Unep Finance Initiative
Vor 6 Tagen
Result of Service
The consultant is required to support the development and implementation of restorative investment tools and guidelines in the context of the Restoration Initiative and the UN Decade on Ecosystems Restoration. These activities will have to be conducted in close alignment with the overall program of work of the Initiative and the Multi Partner Trust Fund.
Work Location
Home-based
Expected duration
2 months.
**Responsibilities**:
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that 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.
The overall objective of the UNEP’s Economy Division is to encourage decision makers in government, local authorities, and industry to develop and adopt policies, strategies and practices and technologies that promote sustainable patterns of consumption and production, make efficient use of natural resources, ensure safe management of chemicals, and contribute to making trade and environment policies mutually supportive. It promotes the development, use and transfer of policies, technologies, economic instruments, managerial practices, and other tools that assist in environmentally sound decision making and the building of corresponding activities.
The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is the strategic partnership between the United Nations and over 450 banks, insurers, and investors. For 30 years UNEP FI has been shaping and driving the international sustainable finance agenda, setting global standards, and growing a global network of leading financial institutions. Through its work-streams and regional activities, peer learning, methodology development, training and research, UNEP FI carries out its mission to help the financial industry align with and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and with that take on the crucial role it must play in achieving a sustainable future.
UNEP FI and GEF6 ‘The Restoration Initiative’/UN Decade Flagships
UNEP FI actively contributes to the design and implementation of solutions to proactively help unlock and (re)direct public and private capital towards sustainable land use, including deforestation-free soft commodity production, stimulate land restoration and sustainable forest management. As part of its mandate, it contributes its finance expertise to the Restoration Initiative, a GEF 6 project that aims to scale restorative practices in line with the goals of the UN Decade on Ecosystems Restoration by providing technical and strategic expertise to help unlock public and private finance to scale restoration interventions.
In its capacity of executing agency and in close collaboration with the Implementing Agency, UNEP Ecosystem Division, UNEP FI implements the third component of the project ‘Global Learning, Finance and Partnership project under the Restoration Initiative (TRI) - Financing Tools, Models and Partnerships’, which includes 2 outcomes and 5 outputs. Under Outcome 1, ‘Improved in-country knowledge on needs, opportunities, barriers and solutions, and enhanced capacity for mobilizing sustainable finance for FLR’, UNEP FI is committed to delivering three outputs:
- Output 3.1.1: Development/Utilization of an Enabling Investments Rapid Diagnostic Tool (The Restoration Factory)
- Output 3.1.2: Capacity building program of FLR finance for TRI countries
- Output 3.1.3: Resource for tracking public/private funding for restoration in TRI countries
These Terms of Reference cover the second output.
Project Consultant role
UNEP FI is looking for a consultant to perform a number of specialized tasks that contribute to the dissemination and uptake of the Restoration Explorer and the Restoration Factory and hence, to achieving key objectives of the Restoration Initiative project and UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Key tasks and responsibilities under this project include, but are not limited to:
- The consultant will support the development and implementation of restorative investment tools and guidelines in the context of the Restoration Initiative and the UN Decade on Ecosystems Restoration’s MPTF. This will include the implementation of the pilot phase in selected countries under TRI and selected UN Decade Flagships;
- The consultant will support the facilitation of capacity development workshops (Explorer and Restoration Factory) with the child projects under TRI and the selected Flagship countries under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
- The consultant will provide inputs to improve the effectiveness and impact potential of future versions of the tools.
Objectives, output expectations:
Under the direct supervision of the UNEP FI Restoration Initiative Lead the consultant will carry out the following project tasks for
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