UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME has floated a tender for National Consultant to Prepare Guidelines/Issues for Integrating Climate Change in the Lands, Housing and Urban Development Sub Sector (Urban Local Government Plans and Budgets). The project location is Uganda and the tender is closing on 19 Jul 2018. The tender notice number is , while the TOT Ref Number is 24780302. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

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Procurement Summary

Country : Uganda

Summary : National Consultant to Prepare Guidelines/Issues for Integrating Climate Change in the Lands, Housing and Urban Development Sub Sector (Urban Local Government Plans and Budgets)

Deadline : 19 Jul 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 24780302

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : NCB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Address: Kampala, Uganda Phone: +256 41 4233440 Tel: +256 417 112100/128/129 Fax: +256 414 344801 Email: moses.lutwama@undp.org / janet.anyango@undp.org
Uganda
Email :moses.lutwama@undp.org / janet.anyango@undp.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for National Consultant to Prepare Guidelines/Issues for Integrating Climate Change in the Lands, Housing and Urban Development Sub Sector (Urban Local Government Plans and Budgets).

Background

Today, more than half of the people on the planet live in urban areas and this proportion is expected to increase significantly over the coming decades. Meanwhile urban areas account for between 37 and 49 per cent of global GHG emissions (IPCC 2014) and are heavily vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Cities, particularly in developing countries, are especially vulnerable to climate change due to the large concentration of populations and their role as national economic hubs.

Uganda’s population is at 34.5 million, annual population growth rate of 3.1%, making it one of the fastest growing countries in Africa. Uganda’s urbanizing level is 18%, the urban population growth rate is over 5% per annum, It is projected that by 2035 the total population will be 68 million with about 30% (20 million) living in urban areas. Whereas this increase is associated with socio-economic transformation of the country, it has also led to increased vulnerability of our urban areas to the effects of disasters arising from climate change.

It is important to note that Climate change is a serious challenge for cities around the world, particularly in developing countries including Uganda where urbanization is happening at a high rate. It threatens to increase vulnerabilities, destroy economic gains, and hinder social and economic development. And the urban poor will bear the brunt of its effects since they live and work in informal settlements that are more exposed to hazards. Other risks resulting from

climate change that typically affect the cities include exacerbation of the urban heat island effect; increased demand for cooling; greater stress on water resources; wider geographical incidence of vector-borne disease; increased disruption to transport from snow or ice, flooding, strong winds and landslides; withdrawal of risk coverage in vulnerable areas by private insurers, commerce, and economic activity; land degradation; lower agricultural yields and increased risk of food shortages.

Cities in developing countries, however, have also the opportunity of leapfrogging by creating low carbon and resource efficient energy infrastructure. This cannot be done without integrated urban policy and plans that incorporate a climate change focus, addressing basic infrastructure and daily needs of citizens and accounting for specific vulnerable groups on one hand and, on the other, by strengthening local community efforts at copying and adapting and planning for the extra investments required to ‘climate proof’ infrastructure (UN HABITAT, 2011a).

Building resilience and adapting to climate change is increasingly a high priority for cities. Besides mitigation, on which efforts have largely focused in the past, cities should today play a larger role in adaptation. Whereas UNDP and various other development institutions are working with governments world over to strengthen their capacity to assess vulnerability to climate change impacts and to identify corresponding plans and investments to increase their resilience, their efforts have been greatly affected by lack of adequate and accurate information, thus making it quite difficult for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate change adaptability measures to be put in place. Much as the climate change policy advocates for mainstreaming of climate change issues in MDA and local government budgets and plans, little has been undertaken to ensure implementation of the policy requirements.

In view of the above the ministry with support from UNDP intends to coordinate the development of guidelines to integrate and mainstream climate change issues in the Lands, Housing and Urban development subsector in the urban local government plans and budgets.

Objective:

The overall objective of the assignment is to coordinate mainstreaming of Lands, housing and urban development sector climate change issues in local government plans and budgets in Uganda.




Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of services

Upon accomplishing this assignment, the Consultant is expected to carry out the following tasks:

· Review relevant international, regional and national literature for information on mainstreaming climate change issues in urban local government plans and budgets.

Consult with relevant Ministries, Departments and sector agencies to inform the mainstreaming of climate change issues, programmes, and policies development plans in order to examine the following aspects:

· The possible risks and vulnerabilities the sector is likely to face for not integrating climate change issues in the planning processes and programme;

· The possibility that the development programs, policies or management plans under these local governments might lead to increased climate change vulnerability/maladaptation, risks, constraints and opportunities;

· Develop guiding principles for mainstreaming climate change mitigation and adaptation issues in urban local government plans, budgets and programmes.

· Conduct a one day national consultation session with all relevant Stakeholders to review the guiding principles for mainstreaming climate change issues in local government plans, budgets and programmes with recommendations on how these guidelines should be applied and implemented.

· Prepare the final climate change mainstreaming guidelines and principles with implementation strategies.

Deliverables:

· An inception report indicating methodology and agreed time frame;

· National climate change mainstreaming guidelines and principles;

· A set of indicators and standards for monitoring.




Competencies

The successful candidate must have:

· Demonstrated good communication skills;

· Demonstrated good research skills;

· Demonstrated evidence of capacity to produce and present good reports.




Required Skills and Experience

Education:

· The consultant shall possess a postgraduate university degree in environmental management, natural resource management, natural resource economics, urban planning, social sciences or other relevant degree.

Experience:

The consultant should have the following experience:

· At least 5 years of demonstrated expertise and understanding of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change adaptation in developing countries;

· An excellent understanding of the urban development sector is desirable;

· Excellent report writing skills;

· Good understanding of UNDP and Government of Uganda procedures, particularly the urban local government systems will be necessary.

Language:

· Fluent in English.

Schedule of payments and proposal evaluation criteria:

Payment to the Consultant will be made in 3 installments upon satisfactory completion of the following deliverables;

Payment schedule:

· 30% upon approval of the inception report;

· 50% upon completion of Draft climate change mainstreaming guidelines for sector urban local governments;

· 20% upon submission of Final climate change mainstreaming guidelines for sector urban local governments and implementation tools and strategies.

Annex 1: Foreseen documents to review:

The consultant will be required to review various documents including, but not limited, to the following:

· NDPII;

· PPA 2010;

· URCI ( Uganda Resilience cities initiative Reports);

· Climate Change policy for Uganda;

· Draft Climate Change Act;

· Integrating Climate Change into city development strategies (CDC);

· KCCA climate change strategy and action plan;

· National Environment Management Act;

· The Uganda Sensitivity Atlas;

· National urban policy.

Submission of Application:

The candidate is required to submit an electronic application directly uploaded on the UNDP jobs website with all the requirements as listed here below. Annexes and further information may be downloaded on http://procurement-notices.undp.org no.47237.

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document to this website - http://jobs.undp.org no. 79461.

· Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP (Annex II);

· Personal CV, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references.

Technical proposal:

· Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment;

· A methodology, on how they will approach and complete the assignment;

· Financial proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided (Annex II);

· Annexes 1 and II - may be downloaded from the UNDP Procurement Notices Website -http://procurement-notices.undp.org/ For further clarifications, please contact; janet.anyango@undp.org; moses.lutwama@undp.org;

Interested applicants should submit applications through uploading of all their required documentation in one single pdf document on this website only.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

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