United Nations Environment Programme Project Formulation Expert Jobs in Kenya

United Nations Environment Programme Project Formulation Expert Jobs in Kenya; The consultant will report to the UNEP Task Manager for this project and receive overall supervision from the UNEP Adaptation Portfolio Manager. Additionally, the consultant will work closely with focal points from the Office Burundais pour la Protection de l’Environnement (OBPE) and the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture, and Livestock in Burundi. Duties and Responsibilities: The proposal should be prepared based on the endorsed concept note and with the involvement and validation of national and local stakeholders. Field-level consultations should take place among the communities to be supported, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock who is the focal point of the AF. The information gathered should be location-specific and quantitative as far as possible. Data and information should be recent and referenced.

The proposal should incorporate the following key aspects:


1. Refinement of project design

• Refine the climate change adaptation problem statement through consultations with communities and national stakeholders, validating and strengthening the climate rationale in the Concept Note.

• Develop the solution tree and clearly define the proposal’s focus based on consultations.

• Refine the Theory of Change, incorporating drivers, risks, and assumptions.

• Identify and prioritize project implementation sites through objective criteria and government consultations. Document the rationale for site selection and consultation outcomes.

• Prepare project maps, including GIS-based maps for intervention locations where necessary. 2. Technical details of interventions

• Provide technical specifications for key activities, including dimensions, capacity, and expected lifespan (e.g., irrigation systems, solar-powered cold storage, flood barriers).

• Link interventions to climate change risks, quantifying benefits such as reductions in crop losses or increases in water availability.

• Quantify direct and indirect beneficiaries for each activity, including gender-disaggregated data and vulnerable group analysis.

3. Environmental, social, and gender safeguards

• Work closely with the contractor responsible for developing the Gender Assessment and the Gender Action Plan, ensuring gender-responsive outputs and outcomes.

• Work closely with the contractor responsible for developing the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP), addressing identified risks (e.g., SS4 deemed moderate in SRIF) and complying with UNEP and Adaptation Fund requirements.

• Integrate the findings from the GAP and the ESMP into the activity plan and budget of the project and into all relevant narrative sections of the report.

4. Stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing

• Develop a Stakeholder Engagement Plan that includes mechanisms for feedback, grievance redress, and conflict management.

• Ensure meaningful consultation with vulnerable and marginalized groups, specifying whether separate consultations were conducted.

• Address how lessons learned will be disseminated and shared with a broader audience. 5. Budget and cost-effectiveness

• Develop budget tables at the activity and output levels, including budget notes and cost estimates for key interventions (e.g., irrigation systems, solar-powered cold storage).

• Conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of the proposed measures

and the project overall, comparing alternatives with quantitative data.

6. Implementation and management


• Complete programme management arrangements including governance and organization, financial and programme risk management, compliance with the Gender Policy.

• Provide an indicative timeline for capacity-building sessions (e.g., frequency, duration, expected outcomes) to change behavior beneficiaries such as farmers and pastoralists. • Include details on maintenance agreements, specifying when and how they will be established with suppliers.

7. Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting

• Develop a log frame with clearly defined outcome indicators, tentative targets, and output targets aligned with the Adaptation Fund’s Results Framework.

• Draft a monitoring and evaluation plan, including a budgeted framework.

• Include a procurement plan for each year of the project using UNEP’s Umoja format.

8. Alignment

• Include an alignment table demonstrating consistency with the Adaptation Fund’s strategic results framework.

• Complete all sections of the Adaptation Fund proposal template, ensuring alignment with UNEP and Adaptation Fund guidance and quality standards.

9. Timeline

• Provide a GANTT chart mapping activities against the timeline of project implementation.

• Address feedback from at least 3 rounds of comments from UNEP and 3 from the Adaptation Fund, resubmitting revisions within 10 days.

Deliverables Deliverable 1:# GANTT chart with project development workplan and milestones including intermediary outputs relating to sections of the Funding Proposal template

Deliverable 2: Updated activity plan integrating mission findings, preliminary ESS and gender findings, draft budget, updated theory of change, logframe and project maps with sites identified


Deliverable 3: Draft Funding proposal with all annexes for UNEP first review

Deliverable 4: Draft Funding proposal ready for UNEP PRC review, addressing PRC review comments and final funding proposal for submission to Adaptation Fund Deliverable 5: Responses to three rounds of Adaptation Fund comments

Qualifications/special skills

A master's degree in environmental studies, climate finance, climate science, agriculture and water resources management, international development or related field is required. -Minimum of 7 years of experience in climate change adaptation, proposal development, and stakeholder engagement is required. -Proven track record of successful Adaptation Fund proposals or similar funding mechanisms is required.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of French language is desirable.



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