Trócaire Climate Finance Consultant

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1. At a glance

Buyer Title CPV / category Estimated value Per-year Procedure type Lots Location Contract length Submission deadline Go-live / start | :---------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------- | :-------------- | :------- | :------------- | :--- | :------- | :-------------- | :------------------ | :-------------- | Trócaire Climate Finance Consultant 71240000-8 not disclosed not stated Open procedure 1 Ireland 3 months 2026-09-04T17:00:00 not stated

2. Scope of Work

This tender seeks a consultant or team to develop practical climate finance guidance for Trócaire's country programmes and partners. The consultancy aims to enhance understanding of climate finance, identify relevant opportunities, and create user-friendly resources for assessing and accessing these funds. The focus is on mechanisms accessible to Trócaire's operations and partnerships, aligning with climate justice and localisation principles, rather than a comprehensive review of global climate finance architecture.

The consultancy will undertake the following activities:

• Develop learning resources: Create accessible materials explaining climate finance, trends, key mechanisms, opportunities, and risks for non-specialist audiences, including local organisations focused on climate resilience and sustainable development.
• Map climate finance opportunities: Identify and prioritise relevant climate finance mechanisms, donors, and funding streams for Trócaire's partners and country programmes. This includes a focus on adaptation, loss and damage, resilience, locally led climate action, food systems, natural resource management, and women's economic empowerment.
• Identify barriers and opportunities: Analyse key challenges and considerations that affect partner access to climate finance.
• Develop practical guidance and tools: Create resources to assist Trócaire country teams and partners in assessing, accessing, and engaging with climate finance opportunities.
• Outline Trócaire's role: Produce a paper detailing considerations and recommendations for Trócaire's support of partner access to climate finance, adhering to climate justice and localisation principles.
• Conduct validation workshop and webinar: Present findings and gather feedback from Trócaire staff and partners.

The expected outputs include:

• A short learning resource on climate finance.
• A prioritised mapping of relevant climate finance mechanisms, donors, and opportunities.
• Practical guidance and tools for assessing and accessing climate finance.
• A brief paper on Trócaire's role in supporting partner access.
• A validation workshop and webinar.

The target audience for these outputs comprises Trócaire country teams, programme, management, and institutional funding staff, as well as Trócaire's local and national NGO partners interested in climate finance. The consultancy is expected to last approximately three months from contract signature.

3. Background & buyer context

Trócaire is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with communities in at-risk regions and people in Ireland to address poverty and injustice. The organisation operates in up to 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Trócaire's work is guided by five goals: promoting access to justice, achieving climate and environmental justice, ensuring women and girls' protection, voice, and influence, saving lives and protecting human dignity, and mobilising the public for global justice.

This consultancy is being procured as part of Trócaire's commitment to advancing climate and environmental justice. The organisation's Climate and Environmental Justice Strategy prioritises supporting vulnerable communities and addressing structural drivers of inequality. Climate finance is recognised as a critical implementation tool for climate action, adaptation, and resilience. However, Trócaire notes that climate finance mechanisms are complex and difficult for organisations and communities to access, with challenges in transparency, accessibility, localisation, and equitable access, particularly for local and women-led organisations. Trócaire seeks to ensure its engagement with climate finance strengthens, rather than undermines, its localisation and climate justice commitments.

4. Eligibility & selection criteria

Bidders must meet the following minimum criteria to be considered for evaluation:

• Professional Experience: A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated professional experience in climate finance, climate justice, localisation, climate adaptation, resilience, or related fields.
• NGO Experience: A minimum of 2 years of experience working with NGOs.
• Consultancy Assignments: Experience delivering at least three (3) consultancy assignments related to climate finance, climate justice, adaptation finance, localisation, or equitable access to funding within the last five (5) years.
• Geographic Experience: Experience working in at least two (2) countries in Africa and/or other Global South contexts.
• Previous Outputs: Submission of at least 2 examples of relevant previous assignments, publications, reports, or written outputs completed within the past 3 years.
• Contractual Acceptance: Acceptance of Trócaire’s General Terms & Conditions of Procurement, Supplier Code of Conduct, and Data Processing Agreement.

Specific requirements for turnover, insurance, certifications, and personnel experience are not specified in the provided tender documents.

5. Award criteria & scoring

The successful tenderer will be selected based on the most economically advantageous proposal, applying the following award criteria and scoring:

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