The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) champions sustainable development by promoting green growth strategies that integrate economic, environmental, and social goals. It provides technical expertise and policy support to governments and businesses, focusing on fostering low-carbon, resource-efficient economic models. Through its projects and partnerships, GGGI seeks to drive transformational change that balances economic advancement with ecological preservation and resilience.
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies.
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GGGI has a diverse portfolio of programs in developing countries around the world.
Together with global products and services, these in-country programs focus on delivering results through an integrated approach of evidence-based green growth planning and implementation aligned to countries’ development priorities.
The organization also focuses on knowledge development and management activities which build a strong theoretical and empirical basis for green growth, while providing concrete options and guidance for policymakers and building the conditions for public and private green infrastructure investments.
The Global Green Growth Institute in Colombia is implementing the project ‘Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation (SPAR6C) Program’, funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German government.
This project aims at using Article 6 (A6) cooperative approaches to engage the private sector in NDC implementation and to raise ambition in Colombia, Pakistan, Thailand and Zambia.
The program consists of six work packages, of which two are centrally managed and four are country driven.
In the first two, best practice tools and approaches to implement cooperative mechanisms will be developed, underpinned by an international forum, a high ambition community of practice, that brings together countries and practitioners, who share the common objective of raising ambition through markets. In-country implementation will focus on three areas of work in each of the four countries: 1) Long-term planning, 2) institutional readiness to transact and 3) pilot design and transactions.
More than eight A6 pilot programs will be implemented in Colombia, Pakistan, Thailand and Zambia based on a toolbox of innovative guidance and approaches for transformative A6 design.
The project includes a component to pursue a threefold goal: knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge application through the establishment of a Community of Practice (CoP-ASIC).
The generation of knowledge will be carried out by graduate students from each of the four partner countries who will research on Article 6 related topics supervised by local academics.
Then the developed knowledge will be disseminated in the CoP-ASIC annual meetings. Finally, it is expected the students will be able to apply the knowledge produced in local institutions, private sector companies, or organizations via internships.
In addition, the project is developing a capacity building program on A6 geared towards various stakeholders, in connection with the global components of the project, as well as with the capacity building needs at the national level, including those manifested by the government and other stakeholders, as reflected in the Readiness and Needs Assessment for Article 6 in Colombia.
GGGI Colombia is seeking a consultant to support the design and implementation of the capacity building program, learning products of the SPAR6C Program, as well as the coordinating the activities related to the Community of Practice (CoP-ASIC).
Support the implementation and monitoring of the Community of Practice in Colombia (CoP-ASIC) and the Capacity Building Program of the IKI SPAR6C Program at GGGI Colombia.
Under supervision of the GGGI Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Associate of GGGI, the consultant will support the following activities:
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Lead the design and implementation of Article 6 Capacity Building Program for the private and public sectors in Colombia regarding:
In addition, planning and delivery of training/workshops.
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On behalf of GGGI-Colombia, contribute to the SPAR6C global consortium efforts to design a capacity development program based on the Article 6 Toolbox produced at the global level (Toolbox), including designing strategies and methodologies, activities, materials, etc. The consultant supports the generation of inputs for the program’s communication strategy as a complement to the Capabilities Program.
3. Support the SPAR6C team in the monitoring of the development and implementation of the virtual course of the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development to ensure that the timetable, objectives and quality of the material developed by the server provider are met.
This activity includes:
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Lead the coordination of the Colombia CoP-ASIC serving as focal point with CoP-ASIC members and the global coordinator of the Research Mentorship Program (RMP).
This activity includes:
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Lead the design and implementation of the call for students to be part of the CoP-ASIC Research Mentorship Program (RMP).
This activity includes:
The Consultant reports to GGGI Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Associate and will work closely with the SPAR6C Colombia Program Manager – Senior Officer and Policy Coordinator of GGGI in Colombia.
The consultant’s work progress will be monitored primarily through bi-weekly review meetings.
During the meeting, the consultant will be asked to report on progress against the contractual objectives, activities, and milestones.
The consultancy budget considers an estimate of up to 3 national trips as part of the offered rate that will be confirmed and/or coordinated between the consultant and GGGI later and based on the work plan.
A follow-up of activities will be done taking as reference the agreed working plan and further amendments as agreed.
These review meetings will tackle subjects such as overview of contractual objectives, development of activities, detailed information milestones, actual achievements made against the timeline initially settled, and any other relevant progress details.
The assessments will be carried out under the guidance of GGGI staff.
The first deliverable (work plan) and an executive summary (2-3 pages a word document and 5-slides PowerPoint document) at the end of the consultancy must be presented in both languages Spanish and English.
.docx, .pptx) in an external hard-disk and GGGI SharePoint system.
Additionally, the consultant will deliver one monthly brief in English explaining the activities developed the month before and for any other deliverable if so, requested by the Project Manager. Where relevant, the consultant shall also provide sets of raw data, research materials, and meeting notes related to the contractual objective.
The consultant will make the best use of both primary and secondary sources of information to develop activities defined under the contract objective.
Submission of final deliverables must include a clean version and a tracked changes version (for MS Word documents) including responses to comments received.
Knowledge of carbon markets is a plus
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