NC to support the NDC 3.0 Implementation development and NDC 3.0 Investment Plan

Country: Lao PDR Description of the Assignment:The National Consultant supports the finalization of two complementary instruments - the NDC 3.0 Implementation Plan and the NDC 3.0 Investment Plan for Lao PDR - working under the guidance of the two International Consultants responsible for them and in close coordination with the Project Coordinator. Advanced drafts of both plans are already in place, and the NDC 3.0 that anchors them is under finalization in parallel. The assignment validates their assumptions against national realities, deepens the institutional and sectoral evidence behind them, keeps them aligned with the finalizing NDC 3.0, and runs the stakeholder consultations through which both plans are confirmed and finalized.The National Consultant provides the national-level capabilities this phase depends through direct line-ministry access, Lao-language documentation and engagement, primary data verification and consultation management. The role carries equal responsibility to both instruments and keeps them coherent with each other and with the NDC 3.0.A. Institutional and sectoral validation· Work from the existing draft Implementation Plan and draft Investment Plan as the basis for all tasks, and capture in structured form the feedback of national counterparts currently reviewing them, for integration by the respective International Consultants.· Conduct structured working sessions with line ministries and technical departments to confirm lead and supporting institutional responsibilities and verify them against current government mandates.· Validate and refine the sectoral action and sequencing logic (short- and medium-term) in the Implementation Plan, and the priority investments, costing assumptions, and financing pathways in the Investment Plan, against ministry mandates and on-the-ground readiness.· Identify inconsistencies between the two drafts and institutional realities, and flag for resolution by the International Consultants any conflict be