WWF Tanzania Country Office (WWF – TCO) is implementing a five-year project funded by WWF-Switzerland (WWF-CH), which seeks to use innovative and multiple landscape restoration approaches to enhance human wellbeing and wildlife in Sustainable Forest Management in the East Usambara sub-montane-Coastal Forests.
WWF under the East Usambara Restoration project (EURP), seeks to recruit an expert to assess the stakeholders and partners’ capacity gap on inclusive natural resources governance, sustainable forest management, agroforestry practices, integrated land use planning and forest restoration best practices and wildlife population monitoring in the selected villages in the East Usambara mountains. This information will be a benchmark to ensure proper natural resource governance, monitoring of both forest condition and wildlife populations, identification of human-wildlife conflicts and the restoration of both forests and wildlife corridors that are still existing.
Specific objectives.
- Assess the knowledge, perception and attitudes of the stakeholders and partners on inclusive natural resources governance.
- Assess the capacity of the stakeholders and partners in the best land uses practices including use of holistic approaches in land use.
- Assess the current practices on the sustainable forest management and forest restoration activities conducted and develop capacity building plan.
- Assess the best practices by the stakeholders and partners on wildlife population observation and measurement.
- Develop a capacity building plan; to build capacity and raise awareness to the partners and stakeholders on inclusive natural resources governance, sustainable forest management, agroforestry practices, integrated land use planning and forest restoration best practices, wildlife population monitoring.
Key deliverables.
- An Inception Report that provides details on the tools, methodology, team composition, work plan and budget. An inception report should include a clear methodology for the assignment (data collection and analysis)
- Two hard and soft copies of the Final Report with recommended results.
Duration and proposal submission deadline This assignment will last for 30 days.
Full ToR available on https://www.wwf.ortz/jobs_and_opportunities/consultancies_and_tenders/ . Applications should include a brief, complete, combined technical and financial proposal that is fully signed and includes the consultant profile, specific evidences of experience with similar work, the proposed approach and methods, and the work plan and schedule for the process. The consultant’s CV should also be included. In addition to the one-page cover letter, the financial proposal should also include clear details of direct and reimbursable time and other costs; this includes unit costs for professional fees and reimbursable taxes. Interested parties should submit Only softcopy full proposals (technical & financial) to procurementPwwftz.org no later than 10:00am am, Wednesday, 21st June, 2023. addressed to;
Secretary, Procurement Committee
WWF Tanzania
Kiko Street, Off Mwai Kibaki Road Plot 252, Mikocheni
P. O. Box 63117, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: +255 22 277 5346/277 2455/270 0077 Fax:+255 22 277 5535; website. wwf.or.tz
Evaluation of the consultancy applications will be done based on WWF procurement guidelines and that WWF Tanzania is not bound to accept any lowest or highest proposal/bid. Only Shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. WWF has a principle of zero tolerance on fraud and corruption, if you encounter such an incident, then report it by sending an email to fcciPwwftz.org
