Maldives has been a party to the UNFCCC since 1992 and is one of the first countries to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in 1998. Being a party to the convention, every party has to submit their Biennial Update Report to the UNFCCC as per the guidelines set-out Dec. 1/CP. 16 par. 60 and Dec 2/CP. 17 par. 41 and its Annex III. Ministry of Environment is in the process of finalizing the first Biennial Update Report (BUR) of the Maldives. This report composes of a description of the national circumstances, on the basis of which the country will address climate change and its adverse impacts, a national inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases (GHGs) with a consistent time series to the last inventory submission, a thorough assessment of the national mitigation efforts including future projections to understand the cumulative effect of those efforts and information on support needs and received for means of implementation (technology transfer, capacity building and finance) as well as information on domestic measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) system.

Ministry is seeking the services of a consultant to design the layout of BUR.

 Interested consultants must provide following:

• Letter of Expression of Interest
• CV of the consultant
• Copy of national identity card
• Attested copies of educational qualifications
• Valid reference letters from the clients for the relevant assignments carried out in the past.
• Financial proposal
• Business Registration in ministry of Economic Development under sole proprietorship

Interested consultants may obtain additional information from the “Terms of Reference” attached to this advertisement.

The Expressions of Interest must be submitted to the address below no later than 1100 hours on 24th October 2019. Proposal must be submitted in a sealed envelope titled as below to the below address. The bids will be opened on 1105 hrs on 24th October 2019, in the presence of bidders who wish to attend.

 “Do not open before 24^th October at 11:05 –“Layout Designer for Maldives First Biennial Update Report”

Procurement Section

Ministry of Environment

Green Building, Handhuvaree Hingun, Maafannu

Male’, 20392

[email protected]

Republic of Maldives