The Adaptation Fund was established by UNFCCC to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries. Since 2010, the Adaptation Fund (AF) has committed over USD 1 billion for climate change adaptation (CCA) and resilience projects and programmes, including 150 concrete, localized projects in the most vulnerable communities of developing countries around the world with over 38 million total beneficiaries. The Fund is financed largely by government and private contributors, and also from a 2% (two percent) share of proceeds of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) issued under the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism projects.

The Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Adaption Fund (AF-TERG) was established in 2018, as an independent evaluation advisory group accountable to the Adaptation Fund Board (the ‘AF Board’ or the ‘Board’), to ensure the independent implementation of the Fund’s evaluation framework, which was replaced by the new Evaluation Policy[1] in October 2023.

The Board, at its thirty-ninth meeting (October 2022),[2] decided (Decision B.39/57)[3] “to adopt a phased approach to the second overall evaluation of the Fund, while proceeding urgently with a Rapid Evaluation as a first phase and undertaking a Comprehensive Evaluation at a later stage, with a view to contributing to the development of the Adaptation Fund’s third medium-term strategy (MTS) for 2028-2032. One element of the comprehensive evaluation is an evaluation of the governance, and the processes and systems (G/PS) that support it in the Adaptation Fund. 

Therefore, the Adaptation Fund would like to seek the support of a qualified vendor to conduct this evaluation of the governance of the Fund and the processes and systems that support it in line with the Evaluation Policy and the existing guidance notes.

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ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW

Assignment Title: Evaluation of the Governance and Processes and Systems (G/PS) supporting it in the Adaptation Fund

Assignment Countries:

- Not Country Related

ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION

The Adaptation Fund was established by UNFCCC to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries. Since 2010, the Adaptation Fund (AF) has committed over USD 1 billion for climate change adaptation (CCA) and resilience projects and programmes, including 150 concrete, localized projects in the most vulnerable communities of developing countries around the world with over 38 million total beneficiaries. The Fund is financed largely by government and private contributors, and also from a 2% (two percent) share of proceeds of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) issued under the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism projects.

The Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Adaption Fund (AF-TERG) was established in 2018, as an independent evaluation advisory group accountable to the Adaptation Fund Board (the ‘AF Board’ or the ‘Board’), to ensure the independent implementation of the Fund’s evaluation framework, which was replaced by the new Evaluation Policy[1]in October 2023.

The Board, at its thirty-ninth meeting (October 2022),[2]decided (Decision B.39/57)[3]“to adopt a phased approach to the second overall evaluation of the Fund, while proceeding urgently with a Rapid Evaluation as a first phase and undertaking a Comprehensive Evaluation at a later stage, with a view to contributing to the development of the Adaptation Fund’s third medium-term strategy (MTS) for 2028-2032. One element of the comprehensive evaluation is an evaluation of the governance, and the processes and systems (G/PS) that support it in the Adaptation Fund.

Therefore, the Adaptation Fund would like to seek the support of a qualified vendor to conduct this evaluation of the governance of the Fund and the processes and systems that support it in line with the Evaluation Policy and the existing guidance notes.

FUNDING SOURCE

The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment / services described below under the following:

• TF0A8203: ADPTSE

ELIGIBILITY

Eligibility restrictions apply:

• Please see the special conditions in the request for expression of interest. 

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The World Bank Group invites eligible firms to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested firms must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. for firms; CV and cover letter for individuals). Please note that the total size of all attachments should be less than 5MB. Firms may associate to enhance their qualifications unless otherwise stated in the solicitation documents. Where a group of firms associate to submit an EOI, they must indicate which is the lead firm. If shortlisted, the firm identified in the EOI as the lead firm will be invited to the request for proposal (RFP) phase.

Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through WBGeProcure RFx Now

NOTES

Following this invitation for EOI, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding.

Only those firms which have been shortlisted will be invited to participate in the RFP phase. No notification or debrief will be provided to firms which have not been shortlisted.

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