Professional in Communication Sciences, Project Conserving Biodiversity through Sustainable... Tender

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Country : Costa Rica

Summary : Professional in Communication Sciences, Project Conserving Biodiversity through Sustainable Management in Production Landscapes in Costa Rica

Deadline : 26 Jul 2018

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 24920455

Document Ref. No. : 47986

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
Address: San José Province, San José, Costa Rica Phone: +506 2296 1544
Costa Rica

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TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ON THE FOMRA APPLY, PROFILE AND REQUIREMENTS, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE TDRs ATTACHED.PROGRAM OF THE UNITED NATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Preserving the Biodiversity through the Sustainable Management in the Landscapes of Production in Costa Rica (LANDSCAPES PRODUCTIVOS 2018- 2023) TERMS OF REFERENCE Professional in Sciences of the ComunicUNDP Costa Rica will hire a professional in the sciences of collective communication for the planning and execution of the various activities established to comply with the results and products established in the Project Conserving Biodiversity through Sustainable Management in the Landscapes of Production in Costa Rica. The professional mustto support the activities with all the partners, counterparts, consultants and technical assistance contracted in relation to the execution of the project. BACKGROUND In Costa Rica, approximately 27% of its territory forms a solid network of protected areas that harbor diversity of ecosystems and richness in biodiversity. However, the expansion of the borderAgricultural, road infrastructure and urbandevelopment threaten natural ecosystems because the State has not managed to control the negative impacts on biodiversity, due to the absence of systematic monitoring of the landscape; This is despite the fact that the country has developed a solid legal framework. Consequently, the Costa Rican landscapes that are outside theThe network of protected areas are fragmented, and the few blocks that exist are threatened. The rapid expansion of commercial agricultural crops has paralleled the explosive expansion of urban areas, which by 2010 covered 2, 052 km2. In the last 20 years, Costa Rica has gone from being predominantly a rural society to being an urban society.Urban areas now constitute the second greatest threat to Costa Rica'sbiodiversity, since forest cover is eliminated to give rise to residential areas. The absence of updated regulatory plans, the expansion of unsustain...

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