TERMS OF REFERENCE
Assistant for Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) in Vietnam
I. BACKGROUND
Vietnam is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change. Rising sea levels, greater-intensity storms, floods and droughts and other effects of global warming all threaten the livelihoods, lives and productive assets of the Vietnamese people and especially vulnerable groups, threatening to revert the country’s remarkable achievements of recent decades in poverty reduction. The Vietnamese government, donors and communities fully recognize the threats that climate change impacts pose to the country and its people. However, there remain serious challenges in implementing policies adequately and extending the benefits to those most vulnerable to climate change.
The Climate Change Working Group in Vietnam (CCWG) was established in 2008 which brings together INGOs, Vietnamese NGOs, development agencies, institutions, professionals and individuals. The network’s mission is to contribute to reducing the vulnerability of poor people in Vietnam to the impacts of climate change through NGO coordination, advocacy and capacity building to achieve environmentally and economically sustainable as well as socially just responses to climate change. Its members meet regularly to exchange ideas and 'lessons learned' on how to improve the climate change response in Vietnam and engage in joint advocacy to achieve pro-poor, inclusive and effective policy responses.
CCWG functions under the auspices of the NGO Resource Centre and is coordinated by a core group of 12 members both from INGOs and Vietnamese NGOs. In addition, CCWG members engage in topic-centered task forces of which currently one is operating on Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment into Climate Change Response and another one on Mainstreaming CC into SEDP and Sectoral Policies. CCWG has a mailing list of approximately 1,400 subscribers and maintains a website under the VUFO-NGO Resource homepage. The current chair of CCWG is with WWF in Vietnam.
In the past ten years CCWG has been promoting coordination, advocacy and capacity building amongst climate change professionals, constantly increasing subscribers to its mailing list. The Working Group is receiving grants from CARE International in Vietnam, Oxfam International in Vietnam, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and WWF. The funding should help to improve the governance, performance and impact of CCWG and its coordination with other networks such as DMWG, VNGO Network as well as strengthening its capacity building activities for NGOs in pro-poor climate change response, climate change mainstreaming, advocacy skills, policy analysis, monitoring etc. A fulltime assistant is required to support CCWG in its operations.
II. SCOPE OF WORK
The CCWG assistant is expected to work fulltime to support coordination of CCWG and facilitation of its activities. At least 10 months contract as the consultancy with possible extension. Frequent travel to both international and domestic sites.
III. SELECTION CRITERIA
Required qualifications for the position include the following:
Interested candidates should submit the following documents:
Closing date to apply for this application: 27th December 2019 The selected candidate can start working on 20th Jan 2020 with 01 year contract.
Please send your application to Mr. Vu Quoc Anh at [email protected]
Due to the volume of applications, it is not possible to respond to all applicants or to establish telephone contact for enquires or feedback for individual applicants. Accordingly, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.