Call for the provision of Consultancy Services to support a collaborative programme of activity between the Modern Energy Cooking Services Programme and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

MECS and UNDESA are currently working together on a collaborative programme of activity with Member States and relevant stakeholders to catalyze the following actions: 

• Mobilise a global political coalition for clean cooking for all, at the highest level of government, complementing existing multi-stakeholder alliances.
• Make clean cooking a political priority, through intergovernmental processes and at the national level.
• Mainstream clean cooking into climate response, including through UNFCCC COP processes on climate action, finance and just transition.   
• Scale-up communications at all levels.

As part of this collaboration, we are pleased to announce a call for ‘the provision of Consultancy Services to support a collaborative programme of activity between the Modern Energy Cooking Services Programme and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs’.

Main tasks of the consultancy 

The expert will work (virtually) under the substantive guidance of DESA’s energy team leader in New York and the MECS leadership team in the UK, while administratively reporting and accountable to the MECS leadership team in the UK. Key tasks will include the following activities:

• Build support for a global political coalition for clean cooking for all, complementing existing multi-stakeholder alliances.
• Contribute to the framing of key coalition objectives (e.g. drafting of commitments for governments to sign up to – reconfirmation of 2030 targets for clean cooking, embracing of 2050 net zero cooking targets)
• Conduct stakeholder analysis to determine where efforts should be most effectively targeted.
• Nurture support for this coalition by sustained engagement with targeted decision-makers across specific geographies to secure governmental adoption of coalition commitments. 
• Raise the profile of clean cooking amongst those driving international climate response mechanisms including through UNFCCC COP decisions on climate action, finance and just transition.   
• Contribute to the planning and delivery of coalition activities at major international and regional events.
• Submission of monthly reports on activities and plans for following month.
• Hold regular monthly meetings with UNDESA and MECS

Important information

The procurement exercise is managed by Loughborough University. Bid documents are available through the Delta eSourcing portal. Only bids made through the Delta portal will be accepted.

To access the documents, you need to register as a supplier. Registration is free.

Once registered you will need to enter the Access code: STAM6S3669 to find the opportunity.

The details are published on Delta under the heading: ‘LU00880 – The provision of Consultancy Services to support a collaborative programme between Modern Energy Cooking Services and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs’.

Please note the opportunity is open until 12:00 (BST) on Monday 25^th September 2023