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Introduction
Country: Laos
Description of the Assignment:
Under the overall guidance of the MPI’s Department of Planning (DOP) and UNDP Project Assurance team, the National Facilitator will be responsible for the following:
Task 1: Conduct a mapping of ecosystem players
Through comprehensive desk-review and stakeholder consultations undertake the following:
· Conduct a mapping of financial sector actors can be mapped based on an agreed criteria such as by type of Financial Service Provider (i.e. Commercial bank, Development Finance Institution, etc.), sectors and types of actors served, size of the capital provided, by type of financial instruments provided to the affected sector (i.e. loans, transition bonds, etc.) and de-risking/guarantee available as well as the enabling environment (e.g., targets for green/SF lending; taxonomy and reporting/disclosures).
· Conduct a mapping of businesses, philanthropists and investors. This includes Multinational Corporations, Corporate Foundations, State Owned Enterprises, Small & Medium Businesses, Start Ups, Business Associations, Coalitions and alliances, Investors including private equity and venuture capital providers and banks.
· Identify existing green and just transition-aligned approaches and initiatives, if any. (i.e. environmental and social risk/impact assessment, green finance, transition finance, dedicated financial products, etc.)
· Identify and list the actors provide finance (green, transition, general purpose finance) to the sectors engaged in the low carbon transition, including public and private financial institutions. Examine approaches used for promoting a just transition.
· Identify international partnerships, projects and funding mechanisms support these initiatives?
· Identify existing and/or upcoming sector association initiatives to support a just transition. Examine the existing and potential role that business associations can play in enabling sustainable private finance.
· Identify regulatory frameworks (green bond standards, taxonomies, disclosure and reporting frameworks) currently promote integration of sustainability considerations in the financial sector activities and their impact on financial sector’s lending practices and investment decisions?
· Identify the existing and/or upcoming public sector incentive mechanisms for capital providers to support a just transition?
Task 2: Support to develop a market assessment on the needs of MSMEs cooperatives, producer groups/associations
Through comprehensive desk-review and stakeholder consultations undertake the following:
· Examine climate risks and their impact on real economy, livelihoods and wellbeing. It explores sectors most affected by the shift towards a low-carbon economy. This includes analyzing the impact on energy, industry, agriculture, transportation, and finance. Evaluate the pace and direction of technological advancements in renewable energy, energy efficiency etc. This includes analyzing the nation’s capacity to adopt and develop these technologies
· Examine sectors, types of MSMEs and producer groups that are the most affected by the climate transition dynamics
· Assess the major market constraints and opportunities associated with the climate transition for the most affected sectors. Further assess the business and investment climate in these sectors and target groups.
· Assess the areas of unmet demand in the context of achieving environmental and social just transition objectives.
Task 3: Scoping Paper on government financing options for UNDP Lao PDR
Through comprehensive desk-review and stakeholder consultations undertake the following:
· Review UNDP guidelines relevant to government financing including 2021 Guidelines on the Management and Utilization of Government Counterpart Funds for Implementation of ODA Projects
· Review UNDP Country Offices that have successfully mobilized government financing in terms of the types of opportunities, the modalities and transactions facilitated.
· Identifying financing opportunities building on ground work undertaken by the Country office. This includes identification of (a) key government priority areas for development, (b) sectors under-utilizing allocated financing, and (c) available resource envelopes for national development—Grants, Loans, national budget that require efficient and effective management.
· Identify services such as by connecting the government to global procurement chains where orders can be consolidated to help small markets to bring scale and efficiency to procurement practices which can result in fiscal savings. UNDP’s value add include access to global pools of experts in several strategic areas such as health care, respectable quality control in procurement processes and service delivery in absence for similar controls within the Government, providing a strong quasi-national firewall for QA through UNDP’s own quality assurance practices.
· Explore options to support the Government leverage its existing PMU set-ups to reduce operational costs in running projects where UNDP already has a strong footprint in country. Examine how UNDP can provide a flexible project management set-up which can bring together a range of actors relevant for the project and providing a space for discussing sensitive issues. UNDP has been able to successfully demonstrate that it could be a neutral partner of choice for sensitive projects in other country contexts.
· Conduct consultations with a range of government and other stakeholders based on options identified.
· Draft the scoping paper with detailed options, scenarios and concrete actions for UNDP country office to implement.
Period of assignment/services: 65 working days.
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