CLIMATE MOBILITY POLICY CONSULTANT

Project Context and Scope

Pakistan stands as a frontline state in the global climate crisis, facing a complex interplay of sudden‑onset disasters and slow‑onset phenomena that directly challenge the objectives of the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA). As an economy where agriculture‑dependent livelihoods are increasingly undermined by erratic precipitation patterns, heat stress, and water insecurity, climate impacts are reshaping human mobility dynamics ranging from distress migration to large‑scale internal displacement. These trends represent a critical adaptation gap that must be addressed to meet the targets of the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience (UAE FGCR).

While the Government of Pakistan (GoP), with technical support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), successfully integrated human mobility considerations into the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) (2023), a significant disconnect remains between policy intent and the Means of Implementation. Transitioning from planning to transformative action requires aligning Pakistan’s domestic mobility strategies with the GGA’s iterative cycle of risk and impact assessment, planning, implementation, and monitoring. At present, persistent gaps in specialized climate finance readiness and high‑resolution, results‑based data frameworks constrain the GoP’s ability to develop bankable, innovative adaptation solutions that meet emerging international transparency and accountability requirements, including those under the UAE‑Belém Work Programme.

Effective NAP implementation further requires breaking entrenched silos between migration management, climate adaptation, and disaster risk governance. Strengthening inter‑ministerial and federal–provincial coordination is not merely a logistical necessity, but a foundational requirement for multi‑level climate governance under the GGA. In parallel, and in line with the GGA’s emphasis on inclusive and people‑centred adaptation, Pakistan must operationalize a coherent communication, monitoring, and advocacy strategy that ensures climate‑induced mobility is recognized not as a failure of adaptation, but as a legitimate and strategic adaptation response.

These national priorities are further reinforced by the EU‑funded project NC0226 – Comprehensive Mobility in South Asia, which provides a regional platform for advancing evidence‑based, climate‑responsive mobility governance. NC0226 supports South Asian countries, including Pakistan, in strengthening policy coherence across migration, climate change, and development frameworks, while promoting standardized approaches to data, analysis, and regional learning. The project offers a strategic foundation for Pakistan to pilot and upscale climate mobility indicators, strengthen cross‑border and regional knowledge exchange, and align national adaptation tracking systems with international good practice. Leveraging NC0226 alongside national NAP implementation enables Pakistan to situate its climate mobility agenda within a broader regional resilience and adaptation architecture, strengthening its credibility and readiness for international climate finance engagement.

Institutional Context and Need

Pakistan is among the top 10 most climate‑vulnerable countries globally. In response, the Ministry of Climate Change & Environmental Coordination (MoCC&EC) launched Pakistan’s first National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in 2023, structured around six priority areas:

• Agriculture–Water Nexus
• Natural Capital
• Urban Resilience
• Human Capital
• Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
• Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion

Concurrently, under the UNFCCC, the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience was adopted to operationalize the GGA. Translating this global ambition into national action requires a cohesive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) system. MoCC&EC therefore requires targeted technical support to harmonize Pakistan’s domestic NAP indicators with emerging GGA metrics, particularly those being developed under the UAE‑Belém Work Programme, in order to establish a unified, trackable, and internationally comparable adaptation framework.

Objective

The objective of this initiative is to provide strategic and technical support to the MoCC&EC in formulating a localized, unified adaptation tracking framework. The consultant will map global UAE FGCR targets and indicators against Pakistan’s existing NAP priority areas to develop a consolidated national indicator matrix. This framework will serve both domestic monitoring and evaluation needs and international reporting and climate finance requirements, thereby strengthening Pakistan’s capacity to design, measure, and finance high‑impact climate mobility and adaptation interventions.

Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing: Organizational Department: Human Resource & Resilience Recovery/ Climate Change Core Unit and Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Government of Pakistan . Responsibilities Tasks to be performed under this contract

• The climate policy consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks:
• The climate policy consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks
• Deliverable 1: Inception Report & NAP-GGA Alignment Strategy

• TOTAL POSITIONS

  1

  POSTED ON

  April 21, 2026

  EXPIRY DATE

  May 5, 2026

  BUSINESS

  UN-IOM

  CATEGORY

  N.G.O./Social Services

  JOB TYPE

  Consultant

  MINIMUM EDUCATION

  Masters

  CAREER LEVEL

  Consultant

  MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

  10 Years