Environmental Finance Specialist

The Biodiversity Finance Analyst will lead the production of the Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER), Financial Needs Assessment (FNA) and support the development of the Biodiversity Finance Plan (BFP) following the guidance provided by the latest version of the BIOFIN Workbook.

The Biodiversity Finance Analyst will collect, explore and work on national and subnational level budgeting data and biodiversity expenditures of different organizations, agencies, ministries, NGOs and private sector actors for the production of the BER. For the FNA, the consultant will produce a detailed realistic costing of key biodiversity policies and plans – generally focused on the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP).

• Carry out a desk review to map existing studies/information/databases on biodiversity expenditures, including an overview of earlier environmental expenditure reviews;
• Develop a proposed national definition for 'biodiversity expenditures', based on the BIOFIN methodology or other methodologies;
• Develop a workplan for the Biodiversity Expenditure Review for discussion with the national BFP programme team and GPMTSU;
• Determine a target list of organizations to include in the analysis based on the PIR work;

The Biodiversity Finance Analyst will also provide input to all other national outputs, including the Policy and Institutional Review.

For the implementation of the GEF8-BFP Umbrella program at the national level, UNDP is recruiting a national team composed of a Finance Analyst (Project Lead), a Project Support Assistant, a Policy Expert and a Biodiversity Finance Analyst.