Terms of Reference (TOR) to develop Green Jobs Strategic Plan of Suddodhan Rural Municipality, Rupandehi

Developing Green Jobs Strategic Plan

Center for Development and Disaster Management (CDM Nepal) Bhairahawa

Terms of Reference (TOR) for Activity 3.3.1 organizing workshop to develop Green Jobs Strategic Plan of Suddodhan Rural Municipality, Rupandehi

Background:

CDM-Nepal is a leading non-governmental development and humanitarian organisation of Province 5 of Nepal. Established in 2000 in Butwal, CDM-Nepal has worked in DRM, CCA, WASH, livelihood and GBV. CDM’s programmes have historically been targeted at underprivileged women and children. CDM's vision is to make just, equitable, peaceful, prosperous and disaster-resilient society for all citizens of Nepal. Major objectives include: 

      Reduce – Contribute to substantially reduce disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries 

      IMPROVE – Improve socio-economic status of the poor, marginalized and vulnerable sections of the community by implementing risk-informed, gender-responsive and inclusive livelihood improvement, health, WASH and education programmes with a rights-based perspective 

      PARTNERSHIP – Partner with local governments and civil society organisations for programme design, implementation and evaluation

      LEARN – Generate learning through applied research on relevant socio-economic, climate, disaster and environmental issues and utilise learning for advocacy and also utilise for organisational development GOVERNANCE – Advocate and campaign at the local, province and national levels to address the root causes of development challenges

CDM-Nepal was registered with the District Administration Office of Rupandehi in 16 May 2000 with registration number 466-057/058. It is affiliated with the Social Welfare Council of Nepal Government in 2000 with registration number 11639/057. Since its establishment, it has become a member of NGO Federation Nepal, National Disaster Preparedness Network (DPNet) Nepal since 2008 and a founding member of National Network of Community Disaster and Climate Risk Management Committee (NCDMC). District Disaster Management Committee (DDMC) of Rupandehi district has selected CDM-Nepal as the current District Lead Support Agency (DLSA) of Rupandehi district. Since 2017, CDM-Nepal has been providing technical and other support to Lumbini Provincial Government as Province Lead Support Agency (PLSA).

Introduction about the Consultancy:

Climate Change Adoption, Promotion of Green Economy are the integral part of capacity enhancement of CDM/KZE/MISEREOR’s Community Resilience Programme. It intends to coordinate and collaborate with local governments and other community actors such as CBOs, Users Committee, school teachers, youths, child clubs, environment management subcommittee who can play a pivotal role on environment friendly initiatives at local government and community level. To develop them as climate champions to drive climate agenda through public awareness and capacity development is the need of the era when climate change has huge effects on lives, and livelihoods of people impacted by climate change (PICC) and gender-based discrimination.

Nepal is one of the world’s forty-eight least developed countries and such poor socio-economic conditions make the country extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. According to a study conducted by the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) on climate trend analysis (2017), the annual maximum temperature trend is increasing by 0.056°C/year and Nepal’s annual average precipitation has declined by 1.3 mm per year over the observed period (i.e., 1971-2014). As per the German Watch Report, Nepal ranked 12th in the Global Climate Risk Index in 2019, and 10th in the period 2000-2019. A rapidly changing climate in Nepal, including in the proposed districts of Rupandehi has led to a range of adverse impacts on the socio-economic, natural, and physical environment. The climate crisis has a devastating impact on women, youth and children’s learning, safety, and wellbeing, destroys livelihood options, education services and household food security and income, forcing youth to migrate other countries and children to drop out of school to support their family with domestic duties or work.

In this connection, this consultancy is therefore, intended to bring mass awareness and encouragement on Green Jobs/entrepreneurship and its challenges among the youths’ women, local government officials and elected members of Suddhodhan Rural Municipality of Rupandehi district along with the key entrepreneurs that are involved in green business.

Objective of the Consultancy:

  Plan/Framework. Specific objectives include:

      Organize a meeting of LPAC to increase their understanding about green jobs and form a technical committee to take lead role for the development of Green Jobs Strategic Plan  

      Identify a list of green jobs (environment and climate friendly enterprises) that exist in the municipality and explore possibility of new types of green jobs that are lucrative for level entrepreneurs.

      Carry out a value chain analysis of selected top 5 green job enterprises 

      Organize a three days’ workshop with LPAC members: two days’ workshop during the strategic plan designing stage and one day workshop during the workshop to share the draft plan

Training Location:

The Green Jobs Strategic Plan/Framework development will take place in workshop will be organized at Suddhodhan Rural Municipality, Manpakadi Rupandehi.

 Role or scope of consultant:

The workshop will be of 3 days with a full package where the role of the consultant is to prepare draft the strategic plan/ framework with inclusion of the following content:

      Basic Concept: Global Warming, Climate change, Greenhouse Gases and Consequences

      Policy landscapes of green jobs/ entrepreneurship in Nepal.

      Local level opportunities on Green Jobs creation and green business promotion (Green jobs challenges and opportunities)

      Understanding market and defining value proposition (value chain analysis) 

      Costed action plan for green business

      Green Jobs plan / framework preparation.

The final scope of activities and contents of workshop will be finalized later after discussions.

Approach and methodologies:

A participatory approach will be applied throughout the course and methodologies such as - group discussion, demonstration, practical exercises, brainstorming, and interactive lecturing will be used.

Deliverables:

      Workshop report – two days workshop facilitation and one day value chain interaction report 

      List of existing green jobs that are under use/practice and potential green jobs that can be promoted in the Palika.

      Costed green job strategic plan in Nepali

      Assignment completion report in English 

Proposed workshop content:

Work Plan / Consultancy Duration and Time Frame:

Detail Timeline:

Payment schedule:

The payment will be done as follows:

100% payment will be done upon the submission of the final report and Palika level green jobs framework. (It should include all the documents and materials related to workshop and plan preparation). It will be done within the one week of report submission.

 Qualifications/requirements of consultant:

      At least 5 years of experience in Green Economy, environment and climate action; and participation in the development and humanitarian sector with experience working with local communities in different program/projects at the community level.

      Experience in conducting CCA, DRR/M and Green jobs/entrepreneurship training/workshop with I/NGOs is considered a plus.

      Excellent communication, facilitation, and people management skills.

      Master’s degree in Social Science, Environment Science, Agriculture Science or any other relevant dhodology to be used. A detailed training course content and methods to be included. (40 points)

      CVs of the consultant/s (15 points)

      The financial proposal should include a detailed budget proposal breakdown of what cost covers inclusive of relevant taxes where applicable. (30 points)

      VAT/ PAN Registration Documents, Latest Tax Clearance Document and tax exemption document if any.

      Evidence of similar reports and references from the organization(s) for whom that work was contracted. (15 points)

Application Process:

The consulting firms shall submit their proposal with the following documents by 10^th May 2025 by 24:00 hrs to the email: info@cdmnepal.org with the

Subject line: Green Jobs_Strategic plan_Consultant Name

Centre for Development and Disaster Management

Siddharthanagar-10, Bhairahawa, Nepal

Email: info@cdmnepal.org