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Social and Stakeholder Engagement ExpertVacancy Number: Pr14/00666
Background
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) effectively promotes sustainable development by mainstreaming environment into economic development at a national and local level. SEA is a well-established, practical and efficient planning and environmental governance tool/system set out in the UNECE Protocol on SEA to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a Transboundary Context. It ensures that development plans in key sectors such as energy, water and waste management with likely significant adverse environmental impacts are efficiently developed taking into account environmental (and health) considerations. SEA, in particular, will allow identification of the most sustainable and cost-effective strategic development alternatives in Moldova for attracting new investments and for improving its environment. SEA also helps strengthen the country’s environmental governance through fostering transparency and consultation with relevant stakeholders and the public prior to the approval of plans and programmes. SEA in a transboundary context can also greatly facilitate regional cooperation on environmental matters. At the six Meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention, in June 2014 in Geneva, the Government of the Republic of Moldova (RM) requested the secretariat to assist the country in development of national SEA systems and practices and to raise awareness and understanding of the benefits of SEA among various stakeholders. Based on this request the work-plan of the two treaties for 2014–2017 includes several relevant activities such as: (a) finalizing drafting of national legislation on SEA; (b) a pilot application of the SEA procedure to a draft Government plan or programme. The funding for the activities is secured through the EU funded programme Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighborhood (EaP GREEN). Scope of work
The Social and Stakeholder Engagement expert will be one of the SEA team members and is expected to be senior expert capable of working independently under the coordination of SEA Team Leader and with the assistance of the international SEA consultant. He/she should be able to formulate expert opinion on relevant social issues (considering also possibly limited or incomplete data), and actively seek opinions of other relevant stakeholders (e.g. local non-governmental organizations, health authorities) in order to increase understanding of existing local situation and improve credibility of SEA outputs. He/she will be involved in entire SEA process (i.e. in the course of several months) and will deliver inputs in several phases. For every SEA step and written deliverable indicated below, the expert will be provided with detailed instruction including structure/format of required inputs by the SEA Team Leader and the international SEA consultants. The Social and Stakeholder Engagement expert will participate in consultations with planning authority and other relevant stakeholders and will present his/her findings during public SEA events, as well as provide a feedback on comments obtained. For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1 – Terms of Reference. Requirements for experience
Academic Qualifications:
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Documents to be included
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
Financial proposal
The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including travel, per diems, and number of anticipated working days). Travel All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources. In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
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