Consultant to Support Strengthening Tender in Cape Verde - 28165493

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Country: Cape Verde

Summary: Consultant to Support Strengthening of the National Legal and Regulatory Framework to Enable Effective Co-Management of Natural Resources

Deadline: 23 Nov 2018

Posting Date: 02 Nov 2018

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 28165493

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Competition: ICB

Financier: United Nations Secretariat

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Tenders are invited for Consultant to Support Strengthening of the National Legal and Regulatory Framework to Enable Effective Co-Management of Natural Resources.
Background
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Applications through UNDP jobs will not be accepted, only to the [email protected] email address.
Interested candidates are required to read the Procurement Notice for Individual Consultants and its related documents, which are available in the following websites:
· UN Cape Verde website, www.un.cv, under the section Anúncios;
· the UNGM website at www.ungm.org; and
· UNDP Procurement website at http://procurement-notices.undp.org
Background and Project Description
The consultancy will be developed in the framework of the project “Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into the tourism sector in synergy with a further strengthened protected areas system in Cabo Verde”, executed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAA), through the National Directorate of the Environment (DNA), in close collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and Transport, and co-funded by the UNDP and the GEF.
The project’s main objective is to safeguard globally significant biodiversity in Cabo Verde from current and emerging threats, by enhancing the enabling and regulatory frameworks in the tourism sector and activating a critical further subset of the national protected areas (PAs) system.
The proposed alternative scenario, supported by the project, will create enabling conditions to mitigate the adverse impacts on biodiversity by the tourism sector in Cabo Verde. The frameworks will be developed at national level and tentatively rolled out in four priority islands – Santiago, Sal, Boa Vista and Maio – where immediate pressure is greatest and urgent action is required that can be replicated more widely in the future. This urgent action includes at the local level the pending operationalization of a number of critical terrestrial and marine/coastal PAs and the piloting of marine biodiversity and artisanal fisheries management together with communities in two selected sites. At the same time the project will harness the opportunities to establish more sustainable tools for PA financing, protected area management and local community development, contributing to the consolidation and diversification of Cabo Verde tourism product, and the sustainability of the destination and the sector. This will be achieved through the following two project components:?
· Under Component 1, the project will develop and put in place coherent and effective enabling frameworks (i.e. legal, policy, regulatory and institutional) for enhanced multi-sectoral strategic land-use planning at the landscape level, to focus on the tourism, fisheries and associated real estate/construction and fisheries sectors. This will involve: (1) strengthening the capacity at the institutional/governmental level for integrating biodiversity into the tourism sector, including through Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs), Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and related regulations in tourism planning and permitting, and for compliance monitoring and enforcement; (2) the setup of policy mainstreaming committees overseeing policy and planning coherence between tourism development and environmental/biodiversity management, at the national level and on the targeted islands with significant local tourism developments (i.e. Santiago, Sal, Boa Vista and Maio); (3) the development and revision of land-use planning regulations (i.e. SEA, EIA, Special Touristic Zones (ZTEs), Zones of Integral Tourism Development (ZDTIs), Zones of Touristic Reserve and Protection (ZRPT), etc.) so they fully integrate biodiversity concerns, and to ensure their recommendations are implemented and monitored; (4) implementation of SEAs to inform tourism development plans, where there are gaps in destinations where significant tourism development pressure is predicted; (5) the revision of financial tax incentives and licensing processes to integrate biodiversity criteria; (6) the establishment and piloting of best-practice standards for sustainable tourism and voluntary certification for enterprises and destinations; and (7) the design and piloting of innovative PAs financing mechanism, through biodiversity offsets.
· Under Component 2, the project will support: (1) the operationalization of PAs through the development of management plans, ecotourism plans and supporting regulations for 7 in-operational PAs (i.e. one on Santiago, four on Boa Vista and two on Sal) to address existing and emerging threats to biodiversity; (2) identification of new potential Marine PAs (MPAs) sites for inclusion in the national PAs system, through a systematic assessment of biodiversity resources on the marine shelf, and contributing to the development of key missing marine species/habitat management plans; (3) the definition of and implementation of PAs governance, including co-management and conflict resolution mechanisms; (4) agreements on the regulation, management and enforcement of the use of land and natural resources by local communities/resource users; (5) the introduction of biodiversity-friendly and sustainable artisanal fishing in two pilot sites through the promotion and adoption of suitable gear and best practices, the designation of community-enforced no-take zones and seasonal fishing bans, etc.; (6) develop and pilot island-specific, cost-effective PAs revenue generation mechanisms in conjunction with tourism sector stakeholders – these will potentially include, inter alia, gate fees, tourism operator concession fees, ecotourism taxes, and biodiversity offset and reinvestment schemes; (7) installation of a tracking and environmental monitoring program and plan to track the impacts of tourism and fishing in PAs, using participatory approaches; and (8) the preparation and implementation of Informational Education and Communication (ICE) campaigns to promote the role of PAs and sustainable tourism.
Under Project Output 2.3. “Co-management of MPAs demonstrated in pilot sites based on the adoption of sustainable fishing practices by local communities” the project will support the design and establishment of a co-management system of artisanal fishery and, more in general, marine natural resources in Cabo Verde. These will be piloted in the Nature Reserve of Casa Velhas in Maio, and scaled up and broadened to include additional Marine Protected Areas in Sal or Boavista.
In order to provide suitable enabling environment to support development of these and other initiatives, the project will support an initial assessment and review of the national legal and regulatory framework on which these activities should be based on, providing proposals to adjust the current framework, and providing a set of tools to support the implementation of co-management initiatives, with special focus on marine natural resources and fisheries.
A team compounded by one international consultant and one national consultant specialized respectively on co-management of marine natural resources, and on the legal and regulatory national framework on marine natural resources and fishery management will be in charge to collaboratively elaborate and propose expected consultancy outputs.
Duties and Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
Develop and agree with the UNDP Country Office (UNDP-CO) (Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction Unit) and the DNA/PMU, the workplan and methodology to carry out the whole consultancy;
· Carry out a documental collection and analysis that will include the following documentation relevant for the objectives of the assignment:
· Laws, Decrees and other legal documents.
· International Conventions and Agreements ratified by the Country.
· Regulatory documents produced by Governmental Authorities.
· National policy, strategic and sectorial documents and plans.
· Documents related to previous initiatives of co-management of marine and other natural resources and in Protected Areas (e.g. co-management plans).
· Technical and scientific literature at international level on best practices to establish enabling national legal and regulatory frameworks for co-management of fisheries-related resources, natural resource in general, and co-management into Protected Areas.
Hold meetings with national stakeholders relevant to the assignment in order to:
· Complete collection of relevant data and information (see point above).
· Discuss preliminary findings from documental collection and analysis.
· Identify and discuss with stakeholders results, constrains, lessons learnt related to previous experiences of co-management of marine and other natural resources and in Protected Areas in Cape Verde.
· Identify existing opportunities in the national and international contexts for future implementation of co-management initiatives in Cape Verde, with special focus on: i) co-management initiatives to be developed in the framework of the Biodiversity and Tourism Project; ii) co-management initiatives to be developed inside Marine Protected Areas, and more in general into the National System of Protected Areas.
· Discuss with actors of the tourism sector the opportunities and options available for their engagement into co-management initiatives.
· Explore possibilities for proposals aimed to improve the national legal and regulatory framework to create enabling conditions for successful co-management initiatives.
Attend a meeting with UNDP-CO and DNA/PMU to discuss key inputs and results from the first field mission.
Prepare and deliver to UNDP-CO, DNA/PMU, and DNEM the first draft of the consultancy Progress Report.
In collaboration with the national consultant, review the first draft of the co

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