National Consultant – Climate Finance

Position: National Consultant – Climate Finance

Job Type: Contract

Country: Apia, Samoa

Due Date: Friday 4th March 2022

Organisation: Samoa Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc.
To advocate, facilitate and promote the development of Samoa’s private sector at the national, regional and international levels as Samoa’s NPSO.

Request for Tender:
National Consultant to support institutional strengthening and private sector engagement in climate finance for the Samoa Chamber of Commerce

Background:
Samoa is increasingly taking action to reduce its vulnerability to climate change and disaster risks by ensuring that climate change policies are well embedded into its national planning frameworks and processes. Such actions will continue with the involvement of key stakeholders such as the government, private sector, civil society and the communities into the process to make it more inclusive and participatory. Despite these efforts, there are challenges that remain in terms of human capacity constraints in central climate change, finance and planning agencies to develop and manage multi-sectoral climate change projects and programmes and to access global climate change finance. One of the key findings of the 2018 private sector scoping study in Samoa revealed the high interests of Samoa’s private sector to have direct access to climate finance. It was also found from the businesses that were consulted about the low level of awareness in climate finance. Government and the Samoa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) are working closely to build private sector capacity and strengthen its engagement in climate change and disaster management through the climate resilience and disaster advisory committees. The membership of SCCI in these two national committees provides an opportunity to raise and discuss private sector issues related to on-going developments in Samoa for mitigation and adaptation activities.

The SCCI has embarked on reviewing its Strategic Plan 2016-2020 and the formulation of a new Strategic Plan 2021-2026 with the support of the New Zealand Government. The new Strategic Plan will incorporate development actions to mitigate the impacts of climate change and disasters. One of the activities to be considered is mainstreaming climate change and disasters into the Plan that is aimed at strengthening climate resilience of Samoan businesses. Another key challenge being identified by SCCI is the limited knowledge and technical skills of the private sector to effectively analyse and manage climate risks of their own businesses. This is due to the lack of tailored climate information services available which can be easily understood and applied in a particular sector or industry. Secondly, there was recognition to strengthen private sector engagement with the public sector in climate finance and national project implementation to build its capacity to accessing climate finance.

Objectives of the Assignment:
The consultant will work under the guidance of the SCCI, Ministry of Finance (MoF), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (MCIL) and the PIFS PACRES Project to build the capacity of the private sector in climate change and resilience through:

• Supporting the mainstreaming of climate change and disaster risk management (DRM) into the new Strategic Plan (SP) 2021-2026;
• Providing training on mainstreaming of climate change and DRM to the private sector;
• Increasing awareness and understanding of the science of climate change and its roles in linking businesses and investments to climate financing;
• Developing a private sector engagement strategy to increase engagement of the private sector with the public sector on climate finance related issues; and
• Assisting SCCI and the government to develop at least 1 – 2 climate finance concepts/proposals for funding consideration by relevant climate finance institutions.

Scope of Work:
The consultant will carry out the responsibilities and tasks as set out under the Terms of Reference (TOR) document which can be downloaded from HERE

How to Apply:
Submissions should be titled:
REQUEST FOR TENDER – National Consultant to support institutional strengthening and private sector engagement in climate finance for the Samoa Chamber of Commerce

Method of Submissions:
Submissions must be forwarded in PDF format following the instructions at tenders.net/forumsec

Note: Tenders must be submitted with clear labelling of the technical offer and the financial offer. The Technical Offer documents must be saved and submitted clearly labelled “A. Technical Offer”. Financial Offer documents must be saved and submitted clearly labelled “B. Financial Offer”.

The electronically submitted documents should be converted to the PDF format.

Deadline for Submissions:
Submissions need to reach the Secretariat by 4pm, Friday 5th March 2022.

Late or incomplete tenders will not be considered.

Questions and Answers:
All queries or request for information must be submitted via the Question and Answer Forum at tenders.net/forumsec. Tenderers may submit questions in writing to the mentioned Question and Answer Forum before the stated “deadline for requesting clarifications” on 24 February 2022. The Secretariat has no obligation to provide clarification after this date.

Note: The Secretariat will not be responsible for non-receipt/non-delivery of the Bid documents due to any reason whatsoever.

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In the event that further information is required by the Secretariat in relation to the tender for consultancy, the Secretariat reserves the right to seek the required information without the need for calling for resubmission of proposals.