The World-Wide Fund for Nature Tanzania Country Office is implementing the Trillion Trees Program aiming at unlocking sustainable financing for Forest Landscapes Restoration. Trillion Trees (TT) is a major initiative conceived by Restore Our Planet, a UK-based environmental foundation. A group of three international conservation organizations – the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK & Tanzania) and BirdLife International (BLI)will implement the program. The world’s forests face a host of threats, which often reflect the fact that forests and the services they provide are not adequately valued in decision making and economic policy frameworks. These pressures are well known and many major international initiatives are attempting to respond to them.
Bankable Nature Based Solutions (BNS) are financially viable projects which support the development of more climate resilient and sustainable landscapes and economies. Their bankability enables projects to accelerate scaling and replication, realizing large-scale positive impact on nature and communities. WWF searches and develops projects to protect nature and connect them to investors. The intention is to develop these into profitable projects for all the ones involved. Thus, Bankable Nature Based Solutions are solutions for environmental challenges that at the same time generate an acceptable (risk-adjusted) return on the money invested. There is a fragmented knowledge of Bankable Nature projects within and outside WWF. NbS/bankable projects is a new problematic concept that needs to be articulated to trainees with practical examples before engaging them in designing and developing BNPs. Therefore, WWF seeks for a consultancy support to provide capacity development and training to strengthen knowledge and skillset on innovative writing of bankable proposal for nature conservation.
Objective of the consultancy
The main objective is to deliver a training course on effective way of developing bankable conservation projects that meets donor requirements.
Specifically; i. Identify different sources of funding that could be available donors that would be most feasible to Tanzania and WWF TCO in particular. ii. Train participants to gain an understanding of project proposal development explaining the possibilities and challenges of developing conservation projects/programmes to protect biodiversity. Provide examples of successful Conservation Projects. iii. Train the participants in searching and accessing funding opportunities and call for proposal from bilateral and multilateral donors on both restricted and unrestricted fund windows; iv. Train participants in techniques for fundraising especially engagement with corporate and philanthropists; v. Guide participants to develop at least 2 draft project proposal, that identifies at potential donors such as Bilateral and Multilateral, Corporate and DPs that could support environmental conservation initiatives; vi. Train participants on negotiation skills and contract management; vii. Develop a training manual covering the above aspects with case studies
Application procedure & Submission of Applications
All interested applicants may get the detailed ToR on WWF websites at https://www.wwf.or.tz/jobs_and_opportunities/jobs/ and also, send your full proposal (technical & financial) through procurement email at [email protected]g only softcopy proposals are accepted addressed to;
All applications should reach us by or before 1700hrs Tanzania local time on Monday, 03rd April 2023
