Team Leader- Climate Finance

Overview of Crisil

Crisil is a leading consulting arm of Crisil that provides advisory services for infrastructure development to governments, investors, and public and private sector firms in emerging economies. Their work focuses on developing enabling frameworks for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), strengthening the infrastructure financing ecosystem, and improving public finance management to foster inclusive, sustainable, and financially resilient infrastructure development across sectors like urban, energy, transport, and water.

 Overview of the Project

A. Analyse feasibility of financial tools (like loans, bonds, parametric insurance, results-based finance, and other innovative instruments), focusing on how they can be blended especially with insurance and other suite of investments options —into a broader disaster risk finance that fits with Vietnam’s legal framework and explore how the approach could be scaled and adapted for use by other Red Cross Societies in the region.

B. Analyse the political and governance system to understand the different roles that specific Government of Vietnam departments, linked entities, domestic financers, bankers and broader stakeholder have in influencing and regulating access to blended climate financing, with explicit adaptation focus.

C. Map nexus of blended climate related financing landscape, that have an explicit adaptation focusavailable at national and international climate finance options with a focus on the role that blended finance can play viz. the Growth Investment Partnership such as BII / PIDG, Green Bonds etc that are backed by local banks and potentially attractive for humanitarian settings. This could include selecting 3-4 priority instruments (e.g., loans, credit lines via local banks, green/blue bonds, blended financing structures insurance, results-based finance etc.). For each instrument, check Vietnam’s fit based on legal requirements, set-up time, financial risks, controls needed). Build simple selection tools: Decision Matrix or Decision Tree to assess applicability of different instruments.

D. Assess VNRC’s funding architecture, income generation potential, and institutional readiness for managing climate financing, identify structural gaps in relations with government of Vietnam regulations / policies and recommend mechanisms to address them.

E. Return on investment analysis to assess the impact that blended financing could have to justify the choice of instrument in terms of cost effectiveness and efficiency of operations during emergency and long-term programming while cross referencing case studies developed by Red Cross under component 1 of CARA project.

F. Develop a clear blended climate financing roadmap (with short term, mid term and long term objectives and associated action plans) for VNRC that have an explicit adaptation focus and that has a scope for replication across the region to enhance climate resilience, disaster risk reduction and sustainable humanitarian actions.

G. Develop an actionable funder-ready investment case for VNRC based on various analysis undertaken under the scope of this work that include purpose, problem statement built on latest climate research, governance, budget, risk/mitigation measures.

H. Using Vietnam as a pilot case, to provide guidance note with clear pathways for the Red Cross Movement in accessing / using the nexus of blended climate finance instruments with explicit adaptation focus by other Red Cross-National Societies across the region.

 Qualification Required  for Team Leader

• Experience (Years) – Atleast 15 Years Experience in
• disaster risk finance,
• knowledge of specific Government of Vietnam departments, linked entities, domestic financers, bankers
• blended climate finance
• climate policy analysis
• The project leader has good written and oral command of the Vietnamese language

Timelines and Location

• The estimated timelines for the project is 07 months from Dec 2025 to July 2026.
• The project location is in Vietnam