Deadline: 18-Jan-22
The Haitian Government is inviting proposals for the National Adaptation Plan (PNA) Project to provide guidance on the governance measures to be implemented based on economic models likely to support this national development. This scalable program aims particularly at consistency between adaptation measures and planning development at national and territorial level.
This project is financed by the Fund Green for the Climate (GCF) and implemented by the Ministries of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE) and Environment (MDE) with technical support from the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP).
Objectives
- Contribute to strengthening institutional and technical capacities for iterative development of the NAP and for an effective integration of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) into the national and subnational coordination, planning and budgeting process.
- Specifically, this call for projects seeks to select student projects at the level of license, master’s and doctorate in the field of adaptation to changes related to one of the sectors priorities of the project.
Strategic Axes
In accordance with Prodoc, the priority axes are defined:
- Adaptation of sectors (water resources, health, infrastructure, transport, agriculture, biodiversity), and communities;
- Rural development;
- Climate migration;
- Integrated management of water resources;
- Resilience to climate change and risk and disaster management.
Priority Themes
Without being exhaustive, the following list enumerates some themes that will be prioritized within the frame work of this research program:
- Access to climate and sector data sets in cooperation with ministries and sectoral entities in charge of producing and / or managing this data (UHM, MARNDR; CNIGS, MPCE, ONQEV, MDE);
- Strategy development to reduce bias in the identification of actions adaptation;
- Studies of vulnerability to CCs in socioeconomic sectors;
- Studies of vulnerability to CCs in the health sector;
- Groundwater CC vulnerability studies;
- Vulnerability studies and adaptation of the infrastructure sector to CCs;
- Studies on the sustainable management of agricultural land in the context of prolonged drought and degradation (including salinity of agricultural soil);
- Studies on the vulnerability and adaptation of cash crops (promising sectors) to CCs;
- Climate modeling at regional and national level (methods, tools, scenarios);
- Tools for evaluation, monitoring and reporting on adaptation actions carried out;
- Climate finance;
- Smart agriculture in the face of climate change;
- International negotiations on climate change;
- Local planning in the context of climate change;
- Energy and climate change;
- Sustainable development and adaptation to climate change;
- Development and dissemination of appropriate tools for monitoring and evaluation of adaptation actions.
Components
The process must be endorsed not only by the various executive bodies and authorities Haitian but also by the legislative power, the private sector, civil society, universities, this with a national scope and territorial anchoring. The project is structured around three components:
- Strengthening the planning and implementation coordination mechanism multisectoral adaptation at different levels;
- Strengthening the evidence base for adaptation planning; compilation of the NAP and integration of adaptation priorities into the SNAT, the PSDH and the PNGRD;
- Establishment of a financing framework for measures to adapt to changes climate (CC) in the medium and long term.
Funding Information
The budget of the projects submitted must not exceed:
- Fourteen thousand (14,000.00) USD for research projects per doctoral student in Haiti (all inclusive, data collection, report, publication and supervision, restitution results, conferences / colloquiums);
- Five thousand (5,000) USD for research projects per master’s student in Haiti (any included, data collection, report / dissertation, publication and supervision, restitution results, conferences / colloquiums);
- Three thousand five hundred (3,500) USD for research projects per undergraduate student (all inclusive, data collection, report / dissertation, publication and supervision, presentation of papers, conferences / colloquiums)
Criteria
- Projects must be presented / aligned to at least one of the priority themes;
- Regional projects are encouraged and can be carried out in partnership with other regional universities, sectoral ministries (decentralized directorates) and civil society organizations;
- It is necessary to express clearly and precisely how the projects will contribute to adaptation climate change;
- Any technological innovation can be considered within the framework of the projects;
- If it is an economic productive activity, it is desirable to demonstrate the feasibility of the project through a simple management plan and income forecasts as well as by the existence of a market;
- The participation of the community in the realization of the projects is encouraged;
- The perspective of social inclusion (the issue of Women and Youth) must be taken into account counts in all phases of the project;
- It is desirable that there is a counterpart to the financing of the project which may be in kind or financial;
- Research projects submitted by doctoral student must show synergies of actions with those of first and / or 2 nd cycle by ensuring that the doctoral student also plays the role of director project, in their area of expertise, for at least one first student project cycle;
- The realization of projects should not exceed 12 months for doctoral students, 10 months for Master students and 6 months for undergraduate students;
- Only one proposal will be accepted per university for funding with regard to research programs for doctoral research students in the sectors project priorities;
- The universities will be responsible for submitting the files but the final selection will be made by an evaluation committee to be set up by UNDP;
- The fund management procedure will be that of the United Nations and disbursements by deliverables will be made by UNDP according to the payment schedule indicated in the university’s submission;
- The universities selected and contracted will undertake to organize, in concert with the UNDP sessions to present the results of the various works carried out;
- Funding will mainly cover the research phase of students for a total target of 18 students (5 master’s students, 3 doctoral students and 10 students under license in the priority sectors of the project and the themes indicated).
- Before any administrative follow-up, in particular with students for the projects selected, the University must first sign a protocol with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in order to have a formal commitment to monitor the execution of the student’s project from start to finish and also to ensure that each successful student project that there is necessarily a director.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=86293