The Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania (JGI-TZ) with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks to subcontract a Pastoralism Livelihoods Consultant to provide technical and professional expertise in the development of a Strategy and Action Plan to address biodiversity threats from cattle movements through Forests managed under the Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania project (LCWT).
About Us:
Founded in 1977, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is an international non-governmental organization that continues Dr. Jane Goodall’s pioneering work on chimpanzee ecology and behavior. Its mission is to promote wildlife conservation, in particular chimpanzee sustainability, through research, education, and community conservation. In Western Tanzania, JGI Tanzania has been supporting a community-led, integrated conservation and development effort known as TACARE in Western Tanzania, since 1994. Through the years, multiple donors have worked with JGI Tanzania to advance conservation and sustainable development in this region.
Project Background:
On November 5, 2018, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) launched the Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania (LCWT) project funded through a cooperative agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The project is designed to address the primary threats to natural forest cover and the chimpanzee population in the Gombe Masito Ugalla (GMU) landscape. It aims to protect chimpanzee populations and their habitat in western Tanzania while improving household income from the sustainable use of natural resources and the establishment of microenterprises and private sector partnerships that reinforce conservation behaviors.
The LCWT project scope covers an area of 1,733,283 ha, which is categorized into management zones that include protected areas (Gombe National Park, Tongwe East, the newly established Tongwe West and Masito Local Authority Forest Reserves, and national forest reserves and village forests. The area includes 104 targeted villages in the landscape covering Kigoma, Uvinza, Mpanda and Tanganyika districts. Tanganyika and Mpanda districts host Mishamo and Katumba refugee settlements respectively — both of which are transitioning from refugee settlements into formal Tanzanian villages.
Objectives of the Consultancy:
The consultant will work with project staff, district, and regional technical experts to build a better understanding of the dynamics of Livestock as a threat to forest ecosystems in general and to chimpanzees specifically (either directly or indirectly through habitat loss) in the LCWT landscape. Based on that assessment and experiences from other conservation projects the consultant will collaboratively develop a strategy and action plan to guide the project in implementing an effective Livestock strategy that reduces threats to chimpanzee habitat in a sustainable fashion.
- Conduct a thorough socio cultural and economic assessment of agro-pastoralists/pastoralists utilizing protected forests in the LCWT landscape.
a. Review existing relevant literature and LCWT sponsored surveys conducted to date (2018 and 2021).
b. Document strategies being used by agro-pastoralists/pastoralists in the landscape to utilize these forests to support livestock herds. Including information on how they evade control (law enforcement) and why they refuse to change behaviors.
c. Visit pastoralists inside forests to conduct detailed assessment to discern and map the real owners of the livestock and if possible, to reach them to get their views and perspectives. Include traditional leaders in the assessment.
d. Build an understanding of agro-pastoralist/pastoralist’s perspectives on efforts to regulate their practices to be compatible with the sustainable use of natural resourc¬es and the protection of chimpanzee habitat. Identify what they think can and should be done. - Work with JGI experts to assess the relative impacts of Agro-Pastoralist / Pastoralist activities on chimps and chimp habitat in protected forests; Are livestock incursions a bigger threat than subsistence agriculture in riverine forests (a key chimp habitat)?
- Work with LCWT and District and Regional support (NRM and Livestock) staff to devise a strategy and action plan for reducing impacts of livestock incursions into protected forests and chimp habitat in the LCWT landscape. Identify potential livelihood improvement options that could reduce livestock impacts.
- Provide ongoing periodic support to LCWT in the implementation of the strategy and action plan.
Consultancy Deliverables:
The consultant will produce: - A work plan detailing methodologies to be used and activities to be carried out to accomplish the objectives.
- Report combining a socio-cultural and economic assessment of pastoralist behaviors with an assessment of the relative impacts of Pastoralists on chimps and their habitat, in the LCWT Landscape.
- Collaboratively developed strategy and action plan for reducing impacts from Livestock in the LCWT landscape.
- Other deliverables to be specified by LCWT in support of implementation of the strategy and action plan.
Level of Effort:
The consultant is expected to complete deliverables I to 3 within 60 calendar days.
Application Instructions:
Qualified applicants should submit their applications to the following e-mail address: kol-tanzania@janegoodallortz:. The applications should include covering letter, CV, and detailed technical and financial proposal (not more than 5 pages) describing how the Consultant would implement objectives 1-3 above. Applicants should clearly describe the approaches they will use to get the needed information; the Consultant’s approach should follow the basic ethical guide¬lines that protect the rights of pastoralists but get at the answers needed. The use of field enumera¬tors to collect qualitative data is an acceptable expense.
Please note that only the shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
