GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM SPECIALIST Tender, Lesotho - 39884914

Procurement Summary

Country : Lesotho

Summary : GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM SPECIALIST

Deadline : 30 Jan 2020

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 39884914

Document Ref. No. : 62755

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
United Nations Rd, Maseru Tel: +266 2222-8000 Fax: +266 2231-0042
Lesotho
Email :registry.ls@undp.org
URL :http://www.ls.undp.org

Tender Details

The Lesotho UNDP Country Office and the the Ministry of Forestry, Range and Soil Conservation (MFRSC) of the Government of Lesotho are implementing a five-year (2015-2020) GEF-financed project "Reducing vulnerability from climate change in Foothills, lower Lowlands and Senqu River". The objective of the project is to mainstream climate risk considerations into the Land Rehabilitation Programme of Lesotho for improved ecosystem resilience and reduce vulnerability of livelihoods to climate shocks. The project is supporting the integration of climate change adaptation into national and sub-national land use planning and decision-making.Climate change including rising temperatures and a greater frequency of droughts and extreme rainevents are negatively affecting local communities living in rural parts of Lesotho. The fragile mountain ecosystems of Lesotho provide a range of benefits that increase the resilience of such communities to climate change. These include regulating services such as storing and retaining water as well as mitigating floods. However, these ecosystems are characterisedbywidespread degradation because of unsustainable land management and exploitation of natural resources. The effects of this ecosystem degradation in Lesotho include loss of vegetative cover and extreme soil erosion. Such effects reduce the capacity of these ecosystems to protect vulnerable communities from the increasingly negative impacts of climate change that arethreatening their livelihoods.The preferred solution to the climate change problem facing Lesotho is to strengthen the resilience of climate-vulnerable communities by: i) enhancing the capacity of government institutions and local communities to mainstream climate change risks into policies, plans and programmes; ii) implementing climate-smart ecosystem rehabilitation and management measures using a community/household based approach; and iii) establishing a system for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of v...

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