Climate Finance and Stakeholders Engagement Analyst

Result of Service

The consultant will: 1. Submit an inception workplan with key activities, timelines, deliverables and stakeholder engagement priorities. 2. Provide regular progress updates to UNEP CFU on implementation status, risks, delays and emerging opportunities. 3. Maintain updated trackers for financial institutions, partner companies, stakeholder engagements and potential matchmaking opportunities. 4. Document key meetings, workshops, investment fairs and consultations, including participants, main findings and follow-up actions. 5. Submit draft and final deliverables for UNEP review, including the FI needs assessment, NbSA market analysis, stakeholder mapping and policy brief/white paper. 6. Track progress against agreed outputs, including FIs assessed, companies mapped, partnerships developed, events organised and matchmaking opportunities facilitated.

Work Location

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global voice on the environment. It provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. The consultant will join the UNEP's Climate Finance Unit which actively works to develop innovative solutions to shift capital towards more sustainable forest and agri-food systems. In doing so, the Unit aims to develop into a leading hub, facilitator and public-private platform to generate an inclusive social and economic paradigm shift towards making sustainable land use ultimately the ‘new norm’. Its vision is for public and private capital to increasingly and systematically finance projects and businesses that achieve ‘net zero, nature positive’ and social impact across the forest and agri-food value chains. Overall, awareness of the financial materiality of biodiversity loss is rising. Businesses and finance institutions can make a significant contribution to accelerating the transition to net zero, nature positive and equitable investments required by 2025. This requires vision and willingness by governments, businesses, and civil society to put nature and climate investments at the heart of future economic growth. Additionally, governments through regulation, economic incentives and standard setting can advance the transition towards greening finance. The consultant will in particular contribute to the delivery of the Viet Nam Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation in Agriculture through Private Sector Transformation (VN-ADAPT). VN-ADAPT supports Viet Nam in strengthening climate resilience across its agriculture sector by scaling Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation in two highly vulnerable landscapes: the Mekong Delta and the Central Highlands. UNEP’s role focuses on integrating climate and biodiversity objectives in...