Dear Colleagues,
Please find following Pacific Vacancies - Announcement No. 2001/ 25
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
SYNOPSIS OF INFORMATION RELATING TO
WASTE MANAGEMENT, POLLUTION PREVENTION AND IMPROVED SANITATION WITH A FOCUS
ON COMMUNITIES IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS REGION
Background
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.
Project Description
The objective of this consultancy is to provide a review of published and
other information relating to waste management, pollution prevention and
improved sanitation initiatives, with a focus on community issues, in the
Pacific Islands region. The review will place particular emphasis on issues
relating to the planned focus of subsequent pilot projects that may be
instigated under the SAP.
The output of this review will be a report accompanied by a comprehensive
bibliography.
Terms of Reference
The consultancy may be undertaken either by a consultant working
independently or a team of consultants that would combine their efforts to
complete the work required. The South Pacific Applied Geosciences Commission
(SOPAC) will be invited to contribute to this review such that the resulting
report may be used by the PCU and SOPAC to assist in developing future work
programme initiatives.
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 addressing issues associated with community-based waste
reduction, pollution prevention and improved sanitation that will be
established in communities in each of the 14 island States participating in
the International Waters Project.
The report will include:
¡¤ A review of the current information relating to waste reduction, pollution
prevention and improved sanitation in the Pacific Islands region, or
elsewhere, as it relates to the objectives of the SAP in terms of promoting
management for improved waste reduction initiatives in communities.
The review should summarize activities, within the region or elsewhere, that
have attempted to address low cost/no cost alternatives to reduce loadings
of solid and liquid wastes, particularly in coastal and watershed
communities where quality of drinking water resources is at risk.
Information may include a review of priority waste concerns in Pacific
Island communities, management and governance issues, and options for
increased community responsibility for managing waste problems.
¡¤ An outline of the types of community-based project activities that could
be implemented to address community-based waste issues in the Pacific
islands region under the SAP.
¡¤ A list of references, additional readings, potential resource people, and
web sites relating to the SAP's programme in community-based waste.
The review should focus on activities in the South Pacific region with
adequate representation and discussion of case studies from Melanesia,
Polynesia and Micronesia. In this respect, the work of SOPAC has particular
relevance to this review. Information from island ecosystems in other ocean
regions should be cited where appropriate.
Some source information will 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 30 pages plus
bibliography) 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.
A response to this invitation would be appreciated by c.o.b. 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
Date Invitation posted: 28/2/2001
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