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Background

Climate change is already profoundly impacting the conditions for resource availability and agricultural activities. Over the last decade, the country has experienced many extreme events, such as droughts and major floods, along with the cumulative effects caused by increased mean temperature and the uneven distribution of precipitation throughout the year, which have had negative consequences on the country's economy, and its population wellbeing and health. Severe droughts are recurring more frequently, causing significant economic losses. The increasing scope and intensity of extreme events have also resulted in increased frequencies of high-risk situations. By 2050, an increase of 2–3ºC in the average temperature, an additional 32 days that exceed the current maximum temperature by 10%, and another 12 days with zero precipitation are projected.

The Government sees the National Adaptation Planning (NAP) process as key to achieving the adaptation objectives outlined in its 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Strategy of the Republic of Moldova and its 2020 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), as well as the continued mainstreaming of climate change considerations into its policies and budgeting processes. The proposed project supports the Republic of Moldova's Government in advancing the second cycle of its National Adaptation Planning process (known as NAP-2). The outcomes of the NAP-2 national adaptation planning processes are:

• Outcome 1: To strengthen and operationalize the national steering mechanism for climate change adaptation (CCA);
• Outcome 2: To improve the long-term capacity on planning and implementation of adaptation actions through CCA technologies;
• Outcome 3: To improve the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation through the increased alignment of national development priorities in the priority sectors (forestry, health, energy, and transport).

Scope of work

Integrating gender dimensions into national climate changes policies, strategies, action plans, and projects or programmes has become critical for realizing Government commitments to respond to climate change impacts and vulnerabilities. This assignment's main objective is to assist the Project Team in identifying gender gaps and provide comprehensive support and guidance to the project team and ensure that gender concerns will be brought to the forefront of the national adaptation process.

Summary of key functions:

The consultant will work under the supervisor of the Project Manager's and in close cooperation with the Team Leaders and will provide comprehensive support and guidance to the project team and facilitate the efforts to integrate gender aspects into the national adaptation process. The consultant will partially work under the guidance of an International Consultant on specific assignments. All provided support, advice and recommendations should be in line with the GCF Gender Policy and Gender Action Plan 2020-2023[1], UNDP Gender Equality Strategy[2] and the National Strategy on Ensuring Equality between women and men (2017-2021) for the Republic of Moldova[3]. The specific tasks are presented below:

• Ensure that relevant gender information, especially socio-economic information, is identified and collected;
• Support International Consultant and provide national-tailored inputs to a gender action plan for the whole period of the NAP2 project implementation that will contain activities, targets, and relevant qualitative and quantitative indicators for monitoring progress;
• Organize thematic training, workshop meetings for Project consultants' teams per specific components on mainstreaming gender dimension into project activities and deliverables;
• Sensitize official beneficiaries on the crucial role women are playing in society and the adaptation process and how essential it is to involve them in every aspect of this process;
• Engage women decision-makers in the training, meetings, workshops, etc.;
• Provide gender-sensitive review and inputs to the project deliverables upon request;
• Support IC in conducting an in-depth gender-disaggregated cross-sectorial analysis of the impact of climate change on vulnerable groups, with a specific focus on rural women, including the collection of initial information, surveys, analysis, etc.
• Support the organization of a consultation workshop to present the results of the cross-sectorial analysis of the impact of climate change on vulnerable groups, and update them according to the recommendations received;
• Mainstream gender sensitivity in project approaches by ensuring women participate in a meaningful way during climate change impact inventories and the identification of adaptation options, including at the local level;
• Provide gender-related inputs to the policy documents to be developed within the project, specifically the National CCA Program and its Action Plan, and to the NAP M&E framework;
• Perform the gender-review of adaptation/resilience plans for six district towns and integrate the gender aspects in a participatory manner;
• Support IC in conducting a gender gap analysis of sectorial policies and adaptation plans for five priority sectors to understand better where women and men are situated in climate change in the priority sectors, the barriers for women's empowerment and the opportunities to strengthen the integration of gender equality into NAP planning and implementation processes;
• Support the organization of the consultation workshop to present the analysis findings, ensure their consultation with the main stakeholders and update them according to the received recommendations;
• Provide other gender-related inputs as required by the Project Manager and Team Leaders.

 For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1 – Terms of Reference.

Requirements for experience

Academic Qualification:

• University degree in social sciences, human rights, women/gender-related fields, or other fields relevant to the assignment.

Experience:

• At least 6 years of progressively responsible professional experience in human rights, women/gender-related fields, preferably in gender and sustainable development, climate change, or environment;
• Proven professional experience in organizing and delivering thematic training on mainstreaming gender equality;
• Proven experience in gender mainstreaming into the policy documents, Gender and Climate Change/Environment, will be an asset;
• Extensive knowledge of the country’s climate-related political framework and understanding of climate change adaptation frameworks would be assets.

Competencies:

• Demonstrates excellent organizational skills and a proven ability for multi-disciplinary analysis;
• Familiarity with national and international sector-specific gender mainstreaming guidelines.

Language requirements:

• Fluency in English and Romanian is required for this assignment.
• Knowledge of Russian will be considered as an advantage for the candidate.

Proven commitment to the core values of the United Nations, in particular, respecting differences of culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, age, HIV status, disability, and sexual orientation, or another status. Please specify in CV, in case you belong to the group(s) under-represented in the UN Moldova and/or the area of assignment.

UNDP Moldova is committed to workforce diversity. Women, persons with disabilities, Roma and other ethnic or religious minorities, persons living with HIV, as well as refugees and other non-citizens legally entitled to work in the Republic of Moldova, are particularly encouraged to apply.

Documents to be included

Applicants shall submit the following required documents:

☒ Offeror's Letter confirming Interest and Availability, including financial offer, according to Annex 2;

☒ CV, including information about experience in similar assignments.

☒ Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself the most suitable for the assignment.

For detailed information, please refer to Terms of Reference and Procurement Notice by following the link: UNDP Moldova | Vacancy: National Consultant to ensure gender aspects mainstreaming in the NAP-2 Project activities and outputs, UNDP Moldova

Proposals should be submitted online by pressing the "Apply Online" button, no later than the 22nd of March 2021.

Requests for clarification only must be sent by standard electronic communication to the following e-mail: pavel.gavrilita@undp.org. UNDP will respond by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all applicants.