Asia LEDS Partnership: Regional Expert

The Asia LEDS Partnership is looking for a consultant to support the Regional Accelerator for Agriculture, Climate and Energy (RAACE).

The Asia LEDS Partnership (ALP) is a voluntary regional network comprised of organizations and individuals from the public, private and non-governmental sectors active in designing, promoting and/or implementing Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) in Asia. ICLEI
- Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia (ICLEI South Asia) hosts the ALP Secretariat along with ICLEI South East Asia, ICLEI East Asia Secretariat and ICLEI Kaohsiung Capacity Centre.

As many governments begin to formulate their ambitious economy-wide and sectoral-based climate action and other low-emission development strategies, the lack of resources, especially from the public sector has become evident. The LEDS GP members have thus identified a need for further support in mobilizing investment into LEDS and NDC actions. From a recent LEDS GP survey, members noted ‘access to finance’ and ‘support developing pilot projects on the ground’ as two key areas where they require additional assistance from the development community, if they are to achieve more ambitious climate, social and economic recovery goals.

Based on this input, the LEDS GP Innovation for Climate Action and Green Recovery Task Force has prioritized these topics as focal areas for enhanced collaboration with development finance, government and other partners.

To address this need, the LEDS GP has designed the Regional Accelerator for Agriculture, Climate and Energy (RAACE). Under RAACE, regional embedded experts will play a facilitating and advisory role in assisting project developers and government officials - who participate in the LEDS regional, sector-focused communities of practice - in securing financing for priority projects and low-carbon investment. The LEDS GP will deliver this support in a manner that builds imbedded capacity across countries and achieves peer learning and replication of successful approaches.

The LEDS GP will focus on investment facilitation for topic areas of common interest to countries defined by regional communities and with regional learning. For the Asia region, efforts will be centered around clean mobility.

The select regional expert will work collaboratively with the ALP, Clean Mobility community of practice and the RAACE Secretariat team to:

• Help identify potential projects of ALP member countries under the topic ofclean mobility that need fund mobilization support. These projects will serve as models for financing and for broad replication across countries, to be able toaggregate and pool projects. This could build off of some of the good experiences utilized by the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator, which has applied project aggregation approaches.
• Screen potential projects for support. The regional expert, in consultation with ALP will help screen potential projects for RAACE support. This can include identifying whether projects align with national climate development priorities and have the potential to be financially viable in accordance with the mechanisms known and available in the region. Preference will be given for ambitious projects or thosethat could prove to be innovative models for replication regionally.

The regional expert should have the following qualifications:

• 8-10 years experience in working in the area of climate or project finance along with an understanding of basic project development, financial structures and expertise conducting project feasibility assessments
• At least 3 years of experience in working on projects related to clean mobility, largely in the Asia-Pacific region
• Experience working on enabling environments for mobilizing private sector investment, including relevant policies and regulations
• Experts located within the Asia-Pacific region are preferred, but is not mandatory
• Proficiency in English (spoken and written) is required
• Knowledge of relevant regional project preparation facilities and finance support programmes
• Ability to convene country stakeholder groups to ensure project alignment

Please submit your CV with a technical proposal (with a tentative work plan that fits the budget), which should include your expected remuneration (include details on per day cost). Kindly email your application to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and copy  with the subject line:
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