Key Expert on Bioeconomy (Key Expert 5)

•    Provide strategic and technical support in the design, revision, and implementation of national and subnational adaptation strategies ensuring alignment with national climate goals. 
•    Promote the integration of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into public planning and budgeting, including for urban and rural resilience, ecosystem restoration, watershed management, and disaster risk reduction. 
•    Support the mainstreaming of climate risk, ecosystem services valuation, and co-benefits into climate adaptation and resilience projects and policies. 
•    Design and deliver capacity development measures (e.g., training, technical assistance, and peer learning exchanges) on ecosystem-based adaptation, water governance, integrated risk management, and resilient infrastructure planning. 
•    Co-develop scalable and replicable pilot projects in ecosystem-based adaptation, climate-resilient agriculture, providing technical input on project structuring, feasibility studies, and climate risk assessments. 
•    Support access to and mobilization of climate and natural capital finance, including natural capital accounting, NbS investment plans, and identification of de-risking instruments and blended finance mechanisms tailored to adaptation interventions. 
•    Ensure mainstreaming of gender equality, Indigenous inclusion, and social equity in the design and delivery of activities, as well as contributions to monitoring, reporting, and regional knowledge management. 
•    Engage with Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to promote and incorporate traditional knowledge systems in adaptation and resilience governance. 
•    Contribute to future-oriented planning processes, including promoting the resilience of water infrastructure, early warning systems, climate-smart watershed governance, and integration of climate risk in land-use and investment planning.