Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2022-10-14
Buyer: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 66171000 | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 73220000 | 79411100
Estimated value: 248625 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 81284044-Strengthen public climate change adaptation and mitigation planning and improve climate finance approaches in Honduras
As a result of climate change, Honduras is experiencing an increase in extreme weather events like heavy rainfall and hurricanes as well as prolonged periods of drought and heatwaves. The country is currently unable to mitigate the resulting economic damage sufficiently or develop comprehensive action strategies for climate protection and adaptation to climate change. The marginalised rural population, including indigenous groups and women, are particularly hard hit by the consequences.
Unevenly distributed incomes and a lack of alternative sources of income in rural areas exacerbate problems like malnutrition, the lack of potable water, migration and violent conflicts over resources. High rates of deforestation caused by forest fires and illegal logging along with a lack of climate-friendly agricultural practices further increase the pressure on environmental resources and result in greenhouse gas emissions.
The Honduran Government has committed to an ambitious implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Honduras has also set itself challenging targets within the framework of nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. The country has been steadily expanding the strategic and legal foundation for climate protection and adaptation to climate change since 2010. In spite of this, the prevailing political framework and the competencies required to comprehensively understand and describe climate change and to put it into the context of sustainable social and economic development are still not adequate, although this is a prerequisite for deriving and using appropriate technical, planning and financial instruments.
State, private sector and civil society actors can better apply approaches to climate protection and adaptation to climate change for implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
The project promotes social participation in the national dialogue on the 2030 Agenda and climate change and supports institutions that are taking an overarching approach. This is intended to create momentum and introduce changes in order to recognise climate change as relevant for national development and to reappraise natural resources. All measures are aligned with the principle set out in the 2030 Agenda of leaving no one behind.
To this end, the project trains government representatives in climate protection and adaptation to climate change and promotes dialogue between the state, the private sector and civil society on climate change and sustainable development. It also advises on the further development of an observatory attached to a scientific institution. This is intended to provide information on how climate change and the measures devised to combat it are impacting on the protection of natural resources, social development processes, peace and security.
The government is advised on assessing the investment needed in the fields of climate protection and adaptation to climate change. At the same time, the project is helping establish a new advisory unit within the Ministry of Finance, in order to mainstream the topics in public sector budgets and projects. It also promotes dialogue on successful models and approaches to good governance and climate finance in municipalities and companies.
A national, internet-based platform for knowledge management and coordination of measures for the 2030 Agenda is being established with the project's support. The project also promotes international dialogue on successful examples of practical climate protection in the region.
The Paris Agreement recognizes the importance of reorienting financial flows to a level consistent with a trajectory leading to resilient, low-emission development. This implies that climate commitments require the involvement of all stakeholders.
In this sense, it can be noticed that the private sector is increasingly a key actor of climate finance, as well as strategic governmental bodies, such as the ministries of finance or planning which manage economic, fiscal, and financial risks associated with extreme weather events and climate change, lead the challenges of the transition to low economies in carbon emissions and reorient public finances to contribute to national resilience and decarbonization objectives.
Honduras presents its NDC update in 2021. Despite all the mitigation and adaptation actions that are presented, there are still a series of needs and challenges in the country for the identification, prioritization, and implementation of appropriate measures, linked to the themes: financial, capacity building, institutional and technical assistance.
In response to global trends, strategic actors such as the Ministry of Finance (SEFIN) are also joining the efforts in Honduras. SEFIN has been working on tools aimed at risk management and climate budget tagging. Likewise, the private sector has begun to promote a transformation through circular economy approaches and a strategy for sustainable companies. The above is a clear example of a willingness on the part of various sectors to contribute to the climate agenda and particularly regarding its financing.
The advisory services required are aimed at strengthening public planning of climate change adaptation and mitigation and improving public, private and international climate finance approaches in Honduras. The services contribute to two of the three components of the ProAgenda project. These components are 1) Intersectoral planning and dialogue, as well as; 2) Climate finance.
There is a strategic relationship between these two components of work within the framework of the project. In this sense, it is essential that climate finance is addressed with a national planning approach.


Winner: HEAT GmbH
Award value: 248625
Number of bids: 5