Dear Colleagues,
Please find following Pacific Vacancies - Announcement No. 2001/ 24
For those interested in applying - Good luck!
Wilco Liebregts
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THE STRATEGIC ACTION PROGRAMME (SAP) FOR THE INTERNATIONAL WATERS OF THE
PACIFIC SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES
INVITATION FOR AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
Review of Past, Current and Planned Country Activity as it Relates to
Potential Work of the International Waters Project
Project Description
The SAP is a 5-year project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF),
implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and executed
by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). The Project
Co-ordination Unit (PCU) for the SAP is based at SPREP's headquarters at
Apia, Samoa.
The SAP has two components. The oceanic component is specifically targeting
management and conservation issues associated with the regional tuna
resource in the Central Western Pacific. Responsibility for this aspect of
the SAP rests with the Secretariat for the Pacific Community (SPC), based in
New Caledonia, and the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) based in Solomon Islands.
The second component is concerned with coastal and watershed issues. The
PCU is responsible for this component, which will focus on the
implementation of 14 Pilot Projects, one in each island country
participating in the Programme (Cook Islands, Federated States of
Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New
Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu).
The Programme aims to assist island States, and their communities, improve
their capacity to manage transboundary water resources and create improved
processes to address environmental degradation and promote resource
sustainability. The Pilot Projects are to assist with the identification of
best practices and appropriate methodologies in four broad focal areas:
reducing community waste impacts on the environment, the sustainable
management of freshwater resources, management of marine protected areas and
sustainable management of coastal fisheries. Community level activity will
be important elements of each Project.
The PCU is inviting Expressions of Interest for qualified and experienced
consultants interested in undertaking a review of past, current and planned
SAP-related country activities. The contribution to this activity will be in
the form of a short-term consultancy to be undertaken at the SPREP
headquarters in Samoa.
Objective
The objective of this task is to gain a detailed understanding of existing
activities in the four SAP focal areas in the region so that possibilities
of developing collaborative arrangements for the SAP, and avoiding
duplication, are improved.
Terms of Reference
The consultant will be required to review past, current and planned
activities in the 4 key SAP focal areas (sustainable fisheries; marine
protected areas; community-based waste reduction; and preservation of
freshwater quality) in each of the 14 participating countries. The review,
in the form of a desk study, will include activities undertaken by SPREP,
other agencies including CROP agencies, governments, private sector,
international and local NGOs, bilateral donors and multilateral agencies.
The output will be a country profile of programmes and activities for each
of the four focal areas that can be used during the evaluation candidates
for pilot project implementation. The work undertaken will also provide
information, in the form of a database and a report, that is directly
relevant to the concurrent review to be undertaken of Lessons Learned and
Best Practices for community-based activities in the four SAP focal areas.
The information will be used by the PCU to assist with the design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of pilot projects that will be
established in communities in each of the island States participating in the
International Waters Project.
The consultant will be required to work at the PCU within SPREP. The
Consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and
in collaboration with the Community Assessment and Participation Specialist
and the Community Communications Specialist.
The consultant will be required to:
¡¤ Review published and unpublished material available at SRPEP to obtain
information on SAP-related activities in participating country activities;
¡¤ Liaise with other Programme staff, and other SPREP staff, to obtain
information on country activities;
¡¤ Liaise with other agencies, country governments, donors and NGOs operating
in the region to obtain relevant information;
¡¤ Enter information into a database of activities;
¡¤ Prepare a report on country activities.
It is envisaged that this work may be carried out in two stages. The first
stage will involve an assessment of information needs, the design of a
strategy to acquire the required information and the implementation of a
process that generates the information required. Consolidation of
information acquired during the first phase of the consultancy will also be
commenced. The second stage will involve follow-up activities to complete
the information gathering exercise, an analysis of the information acquired,
its consolidation into a database and its presentation, in summary form, in
a report.
The product of the consultancy will be a report (no more than 25 pages plus
bibliography) and a database submitted to SPREP in hard copy and electronic
format. The consultant will be required to submit a draft report to SPREP
for comment. Copyright for the report, and ownership of all material
produced during the consultancy, will be vested in SPREP.
Expression of Interest
Interested individuals are invited to submit a proposal expressing interest
in this consultancy. Each response must provide:
¡¤ a CV
¡¤ an indication of availability between late March and April 2001; and
¡¤ an indicative daily consultancy fees.
The International Waters Project will cover all costs associated with the
consultancy.
A response to this invitation would be appreciated by Friday 16th March 2001.
Additional information relating to this activity is available from:
Andrew Wright
Project Manager,
International Waters,
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme,
PO Box 240,
Apia
Samoa
Tel: (685) 21929
Email: dreww@...
Web: \\www.sprep.org.ws\iw
Date Invitation posted: 28/2/2001
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