JOB DESCRIPTION
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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Please note that UNDP is not in the position to accept incomplete applications - please make sure that your application contains all details as specified below in this notice.
1. Background Poaching and illicit trafficking of wildlife is among the five most lucrative illegal trades globally, estimated to be worth up to US$23 billion annually. UNDP has recognized the growing problem of illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products and is responding accordingly, both in policy engagement and in UNDP-GEF programming. Financed by the GEF and USAID and implemented by UNDP between 2018 and 2024 the “Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia” project under the GEF-financed, World Bank led Global Wildlife Program (GWP) aims to curb maritime wildlife trafficking, targeting key routes and transit points between Africa and Asia. The GEF launched the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) in June 2015, bringing together funding from the GEF and a wide range of partners, including the governments of the now 32 participating countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, GEF Agencies, bilateral and multilateral donors, foundations, the private sector and civil society. Work to strengthen anti-trafficking capacity through this UNDP-GEF Maritime Trafficking project preliminarily targets the East African ports of Mombasa (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda), Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar (Tanzania). Additionally, the project works at global level to strengthen the performance of ports and the wider shipping industry in tackling wildlife trafficking in the long-term and supports knowledge exchange among GWP national projects and their stakeholders. Project activities are aligned with three main components:
Sharing experiences and insights is an extremely valuable tool for advancing conservation, regionally and range-wide yet, paradoxically, it is widely recognized that conservation practitioners generally do not share their experiences in published form (Sunderland et al., 2009). Therefore, a huge volume of collective conservation experience is lost for future projects. Moreover, unexpected outcomes and project failures regularly occur in conservation projects given the complex socio-economic and uncertainty issues associated with species and ecosystem conservation. Yet these are very rarely reported despite their high practical value for others working in similar situations (Sunderland et al., 2009). Similarly, many projects do not regularly document lessons learned (both success and failure) or record them very briefly without sufficient details and analysis that would allow to apply the lessons in practice for other projects. Properly documented lessons learned from conservation projects in different parts of the world can have tremendous value for the rapid improvement of overall effectiveness of the entire Global Wildlife Program. Consultancy As part of Project Component 3, the UNDP-GEF-USAID Project “Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia” is seeking an International Consultant to assist GWP national projects to build capacities for effectively identifying, documenting and disseminating lessons learned. This will specifically involve an action-learning pilot training with six GWP national projects within the Sixth GEF Operational Phase (GEF6) with a strong focus on counter-IWT activities, including: (a) providing guidance and support to systematically identify, document and disseminate project lessons using a facilitative, action-learning approach; The development of summaries of lessons learned from the 6 pilot country projects as well as publications on 1) the 10 key lessons learned from counter-IWT approaches, and 2) lessons learned from this Action-learning Training Pilot will be supported by the TOR ‘International Consultant for facilitation and documentation of a study tour for GEF6 Global Wildlife Program national projects and development of lessons learned reports and publications’ Consultant.
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Estimated time to complete activities under this assignment:
Schedule of Payments and Expected Outputs
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5. Evaluation of Applicants
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on a cumulative analysis taking into consideration the combination of the applicants’ qualifications and financial proposal. The award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as: a) responsive/compliant/acceptable, and b) Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation. Only highest ranked candidates who would be found qualified for the job based on the P11 desk review will be invited for an interview.
The selection of the best offer will be based on a Combined Scoring method – where the technical evaluation (desk review) will be weighted a maximum of 70% and combined with the price offer which will be weighted a maximum of 30%. The 70% rating shall be based on how well the Offer or meets the minimum qualifications/competencies described above.
The technical evaluation will be based on the following criteria with the corresponding points (out of a total 70 points):
Only applicants with a minimum of 49 points on their technical proposal will be considered for financial evaluation. The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal:
p = 30 (µ/z), Where, p=points for the financial proposal being evaluated µ=price of the lowest priced proposal z = price of the proposal being evaluated
The contract will be awarded to the applicant who receives the highest combined score.
6. Application procedures
Qualified candidates are requested to apply online via this website. The application should contain:
*Please note that the financial proposal is all-inclusive and shall take into account various expenses incurred by the consultant/contractor during the contract period (e.g. fee, health insurance, vaccination, personal security needs and any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services...). All envisaged travel costs will be covered separately by the project/UNDP. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel.
Payments will be made only upon confirmation of UNDP on delivering on the contract obligations in a satisfactory manner.
Individual Consultants are responsible for ensuring they have vaccinations/inoculations when travelling to certain countries, as designated by the UN Medical Director. Consultants are also required to comply with the UN security directives set forth under dss.un.org General Terms and conditions as well as other related documents can be found under: http://on.undp.org/t7fJs.
Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged to apply. Due to large number of applications we receive, we are able to inform only the successful candidates about the outcome or status of the selection process.
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