. This evaluation shall be based mostly on stakeholder consultations with each non-public and public actors and a desktop assessment of both authorities paperwork or peer-reviewed literature from academia or the improvement cooperation sector. Additionally, the evaluation ought to establish alternatives to collaborate with girls, youth, and indigenous peoples, and analyze how these teams can contribute to reaching the NDC vitality targets. The evaluation shall learn by the vitality roadmap being elaborated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which is predicted to incorporate a earlier identification of the technique of implementation and fascinating situations, degree of technical and monetary info, potential identification, prioritization matrix, and a piece plan defining roles, tasks, and timelines. (exercise 1.4 of the PAF venture scope of labor). Product No.3
• A workshop report of a stakeholder validation course of for 100 individuals from the vitality sector, following the participatory methodology developed by the Senior Project Manager to assessment and validate the obstacles, gaps, and desires evaluation performed in the framework of product 2. The technical report shall compile the suggestions and feedback obtained throughout the workshop to make use of as enter for elaborating the vitality sector NDC implementation plan. (Activity 1.6 of the PAF venture scope of labor). Product No.4
• One last model of the gaps, obstacles, wants and priorities evaluation that integrates the suggestions and knowledge collected throughout the validation workshop similar to Product 3. The last model of the evaluation should be accredited by the APMT. (Activity 1.6 of the PAF venture scope of labor). Product No.5
• One technical doc that features a description of the strains of motion required for implementing the current vitality sector NDC targets. The strains of motion needs to be framed in particular and measurable long-term objectives in line with NDC commitments and quick and medium-term aims which can be achievable and that function milestones towards long-term objectives. Additionally, every line of motion shall embrace an outline of the enabling circumstances essential to implement them, resembling concrete motion plans, together with particular actions, schedules, implementing companions, together with main authorities establishments and different related stakeholders, and essential assets (institutional, monetary, technological, technical and operational). The identification and outline of the strains of motion shall be based mostly on the UNDP vitality sector roadmap anticipated to be delivered to the APMT in Q3-2024 and the last model of the obstacles, gaps, and desires evaluation. (Activity 1.7 of the PAF venture scope of labor). Product No.6
• One technical report detailing the progress in creating a financing technique for implementing the vitality sector NDC targets. The technical report shall be based mostly on the vitality sector roadmap beneath preparation by UNDP, which can establish core parts for elaborating a complete financing technique. (Activity 1.8 of the PAF venture scope of labor). Product No.7
• One vitality sector NDC implementation plan that features the actions and sub-activities wanted, the establishments accountable, the degree of precedence, the listing of stakeholders that needs to be concerned, the envisioned implementation plan for all actions, and the assets required to attain them (institutional, technical, technological, and monetary). The NDC implementation plan shall be based mostly on the findings from merchandise 1 to six and shall be elaborated by way of a gender-based strategy. (Activity 1.9 of the PAF venture scope of labor). Specific duties and tasks: 1. At the begin of the contract, elaborate a piece plan that particulars the anticipated chronogram to ship all merchandise. 2. Elaborate a database of all paperwork reviewed and a document of all conferences and interviews performed. 3. Comply with all merchandise in a well timed and coordinated method. 4. Ensure that each one venture deliverables take into account the progress of the NDC Update (NDC 3.0), guaranteeing consistency with inputs and findings from the NDC 3.0 course of. 5. Ensure that by way of the supply of the merchandise, the venture meets its aims and achieves its anticipated outcomes. 6. Provide technical inputs to the AMPT throughout the elaboration of the merchandise and combine all suggestions obtained earlier than submitting a last model. 7. Support the Senior Project Manager in creating a technique to elaborate and validate the NDC implementation plan from the vitality sector perspective. The methodology shall be based mostly on the understanding of present nationwide and sectorial local weather change objectives, the nationwide local weather change insurance policies, and governance buildings and shall embrace the improvement of workshops and occasions to facilitate the participation of various stakeholders concerned in implementing the NDC (Activity 1.2 of the PAF venture scope of labor). 8. Support the Senior Project Manager in organizing and facilitating one preliminary technical validation workshop for the methodology developed in Activity 1.2 with the related institutional and sectoral stakeholders, as wanted (Activity 1.3 of the PAF venture scope of labor). 9. Support the integration of findings and methodologies from the NDC 3.0 replace course of into the vitality sector NDC implementation plan, guaranteeing consistency between up to date targets, baseline information, and implementation actions. 10. Collaborate with the NDC 3.0 replace workforce to establish alternatives for disaggregating vitality sector indicators at the subnational degree and guarantee their alignment with nationwide priorities and the monitoring framework. 11. Support the Senior Project Manager in conducting one workshop to coach key stakeholders on present laws for the APMT and the operationalization of Article 57 of Law 300 concerning the Plurinational Mother Earth Fund (FPMT by its initials in Spanish) to create enabling circumstances for territorial funding and useful resource mobilization (Activity 1.5 of the PAF venture scope of labor). 12. Support the Senior Project Manager in conducting and facilitating one validation workshop for 100 individuals on the NDC implementation plan elaborated (Activity 1.10 of the PAF venture scope of labor). 13. Support the Senior Project Manager in integrating the last model of the NDC implementation plan in the Partnership’s Online Plan device to observe and monitor NDC progress and the Partnership Plan Narrative (Activity 1.11 of the PAF venture scope of labor). 14. Contribute to figuring out synergies between the vitality sector NDC implementation plan and new NDC 3.0 targets, significantly in figuring out financing pathways and technical options. 15. Attend the inception workshop and all different digital and in-person conferences associated to venture execution. 16. Attend coordination conferences with the APTM and UNEP to offer insights associated to the execution of the venture from the vitality sector perspective. This consists of supporting the Senior Project Manager in making ready briefs and summarizing obstacles recognized, classes discovered, and greatest practices related to venture execution. 17. Support the Senior Manager in elaborating narrative progress studies to function inputs for elaborating progress studies required by the NDC Partnership and UNEP. 18. Ensure coordination with the totally different stakeholders related to the venture to make sure high-level coordination in making ready all merchandise. 19. Attend conferences at the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth of Bolivia with sectoral entities or different stakeholders recognized, as required by the Work Plan. 20. Support another exercise required by the APTM and UNEP associated to the goal and scope of the PAF venture.

Work Location

Home Based

Expected period

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

Throughout UNEP’s work, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change marks a turning level to an rising local weather regime that brings all the states and actors collectively to a brand new international platform to handle the rising dangers to our planet. According to IPCC studies, warming in the local weather system is unequivocal, as is human affect. At a worldwide degree, Bolivia is amongst the international locations most affected by the impacts of local weather change all through its territory and in its cultural, social, productive, vitality, and industrial construction. The local weather disaster poses excessive dangers for human, financial, social, productive, and pure programs, and the adverse ecological, financial, and social impacts are anticipated to be exacerbated. According to the 2021 Global Climate Risk Index (CRI), Bolivia is the tenth most susceptible nation globally, contemplating the impacts of utmost local weather occasions and related socioeconomic information. Historically, Bolivia has been uncovered to floods and droughts. Approximately 4 out of 10 individuals reside in flood-prone plots, and greater than 16% of the inhabitants reside in areas prone to drought. During the final decade, Bolivia’s climate patterns have undergone important adjustments: excessive rainfall, floods, landslides, and droughts have pushed the poorest and most marginalized communities past their skill to reply and have considerably affected the state of watersheds and different climate-sensitive landscapes. Poverty persists at 55% and is far larger in rural areas than in city areas at 31%, concentrated in the Altiplano and Valles. Poverty might be attributed to poor entry to land and companies, each social and productive, and the marginalization of girls in organizations and restrictions on girls’s actions exterior the home. Women proceed to have much less entry to decision-making, coaching, and different companies regardless of their rising position in manufacturing. Despite the confluence of the local weather disaster and the socioeconomic circumstances of the nation, Bolivia has made efforts to advance in direction of a extra complete improvement with a development in annual public funding in the final 14 years from 629 (2005) to three,769 million US {dollars} yearly (2019), highlighting that there’s a extra important worldwide dedication to confront the local weather disaster, together with managing losses and damages. Additionally, Bolivia has dedicated to lowering its carbon emissions and rising its local weather resilience by updating its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which maintains the attribute ambition of the first doc and commits Bolivia to take actions aligned with a trajectory according to the international objective of limiting the improve in international common temperature to 1.5 °C, with local weather justice in the framework of the rules of fairness and customary however differentiated tasks and respective capacities, in mild of nationwide circumstances. At the identical time, the actions ensuing from the contributions raised in the replace of the NDCs will improve the nation’s adaptive capability, strengthen its resilience, and cut back its vulnerability to the local weather disaster. The NDC replace additionally features a dedication to better transparency in monitoring the proposed adaptation, mitigation, and implementation objectives. Through the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth (APMT, given its acronym in Spanish), Bolivia is prioritizing efforts to attain the 32 NDC targets in 4 sectors: vitality, water, forests, and agriculture. Therefore, the nation seeks help to elaborate a complete NDC implementation plan as the strategic and operational instrument that may enable authorities establishments to combine local weather commitments and objectives with prioritized actions in every sector and facilitate their success. Additionally, the Plan will enable the identification and evaluation of monetary, technical, and regulatory gaps in actions established in the NDC. It will set up an in depth important path for implementing local weather actions and measure and monitor progress in reaching the NDC goal. Considering the above, UNEP and the authorities of Bolivia, by way of the APMT, designed the venture “Develop the NDC implementation plan, including the integration of roadmaps, gap analysis, and financial strategy for prioritized sectors” for the Partnership Action Fund (PAF), funded by the NDC Partnership (Nationally Determined Contributions Partnership). The fund helps NDC enhancement and implementation by reinforcing technical experience and capacities to handle gaps in creating nation members. The PAF will complement the NDC Partnership’s implementing and improvement companions’ current help choices to catalyze additional local weather motion. Therefore, this venture will help the implementation of the nation’s NDCs for their transparency and legitimacy by elaborating a complete NDC implementation plan targeted on 4 prioritized sectors: vitality, water, forests, and agriculture. In this sense, UNEP is recruiting a Technical Specialist in the vitality sector in Bolivia to help the supply of all venture actions and deliverables from the water sector perspective. The advisor shall be supervised by UNEP’s NDC Action Global Coordinator and can work at the APMT positioned in La Paz, Bolivia. The consultancy permits for a hybrid work mannequin, enabling the specialist to work remotely for as much as 50% of their time whereas taking part in in-person actions resembling conferences and stakeholder engagements as required. This association shall be coordinated and accredited by the Director of Mitigation of the APMT.

Qualifications/particular expertise

ACADEMIC

• Bachelor’s diploma in environmental engineering, Industrial Engineering, Energy Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Political Science, or a carefully associated subject (Required).
• Postgrad programs in Environmental Management, Environmental Sciences, Renewable vitality, Climate Change, Economics, Energy Policy, Political Science, or a carefully associated subject (Desirable). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Minimum three years (3) of related work expertise in local weather change mitigation and/or adaptation in the vitality sector (Required).
• Proven information of local weather coverage, local weather funds, institutional preparations, and/or authorized and public coverage to the vitality sector in Bolivia. (Desirable).
• Experience working with the public establishments in Bolivia associated to local weather change planning and vitality (Desirable).
• Experience integrating gender concerns into formulating, planning, and implementing initiatives or public insurance policies shall be thought-about a bonus. This consists of designing gender-sensitive methodologies to gather and consider baseline information, consider merchandise, and monitor venture outcomes the place applicable (Desirable).
• Experience in making ready coverage and technique studies for nationwide governments and in the technical assessment of nationwide studies and related worldwide paperwork. (Desirable). LANGUAGE
• Fluency in Spanish (Required).
• Confident in English (Desirable). SPECIAL SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE PROFESSIONALISM
• Management of the gender, intercultural and human rights strategy of indigenous peoples.
• Management of Office instruments and digital platforms. eiRaZCG BIpnb
• Excellent writing and teamwork expertise.
• Proactive capability, duty and dedication.
• Excellent understanding of nationwide local weather change commitments.
• Knowledge and understanding of theories, ideas and approaches related to local weather change, indigenous peoples and adaptation planning.
• Ability to establish, analyze and take part in resolving points/issues. Ability to apply judgment in the context of assignments given, plan personal work, and handle conflicting priorities.
• Demonstrates skilled competence and mastery of subject material.
• Is conscientious and environment friendly in assembly commitments, observing deadlines, and reaching outcomes.
• Is motivated by skilled quite than private issues.
• Shows persistence when confronted with complicated issues or challenges.
• Remains calm in tense conditions. TEAMWORK
• Works collaboratively with colleagues to attain organizational objectives.
• Solicits enter by genuinely valuing others’ concepts and experience.
• Willing to be taught from others and helps last group selections, even when they could not totally replicate personal place.
• Shares credit score for workforce accomplishments and accepts joint duty for workforce shortcomings. PLANNING AND ORGANIZING
• Develops clear objectives according to agreed methods.
• Identifies precedence actions and assignments, adjusting priorities as required.
• Allocates applicable time and assets for finishing work.
• Foresees dangers and permits for contingencies when planning.
• Monitors and adjusts plans and actions as essential.
• Uses time effectively

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Additional Information

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No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.