Selection of a Team of Consultants Comprising International/Regional and National... Tender

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Country : Sierra Leone

Summary : Selection of a Team of Consultants Comprising International/Regional and National Experts to Develop a Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis Accompanied by a Database to Capitalize on and Share Data and Information

Deadline : 28 May 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 33079173

Document Ref. No. : GEF-MANO N° 02/2019

Competition : ICB

Financier : Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : MANO RIVER UNION SECRETARIAT
Spur Loop 32 S Fudia Terrace, PM Bag 133 Freetown Regional Coordinator of the GEF Project.
Sierra Leone

Tender Details

Expression of Interest are invited for Selection of a Team of Consultants Comprising International/Regional and National Experts to Develop a Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis Accompanied by a Database to Capitalize on and Share Data and Information.

Publication Date: 13 May 2019

Closing Date: 28 May 2019

The Member States of the River Union (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire) have received funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for the implementation of the “Mano River Union Ecosystem Conservation and International Water Resources Management Project”. The MRU Secretariat, the Regional Project Management Agency and the four national executing agencies intend to use part of the funding to carry out the following project activities: Activity 2.13: Conduct of the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis for the Mano River Union region Activity 2.9: Set-up a simple regional database storing data and information compiled about international waters and biodiversity, during TDA surveys (activity 2.12), to enable sustainable capitalization on the databases and informed decision making at transboundary level.

The purpose of this consultation is to:

• Develop the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis in three transboundary basins which include the Cavally, Moa/Makona and Little&great Scarcies/Kolente rivers; this will involve identifying, quantifying and defining priorities for water-related problems that are of a transboundary nature, in order to provide a factual basis for the development of the Strategic Action Plan;

• Set up a regional database, which will serve as a tool to process collected data as well as share information and data between countries.

The specific objectives are as follows:

• Analyze the current situation of the 3 basins from a hydro-environmental, institutional and socioeconomic point of view in order to identify national and transboundary environmental concerns and the actions needed to solve priority environmental issues;

• Identify and prioritize water uses in the basin;

• Identify and prioritize cross-border problems;

• Determine environmental and socio-economic impacts;

• Analyze the immediate, underlying and root causes;

• Work out the selected themes in a consensual manner;

• Identify leverage points and make recommendations

• Prepare the TDA document;

• Participate in the TDA validation process;

• Develop a regional database for storing data and information collected and analyzed at regional, national and local levels in the three basins during the TDA process.

The consultants shall be expected to use technical tools based on the GEF methodology (GEF, IW: LEARN, 2013) to guide the TDA development process on a basin-wide basis.

For illustrative purposes, the Regional International Consultant head of TDA shall:

• Take into account the GEF policies on delivering multiple environmental benefits for sustainable development at the global level and integrated land and water resources management in the Mano River Union;

• Take into account ongoing studies in particular, the intermediate, provisional or final findings of similar studies in the basins under consideration. In the event that these studies are being conducted as the consultant begins his mission, he/she shall be expected to contact the consultant in charge of those studies, in order to seek the necessary synergies and complementarities on the contents of the two programs;

• Take into account the studies conducted as part of the BRIDGE project's shared vision process.

1. Qualification of the Consultant

a. Team of Regional/International Experts

The assignment shall be carried out by a consulting firm or group of consultants with more than fifteen (15) years' experience in the fields of expertise required by the study, and have carried out assignments of a similar nature and complexity (three (03) similar references), in particular within the context of other projects financed by the GEF. The consultancy team shall comprise the following key experts:

• A Senior Officer having at least Engineer or Master Degree in water resources and/or environment, specialized in natural resource management, with at least 15 years of professional experience and familiarity with GEF-funded projects.

• A Senior Officer having Master Degree in socio-economics, specialized in environmental economics and having at least 10 years' professional experience in rural development;

• A governance Expert having Master Degree with at least 10 years' experience in the institutional and legal field of environmental or natural resources management

• A GIS Expert having Master Degree with 10 years’ professional experience, with expertise in
website data and information management and dissemination.
In addition, the following qualifications will be an added value:
• Knowledge of GEF practices and procedures, in particular the TDA/PAS process;
• Previous experience in diagnostic studies of the state of natural and socio-economic
resources;
• Work experience and document production in French and English;
• Experience in the implementation of natural resource management projects at the
national or regional level.
b. Team of national Experts
A team of national Experts from the basin States, providing data and conducting studies on a national
basis, shall support the regional or international team, with more than 15 years' experience and at least
one (01) similar reference. The team shall comprise the following key personnel:
• One (01) Expert having at least Bachelor Degree in integrated water resources or
environmental management, National TDA Coordinator (Team Leader) with 15 years of
experience;
• One (01) Expert having at least Bachelor Degree, specialist in rural development with 15
years of experience.
• A Governance Expert, having at least Bachelor Degree, with 15 years proven experience in
the institutional and legal field of environmental or natural resources management.
2. Submission of applications
The consultants may partner with other firms to strengthen their respective skills in the form of a joint
venture or subcontractor agreement.
Details of the terms of reference for the requested services are available from the Executing Agencies and
on the IUCN-PACO website: www.iucn.org/fr/regions/afrique-centrale-et-occidentale:
Executing Agencies Email Address
For Côte d'Ivoire: ‘Direction de l'Evaluation et du Patrimoine toure_bass@yahoo.fr;
Hydraulique’, Abidjan firminyao@ymail.com;
dgpre.minef@gmail.com;
For Guinea: ‘Centre Forestier de Nzérékoré’ delamounicolas70@gmail.com
watta.30camara@yahoo.fr;
For Liberia: ‘Forestry Development Authority’, Monrovia pewuwilliam@yahoo.com;
mikedoryen@gmail.com

For Sierra Leone: ‘National Protected Area Agency’, sadiya.karim@yahoo.com;
Freetown msejuanah@hotmail.com;
Mano River Union Secretariat, Freetown rdore@mru.int
tayirogerdore@gmail.com
Patrickmasuba@gmail.com;
pmasuba@mru.int
adoumbia@mru.int
• Team of national experts
Qualified consultants or candidates who fulfill the criteria for the position of national expert must submit
their applications in electronic or physical form to the National Executing Agency. Applications must be
received no later than May 25, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.
Contacts for submission of applications for national consultants by country see table above:
• Team of regional or international experts
Qualified consultants or candidates who fulfill the criteria for the position of regional or international
expert must submit their applications in electronic or physical form to the General Secretariat of the Mano
River Union (Regional Project Executing Agency). Applications must be received no later than May 25,
2019 at 5:00 p.m.
Contacts for submission of applications for regional or international consultants:
Mano River Union Secretariat
Spur Loop 32 S Fudia Terrace,
PM Bag 133 Freetown, Sierra Leone,
Regional Coordinator of the GEF Project.
E-mail addresses for submission of applications: rdore@mru.int
Copy to: tayirogerdore@gmail.com; adoumbia@mru.int;
atarawalie@mru.int; patrickmasuba@gmail.com;

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