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I. Output 1. NDC implementation plan for the vitality, forests,  water, and agriculture sectors:  Bolivia, by the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth (APMT by its initials in Spanish), is prioritizing efforts to realize 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 achievement. Additionally, the Plan will enable the identification and evaluation of monetary, technical, and regulatory gaps in actions established in the NDC, and may think about any related updates all through the NDC 3.0 course of. It will set up an in depth crucial 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 constructions (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 forestry 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 undertaking scope of labor).

• Review of current laws: Identify and assess insurance policies, legal guidelines, and laws that influence the forestry sector, and analyze their alignment with NDC objectives. Especially the scope and alternatives established in the Plurinational Constitutional Ruling 0040/2024 (June 19, 2024). Integrate up to date information and methodologies from the NDC 3.0 course of the place accessible.
• Evaluation of governance constructions: Conduct an in depth mapping of stakeholders, together with authorities establishments which might be part of the Forestry Sector Working Group, to know their position in the implementation of the NDCs and their alignment with new roles or priorities recognized below NDC 3.0.
• Analysis of plans and applications: Review nationwide (PDES) and sectoral (PSDEI) plans, together with current monetary devices, to guage their present and potential contribution to reaching NDC objectives in the forestry sector. Incorporate findings from the NDC 3.0 replace course of concerning gaps, alternatives, and subnational disaggregation of indicators.
• Progress in aim implementation: Complement the analysis of the standing of forestry sector objectives (as much as 2023). Including any up to date baseline information or indicators proposed in the NDC 3.0. Propose options for extra information assortment and vital methodological changes to make sure alignment with the NDC 3.0 objectives.
• Stakeholder session and doc overview: Conduct consultations with key stakeholders and carry out an intensive doc overview, together with authorities paperwork and gray literature, to assist the evaluation, guaranteeing consistency with inputs and findings from the NDC 3.0 course of. Product No.2 One evaluation of the most important institutional, technical, technological, and financing gaps, limitations, wants, and priorities which will restrain the achievement of the forestry sector NDC targets or hinder their efficient implementation, together with limitations in present roles, capabilities, and infrastructure, amongst others. This evaluation shall be based mostly on stakeholder consultations with each non-public and public actors and a desktop overview of both authorities paperwork or peer-reviewed literature from academia or the growth 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 forestry targets. The evaluation shall be told by the forestry roadmap being elaborated by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), which is anticipated to incorporate a earlier identification of the technique of implementation and fascinating situations, degree of technical and monetary data, potential identification, prioritization matrix, and a piece plan defining roles, tasks, and timelines. (exercise 1.4 of the PAF undertaking scope of labor). Product No.3 A workshop report of a stakeholder validation course of for 100 members from the forestry sector, following the participatory methodology developed by the Senior Project Manager to overview and validate the limitations, 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 forestry sector NDC implementation plan. (Activity 1.6 of the PAF undertaking scope of labor). Product No.4 One closing model of the gaps, limitations, wants and priorities evaluation that integrates the suggestions and knowledge collected throughout the validation workshop akin to Product 3. The closing model of the evaluation have to be permitted by the APMT. (Activity 1.6 of the PAF undertaking scope of labor). Product No.5 One technical doc that features a description of the strains of motion required for implementing the current forestry sector NDC targets. The strains of motion ought to be framed in particular and measurable long-term objectives in line with NDC commitments and brief and medium-term aims which might be achievable and that function milestones towards long-term objectives. Additionally, every line of motion shall embrace an outline of the enabling situations essential to implement them, corresponding to concrete motion plans, together with particular actions, schedules, implementing companions, together with main authorities establishments and different related stakeholders, and vital assets (institutional, monetary, technological, technical and operational). The identification and outline of the strains of motion shall be based mostly on the AFD forestry sector roadmap anticipated to be delivered to the APMT in Q3-2024 and the closing model of the limitations, gaps, and desires evaluation. (Activity 1.7 of the PAF undertaking scope of labor). Ensure the technical doc displays any up to date indicators, baseline information, and priorities recognized by the NDC 3.0 course of. This contains disaggregated information at the subnational degree the place relevant. Product No.6 One technical report detailing the progress in growing a financing technique for implementing the forestry sector NDC targets. The technical report shall be based mostly on the forestry sector roadmap below preparation by AFD, which is able to establish core components for elaborating a complete financing technique. (Activity 1.8 of the PAF undertaking scope of labor). Product No.7 One Forestry sector NDC implementation plan that features the actions and sub-activities wanted, the establishments accountable, the degree of precedence, the checklist of stakeholders that ought to be concerned, the envisioned implementation plan for all actions, and the assets required to realize 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 a gender-based strategy. (Activity 1.9 of the PAF undertaking 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 report of all conferences and interviews performed. 3. Comply with all merchandise in a well timed and coordinated method. 4. Ensure that each one undertaking deliverables contemplate the progress of the NDC Update (NDC 3.0) together with the integration of up to date baseline information, indicators, and methodologies as they turn out to be accessible. 5. Ensure that by the supply of the merchandise, the undertaking 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 closing model. 7. Support the Senior Project Manager in growing a strategy to elaborate and validate the NDC implementation plan from the forestry 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 constructions and shall embrace the growth of workshops and occasions to facilitate the participation of various stakeholders concerned in implementing the NDC (Activity 1.2 of the PAF undertaking 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 undertaking scope of labor). 9. Support the integration of findings and methodologies from the NDC 3.0 replace course of into the forest 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  water 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 situations for territorial funding and useful resource mobilization (Activity 1.5 of the PAF undertaking scope of labor). 12. Support the Senior Project Manager in conducting and facilitating one validation workshop for 100 members on the NDC implementation plan elaborated (Activity 1.10 of the PAF undertaking scope of labor). 13. Support the Senior Project Manager in integrating the closing model of the NDC implementation plan in the Partnership’s Online Plan device to watch and monitor NDC progress and the Partnership Plan Narrative (Activity 1.11 of the PAF undertaking scope of labor). 14. Contribute to figuring out synergies between the forest sector NDC implementation plan and new NDC 3.0 targets, notably in figuring out financing pathways and technical options for built-in forest administration. 15. Attend the inception workshop and all different digital and in-person conferences associated to undertaking execution. 16. Attend coordination conferences with the APTM and UNEP to offer insights associated to the execution of the undertaking from the forestry sector perspective. This contains supporting the Senior Project Manager in making ready briefs and summarizing limitations recognized, classes realized, and greatest practices related to undertaking execution. 17. Support the Senior Manager in elaborating narrative progress reviews to function inputs for elaborating progress reviews required by the NDC Partnership and UNEP. 18. Ensure coordination with the totally different stakeholders related to the undertaking 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 some other exercise required by the APTM and UNEP associated to the goal and scope of the PAF undertaking.

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 deal with the rising dangers to our planet. According to IPCC reviews, warming in the local weather system is unequivocal, as is human affect. At a worldwide degree, Bolivia is amongst the nations 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 detrimental ecological, financial, and social impacts are anticipated to be exacerbated. According to the 2021 Global Climate Risk Index (CRI), Bolivia is the tenth most weak nation globally, contemplating the impacts of maximum 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 vulnerable to drought. During the final decade,  Bolivia’s climate patterns have undergone vital modifications: excessive rainfall, floods, landslides, and droughts have pushed the poorest and most marginalized communities past their capacity to reply and have considerably affected the state of watersheds and different climate-sensitive landscapes. Poverty persists at 55% and is way increased 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 ladies 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 situations of the nation, Bolivia has made efforts to advance in direction of a extra complete growth 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 vital worldwide dedication to confront the local weather disaster, together with managing losses and damages. Additionally, Bolivia has dedicated to decreasing 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 in line with the international aim of limiting the enhance 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 gentle of nationwide circumstances. At the identical time, the actions ensuing from the contributions raised in the replace of the NDCs will enhance the nation’s adaptive capability, strengthen its resilience, and scale 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 realize the 32 NDC targets in 4 sectors: vitality, water, forests, and agriculture. Therefore, the nation seeks assist to elaborate a complete NDC implementation plan as the strategic and operational instrument that can enable authorities establishments to combine local weather commitments and objectives with prioritized actions in every sector and facilitate their achievement. 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 crucial 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 the APMT, designed the undertaking “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 deal with gaps in growing nation members. The PAF will complement the NDC Partnership’s implementing and growth companions’ current assist choices to catalyze additional local weather motion. Therefore, this undertaking will assist the implementation of the nation’s NDCs for their transparency and legitimacy by elaborating a complete NDC implementation plan centered on 4 prioritized sectors: vitality,  water, forests, and agriculture. In this sense, UNEP is recruiting a Technical Specialist in the forestry sector in Bolivia to assist the supply of all undertaking actions and deliverables from the water sector perspective. The marketing consultant can be supervised by UNEP’s NDC Action Global Coordinator and can work at the APMT situated 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 corresponding to conferences and stakeholder engagements as required. This association can be coordinated and permitted by the Directors of the APMT Mitigation and Joint Mechanisms.

Qualifications/particular abilities

ACADEMIC

• Bachelor’s diploma in Forestry, Agronomy, Environmental Management, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Biology, Political and Law Science, or a intently associated subject (required).
• Postgrad in Forestry, Environmental Management, Environmental Sciences, Integrated and sustainable administration of forests, Climate Change, Economics, Political Science, or a intently associated subject (fascinating). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Minimum three years (3) of related work expertise in local weather change mitigation and/or adaptation in the forestry sector (Required).
• Proven information of local weather coverage, local weather funds, institutional preparations, and/or authorized and public coverage associated to the forestry sector in Bolivia. (Desirable).
• Experience working with the public establishments in Bolivia associated to local weather change planning and forestry (Desirable).
• Experience integrating gender issues into formulating, planning, and implementing initiatives or public insurance policies can be thought of a bonus. This contains designing gender-sensitive methodologies to gather and consider baseline information, consider merchandise, and monitor undertaking outcomes the place acceptable (Desirable).
• Experience in making ready coverage and technique reviews for nationwide governments and in the technical overview of nationwide reviews and related worldwide paperwork. (fascinating). 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.
• Excellent writing and teamwork abilities. eiRaZWP DyJ1Mx
• 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 material.
• Is conscientious and environment friendly in assembly commitments, observing deadlines, and reaching outcomes.
• Is motivated by skilled fairly than private issues.
• Shows persistence when confronted with complicated issues or challenges.
• Remains calm in annoying conditions. TEAMWORK
• Works collaboratively with colleagues to realize organizational objectives.
• Solicits enter by genuinely valuing others’ concepts and experience.
• Willing to study from others and helps closing group  decisions, even when they might not fully replicate personal place.
• Shares credit score for workforce accomplishments and accepts joint duty for workforce shortcomings. PLANNING AND ORGANIZING
• Develops clear objectives in line with agreed methods.
• Identifies precedence actions and assignments, adjusting priorities as required.
• Allocates acceptable time and assets for finishing work.
• Foresees dangers and permits for contingencies when planning.
• Monitors and adjusts plans and actions as vital.
• Uses time effectively.

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No Fee

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