Climate Finance

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**TERMS AND CONDITIONS**:
**JOB** **TITLE**: Climate Finance and Project Design Specialist

**TYPE & LEVEL OF CONTRACT**: When Actually Employed (WAE) - International Consultant Level II

**UNIT/DIVISION**: Resilience and Climate Team, Humanitarian and Transitions Unit - Regional Bureau Cairo

**DUTY STATION** (City, Country): Home-based with some travel to Regional bureau in Cairo and country offices

**REPORT TO**: Regional lead for climate action & climate finance

**DURATION**: 90 days in total during an 8-month period, to start ASAP

**ABOUT WFP**:
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

WFP’s Regional Bureau for the Middle East and Northern Africa (RBC), based in Cairo, Egypt, provides strategic guidance, policy/technical support and direction to WFP operations and activities in 15 countries: Algeria, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, State of Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen and Ukraine. These country offices aim to assist roughly one-third of all of WFP’s beneficiaries (approx. 30 million) in some of the most critical humanitarian emergencies of our time. RBC is also active in the ‘Changing Lives’ side of WFP’s mandate, helping national governments and local communities improve nutrition, livelihoods, school feeding, social protection, climate and disaster risk reduction and other programmes that build resilience and support development.

**WHY WORK AT WFP?**:
**SAVING & CHANGING LIVES**:

- Make a difference the world will notice._
We are driven by our mission to fight world hunger and feed people’s dreams of a brighter future.

**GLOBAL COMMUNITY**:

- Build bridges that unite people across the world._
Being part of a global, diverse and multicultural community like WFP, will continuously expose you to new ideas and perspectives.
How we deliver our mission in deep respect for personal and cultural differences and close collaboration between every member of our global team, will certainly enrich your experience and knowledge on so many levels.

**UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES**:

- Unlock possibilities you never thought you'd find._
WFP goes anywhere it is needed and does whatever it takes to get the job done.

**LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE**:

- Reach beyond yourself and discover your true potential._
WFP offers the kind of life-changing experiences you’re unlikely find in many other organizations.

**BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT**:
Assisting more than a 100 million people in around 90 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

WFP is fully aware of the impact that the climate crisis is currently having on achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 (SDG 2). Findings from the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate that climate change could increase the risk of hunger and malnutrition by up to 20 percent by 2050, and its impacts will be felt disproportionately on the most food insecure and vulnerable.

WFP is committed to step up the number and scale of its climate-related interventions to support adaptation efforts of vulnerable people and governments globally, focusing on food and nutrition security.
With the growing need to quickly adapt to climate change and the increasing demand from governments in the MENA region to receive support from international organizations to scale up responses, WFP is investing in enhancing its readiness to access climate finance resources. This investment is part of a regional ‘Climate Readiness Initiative’ and focuses on enabling WFP country office teams to strategically engage with resource mobilization opportunities by mapping out and prioritizing key bilateral finance windows, government priorities, and develop initial project ideas based on local context.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)**:
Under the supervision of the Resilience and Climate team in the WFP Regional Bureau in Cairo, and working directly with WFP country offices, the consultant will be responsible for undertaking a landscape assessment and to develop corresponding project ideas. The landscape assessment should focus on mapping out government plans, donor/financier requirements and priorities, and local needs, matching these with WFP mandate and capacities, to determine areas of strategic intervention. The assessment should also include a review of existing activities undertaken by WFP and relevant partners, elaborating on potential interlinks and opportunitie