NDC SUPPORT PROJECT FOR THE PHILIPPINES
Advertisement for Hiring of Services of Two (2) Documenters
for the 2019 Regional Business Climate Action Summit – Investors Forum
TERMS OF REFERENCE
A. Project Title and Number
NDC Support Project for the Philippines (NSPP) - Project ID No. 00109317
B. Project Description
At the UN climate change conference in Paris in December 2015, countries adopted the Paris Agreement that sets out a global action plan for limiting global warming to “well below 2 degrees C” starting from 2020. The Agreement, which entered into force on 4 November 2016, built upon the foundation of climate pledges from 187 countries, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Countries are expected to submit updated and more ambitious NDCs every five years which will become the main vehicle for illustrating a country’s strategic vision on climate change in the context of sustainable development.
The important challenge is transforming these NDCs into tangible actions that lead to long term, zero-carbon and climate-resilient development. Countries will need sustained financial, capacity building and technical support to regularly prepare, implement, and report on national actions under the PA and more specifically against NDC targets for reducing GHGs. The UNDP NDC Support Programme supports Governments to achieve transformational change by using NDC implementation as a mechanism to scale up investment in climate change and deliver sustainable development. The Programme is implemented in the country as “NDC Support Project for the Philippines (NSPP)”.
The NSPP has been designed with a new set of outputs and funding from the governments of Germany and Spain and the EU as part of a rebranding of the global LECB Programme under the NDC Support Programme. These funds will allow the Climate Change Commission to further advance the LECB project work and institutionalize its climate change efforts by strengthening the governance structure for implementation of the Paris Agreement in a gender-responsive manner, and putting in place the enabling environment to attract climate finance.
For the NSPP, UNDP is engaged in a range of strategic partnerships through the NDC Support Programme, including the IKI NDC Support Cluster, the NDC Partnership, the LEDS Global Partnership, and the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement. Following are the areas of support for NDC implementation:
1) Mainstreaming gender in the NDC development processes;
2) Develop/finalize NDC implementation plans and institutional structures to facilitate effective implementation both horizontally and vertically (national to sub-national);
3) Strengthen measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capacity and national data-sharing mechanisms to better analyze and communicate progress against NDC targets and mitigation actions;
4) Align mitigation actions to NDCs in order to transform NDC targets into concrete actions and to increase ambition, as feasible; and
5) Develop finance structures and enhance private sector engagement in NDCs.
The Project recognizes that effective communications management strategy plays an important role in change management, i.e., in breaking down resistance to change by getting everyone on the same page and helping stakeholders become engaged, recognize the need for change, and the steps being taken to bring the change about. The development of audio-visual presentation (AVP)/materials about the Project would fulfill the role of raising awareness on the necessity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and of providing information on the NDC and gender mainstreaming in the NDC process.
C. Background: 2019 Regional Business Climate Action Summit – Investors Forum
In 2013, the Climate Change Commission (CCC), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the Low Emission Capacity Building Philippine (LECB PHL) Project, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), and the Philippine Business for the Environment (PBE), began convening annual business summits on climate change. Since then, the private sector had been actively engaged in initiatives on climate change adaptation and mitigation spearheaded by the CCC and other national government agencies, in line with the thematic thrusts of the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) on developing climate-smart industries and strengthening knowledge management systems.
This year the CCC will continue to engage the private sector through the now rebranded LECB PHL Project, the NDC Support Project for the Philippines (NSPP). The NSPP is assisting the government achieve its commitment under the Paris Agreement through public-private sector partnership. The business and climate summits which the LECB PHL Project has supported through the years, are reoriented to assist the CCC in its implementation of the Philippine NDC and further enhance private business sector engagement towards carbon neutrality for the country. The summits are now named “Business Climate Action Summit”, recognizing the private business sector’s crucial role in the country’s pursuit of low-carbon development pathways since it is has the drive, capacities, and financial resources to implement climate actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase climate-resilience while securing economic growth. Endowed with enormous resources and significant capacities for investment generation, managerial capability, and operational power, the private sector is reputed to be more efficient and effective in delivering services to the people.
The Philippine NDC offers the private sector promising investment opportunities and productive partnerships with the public sector and the international community that deliver the benefits of sustainability, climate-resiliency, and a green economy. The important challenge at hand is to transform the Philippine NDC into concrete sectoral actions that lead to long-term carbon neutrality and climate-resilient development.
A Regional Business Climate Action Summit will be held this year in Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao continuing the theme of the 2018 National Business Climate Action Summit, “The 1.5˚ Celsius Climate Challenge: Transforming Industries and Sectors Towards Carbon Neutrality.” The main objective of the summit is to harness the willingness and resolve of the private sector to support low carbon development through collaborative initiatives with the public sector. The summit will focus on the implementation of the Sustainable Mobility Project, a global framework developed by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to support integrated planning and implementation of urban sustainable mobility relying on a fact-based and collaborative approach, for Cagayan de Oro.
D. Description of Expertise Needed
Two (2) Documenters who satisfy the ff. conditions:
• Can speak and understand the local dialect or bisaya;
• Based in Region 10, specifically in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental;
• Capable to comprehensively document the discussions, breakout sessions, and open forums during the Investors forum; and
• Craft and or develop quality and creative written outputs of the Forum.
E. Scope of Work
The Documenters shall perform the following duties: i. Record the proceedings and transcribe appropriately, ii. Gather relevant information and materials resulting from the discourses and presentations during the Business Summit, iii. Craft two outputs—highlights and full report of the event that are in-depth, comprehensive, issue-oriented and trends formative. User-friendly supporting documents are desired.
F. Methodology
Documentation of the proceedings/event will rely on:
1. Audio and/or video recordings;
2. Photo documentation;
3. Presentation materials/hand-outs on the topics/subject of discussion; and
4. Written Minutes/Highlights of the Business Summit.
G. Output
The Documentors shall submit two written reports: one highlights and one comprehensive full report containing the activities and discussions of the Business Summit.
H. Timeline
The documentation up to the preparation and submission of the reports to the NSPP-PMU will require
3 days broken down as follow:
1) Documentation of the activities – Day 1
2) Report preparation and initial submission of highlights and full report – Day 2
3) Submission of final reports – Day 3
I. Reservation of Right
The CCC and NSPP-PMU reserves the right to cancel, delete, remove or exclude any of the activities herein or add any activity that can be normally performed or provided by the Technical Assistant.
J. Other Condition/s
The Documentors shall guarantee that his/her performance of this work with NSPP of the CCC will not result to any conflict of interest with its past and current engagements, employment or contract.
For interested applicants, please submit your resume and application letter by 25 October 2019 to the following address:
ASEC. ROMELL ANTONIO O. CUENCA
Deputy Executive Director
Program Manager – NDC Support Porject for the Philippines
Climate Change Office, Climate Change Commission
6th Floor, First Residences, Jose Laurel St.
Malacañang, San Miguel, Manila
Attention: Ms. Sandee G. Recabar
Chief, Implementation Oversight Division
Technical Officer, NDC Support Project for the Philippines
