Type de consultant: Individual Consultant

Lieu de la mission: Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Date de publication: 07-nov-2025

Date de clôture: 14-nov-2025

Domaine: 

Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth;

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is one of the implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It is an independent financial organization that provides grants to developing countries and countries with economies in transition for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants. GEF projects are co-financed with partnership agencies such as the AfDB to effectively promote the mainstreaming of environmental issues within baseline projects traditionally financed by these agencies.

The GEF is also the designated financial mechanism for a number of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) or conventions on biodiversity, desertification and climate change; as such the GEF assists countries in meeting their obligations under the conventions that they have signed and ratified. GEF projects are co-financed with the partnership agencies and thus effectively promote the mainstreaming of environmental issues within the baseline projects traditionally financed by these agencies. The AfDB operations in both the agriculture and infrastructure sectors have benefited from previous financing by GEF ensuring environmental management in these interventions and the realization of envisaged national and global environmental benefits.

The objectives of this assignment are to coordinate the project preparation for the AfDB sector departments, which involves developing several projects; coordinate the preparation of projects and develop a pipeline of projects, with a focus on the above-mentioned focal areas that can be submitted to the GEF secretariat for financing. The pipeline will be developed by assessing the investment operations and identifying how environmental management that yields global and local benefits can be