[UNEP] Sustainable Public Finance and Economic Policy
Ente: UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
Scadenza: 2026-09-10
Paese: INTL
Descrizione
Sustainable Public Finance and Economic Policy UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme Open positions at UNEP Geneva ( Switzerland ) Consultant Finance & Economy Show advice for this position Application deadline in 5 days : Thursday 10 Sep 2026 at 03:59 UTC Open application form Contract This is a Consultancy contract. More about Consultancy contracts . Daily Job Alerts: Stay Updated, Stay Ahead with Pro Membership UN Talent Pro Details Result of Service At the end of the assignment the Ministry of Finance of the Lao PDR holds a tailored, sequenced and costed environmental fiscal reform plan, grounded in a documented evidence base and in comparative practice, validated with its own officials, and in a form it can carry into the tax reform agenda of the 10th NSEDP period. •The environmental fiscal instruments in force in the Lao PDR, and the subsidies, exemptions, concessional agreements and preferential tax treatments that work against them, are documented in a single traceable evidence base held by the Ministry of Finance and UNEP. •The performance of the existing fiscal system against its stated objectives and against the environmental and fiscal pressures that matter most in the Lao context is assessed, and benchmarked against practice in comparable lower middle income and ASEAN economies. •A tailored, sequenced and costed environmental fiscal reform plan is delivered, usable by the Ministry of Finance as a working input into the tax reform agenda of the 10th NSEDP period. •Ministry of Finance counterparts are engaged through a workshop in Vientiane, shaping the direction of the reform plan before drafting begins. •Methodological refinements and country evidence generated through the assignment are documented in a form that strengthens EFPU’s broader environmental fiscal reform offer and informs application in other partner countries. Work Location Geneva Expected duration 6 months Duties and Responsibilities The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system’s designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional levels. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. UNEP’s Industry and Economy Division works with national and international governments, non-governmental organisations, business and industry to develop and implement policies, strategies and practices that internalise environmental costs, use natural resources efficiently, reduce pollution and risks for humans and the environment, and enable the implementation of conventions and international agreements. UNEP’s Economics and Fiscal Policy Unit (EFPU) leads the organisation’s work on sustainable public finance, supporting Ministries of Finance and Planning to align fiscal frameworks with durable and inclusive growth, competitiveness, resilience, and the simultaneous achievement of economic, social and environmental objectives. As part of its mandate, EFPU supports Ministries of Finance in raising public revenue in ways that strengthen rather than undermine the durability of growth, and in removing the fiscal incentives that work against national economic, social and environmental objectives at the same time. Environmental fiscal reform, understood in the broad sense of taxes, charges, fees, royalties and tradable instruments that price environmental damage or resource use, together with the reform of the subsidies and tax expenditures that reward it, sits at the centre of that offer. Pre-market interventions extend the same logic upstream, to the point at which investment approvals are granted, concessions are awarded, licences are issued and goods are imported, on the reasoning that incentives are considerably cheaper to correct before capital is committed than afterwards. EFPU is contributing to the UN Joint Programme on Green and Climate Finance in the Lao PDR, led by UNDP with UNEP, UN-Habitat and FAO as implementing partners. The Joint Programme supports the Government of the Lao PDR in mobilising and aligning public and private finance with the priorities of the 10th National Socio-Economic Development Plan (NSEDP). Within this Joint Programme, EFPU is responsible for Activity 2.5 on Environmental Fiscal Reform and Pre-market Interventions, which provides for a costed plan and policy recommendations developed with the Ministry of Finance, and for the associated dissemination. EFPU is separately responsible for Activity 2.2 on the application of the Sustainable Budgeting Approach, and the two Activities are presented to the Ministry of Finance as one coherent offer on how public money is raised and how it is allocated. The 10th NSEDP commits the Government to a substantial revision of tax legislation, covering the laws on general taxation, value added tax, corporate income tax, resource tax and import and expo
Settori: Finance & Economy
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