Job Description
BACKGROUND
Bhutan submitted its Third NDC in November 2025. The third NDC (NDC 3.0) aims to guide Bhutan towards a low-emission development pathway while achieving national sustainable development objectives and fulfilling commitments under the Paris Agreement.
NDCs are central to global climate action, reflecting national commitments to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, limit climate change, and build resilience. When aligned with national and sectoral development strategies, they provide a basis for translating climate commitments into investment actions and policy signals to transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient pathway, achieving both NDCs and SDGs.
Key strategies to achieve higher ambitions include:
- Updating, revising, and implementing key climate change policies and strategies.
- Facilitating climate technology transfer.
- Mobilizing investments from both public and private sectors.
OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The objective is to conduct a holistic analysis and review of financing for implementing climate change mitigation priorities in NDC 3.0.
Scope of the assignment:
- Conduct a feasibility study on financing requirements essential to achieving NDC 3.0 objectives and targets.
- Develop a resource mobilization plan emphasizing financing mechanisms using both international and domestic instruments (e.g., green bonds, PPPs, blended finance, carbon markets).
- The National Consultant (Resource Mobilization Expert with local knowledge) will work closely with an International Consulting Firm to develop a comprehensive resource mobilization plan. Collaboration is expected to ensure high-quality outputs and enhanced capacity of the national consultant.
KEY TASKS
1. Review and Investment Needs Assessment
- Review Bhutan’s NDC, LT-LEDS, and relevant national policies and strategies.
- Assess the current financing landscape, including public budgets, donor support, and private sector investments.
- Identify sectoral investment needs to achieve NDC 3.0 and LT-LEDS targets.
- Conduct rapid impact assessments for socio-economic development with and without climate action.
- Conduct feasibility analyses of prioritized actions.
- Estimate financing gaps and potential funding sources.
- Identify barriers and opportunities for private sector participation.
- Recommend a living list of potential climate technologies aligned with fiscal incentives.
- Develop strategies to incentivize private investment in climate-related sectors.
2. Resource Mobilization Plan Development
- Conduct consultations with government agencies, private sector, civil society, and development partners for climate technology transfer and investment mobilization.
- Propose financing mechanisms considering both international and domestic financing instruments.
- Delineate public and private sector roles in financing climate actions and recommend institutional arrangements for fund management.
- Prepare a Resource Mobilization Plan for NDC, LT-LEDS, and private sector engagement.
3. Technology Transfer and Capacity Building
- Review and assess technology needs from the TNA 2013 update.
- Propose mechanisms for technology transfer and capacity development.
- Align capacity-building needs with the Rapid Capacity Needs Assessment from the LTS update.
- Conduct trainings:
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- Two 5-day trainings for government staff and key actors to implement the NDC using a learn-by-doing approach. Each training targets 30 participants (>30% women).
- Include university stakeholders to institutionalize capacities for proposal writing and climate finance mobilization.
Note: UNDP will cover logistics costs for the training.
DELIVERABLES
- Inception report with detailed methodology, work plan, and risk mitigation strategy.
- Report on impact assessment for socio-economic development with and without climate action.
- Investment and Resource Mobilization Plan (print-ready, designed, and proofread).
- Training report including agenda, materials, participant list (gender-disaggregated), and pre/post-training evaluation.
PAYMENT MILESTONES
- Finalization of inception report: 10th January 2026 – 20% of contract amount
- Submission of draft documents (investment needs assessment, impact assessment, Resource Mobilization Plan): 28th February 2026 – 30% of contract amount
- Submission of final reports (investment needs assessment, impact assessment, Resource Mobilization Plan, training report): 15th April 2026 – 50% of contract amount
APPROACH TO WORK
- Collect required data/information from various sources with facilitation from MoENR.
- Coordinate interviews, workshops, and presentations.
- Keep minutes of meetings/workshops.
- Document methodology in a final report including:
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- Reviewed documents
- Interviews and meetings
- Stakeholder consultations
- Data collection, verification, GHG modeling, and scenario building techniques
- Training activities
DURATION AND TIMEFRAME
- Total: 88 days from 29th December 2025 to 29th April 2026.
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT / REPORTING
- Work under direct supervision of the NDC Coordinator, UNDP.
- Submit reports as per agreed work plan.
- UNDP technical team verifies deliverables; payments certified by UNDP.
DUTY STATION
- Frequent consultations in Thimphu.
- Remaining tasks home-based.
- Consultant must be available in person during international consultant missions.
EDUCATION AND EXPERTISE OF THE NATIONAL CONSULTANT
- Master’s degree in Environment, Climate Finance, Economics, Public Finance, Climate Change, International Development, or related field.
- Minimum five years of experience working on NDC in Bhutan.
- Experience in resource mobilization for climate finance.
- Strong teamwork, networking, capacity building, coordination, facilitation, and communication skills.
- Strong workshop facilitation skills.
RECOMMENDED PRESENTATION OF PROPOSAL
- Indicate cost of services for each deliverable. Lump sum should cover professional fees, travel, communications, out-of-pocket expenses, and other ancillary costs.
- Submit:
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- CV
- Evidence of experience (examples, referees)
- Technical proposal (methodology and timeline)
- Financial proposal (all-inclusive lump sum with cost breakdown)
Note: Technical and financial proposals submitted separately.
Deadline: 24-Dec-25 @ 12:59 PM (New York time)
