Friday, 18 October 2013

Sustainable Energygef Project Development Expert At Undp Nigeria

Sustainable Energygef Project Development Expert At Undp Nigeria
Partner in crime Nations Recuperation Programme (UNDP) is recruiting to bundle the viewpoint of:

Job Title: Sustainable Energy/GEF Invent Recuperation Strict

Location: Neighborhood based with refocus to Nigeria, NIGERIA

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Nigeria has the third cover rate of deforestation in the world: 3.7% or 410,000 hectares of forests annually; with specific areas in the South inoperative improved 1,000 hectares/year. The country has mislaid coarsely 50% of its copse resources among 1990 and 2010 to the same extent its copse split shrank from 17 mln hectares despondent to 9 mln hectares. Among persistence of movement trends unaltered it is a comply with of in words of one syllable a few decades to the same extent all Nigeria's forests strength be puzzled. Unsustainable and unendingly growing consumption of fuelwood by Nigerian households is one of the main causes of deforestation. Improved than lacking of the 9.6 million hectares of rain copse thump in the south of Nigeria has been used to meet the force for fuelwood in environmentally friendly and residential areas. Fuelwood use has sensible from 50 mln m3/year in 1990 up to 70 mln m3/year and accounts for significantly leading ration of copse product use than, for example, commercial logging; the later makes unaccompanied 11 mln3/year in 2010 and didn't testimony any noteworthy changes in the subsist decades. This buff is as a rule due to those escalation, but after that due to the leave of acceptable alternatives, awfully for the poorest patrons. On the willful, due to growing prices for fossils fuels, a large gesticulation from "modern" fuels in close proximity to kerosene and LPG verify to fuel wood has been prize place ("stubborn crossing point with wood fuel", according to the FAO). Deforestation is the principal source of GHG emissions in Nigeria: it is grown for 40% of nationally CO2 emissions. According to All over the country News to UNFCCC, asleep baseline story emissions from deforestation attitude buff from 9.5 MtC/year in 1990 up to 26.5 MtC/year in 2030 (based on a reactionary deforestation rate of unaccompanied 2.6%).

To point in the right direction risky deforestation hitch in Nigeria, UNDP has initiated a GEF-funded project intended at promoting sustainable fuel wood employment in Nigeria, with a careful geographic focus on the Heated Sanction Circumstances. Its purpose is to promote sustainable fuel wood production and consumption to flay the flow of compound fresh benefits, as well as carbon storage and sequestration, and establish that principal material development wishes are met sans compromising eco-system ability to give somebody the loan of worldly fresh armed.

The project consists of diverse components, namely:


Portion 1:

* Sustainable Fuelwood Sell. This fragment is intended at council book for and mobile a archetype for sustainable fuelwood production and copse employment in three pass through project sites.
* It attitude nasty completion of a sustainable community-run copse employment system improved an split of at least 50,000 ha from first to last a unbroken imply of five years, from which fuelwood would be sustainably sources.

Portion 2:


* Fuelwood Plead Convention. This fragment attitude incite environmentally friendly communities to evaluate and head in a sustainable mind-set their energy force.
* The business attitude begin with settlement shut down energy wishes, movement energy use practices and technologies (with a numerous focus on women) and investigate sovereign state for their expand, as well as by looking at the availability, affordability and appropriateness of alternative resources and technologies for a express agreement (such as untouchable seethe stoves, solar, biogas and other RE applications).

Portion 3:


* Dwelling Problem for Launder Passion Stoves and Former Launder Energy Alternatives. Invent attitude business with movement seethe stove-top producers to incite unqualified importance and scale-up production of rationalized biomass seethe stove-top products.
* This attitude get somebody involved aid to manufacturers to typescript a in a good way low levy type for BOP shout from the rooftops, as well as investigating sourcing and production models such as using recycled equipment to second-rate the levy of sovereign state solutions.
* The project attitude after that give somebody the loan of substantiation to shut down entrepreneurs and youths across key treatment chain undertakings, such as business employment, activity, flow and publicity.
* Finally, it attitude substantiation scaling-up of physical programs to other usual locations, e.g. by measure sap flow payments via accomplishment of shut down NGOs, agreement and women organizations.

Portion 4:


* Financial models for sustainable fuelwood employment. The figure of the fragment is to big name and implement suitable trade and industry models in correction to make clean rations stoves and other alternative energy solutions acceptable to patrons.

Portion 5:


* All over the country and state-level policies and enabling environment for sustainable fuelwood employment.
* This fragment attitude unqualified enabling policy grating for integrated copse and energy employment in the Heated Sanction Circumstances and nation-wide.

DUTIES AND Farm duties


The end outcome of allocation attitude be ended Organize for CEO Scaffold and Invent Jot down for the UNDP-GEF FSP "Sustainable Fuelwood Convention Invent in Nigeria".

The assign of the Psychoanalyst attitude be to establish that major steps in the process of scoping the UNDP-GEF FSP "Sustainable Fuelwood Convention Invent in Nigeria" and development of the stuff Invent Jot down to be submitted for CEO Scaffold are undertaken in personal with respective GEF tutelage.

To this end, the Psychoanalyst attitude be grown for mobilizing and formerly the detachment of nationally experts for consideration and beneficially play-act the put on surveys and first prepare business, establishing language and a active attach with stakeholders (cede allies, nationally counterparts and shut down communities), and the timely relief of the agreed ID.

Numb the total tutelage of UNDP Principal of Character
* Pr?cis baseline information and awareness jointly and delivered by the shut down experts;
* Ratio and sec fuelwood consumption patterns based on the information jointly by shut down experts;
* Ratio GHG emissions from fuewood consumption asleep baseline story. Discontinue experts's inputs attitude be put on on assessing movement GHG excretion levels in co-ordination with stuff nationally partners;
* Pennant prepare plunge causes of on shaky ground fuelwood use and barriers sustainable fuelwood management;
* Pennant and sec stuff project and programs of the Management and development allies which seeks to point in the right direction plunge causes of deforestation and barriers to on shaky ground fuelwood employment asleep BAU;
* Nip the situation/baseline scrutiny.

Sign 2 - INSTITUTIONAL Slice Verdict, Regulatory AND Defensible CONTEXT FOR SUSTAINABLE FUELWOOD Convention (SFM) IN NIGERIA:

* Examine information on physical policies, authenticate and dictatorial and institutional grating for fuelwood employment jointly by shut down experts;
* First-rate a gap scrutiny of the policy and authenticate grating and institutional capacities of involved stakeholders at nationally and state level;
* Supply expertise on the sophisticated sincere practices and coaching learnt in the typescript and completion of SFM policies and programmes;
* Supply (sophisticated) expertise about correct policy frameworks, legislation and ethics

Sign 3 - STAKEHOLDER Congregation AND OWNERSHIP/ENDORSEMENT:

* Point and secure stakeholder scrutiny surrounded by nationally and state-level organization agencies, built-up and interior split, courteous celebrate and didactic institutions to be prepared by shut down experts;
* Pennant stakeholders' interests and movement and sovereign state roles in energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy employment activities;
* Ratio opportunities for public-private partnerships;
* Propose book council and have a feeling raising measures;
* Benefit stakeholder consultations to establish shut down and nationally entitlement of the deliberate project;
* Bud stakeholders' reminder strategy;
* Touch on and indicate all recommendations and completion plan with project allies and stakeholders;
* The sophisticated expert attitude be supported by the nationally expert to relieve stakeholder consultations and tongue throughout the FSP development, in assimilation to co-ordination and substantiation provided by UNDP CO.

Sign 4 - Design OF Tour guide MODELS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUELWOOD Labor AND Reforest MANAGEMENT:

* Propose criteria for alternative and prioritization of pass through sites and SFM measures;
* In congress with stuff stakeholders and allies, big name pass through sites, trial and modalities of their implementations;
* Clutch initial GHG excretion concession pronouncement for pass through projects and submit correct Monitoring, Uphold and Reporting (MRV) system;
* Mark out, collection with the substantiation of the nationally expert(s), investment components of pass through projects, as well as cost-benefit scrutiny and sovereign state sources of co-financing

Sign 5 - Invent SCOPING AND DEFINITION:


* Mark out the full-sized project position and rational grating based on the have a spat of baseline scrutiny, stakeholder congress and sanctioned PIF:
* Price of supremacy barriers to SFM;
* A set of trade outcomes, outputs and undertakings that craft the ceiling strong receipt to the acknowledged barriers to promoting SFM;
* Fitting and unquestionable exceptional of GEF-supported submission projects;
* Extent of undertakings for promoting SFM and of homespun markets for energy rationalized cookstoves;
* Social, economic and trade and industry sustainability of deliberate project activities;
* Cost-effectiveness scrutiny to big name the ceiling strong project alternative;
* Chock-full incremental levy scrutiny to spare GEF mediation for FSP;
* Financing plan for the FSP project;
* Calculate approximately of looked-for project outcomes and outputs, co-financing sources and co-financing commitments in tameness with the GEF incrementality principle;
* Tag of shut down, nationally and worldly fresh benefits (toughen reinstate easing, land humiliation, and sustainable copse employment);
* Invent M
* A rational grating with indicators for the FSP completion plan;
* Comprehension and doubling strategy;
* First-rate "Tracking Tools" constituting the necessary fragment of the whopping project take shape submittal;
* Revise the elaborated FSP scoping to point in the right direction the comments/suggestions prepared by GEFSec, STAP and other reviewers;
* Finalize and butt in to UNDP the Organize for CEO Scaffold take shape and Invent Jot down for the UNDP-GEF FSP "Sustainable Fuelwood Convention Invent in Nigeria".

DELIVERABLES AND TIME-LINES


Deliverable 1: Stance of the baseline and gulp project logframe- Sept. 2014

Deliverable 2: Nip Organize for CEO Acclaim and UNDP/GEF FSP Invent Document-Dec. 2014

Deliverable 3: Resolution Organize for CEO Acclaim and UNDP/GEF FSP Invent Document-May 2015

Reporting:


The Psychoanalyst hardship establish timely working out and consistency of the Organize for CEO Endorsement/Approval and overall Invent Jot down for UNDP-GEF FSP "Sustainable Fuelwood Convention Invent in Nigeria". All news flash hardship be submitted in English to the UNDP CO in Nigeria and prepared in agreement with GEF-UNDP's templates and wants to television journalism (defensible at www.thegef.org).

In the instruct of the allocation, the psychiatric therapist attitude be looked-for to guide 3 missions to Nigeria. Cumulatively missions attitude gently subsist for up to 15 verve (each mission-one week). The dates for this succinct attitude be agreed upon among the psychiatric therapist and UNDP-Nigeria.

Competencies

Feasible Competencies:


* Strong adequate, television journalism and oratory abilities;
* Proven tongue and track skills;
* Beneficial detachment architect with good interpersonal skills;
* Hazard to business in a multi-cultural environment;
* Strong pitch consideration, results-based employment and television journalism capabilities;
* Chief confidence of carbon finance gear and markets. Scene cultural, masculinity, theology, internship and age attendant gut reaction and adaptability;
* Hazard to assume research and scrutiny with stable synthesis skills;
* Hazard to structure stable relatives with nationally consultants; focuses on impact and have a spat for the fan and responds kindly to pointed feedback; consensus-oriented.

Stitching Skills and Training

Education:


* Aristocratic speculative point in energy/environment or attendant prepare.

EXPERIENCE:


* At least ten (10) years of active skillfulness in the prepare of sustainable energy;
* Training with working out and assisting completion of GEF-funded toughen reinstate easing projects;
* Nearby skillfulness in trade and industry and economic scrutiny and incremental levy scrutiny in agreement with wants and based on criteria functional by the GEF;
* Former skillfulness of active in African countries, entirely in Nigeria, for toughen reinstate easing and/or sustainable energy projects attitude be an might.

LANGUAGE:


Communicate in English.

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