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BACKGROUND

Sri Lanka, as an island and developing nation, is highly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Occurrences of natural disasters due to extreme weather conditions such as prolonged droughts, flash floods and landslides deprive lives and livelihoods of people. Thus, building resilience of people, priority sectors, infrastructure, and establishments cross-cutting sectors/themes over climate change effects, within a broader framework of sustainable development remains the country’s priority.

The revision of the NAP 2016-2025 will address information, policy and governance, institutional and coordination, resource mobilization, and gender mainstreaming gaps that are on its way for the country to achieve climate resilience. Existence of these gaps lead to risks and vulnerabilities in all sectors at national and subnational levels. The country would require development of short and mid-term projects and long-term programmes to enhance resilience to climate change disasters and their impacts to face new normal due to global warming.

The NAPRS Project revising the NAP 2016-2025 will complement the interventions of the Climate Change Secretariat of the Ministry of Environment in resilience building by the development of short and mid-term national and subnational projects across vulnerable sectors. Apart from this, the NAPRS project will facilitate promotion of scientific research related to climate change adaptations in Sri Lanka.

The National Planning Department (NPD) of Ministry of National Policies and Economic Affairs is currently responsible for strategizing development project, while engaging in policies and programme development to align resources to specific needs and priorities of the country. Appraisals of projects are performed via presentation of data, information and details in a standard template to the NPD for approval before commencement of activities.

Given the emergence of the global warming, the need for climate change adaptation is a national priority. The adaptation interventions would require mobilizing national and international financial resources towards building forward better. The NAP 2016-2025 has recognized creating a National Adaptation Fund (NAF) with the collaboration of the Ministry of Finance to support the implementation of resilient building activities within the nation.

Strategizing to establish the National Adaptation Fund (NAF), the NAP 2016-2025 has also set sight on developing a coordinated multi-disciplinary small research grant programme on thematic areas relating to climate change adaptation. This will be facilitated by the CCS in close coordination with the national research support agencies: National Science Foundation (NSF), National Research Council (NRC), and the Sri Lanka Council for Agricultural Research Policy (SLCARP), to establish a National Climate Change Adaptation Research Fund (NCCARF). The proposed NCCARF will be a window within existing research funds pooled from afore stated NSF, NRC and SLCARP to support the monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of adaptation intervention. This in turn would contribute to recommendations and evidence based decision making towards optimizing resilience building in the country.

While strategizing resilience building at national scale and promoting adaptation research, the project would establish 9 functional Provincial Climate Units (PCUs) integrating subnational thematic sectors (vulnerable to climate change) through 9 Provincial Climate Cells (PCCs). The PCUs will develop 9 concept proposals for GCF investments as a strategy to scale up and sustain their future operations and subnational resilience building.

ROLES

The Project Development Specialist (International) will engage in improving and building climate change resilience perspectives to development project appraisals of NPD, while further developing a strategy for the country to establish a dedicated funding facility to support adaptation research within existing research funds under the GCF funded NAPRS Project implemented by GGGI in partnership with the Climate Change Secretariat of the Ministry of Environment of Sri Lanka.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Project Development Specialist (International) shall collaborate with GGGI staff, national and other international consultants hired under the guidance of the NAP Team Leader to deliver collective outputs of the project detailed below:

• Revise the NPD project development template, to develop an improved version to perform appraisals of climate change adaptations and resilience building interventions incorporated in proposed development projects in the country;
• Develop a guideline to assist project developers using the revised NPD template for appraisals;
• Deliver training on the revised project development template to stakeholders including NPD;
• Cobtribute to the dialogue with national climate change adaptation research fund within existing research funds; NSF, NRC and SLCARP to facilitate small and large grants for scientific research;
• Develop and promote tools including unique budget codes to integrate climate change adaptations into the development of climate resilient projects;
• Conduct training for sectoral technical staff members involved in project development to promote the use of proposed tools and budget codes in project development;
• Perform a pre-feasibility to to establish the proposed NAF with the collaboration of Ministry of Finance to support the implementation of adaptation interventions
• Performa a pre-feasibility to establish a dedicated NCCARF for thematic research work within existing research funds; NSF, NRC and SLCARP;
• Train 9 PCU/PCC stakeholders to align provincial climate resilient project development in par with NPD appraisal format and climate change adaptation research strategy of the country;
• Review the draft provincial concept proposals to be submitted for GCF for funding.

The Consultant’s specific deliverables are as follows:

The Consultant shall report to the NAP Team Leader of basis on the progress of the assignment. Further, the Consultants would require providing the NAPRS Project with accurate references and citations including softcopies, hardcopies (otherwise photocopies) of reference materials.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in science, agriculture, engineering, environmental science, climate change or related areas with 5-8 years working experience at national and international level
2. Appreciation of key concepts in training and capacity building, research and development with special reference to climate change, and resilient building are highly desirable;
3. Strong analytical skills and experience in developing technical reports – undertaking research, primary and secondary data collection, analysis and report writing;
4. Ability to work/deliver independently with minimal supervision;
5. Good interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively with colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds;
6. Excellent English communication and writing skills in the field of local governance, climate change adaptations, or related areas;
7. Ability to communicate in national languages Sinhala and /or Tamil preferred;
8. Proficiency in standard Microsoft Office;
9. Experience in International Organizations, development agencies, government, private sector or non-profit sector.
10. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral team environment.