• Identify and prioritize sectors, industries, and economic activities included in the BCE’s statistics that contribute with information related to Ecuador’s green and climate goals, prioritizing GHG emission targets. 
• Prepare the BCE’s Annual Report incorporating green and climate finance statistics. 
• Strengthening BCE’s capacity and main stakeholders on green and climate statistics, modelling and assess. 
• Develop green national accounts synthesis statistics using chained volume series. 

[B] Scope of Work

• Prepare a Work Plan of the activities to undertake under the assignment.  
• The Work Plan should include timeline of main activities, methodology, milestones, validation meetings, final deliverables description and the scheduling of capacity building workshops. 
• Review of policy and regulatory provisions for green, sustainable, and climate finance flows. 
• Organize, participate in, and facilitate meetings with relevant stakeholders. The consultant is responsible for writing meeting reports for all meetings in which the consultant participates.  
• Organize meetings as required to obtain relevant information.  
• Conduct a thorough review of existing methodologies to generate green and climate statistics. 
• Systematize methodologies to incorporate environmental and climate considerations into BCE’s statistics. 
• Conduct macroeconomic studies and modeling to extract data on Ecuador’s progress towards its climate change adaptation and mitigation targets. 
• Identify and prioritize sectors, industries, products, and economic activities included in the BCE’s statistics that contribute with information related to Ecuador’s green and climate goals. 
• Develop and deliver BCE’s capacity building plan on green and climate statistics and modelling. 
• Develop green national accounts synthesis statistics using chained volume series (Matrices, flows, vectors of national accounts, etc) 
• Develop BCE’s reports incorporating green and climate statistics.  
• Develop BCE’s Annual Report incorporating green and climate finance statistics.  
• Develop recommendations for the BCE to comply with international best practices on green and climate data management and statistics. 
• Develop an action plan to promote the BCE’s continuous progress in preparation and disclosure of green and climate-related statistics. 
• Support the development of BCE’s ESG Roadmap and Action Plan. 
• Generate information and support the development of a Partnership Strategy. 
• The consultant will be asked to produce executive summary reports and PowerPoint presentations based on their activities.  
• Conduct training workshops and provide technical assistance as required.  
• Systematize all collected information, annexes, meeting minutes, etc. 
• Develop a final report with all relevant technical papers, reports, and other documents prepared from the start to the end of the assignment shall be attached.  

COORDINATION AND COMPLIANCE

• All relevant technical papers, reports, and other documents prepared from the start to the end of the assignment shall be included in a digital repository for GGGI and BCE. 
• The consultant will make the best use of both primary and secondary sources of information to develop activities defined under the contract objective. 
• The consultant selected must dedicate 100% of his/her time to this process. Therefore, it is forbidden to consider other consultancies during the contract period. 
• The consultant will work closely with GGGI staff and BCE focal point to ensure the goals of this consultancy, and he/she will also be responsible for reporting their progress to the GGGI supervisor. 
• The Consultant will be responsible for covering her/his own travel expenses. 
• The consultancy budget covers the costs of transportation and accommodation, and necessary resources for field studies. The selection of these places must be coordinated with GGGI.   
• Total fee amount for this service is a lump sum.