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Team of two local consultants (legal consultant/team leader and technical climate consultant) for supporting the legislative alignment with EU climate action acquis.

Vacancy Number: Pr20/02010

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	11 May 2020, 16:30 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:	18 May 2020, 16:30 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	10 Jun 2020
Reference to the project:	EU4Climate Moldova
Expected Duration of Assignment:	June - December 2020
Submission Instructions: Proposals should be submitted online by pressing the "Apply online" link, no later than 11th of May 2020.  Requests for clarification only must be sent by standard electronic communication to the following e-mail: ana-maria.manole@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.
Supporting Documents: Individual Consultant Procurement Notice Terms of Reference OFFEROR’S LETTER TO UNDP CONFIRMING INTEREST AND AVAILABILITY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTOR (IC) ASSIGNMENT UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract

Ms. Ana-Maria Manole.

Background

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change was adopted at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties in December 2015 and officially entered into force on 4 November 2016. The Paris Agreement was the first ever universal, legally binding climate deal that set out a plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to “well below 2°C”. Together with Agenda 2030 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement provides an unprecedented opportunity to create an integrated development approach towards inclusive resilient economies with a zero-carbon footprint by 2100.

The Paris Agreement establishes a new transparency regime, under which countries will have to report progress on reducing GHG emissions and building climate resilience. This transparency regime is currently being established within the UNFCCC framework and its final details are still to be defined. 

Scope of work

The 1^st objective of the assignment is to provide technical support to the Republic of Moldova’s Government for strengthening the domestic monitoring, reporting and verification system, established through the Governmental Decision No. 1277 as of 26.12.2018 on the Establishment and Functioning of the National System for Monitoring and Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions and other Information Relevant to Climate Change.

The 2^nd objective of the assignment is to provide technical support to the Republic of Moldova’s Government to reduce fluorinated greenhouse gases in relevant sectors, to contribute to the international efforts to mitigate climate, and to contribute to transposing into the national legislation the Regulation (EU) No. 517/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases by developing the draft national Law on fluorinated greenhouse gases and its related package required for Governmental consideration and approval.

Under the guidance of the EU4Climate National Coordinator and in close cooperation with the staff of the Air and Climate Change Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environmental, the legal consultant/team leader and the technical climate consultant will provide assistance in:

1. Developing the related package required for Governmental consideration and approval of the GD No. 1277 of 26.12.2018 including: (a) the draft GD on modification the Regulation on Establishment and Functioning of the National System for Monitoring and Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions and other Information Relevant to Climate Change, approved through GD No. 1277 as of 26.12.2018; (b) the Informative Note to the draft GD on approval of the changes made to the GD No. 1277 of 26.12.2018 on Establishment and Functioning of the National System for Monitoring and Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions and other Information Relevant to Climate Change; (c) the Analysis of the Regulatory Impact (AIR) undertaken in accordance with the Methodology of analyzing the impact in the process of substantiation the draft normative acts, approved through the GD No. 23 as of 18.01.2019;
2. Developing the draft national Law on fluorinated greenhouse gases, with the purpose of transposing into the national legislation the Regulation (EU) No. 517/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases.

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

Requirements for experience

Experience for the legal consultant/team leader:

• At least 5 years of proven professional experience in legal acts drafting and normative acts analysis;
• At least 1 year of working experience in institutional consultancy, law-making and transposing into the national legislation the EU environmental and/or climate action acquis;
• Experience as legal consultant in any UNDP or EU-funded project or other international organization would be an asset.

Experience for the technical climate consultant:

• At least 5 years of professional experience in technical activities related to ozone layer protection and climate change, including the ozone depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gas emissions accounting, identification and assessment of mitigation actions for ODS and fluorinated greenhouse gases;
• At least 1 year of demonstrated experience in projects with similar tasks (establishing and using domestic monitoring, reporting and verification systems; development and implementation of low emissions development strategies and action plans, etc.);
• Experience as climate consultant in any UNDP EU-funded project or other international organization would be an asset.

Documents to be included

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Proposal, explaining why they are the most suitable for the work, including past experience in similar assignments, providing a brief information on above qualifications and methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable).
2. Offeror's Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability;
3. CV and at least three names for a reference check.

Financial proposal

The financial proposal will specify the daily fee, travel expenses and per diems quoted in separate line items, and payments are made to the Individual Consultant based on the number of days worked.

Travel

 All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel.  In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.

In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.