Background and scope
Africa has the fastest urban growth in the world, with an estimated 567 million people living in cities. But such growth is characterized by poverty, limited capacity to manage waste, storm water management, overcrowding, congestion among others. These limitations are further exacerbated by projected threats of climate change such as frequency of floods, heat waves, and sea level rise. In Tanzania, for example, coastal cities are put at high risk of effects of climate change due to urbanization. While there are many interventions that Tanzania has defined, urban forestry and its management have the potential to enable country’s response to climate change mitigation whilst providing health benefits to urban populations.
Given rapid urbanization and population growth across coastal cities, urban forests can provide green space and mechanisms to mitigate storm water and floods. Urban forestry can also play a potential role as a cooling system for the increased temperatures as a result of global warming. However, little is known on the status of urban forests and the potential on people and climate across major cities in Tanzania.
There is a growing appetite and need to understand urban forestry in detail and its role towards climate change and health- how it is defined across groups; and embedded in policy, action planning, implementation in municipal and city councils. Unfortunately, in Tanzania, urban forestry’s understanding, potential and enabling systems are undermined in number of ways including lack of clarity on ownership and management capacity across local and national authorities, and lack of urban forestry in legal and policy frameworks among others.
These limitations signal the urgency for WWF and partners to understand and scope out immediate actions on urban forestry within cities and municipalities in Tanzania. It is against this backdrop that WWF seeks a consultant (s) to carry out a scoping study of urban forestry in Tanzania with focus on Dar es Salaam, Mtwara, Dodoma and Zanzibar. This consultancy is expected to build on current projects that WWF is supporting in Dodoma and Dar es Salaam.
Objective of the consultancy
The overall objective of this assignment is to undertake an urban forestry scoping study to define urban forestry in local context, assess the status and opportunities to engage for the selected places of urban Centre’s. This study is meant to provide the status and potential of urban forestry and forests in city and municipal councils; an entry point for WWF, city/municipal councils, the Government on potential interventions to support urban forestry in Tanzania; and actions at city level and those that will be critical at national scale (e.g. policies) to enable urban forestry in Tanzania.
Application procedure & Submission of Applications
All interested applicants may get the detailed ToR on WWF websites at https://www.wwf.ortz/jobs_and_opportunities/jobs/ and also, send your full proposal (technical & financial) through procurement email at [email protected] only softcopy proposals are accepted addressed to; Secretary, Procurement Committee
WWF Tanzania
Kiko Street, Off Mwai Kibaki Road Plot 252, Mikocheni
P. 0. Box 63117, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: #255 22 277 5346/277 2455/270 0077 Fax: +255 22 277 5535; & website. wwf.or.tz
Please send a 1-page application letter outlining your expertise and relevant experience about this consultancy. Submit a concise 2 — 4-page technical proposal highlighting the proposed approach, methodologies, brief work schedule, team composition and timings of the process. A brief financial proposal, clearly specifying the time professional fees, and proposed implementation costs. A 2 – 3-page CV of lead should also be attached.
All applications should reach us by or before 10.00am Tanzania local time on Monday 6″ December 2021
