Cbit Review and Ppg Consultant

Result of Service
- Completed terminal review of GEF project (GEF ID 9849): “Capacity Building for Improved Transparency on Climate Actions through an Environment Registry in Antigua and Barbuda”.
- Completed CEO endorsement request package for the Belize CBIT project.
- Completed CEO endorsement request package for the Dominican Republic CBIT II project.

Work Location
Home-based

Expected duration
12 months

**Responsibilities**:
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority. It sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. This consultancy is in UNEP’s Economy Division, Energy and Climate Branch, Climate Change Mitigation Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean team, and will be home based.

UNEP’s Economy Division works with a portfolio of Global Environment Facility (GEF) medium-size and full-size climate change mitigation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The projects, which are in different stages of development (concept, design, implementation, closure), are executed by different partners (Ministries, NGOs, etc.). The Economy Division, in its role as implementing agency, provides oversight and ensures adherence to GEF guidelines.

Under the supervision of the Task Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean for GEF mitigation projects, and in coordination with the LAC mitigation team, the consultant will undertake the terminal review of the Antigua and Barbuda (A&B) CBIT project and execute the project preparation grant process (including developing the full CEO endorsement request package) for Belize CBIT Project and the Dominican Republic (DR) CBIT II project.

Specific tasks and responsibilities

1. For the terminal review
- Author and lead the terminal review for the aforementioned project in accordance with GEF and UNEP policies.
- Overall responsibility for undertaking the review and preparing the final report in English.
- Evaluation of all elements of the projects in accordance with UNEP evaluation office guidance documents.
- Deliverables are to be prepared in accordance with UNEP evaluation office templates.

The consultant will develop terminal review findings and recommendations based on sound evidence and analysis, and clearly document these in the final reports. Information will be triangulated (i.e. verified from different sources) as far as possible, and when verification is not possible, the single source will be mentioned (whilst anonymity is still protected). Analysis leading to evaluative judgments should always be clearly spelled out.

The consultant shall base the findings of the terminal reviews on the following:
a) A desk review of:

- Relevant background documentation, inter alia:

- Project document and appendices. This includes, among others, relevant work plans, budget and supervision plans, as well as any revisions introduced after approval.
- Theory of change, problem tree, and logical framework.
- Project reports, including half year progress reports, project implementation reports (PIRs), expenditure reports, financial statements, audits, inventory reports, progress reports from collaborating partners, meeting minutes, relevant correspondence, and tracking tools;
- Evaluations/Reviews of similar projects.

b) Interviews (individual or in group) with, including but not limited to:

- UNEP Task Manager (TM) and team members;
- Project Manager (PM) and team members;
- UNEP Administrative Officer (AO);
- Project steering committee
- Identified stakeholders, including governmental agencies and officials, representatives from technology and educational institutions, distribution utilities, banks, associations, and NGOs.

Other data collection tools: If needed, to be agreed upon between the Task Manager, the Project Manager, and the terminal review consultant at the inception phase.

2. For the development of each CEO endorsement request package
- Lead the preparation of the CEO endorsement document and its attachments.
- Be responsible for the design of all substantive elements of the CEO endorsement document and its annexes, including sections such as the log frame, budget, indicators, baseline scenario, alternative scenario, stakeholders, risks, consistency with national priorities, institutional arrangements, gender action plan, knowledge management, theory of change (ToC), and monitoring and evaluation.
- Prepare an outline of the strategy and methodology to develop such elements, including a provisional timetable.
- Organize and undertake a country scoping mission (in person or online) and stakeholder consultation workshop (first country mission) to consult with the relevant national counterparts, discuss the baseline situation, map the gaps and barriers, collect relevant country data, agree upon a project intervention