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The Government of Tanzania, with support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has secured a grant from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) to develop a project to tackle the challenges of land degradation in the country, entitled “Securing watershed services through SLM in the Ruvu and Zigi catchments (Eastern Arc Region) of Tanzania” to be implemented between 2014 and 2020. The project concept is described in the Project Identification Form (PIF) annex 1, which outlines the watershed degradation problem, the causes of land degradation and barriers preventing the stakeholders from comprehensively addressing the challenges. It also outlines the goal, objectives, outcomes and outputs expected from the initiative. The project aims to build on the impressive baseline for SLM work in Tanzania to establish the capacity, knowledge and policies required to advance SLM for ecosystems rehabilitation. Working in two landscapes (Ruvu-Wami and Zigi), the project expects to forge partnerships across the government, private sector, academic institutions, farmers, civil society,  and use the partnerships to develop and test a knowledge-based model for rehabilitating currently degraded land and reducing further degradation of land and loss of ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains.
 
The PPG will be used to gather the detailed information required to finalize the barrier-root-cause analysis for each of the components, clearly identifying the current issues, challenges, opportunities, partnerships and collaboration mechanisms available to the project to achieve the desired results (as outlined in table 1 below). It will also be used to identify relevant project participants and confirm project implementation arrangements, co-finance, targets and indicators (including those for the LD Tracking Tool). As much as possible, all relevant partners will be involved in the PPG process, building on the stakeholder table developed during PIF formulation. This will enable full cost-sharing and meaningful participation during project design. All relevant project partners and co-financers will be involved in the project design phase through one-on-one consultations, working group meetings, and participating in project development workshops. This will ensure full ownership of the project, and build the foundation for sustaining the impacts after the GEF funding.
 
The project Objective is “Sustainable land and natural resource management alleviates land degradation, maintains ecosystem services and improves livelihoods in the Ruvu and Zigi sub-catchments of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania”. The objective will be achieved via two key components, each with several outcomes. Component 1 is on “Collaborative framework for Water Basin Authorities to effectively coordinate the integration of SLM into the planning and monitoring of land management and leverage national and district baseline investments for SLM, (focusing on Ruvu and Zigi watersheds). Component 2 will aim to Reduce the effects of Land Degradation on Ecosystem Services through Sustainable Land Management.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Ensure that all sampling methodologies, data collection and analysis are in line with international best practices and that each national consultant and the lead institutions are aware of and committed to the collection and analysis of key data.

Lead the use of the baseline data to refine the following:

  • Detailed incremental-cost analysis as per GEF guidance: precise definition of baseline projects, activities, budgets, goals and co-financial links to GEF outcomes; definition of GEF incremental value per outcome and output; presentation of results of the incremental cost-analysis in matrices;
  • Assessment of the social, economic and financial sustainability of proposed project activities, including gender aspects;
  • Assessment of the alternatives to the project strategy and detailed definition of the cost effectiveness of the preferred strategy and suite of activities;
  • Quantification and detailed presentation of the global environmental benefits of the project;
  • Analysis of the major risks related to project implementation and achievement of impacts and mitigation measures, including completion of the full Environmental and social screening; 
  • Definition of the replication strategy for project activities at national level with regard to SLM, the green economy and the zero net land degradation principles;
  • Development of the project monitoring and evaluation plan, and budget;
  • Costing the expected project outcomes and outputs, identifying co-finance, sources and secure co-financing commitments (letters);
  • Finalized project logical framework, with particular emphasis on ecological indicators;
  • Lead the process of formulating of a practical, participatory M&E process for monitoring the impacts of the project on rangelands and livelihoods, and use the information to prepare the Tracking Tools and the UNDP environmental and social safeguards.

Compétences

Functional Competencies
  • Ability to conduct research and analysis coupled with Strong leadership and entrepreneurial skills;
  • Builds strong relationships with national team, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to critical feedback; consensus-oriented;
  • Proven ability to plan, organize and effectively implement activities;
  • Ability to coordinate and work in teams, as well as in complex environments;
  • Highly developed inter-personal, negotiation and teamwork skills, networking aptitude;
  • Excellent writing and communication skills.
Corporate competencies:
  • Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
  • Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:
  • At least a Masters’ Degree or above in the natural resources management, Social Sciences or relevant area
Experience:
  • Minimum 10 year’s work experience in the practice area of Sustainable Land Management (Land Degradation or Natural resources management).
  • Proven experience in participatory processes and in facilitating dialogue between Government, Development partners, private sector and civil society;
  • Proven and extensive international experience in sustainable land management/land degradation;
  • Extensive experience in UNDP/GEF project formulation/design;
  • Familiarity with UNDP/GEF project implementation modalities.
Language:
  • Fluency in the English language and excellent oral and written communication skills.

How to submit proposals:

Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than 24 June 2014. icprocurement.tz@undp.org

  • Applicants should download the application documents (presented in compresses file) from UNDP Tanzania website, complete and sign them, and the send the scanned copies to the email account above by or before the deadline of this post;  
  • Applications with no financial offer or missing P11 form and CV or the required documents for the technical evaluation will not be considered for evaluation;
  • Applications without submitting a financial offer instead of other format will not be considered due to the ease comparison of the received offers;
  • All necessary information for this post (TOR, Deliverables, Target dates, etc. are presented in the ICPN) therefore applicant MUST download it from the website as mentioned above;  
  • Do not send CV only to the Email account mentioned above without Cover Letter and Methodology (if requested) as it will be considered as incomplete application;
  • The documents are available in PDF (the TOR, ICPN and IC guidelines) format: this is the only format available and it will not be provided in other formats;
  • Each email should be less than 8MB; emails over this size will not be received to the above mentioned account.