The NDC Support Project will assist a joint public-private approach for energy efficiency investment and finance in Thailand (Output 2.1) to create an environment of trust, openness and informational symmetry and help the Government to address regulatory and legislative hurdles that are impeding energy efficiency investments. Efforts to advance the findings from analyses on private sector investments in the renewable energy sector (undertaken through the LECB project) may also be explored, potentially through engagement with other development partners. To create conditions for competitive, market-based solutions to climate change that also deliver sustainable development dividends, this Output will also support national systems platforms and partnerships through which the public and private sectors can work, in a collaborative manner, to advance NDC implementation and, through this, deliver on the Paris Agreement and SDGs.

Under the framework of UNDP’s global NDC Support Programme, the NDC Support Project will further enhance national capacity to scale up investments on climate change mitigation in priority areas of the NDC, focusing on the energy and transport sectors.

To ensure sustainability of the Project’s initiatives and to maximize potential for going to scale, a national institution with high potential to yield new knowledge and that will lead to more inclusive climate action and gender-responsive budgeting for Thailand will be identified and actively engaged.

Thailand’s NDC Support activities will promote effective political engagement and advocacy in the country’s public-sector climate budget reforms and capacity development. Under this Project, policy briefs, high level symposiums and workshops will be developed and supported to ensure that political momentum is maintained for the adoption of the inclusive, gender-responsive CCBA, particularly facilitating effective NDC implementation (Output 1.2). The work in Thailand will assist concerned government and CSOs entities in tracking the differential impact of existing climate change related public investment on gender, poverty, and Human Rights. Thailand’s access to international climate funds, including the Green Climate Fund (GCF), through GCF readiness initiatives in the country, will be further supported to strengthen domestic budgeting systems.

Under the framework of UNDP’s Asia-Pacific regional programme on Strengthening the Governance of Climate Change Finance to Enhance Gender Equality, the NDC Support Project will focus on providing necessary interventions to assist the Thai Government in undertaking public budget reforms that enable a more integrated approach to public investments that enhance NDC implementation and can incorporate multiple dimensions of the Sustainable Development Agenda – in particular climate change, gender equality and poverty. Based on the on-going Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR) and Climate Change Benefit Analysis (CCBA) initiatives and results, and through working closely with relevant Thai governmental agencies and concerned stakeholders, the Project will improve on and operationalize CCBA to be gender-responsive and poverty-focused (Output 1.1). An inclusive and gender-responsive CCBA will assist the government in minimizing climate change impacts on sustainable development by improving the country’s budgetary systems and prioritize climate actions identified in the NDC as well as in existing and future development policies and strategic plans.

Building on UNDP’s extensive foundational work supporting low-emission development and climate change finance, the NDC Support Project will assist the Thai Government to achieve transformational change by using NDC implementation as a mechanism to scale up investments in inclusive, gender-responsive climate actions that help achieve NDC targets and, through this, deliver on the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Along with the opportunity and momentum created by the Paris Agreement comes the important challenge of transforming Thailand’s NDC into tangible actions that lead to long term, zero-carbon and climate-resilient development. As evident in its NDC submission, Thailand will need sustained financial, capacity building, and technical support in order to regularly prepare, implement, and report on national actions under the Paris Agreement, and more specifically against NDC targets, for reducing greenhouse gases.

Thailand has submitted ambitious Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets for reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20 percent compared to business-as-usual (BAU) levels by 2030, and up to 25 percent emission reductions by 2030 subject to adequate and enhanced access to technology development and transfer, and financial resources and capacity building support through the global agreement under the UNFCCC.

This assignment will be home-based with travel within Thailand.

This assignment is anticipated to take place between 15 June 2018 and 31 December 2020 (for 120 working days)

The Technical Gender Advisor (Consultant) will work under the supervision of the Project Manager and in close consultation and collaboration with the Gender Specialist and with other team members of UNDP Thailand and GCCF-BRH.

Tools that can be used to track, measure and report on the impact of climate change budgeting towards promoting gender equality and poverty reduction

Technical support and guidance for conducting collaborative research on priority issues identified in the gender analyses

Minimum one Training is conducted for capacity development for key government officials in selected line ministries

Final version of Guidelines and a handbook on methodology for building the capacity of key stakeholders involved in climate change budgeting,

Draft version of Guidelines and a handbook on methodology for building the capacity of key stakeholders involved in climate change budgeting

Final version of a country gender assessment, with identification of line ministries’ gender expertise and gaps.

Report on the key findings of the assessment and gender analysis identifying specific entry points, and formulate a strategy on how to systematically ensure that climate change budget formulation takes gender and poverty issues into consideration

Draft version of a country gender assessment, with identification of line ministries’ gender expertise and gaps. This will detail:

The consultant is expected to deliver the followings:

The objectives of the assignment are to: