Dear Colleagues,
Please find following Pacific Vacancies - Announcement No. 2001/ 22
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 Lessons Learned and Best Practices in Integrated Coastal Watershed
Conservation and Management Initiatives
in the Pacific Islands Region
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 lessons learned, best
practices and measures of success for SAP-related country activities. The
contribution to this activity will be in the form of a short-term
consultancy to be undertaken partly at SPREP headquarters in Samoa and
partly at the consultant's home base.
Objective
The objective is to provide a synopsis of information relating to the
experience of other programmes that have attempted to address sustainable
resource use and conservation issues at the community level in the Pacific
Islands region or in island ecosystems elsewhere. Examples of such
programmes are the Biodiversity Conservation Network's activities in the
mid-1990s, the South Pacific Biodiversity Conservation Programme, Pacific
Islands Climate Change Assistance Programme and the Capacity Building for
Environmental Management Programme. The output of this objective will be a
report which will provide a description and analysis of issues (lessons
learned, best practices and measures of success) that enhance the prospects
of success for community-based (participatory) sustainable resource
management and conservation initiatives.
Terms of Reference
The report resulting from the review of lessons learned, best practices and
measures of success in community-based sustainable resource management and
conservation will include:
¡¤ A review of lessons learned and best practices in participatory resource
management and conservation projects in island ecosystems with emphasis on
the four focal areas for the International Waters Programme (sustainable
coastal fisheries, marine protected areas, community-based waste reduction
and preservation of freshwater resources). Issues will be considered in
context of the entire project cycle - from project planning and design;
selection of sites; method of community entry; community baseline
assessments; participation of communities; the role and participation of
governments, NGOs and other agencies; education and awareness activities,
completion and exit considerations such as alternative income generation,
and monitoring and evaluation. The review will consider social/cultural,
economic, environmental, administrative, managerial, legal and political
dimensions of such projects.
¡¤ Selected summaries or 'snap shots' of initiatives in the four focal areas
demonstrating methodologies and approaches to best practices.
¡¤ Discussion of factors to be considered in measuring pilot project success,
or failure, in social, economic or environmental terms.
¡¤ A list of references, additional readings, potential resource people, and
web sites relating to the four key areas and the community-based work of the
SAP.
The review should focus on activities in the South Pacific region with
adequate representation and discussion of initiatives from Melanesia,
Polynesia and Micronesia. However, it may also be necessary to draw on
material and experiences from outside the region, for example Indonesia and
the Philippines or the Caribbean and Indian Oceans, particularly in respect
of lessons learned in marine resource management projects. Valuable
comparative information may also be found in community-based forestry
conservation and management initiatives both in the South Pacific region and
elsewhere.
It is envisaged that this review will consist of two parts: i) a desk top
study of available published and grey literature, workshop reports and
project reports, and ii) consultations with resource people at SPREP (and,
by email, facsimile or telephone, selected people from other regional
agencies and NGOs in the region) who have had significant expertise in the
implementation of community-based environmental programmes.
The consultancy will result in a report that will be used by the PCU to
assist with the selection, 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.
Source information will also be available through a concurrent review to be
undertaken of past, current and planned country activities in the four focal
areas in the South Pacific region.
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 and organisations are invited to submit a proposal
expressing interest in this consultancy. Each response must provide:
¡¤ the CVs of individuals that will contribute to the report,
¡¤ a summary of recent work in this field (client contact details and work
produced),
¡¤ an indication of availability between late March and April 2001,
¡¤ indicative daily consultancy fees,
¡¤ a draft outline or table of contents for a report that may be produced
under the consultancy.
The International Waters Project will cover all costs associated with the
consultancy, including travel costs to enable at least part of the
assignment to be completed at SPREP Headquarters in Samoa.
A response to this invitation would be appreciated by Friday 16th March 2001.
Additional information is available from:
Andrew Wright
Project Manager,
International Waters,
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme,
PO Box 240,
Apia
Samoa
Tel: (685) 21 929
Fax: (685) 20 231
Email: dreww@...
Web: \\www.sprep.org.ws\iw
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