81298631 - Technical Expert Support for the Implementation of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) on Climate Change in Rwanda

Kurze Beschreibung

Rwanda has submitted its intended Nationally Determined Contribution (iNDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The iNDC became the country"s first NDC with the entry into force of the Paris Agreement in 2016 and Rwanda was in 2020 the first Least Developed Country (LDC) to submit an updated NDC, with ambition raised in the adaptation and mitigation targets to outline its commitment to a climate-resilient and low carbon economy development pathway. Moreover, the climate action commitments are guided by Rwanda"s Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (GGCRS), the National Strategy for Transformation (NST-1) and Vision 2050 - a country"s long-term strategic goal that defines its aspirations for the future and sets a target to become an upper middle-income country by 2035 and a high income one by 2050.
Rwanda aligns its national climate and development targets with relevant global and regional agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the African Union"s Agenda 2063, the East African Community"s Vision 2050.
Consequently, the Rwandan and German governments have entered into a Rwandan-German Climate and Development Partnership in 2022. Being embedded in the new Partnership, the project "Capacity Development for the Implementation of Rwanda's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)" is implemented as a technical assistance intervention by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Rwanda with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project"s goal is to enhance the institutional and financial framework conditions of relevant state and non-state actors in Rwanda for the coordination, implementation and monitoring of the NDC. The project"s political partner is the Ministry of Environment of Rwanda (MoE), and other actors include line ministries and their technical agencies, the Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA), the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD), the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA), the science and research community, the private sector and civil society actors.
The project provides policy and technical advice and capacity development support to key state and non-state actors involved in the implementation and monitoring of the country"s NDC, especially the MoE. This enhances their organizational and process-related capacities and skills for the coordination of the NDC implementation.
The project further provides technical advice and training measures to selected public institutions for NDC mainstreaming across relevant sectors. By deploying a capacity development approach aligned with their needs, their technical and organizational capacities to integrate the NDC into key selected policies, strategies and plans are improved. This also helps strengthening their roles in monitoring the NDC implementation, hence resulting in quality data gathering and availability (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification, MRV).
The project supports private enterprises (especially SMEs) to develop financially viable business models to access finance for NDC implementation. This is done through the provision of needs-based training measures, coaching and technical advice to access funding opportunities from existing financing facilities in Rwanda. In addition, enabling environments and regulatory frameworks are improved for SMEs to facilitate their access to finance for NDC implementation.
Furthermore, the project establishes and fosters gender-responsive cooperation formats to promote and improve evidence-based climate policy advice in cooperation with the science and research community in Rwanda. By improving the capacities of the MoE and other key state and non-state actors to implement and coordinate the NDC while considering evidence-based climate science and research, the project helps to better inform evidence-based decisions.

Beschreibung der Beschaffung

Through the five pools of short-term expert consisting of international and national experts, the contractor shall provide expert advisory services, technical, policy and process-related advice and capacity development support to contribute the following work and services packages:
Work package 1:
- NDC Review (mid-term evaluation), revision of the NDC Implementation Framework, and NDC Update Process of Rwanda including multi-stakeholder engagement,
- Assessment of the results of the Global Stocktake under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to inform Rwanda"s NDC Review Process,
- Development of NDC-related recommendations from the Review Process to inform the development of the second National Strategy for Transformation (NST-2) of Rwanda,
- Alignment of indicators, checklist and programmatic areas of the Rwanda"s NDC with the country"s revised Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (GGCRS).
Work package 2:
- Assessment and enhancement of the different MRV platforms existing in Rwanda,
- Development of guidelines on approach for a centralized national MRV system, including specifications for the data needed and suggested data flows across ministries/authorities and other relevant state and non-state contributing actors,
- Training measures for MRV focal points at the key ministries and other institutions,
- Harmonization of reporting templates used for reporting on the NDC through the MRV,
- Digital support for RBME/MIS (Integration of GGCRS-aligned NDC indicators into MIS),
- Technical support to Rwanda"s Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) throughout 2024,
- Identification of data gaps regarding data on emissions in the sector and calculation of country and sector specific emission factors,
- Recommendations on the handling of remaining data gaps, including identification of necessary research for missing emission factors and potential timeline,
- Recommendations regarding the development of an MRV system for the key sectors,
- Technical backstopping during the elaboration of a harmonized MRV system.
Work package 3:
- Analysis of political processes and identification of opportunities to improve the mainstreaming of climate change and especially the NDC objectives across sectors,
- Mainstreaming NDC objectives into selected strategies, policies and plans of public institutions,
- Development of sector guides for mainstreaming climate change issues across the sectors in line with the NST-2 development planning combined with relevant training measures for line ministries, agencies and other key users on data management and reporting related to NDC mainstreaming,
- Digital integration and technical interface for the effective and efficient communication of sectoral MRV systems with the centralized and harmonized national MRV system,
- Facilitation of several needs-based workshops in different sectors.
Work package 4:
- Human capacity development measures for private enterprises on green financing instruments and development of "bankable" business models for NDC implementation,
- Support the development of training curricula and provide trainings and individual mentoring on developing viable green business models and green project proposals,
- Support the organization of a Business Model Pitch Contest among private enterprises and the provision of tailored advisory support and capacity development measures to the winning SMEs on key topics (e.g. mobilizing climate finance or green finance, etc.),
- Support the organization of an annual Private Sector Climate Change and Circular Economy Forum as a networking and learning platform for the Rwandan private sector.
Work package 5:
- Development of a digital mapping (dashboard) to track climate and green finance resources mobilized and spent by FONERWA incl. under Rwanda"s "Ireme Invest",
- Provision of technical and policy advice to the FONERWA and BRD on products for "Ireme Invest", which are adapted to the needs of SMEs,
- Identification of financing options under the Rwandan Taskforce on Access to Climate Finance (TACF) for NDC implementation through the involvement of the private sector,
- Capacity development measures for FONERWA and BRD staff on equity finance under the Project Preparation Facility (PPF) of "Ireme Invest",
- Support to the implementation of FONERWA"s Resources Mobilization Strategy,
- Support curricula development and provide training courses for a "Young Professionals Programme" to be initiated within FONERWA,
- Training of financial intermediaries on the benefits of green and climate enterprises and on carrying out risk assessments for the use of green and climate technologies,
- Development of an Investment Programme for NDC intervention sectors by considering FORNERWA"s programmatic approach in close alignment with Rwanda"s GGCRS.
Work package 6:
- Provision of technical and process-related advice to the MoE and key political decision-makers on the importance of climate science expertise in the NDC implementation,
- Support to the establishment and coordination of a gender-responsive climate science and research network in Rwanda,
- Implementation of cooperation formats to promote the topics of climate change science and research with reference to gender mainstreaming and linkages to NDC objectives,
- Promotion on the added value of networking and structured exchange among Rwandan climate science actors for knowledge sharing with policymakers,
- Organizational advice on the establishment of permanent advisory structures,
- Technical advice and capacity development support to policymakers in encouraging them to recognize the added value of structured evidence-based and scientific advice.

Beschreibung der Verlängerungen

GIZ may optionally commission contract amendments and/or increases based on the criteria in the tender documents to the successful bidder of this tender. For details, please see the terms of reference.

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GIZ may optionally commission contract amendments and/or increases based on the criteria in the tender documents to the successful bidder of this tender. For details, please see the terms of reference.

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1. Trading name and address, commercial register excerpt.
2. Eligibility declaration that no grounds for exclusion in Section 123, 124 of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB) and in Section 22 LkSG apply.
3. Eligibility declaration subcontractors if applicable.
4. Association clause if applicable

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien

1. Declaration on the average annual turnover for the last 3 financial years (last-but-four financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year);
2. Declaration on the average number of employees and managers in the last three calendar years.

1. Average annual turnover for the last three years (last-but-four financial year can be included in case of tenders held within 6 months of end of last financial year), at least: 1.000.000,00 EUR
2. Average number of employees and managers in the last three calendar years, at least 10 persons.

Liste und kurze Beschreibung der Auswahlkriterien

It is necessary to provide references in the technical field "Climate change (mitigation and adaptation) and NDC coordination, implementation and finance" with a minimum commission value of 300.000,00 EUR.

Bedingungen für die Teilnahme (technische und berufliche Fähigkeiten)

1. At least 5 reference projects in the technical field "Climate change (mitigation and adaptation) and NDC coordination, implementation and finance" and at least 3 reference projects in African (in the above mentioned field) in the last 3 years.
2. The technical assessment is only based on reference projects with a minimum commission value of 300.000,00 EUR.

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4. more than 15 calendar days have expired since receipt of notification from the contracting authority that it is unwilling to redress the complaint.
Sentence 1 does not apply in the case of an application to determine the invalidity of the contract in accordance with Article 135, Section 1 (2). Article 134, Section 1, Sentence 2 remains unaffected.