Mission and objectives

UNDP has a long-standing partnership with Small Island Developing States(SIDS), with an estimated annual value of US$300m, supporting SIDS to advance national development priorities and respond to diverse challenges and opportunities. UNDP’s upgraded SIDS offer responds to their most pressing needs as well as greatest opportunities for accelerating sustainable development. Building on multipliers that promise to accelerate progress across the SDGs, and building on?UNDP’s comparative advantage and specific expertise, UNDP is expanding its support in: Climate Action, developing Blue Economies and promoting Digital Transformation.

Context

The online volunteer will work with UNDP’s Climate Hub – the arrowhead of UNDP’s commitment to the “Climate Promise” that aims to support programming countries designing and implementing pledges under the Paris Agreement, including ambitious National Determined Contributions, with climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions fully embedded in the national development planning and budgetary processes. The Climate Hub builds on UNDP’s existing over USD 4 billion country-level climate portfolio on Climate Change Policies and Strategies, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate and Forests, covering over 142 countries, as well as on UNDP’s Nature portfolio, UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub, UNDP’s Digital offer and other relevant portfolios on energy, youth, gender, health, climate security among others. In this context, this assignment will inform more comprehensive understanding on where and how UNDP can support countries to align gender and energy considerations in NDCs, and integrate gender and social inclusion as part of climate initiatives and strategies. The summary report will be shared with UNDP teams to showcase areas for strengthening gender and social inclusion in their engagement with countries across both policy and programming areas. The online volunteer will be provided with datasets to conduct the analysis and is required to update on the progress during regular calls. The online volunteer/s will have the opportunity to build connections across both the UNDP Climate Hub and Sustainable Energy Hub and learn about ways in which data can support gender-responsive climate action.

Task Description

The overall deliverable for this task is the production of a summary report after conducting the gender and energy analysis, specifically the volunteer will; (1) Firstly, the online volunteer is expected to produce a completed dataset with clear indictors to show how and where energy is being considered in Nationally Determined Contributions. For this specific task, the volunteer is expected to review, validate and match this dataset with the team’s larger dataset on energy targets in the NDCs. This dataset on gender and energy will allow for a more comprehensive understanding of how energy is addressed in relation to gender and social inclusion in NDCs. (2) Secondly, the online volunteer is expected to draft a summary report that articulates opportunities to strengthen gender considerations in NDC processes to inform UNDP’s work in this area. The report will specifically include a summary of the research and reviews of NDCs and national policies across UNDP’s selected countries (30 to 40 countries) to describe: (1) Policy alignment of NDC with national documents, (2) Progress of the integration of gender and social inclusion considerations, i.e. “leave no one behind”, in key climate policy, planning, and reporting instruments, as well as in the implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures/actions at the national/sectoral level, and (3) Barriers/challenges and opportunities to comprehensively integrate gender-responsive actions/measures and the needs of Indigenous Peoples and youth into climate policy and planning instruments and in mitigation and adaptation actions/measures.

Competencies and values

Living conditions and remarks

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements