Overview
Consultant to develop methodology recommendations and guidance for Biennial Transparency Reporting in North Africa, focusing on climate-related loss and damage and human mobility.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare an inception report with a refined methodology, workplan, and country selection criteria.
- Conduct a stocktaking of existing Loss and Damage methodologies, country practices, tools, and data ecosystems.
- Develop an operational methodological framework and cost estimation toolkit.
- Finalize the methodology with illustrative sector applications and guidance for Biennial Transparency Reporting integration.
- Produce a final report and presentation deck, and conduct knowledge-sharing sessions.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven years of relevant professional experience in climate policy, Loss and Damage, adaptation, disaster risk management, climate finance, migration, displacement, or related applied research.
- Demonstrated experience developing methodologies, analytical frameworks, toolkits, or guidance documents for policy or programming purposes.
- Strong familiarity with climate policy and reporting instruments, including NDCs, NAPs, National Communications, BTRs, disaster risk reduction strategies, and adaptation reporting under the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement.
- Proven experience working with economic and/or non-economic Loss and Damage, climate risk assessment, vulnerability assessment, disaster loss data, or related sectoral datasets.
- Experience integrating gender, population, displacement, or human mobility considerations into climate change, disaster risk, or development analysis is highly desirable.
- Experience working with or for UN agencies, governments, or regional organizations is an asset.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree, preferably master’s degree or higher, in climate change, environmental policy, migration studies, disaster risk management, public policy, development studies, economics, geography, social sciences, or a related field.
