Terms of Reference For Consultancy Service

Terms of Reference

For Consultancy Service

1. Background

The Government of Nepal (GoN) is a party to the United Nations Framework on Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) and has ratified the Paris Agreement, adopted during the 21st session of the UNFCCC (COP21). In 2016, pursuant to Article 3 of the Paris Agreement, Nepal submitted Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and an enhanced NDCs in 2020 as commitment towards global efforts in addressing climate change. Nepal’s enhanced NDCs cover a wide range of mitigation and adaptation actions and initiatives that aligns with existing plans and policies of sectorial ministries. The Third NDC is in the process of revision with the submission target of March 2025.

It must be reiterated that Nepal is highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, which pose significant challenges to its development goals and sustainable growth. The country's unique geography and socio-economic conditions increase its susceptibility to climate-induced hazards such as floods, landslides, droughts, forest fires and so on. In response, the GoN has committed to implementing comprehensive climate policies and strategies to mitigate these impacts and enhance resilience with required initiatives for adaptation as spelled out in the National Adaptation Plan (NAP). The GoN has adopted required policies, strategies, programmes, together with institutional and financial arrangements to achieve policy objectives by addressing the climate risks, promoting low carbon economic development as well as achieving the SDGs through its annual development programs.

The National Planning Commission (NPC) introduced climate change budget code system in 2012 to mainstream climate change in the planning and budgeting by tagging climate related budget in the Line Ministries Budget Information System (LMBIS). This climate budget tagging (CBT) system provided the line ministries and agencies an opportunity to prioritize and allocate climate budget as well as track climate budget and report on the climate budget expenditure. Furthermore, under the leadership of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), the GoN endorsed a national Climate Change Financing Framework (CCFF) in 2017. The CCFF helps align strategies and action plans for climate mitigation and adaptation with bottom-up planning and budgeting processes and will enable existing climate change budget coding and expenditure tracking systems to expand both horizontally across sectors as well as vertically to the provincial and local level.

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Deadline: 20-Sep-24 @ 07:15 AM (New York time)

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