The ICLEI Southeast Asia Secretariat is currently looking for a Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Consultant for its ongoing engagement under the “Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) – Climate Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) and Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP) Consultant” awarded by the Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the CRC project is a five-year activity that embodies a consultative and collaborative approach for advancing benchmarks for urban climate resilience in the Philippines. The CRC project supports six cities; namely, Batangas, Borongan, Cotabato, Iloilo, Legazpi, and Zamboanga. The ICLEI SEAS team shall work closely with the CRC team and the target local governments in the attainment of the project goal.
The overall CRC project objective is to improve resilience by strengthening the adaptive capacity of cities to adapt to, mitigate, and manage the impacts of climate change and disasters. It will develop robust multi-stakeholder capacity for climate information generation, analysis, use, and climate change adaptation (CCA) and climate change mitigation (CCM) planning, support local government units (LGUs) to fund projects that improve climate resilience, and implement evidence-based, nature-based, and gender-sensitive solutions that are locally identified and context-specific.
The specific duties and responsibilities for the GESI Consultant as well as other engagement and application details can be accessed in the Terms of Reference HERE.
To apply, please submit a Cover Letter that demonstrates your relevant experience, qualifications, and proposed professional fee (including number of work days) along with your latest CV.
Please send all materials in one PDF via email with subject “APPLICATION – ICLEI SEAS GESI Consultant” no later than March 31, 2023 to: jose.gochoco@iclei.org. Applicants who do not comply with the instructions will not be considered.
Please use English for all communications. Only successful candidates will be contacted. No phone call is entertained. For more information about ICLEI Southeast Asia Secretariat, visit http://icleiseas.org/.