Landscape Investment Resilience Study — UNDP Jordan Country Program

UNDP Jordan Country Program aims to support the national efforts in reaching a solution pathway that boosts the resilience and inclusion of the nation through its five programmatic pillars and can efficiently address the development challenges it is faced with.  Among these pillars is the Environment, Climate Change, and DRR Portfolio that assists the country to integrate the environmental concerns, climate adaptation plans, and Disaster Risks Reduction in the national and sectoral strategies, secure resources, and foster sustainable development through advocacy, program implementation, and coordination.

The Portfolio of Environment, Climate Change, and DRR supports for nationally owned sustainable development pathways that include the following areas:  Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; Sustainable Land Management and Desertification; Water and Marine Governance; Climate Change and Drought; Energy; Waste Management; Green Economy; and Disaster Risks Reduction. Driving towards these goals, UNDP Jordan CO supported Jordan to release its National Climate Change Policy (CCP) for 2022-2050 and the Natural Disaster Risk Reduction National Strategy 2023-2030.

The objective of this consultancy is to complete, update, and support the development of a comprehensive and actionable LIRP in accordance with the approved BRCCJ project document, ensuring full geographic coverage of the four target governorates and readiness of the LRIP for validation, dissemination, and future investment mobilization.

The LIRP will be grounded in the findings of the socio-economic assessment and the climate risk and water diagnostic assessments – already completed-, and will contribute to enhanced climate resilience, adaptive capacity, and long-term sustainability of investments across the four targeted governorates: Ma’an, Tafilah, Karak, and Madaba, Given the scale of climate risks facing the Dead Sea Basin—such as increasing water stress, flash flooding, land degradation, and social vulner