UNDP Indonesia hereby invites you to submit your proposal for the following Individual Consultant assignment.
Title of the assignment: Climate Change Policy/Climate Finance Expert_CPIER Bangka Belitung (Indonesia National, 1 post)
Project name: Sustainable Development Financing (SDF) Project - Environment Unit
Post Code: 134/UNDP/EU/134/214 Climate Change Policy
Period of assignment/services: 150 working days from January to September 2015
This
procurement notice will be open until 09 January 2015. Please visit our
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I. BACKGROUND
Indonesia issued Presidential
Regulation No. 61/2011 stipulating the National Action Plan on Greenhouse Gases
Emissions Reduction (RAN-GRK) in 2011 which also include the responsibility of
sub-national level government to develop Local Action Plan on GHGs Emission
Reduction (RAD-GRK). This Regulation elaborates on Indonesia’s commitment to
make voluntary reduction to its Greenhouse Gases Emissions by 26% against a
business-as-usual scenario using domestic resources, and reaching up to 41%
with international support by the year 2020. The RAN-GRK specifies Indonesia’s
action plan to mitigate climate change by setting emissions reduction targets
per sector to be implemented by 5 priority sectors contributing to Indonesia’s
emissions. In parallel to the RAN-GRK which states the national mitigation
action plan, the Government of Indonesia has recently launched in February 2014
the RAN API which sets out adaptation action plan for the country.
As an input to the preparations
for the implementation of Regulation on RAN-GRK, a Climate Public Expenditure
and Institutional Review (CPEIR) was undertaken by the Fiscal Policy Agency of
the Ministry of Finance with support from UNDP. The CPEIR was covering fiscal
year of 2009 – 2011, with a focus on reviewing public expenditures related to
climate change in the forestry and energy sectors. The outcome of the CPEIR was
the development of Indonesia’s Mitigation Fiscal Framework (MFF) which was
adopted in 2012. The CPEIR study is to
be regarded as an input to a longer term policy dialogue and development on
climate finance in Indonesia.
Since the development of the
MFF, the Government of Indonesia (GoI) has been striving to achieve a
transition from the current brown economy to green economy development
pathways. As a next step from the MFF.
The GoI in October 2014 has agreed to implement Sustainable Development
Financing (SDF) project supported by UNDP and UNEP. This project aims to
strengthen the fiscal frameworks for the implementation of the country’s
environmental and climate commitments with sustainable financing and in a
cost-effective manner. The government implementing partner of SDF project is
the Fiscal Policy Agency of the MoF.
The overall objective of the
project is to strengthen the capacities of the Government of Indonesia to
enhance implementation of inclusive environmental activities (climate change
mitigation, climate change adaptation and biodiversity). The project will develop fiscal instrument options and mechanisms for
strengthening performance-based budgeting.
This will be within the framework Indonesia’s national climate
mitigation plan (RAN-GRK), adaptation plan (RAN-API), and the Indonesia Biodiversity
Strategic Action Plan (IBSAP) to support the transition to an inclusive, green
economy for sustainable development.
The project provides an
overarching chapeau to accommodate three separate, yet highly complementary
regional/global projects: the Poverty and Environment Initiative (PEI);
Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN); and Strengthening the Governance of
Climate Finance to Benefit the Poor and Vulnerable (Governance for Climate
Finance) funded by SIDA. The project
builds on the MFF prepared by the Fiscal Policy Agency of the Ministry of
Finance. One of the activities
recommended by the MFF was to develop a climate budget tagging and scoring
system. This recommendation has been
responded through a policy study known as Low Emission Budget Tagging and
Scoring System (LESS) has been supported by UNEP and PEI and will be further
developed and rolled out by the Sustainable Development Financing (SDF) project through national and provincial
level pilots.
In addition to the
mainstreaming climate actions into development planning and budgeting, the
Government of Indonesia through Bappenas (National Development Planning Agency)
has been capacitating provincial government in pro-poor planning and budgeting.
P3BM (Pro-poor planning, budgeting and monitoring) is the tool that is being
introduced for this purpose. The P3BM is a set of practical tools and
instruments that local government can use to plan and monitor that local budget
and plans are pro-poor and sensitive to socio economic inequalities. The tools of P3BM include (i) MDGs scorecard,
(ii) Poverty spatial map by using Geographic Information System (GIS), (iii)
Descriptive analysis on the quality of RPJMD, Strategic Planning, and Budge
Plan (iv) Pivot table analysis to assess quality of development spending at
local level. UNDP and Bappenas through PGSP project (Provincial Government
Support Project) had introduced P3BM to several provinces including Bangka
Belitung province. Having P3BM platform adopted by the provincial government,
the CPEIR for climate mitigation and adaptation that will be conducted at the
provincial level will seek synergy with the P3BM to strengthen government
planning and budgeting of climate actions that benefits the poor in
cost-effective manner.
In the above contexts, the SDF
through the SIDA component is planning to recruit qualified individual
consultant to conduct a Climate Public
Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR) with a focus on climate mitigation
and adaptation expenditure in Bangka Belitung Province and to recommend
strategy to synergize CPEIR findings with P3BM platform to ensure a pro-poor
climate actions and financing. The national consultant will be part of a
technical team in conducting the assignment and will be advised by an
International Consultant on the CPEIR approach and reporting. The team will include additional local public
finance, gender-poverty and institutional experts.
This assignment, overseen by
Bappeda and in cooperation with the Fiscal Policy Agency (FPA) of the Ministry
of Finance (MoF,) will analyze expenditures and fiscal instruments as well as
institutional capacity for planning and budgeting climate actions in the
province and in two pilot districts. This assignment is expected to help the
provincial and district governments and parliaments to better understand and
plan climate finance for mitigation and adaptation actions, make climate
investments more apparent and better define roles and responsibilities of
relevant institutes with regard to climate finance for pro-poor and gender
responsive mitigation and adaptation.
In addition, the findings and
recommendations from the CPEIR will directly feed into the design of annual
APBD in the subsequent years (2015
onwards). Such activities will include facilitation of cross-sectoral,
inter-institutional dialogues at the provincial-level and identification and
implementation of priority mitigation and adaptation actions in support of
meeting the overall development objectives of the provincial and sectoral
development plans.
UNDP Indonesia in close collaboration with the Fiscal Policy
Agency of the Ministry of Finance will provide guidance to the Consultant as
part of the broad consultancy team. The SDF programme team in Bangka Belitung
as extended from PGSP project in Bangka Belitung will provide facilitation to
the CPEIR consultation team including facilitating consultations with key
stakeholders in Bangka Belitung. The consultant to be recruited will report to
UNDP Programme manager and to the FPA of the Finance Ministry as per Terms of
References.
UNDP CO will provide quality assurance over the
implementation of the CPEIR, and will support organizing the inception
workshop, mid-term workshop and final workshop.
UNDP APRC will also provide
overall support, quality assurance and guidance to the consultants, ensuring
they have access to the latest data, information and experiences on CPEIR
methodology development and implementation elsewhere.
II. SCOPE OF WORK,
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED ANALYTICAL WORK
This assignment is part of the Sustainable
Development Financing (SDF)/SIDA project implemented by the Ministry of Finance
with support from UNDP on strengthening governance of climate change finance to
benefit the poor and vulnerable groups
The
gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR for mitigation and adaptation
actions in Bangka Belitung will be specific to the province level and is
intended to assist the development of a better understanding of:
- The formulation and coherence of the climate change strategies and policies and whether they address the gender and poverty dimensions of climate change.
- The roles and mandates of the institutions involved in climate actions, poverty reduction and gender mainstreaming.
- The processes of resource allocation and effectiveness monitoring for climate, poverty reduction and gender equality, related activities. .
- The interface between Bangka Belitung local government and various national and international funding sources.
- The identification of climate change adaptation and mitigation actions, poverty reduction and gender equality actions, their allocations, actual expenditures and the sources of these funds
- The identification of climate actions/expenditures co-benefits in terms of gender equality and poverty reduction.
- The progression of finance through treasury mechanisms to the delivery of services and actions.
- The processes of scrutinizing, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of all climate expenditures and their co-benefits regardless of their sources.
- The ongoing process on how to roll out the RAD-GRK and RAN API in an efficient and effective manner for Bangka Belitung.
The CPEIR for mitigation and adaptation actions will
contribute to the overall development objectives of Bangka Belitung to
strategically allocate resources and manage finance in order to achieve its
mitigation and adaptation commitments in a manner that is gender responsive and
beneficial for the poor and vulnerable.
The gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR has the following scope
of work:
- To conduct CPEIR at the provincial level and in 2 selected districts (Bangka and Bangka Tengah) as pilot for analyzing the public financing framework for adaptation actions, poverty reduction and gender equality at the community level. Bangka and Bangka Tengah are recommended as pilot districts because from the P3BM assessment result 2013, the two districts have high number of poor households while MDG score card for Goal 7 on Environment showed relatively good achievement (green score card). This situation indicates ineffective environmental programme to benefit the poor.
- To provide baseline information and analyses at sub-national level on key climate financing issues with regard to existing policies, institutional arrangement, the planning and budgeting cycle, and non-public sector involvement.
- To provide assessment result of current practice and policy recommendation on the implementation of Performance Based Budgeting at sub-national level.
- to provide recommendations to ongoing process on how to finance, implement and monitor RAD-GRK and RAN API in an efficient and effective manner for Bangka Belitung.
- develop recommendations for a climate financing plan to address gender responsive and poverty sensitive climate change mitigation and adaptation priority issues at subnational level. This could be recommendation in the form of budget tagging, application of performance-based budgeting and a climate fiscal framework (required investments, potential sources of finance, fiscal instruments, delivery mechanisms, and accountability framework).
Given
the newness of methodologies in the area of gender responsive, poverty
sensitive CPEIRs and the importance of building national capacities,
international experience shows that a combination of international and national
expertise is important.
An
initial inception mission will be used for international expertise to train the
national team and to facilitate consultations over priority focus sectors for
the duration of the exercise, as well as well as to ensure an appropriate
launch of the gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR through the Fiscal
Policy Agency, Ministry of Finance in cooperation with the National Development
Agency (Bappenas) and the Ministry of Home Affairs. The consultant will also
support regional meetings sharing
Indonesia’s experiences
During
the process of review, government staff members will be actively involved in
the implementation of the gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR and
provided with learning sessions on the issues and methods through focus group
discussions with the gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR consultancy
team.
Methodology and Approach
The above mentioned objectives
will be achieved by using the “Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional
Review (CPEIR)” methodology developed by the UNDP in consultation with the Word
Bank, ADB and the OECD. The methodology will be adjusted to the country (in
this case sub-national – Bangka Belitung) specific focus and needs. It will
build on the experiences in Cambodia that have recently updated and refined the
CPEIR methodology with support from UNDP. It will also and for the first time,
adopt a “co-benefits” approach by
mainstreaming into its analysis the gender and poverty dimensions of the
climate change policies, institutions and actions it reviews.
The gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR approach includes:
I. Policy, institutional and budgetary analysis at national
and provincial levels: The CPEIR takes
forward several of the issues identified in national climate change strategies
and plans and analyses the climate relevant policies, institutions and budgets.
The analysis should also adopt a “co-benefits” approach and analyze how the
policies, institutions and budgets are impacting poverty reduction and gender equality.
Care should be taken by the CPEIR team in this case to reflect national
perspectives in the gap analyses to properly contextualize the sub-national
issues. For example, the CPEIR should
provide recommendations to the ongoing process on how to finance, implement and
monitor RAD-GRK and RAN API in an efficient and effective manner for Bangka Belitung.
II. Reviewing the institutional arrangements, accountability
and coordination mechanisms for climate change. This will include reviewing
some of the provincial policies that directly or indirectly relate to Climate
Change, particularly in relation to the RAN GRK, RAD GRK and RAN API. As the CPEIR’s focus is one on Adaptation, it
should develop recommendations for a climate financing plan to address gender
responsive and poverty sensitive climate change adaptation priority issues at
subnational level. This could be in the form of a climate fiscal framework
(required investments, potential sources of finance, fiscal instruments,
delivery mechanisms, and accountability framework). It will also include examining the impact of
other legislation that have a direct impact on the delivery of climate change
related activities, such as legislation relating to key sectors and policy
documents addressing poverty reduction and gender equality such as “the
National Strategy to Accelerate Gender Mainstreaming through Gender Responsive
Planning and Budgeting”. While there has been significant progress in
establishing the necessary institutional arrangements to deal with climate
change, limited coordination has constrained strategic resource allocation and
efficient climate finance management.
The CPEIR will examine the
current institutional arrangements to identify where improvements could be made
to ensure the setup of institutional mechanisms that will allow the efficient
delivery of gender responsive, poverty sensitive climate adaptation public
goods and services. In reviewing the institutional arrangements, the team will
also explore underlying political economy issues that impact the status quo as
well future scenarios that may emerge post CPEIR. The CPEIR should identify institutional
opportunities and bottlenecks at the sub national level: The assessment will
then analyze the various institutional and organizational opportunities and
bottlenecks that are currently in place that either facilitate the effective
delivery of climate change related activities and finance. As part of this,
there will be an analysis undertaken to unravel the complex relationship between
the central government, sector ministries and the provincial/local government
for the delivery of gender responsive, poverty sensitive climate finance. This
comparison is necessary to highlight any overlaps in roles and
responsibilities, gaps in capacity and responsiveness to community needs.
III. Budget allocation and actual expenditure - The gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR
will review the public financial management systems for planning, allocating,
procuring, spending tracking, gender responsive, poverty sensitive climate
related expenditures. It will also review any existing monitoring and
evaluating system to measure the effectiveness of climate related expenditures
and their co-benefits in terms of poverty reduction and gender equality in Bangka
Belitung. This will involve reviewing the integration of climate change,
poverty and gender objectives within the resource allocation process including
as part of budget planning and implementation. The gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR team will attempt to
undertake trend and composition analysis on both budgeted and actual
expenditures.
In addition to the activities identified above, specific focus will be
placed at the provincial level and two district level analysis to examining the
following issues:
1) Identifying the sources of funds and treasury / transfer
mechanisms from central government to provincial and district level: There is a
need to have a clear understanding about the sources of funds, allocation
mechanisms and funds transfer mechanisms from the national to the sub national
level. The gender responsive, poverty
sensitive CPEIR will identify all current modalities such as the general
grant via Government Treasury, donor funding to NGOs, and existing national
funds available to provincial government (if any). This should consider both
allocation mechanisms and transfer of funds.
In doing this, the analysis will look at all institutions at the
provincial level who are involved in the delivery of climate, poverty and
gender related activities, including: line departments, local governments,
CSOs, both national and international.
2) Conducting District level case studies: To complement the
financial analysis, a case study may be undertaken to provide illustrations of
how climate finance is being delivered. The case studies should take into
account the poverty and gender dimensions of climate finance. The intention
with the case study is to capture the diverse nature of the district levels
within the province and the varying levels of capacities of key
stakeholders.
IV. Classifying climate change expenditures. The absence of a national definition and a
consensus internationally, on what constitutes a body of climate, or climate
change, expenditure constrains stakeholders in tracking resources allocated for
financing climate actions. The gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR
will propose an inclusive methodology to define climate change expenditure that
is appropriate in the Bangka Belitung context, reflecting both adaptation and
mitigation related expenditures. The classification methodology should also
allow for the identification of poverty reduction and gender equality
co-benefits resulting from these climate expenditures. At the same time, there
should also be a space for local institutions and practitioners to influence
how central government classifies ‘gender responsive and poverty sensitive
climate change’ and ‘gender responsive and poverty sensitive climate
expenditure’, based on local experiences as well as international practices.
Such a classification may be used to inform future national climate policy and
plans’, ensuring it is aligned with local planning and budgeting processes.
The assignment requires a careful review
of planning, budgeting expenditure records and accounts that relate to climate
change, poverty reduction and gender equality at local levels and also an
assessment of the governance and capacity of institutions in managing gender
responsive, poverty sensitive climate finance. The methodological approach
requires that the gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR team works
inter-actively with the government agencies and other stakeholders to identify
the scope of the exercise, priority sectors for in-depth analysis, how to
address cross cutting issues such as the poverty reduction and gender equality
dimensions of climate finance and a detailed work plan at the inception of the
exercise.
Expected Outputs:
The
metioned outputs below will be achieved through joint contribution and in collaboration with:
- International Public Expenditure Analysis Expert
- Public Finance System /Planning and Budgeting Expert
- Governance and Institutional Expert
- Gender-Poverty Expertto deliver the following results in English:
- Inception report – outlining full scope of the CPEIR and agreed work plan including schedule for district analysis and draft annotated outline of report on The Climate Change Policy /Cimate Finance Component
- Draft Gender Responsive, Poverty Sensitive CPEIR report on The Climate Change Policy /Cimate Finance Component
- Report on assessment result of current practice and policy recommendation on The Climate Change Policy /Cimate Finance Component for:
- Budget tagging system for tracking climate expenditure that is poverty sensitive and gender responsive.
- Application of Performance-based budgeting at provincial level
- Fiscal Instruments for provincial level provided to finance climate change, poverty and gender programme (required investments, potential sources of finance, fiscal instruments, delivery mechanisms, and accountability framework)
- Lesson learning document and dissemination strategies for other Indonesian provinces and for regional south-south exchanges on The Climate Change Policy /Cimate Finance Component
- Final Gender Responsive, Poverty Sensitive CPEIR Report focusing on The Climate Change Policy /Cimate Finance Component that will be conducted at the Bangka Belitung provincial and in 2 districts level as pilot (Bangka and Bangka Tengah);Climate Change Policy / Climate Finance Expert
- In close coordination with other team members (International Public Expenditure Analysis Expert, Public Finance System /Planning and Budgeting Expert, Governance and Institutional Expert, Gender-Poverty Expert), The Climate Change Policy /Cimate Finance Expert is expected to conduct the following scope of work, but not limited to :
- Based on the stakeholder consultation, to develop work plan including schedule for district analysis and draft annotated outline of report gender responsive, poverty sensitive CPEIR (Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review).
- To review of existing policies and regulatory frameworks on climate change at national and provincial levels.
- To review of key sectoral plans and linkages to the climate change as stated in the RAD-GRK and RAN-API.
- To review of how climate change and sectoral plans through a poverty reduction and gender equality lens.
- To review and classify climate relevant public expenditures in line with CPEIR methodology and the RAD GRK and RAN API
- To review of any other issue relevant to climate change in the Bangka Balitung context.
- To identify and analyze the gaps in the step 2 - 6 above and provide recommendations to address them.
- To provide assessment result of current practice and policy recommendation on the implementation of Performance Based Budgeting at sub-national level.
- To Provide District level case studies analysis on the climate change policy context or climate finance and should be included as annexes to the full report
III. REQUIREMENTS
FOR EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum 8 years for
Master degree or 10 years for Bachelor degree of experience in:
- Economics of climate change
- Climate change policy (experience with both Adaptation and Mitigation would be preferable)
- institutional arrangements, accountability and coordination mechanisms for climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Natural Resource Management
- Familiarity with government planning systems and institutional roles;
- Ability to interact with senior government officials;
- Ability to work as a team with strong communication skills;
- Ability to work under pressure and time constraint;
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; and
- Fluency in both English and Bahasa is desirable
Academic Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree or Master’s Degree in Economics, Finance, Environment, Social Science or other related field
Competencies:
Analytical skills,
communications abilities, teamwork
IV. EXPECTED RESULT
Scope of Price:
·
The expert will receive a lump sum
professional fees including travel cost of the foreseen travel to the
expected places (Bangka Belitung) for three times with approx. 3 days/visit/place.
·
On the unforeseen travel, UNDP will also
provide lump sum daily allowance according to UN’s Harmonized Rate Allowance
and airflight fare (most direct route, most economy) in reimbursement basis.
·
The payment will be made to the
consultant at each payment schedule, upon technical clearance and approval of
the satisfactory submission of results from Programme Manager/ Technical Officer, Environment Unit of
UNDP.
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