RFP invites for Prepare participatory integrated landscape level management strategy and plans by defining extent of landscape

Background:

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India along with UNDP has commenced a new GEF funded project: SECURE Himalaya (Securing livelihoods, conservation, sustainable use and restoration of high range Himalayan ecosystems) in Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim. The project aims to support the Government of India and State Governments to effectively promote sustainable land and forest management in alpine pastures and forests in high range Indian Himalayan ecosystems that secure sustainable livelihoods and ensures conservation of globally significant biodiversity and threatened species. It will engineer a paradigm shift from the current approach of conservation to demonstrate a new approach of landscape-based conservation. This is an integrated approach, which focuses on working with various sectors and partners in areas within and outside protected areas, to effectively reduce threats to the biodiversity of local, national and global significance.

Objective

The purpose of this RFP is to hire agencies (separately for each state) to prepare participatory integrated landscape-level management strategy and plans by defining extent of landscape (alpine & sub-alpine) and evaluating landscape level existing strategies that integrate biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate mitigation, sustainable community resource use and socio-economic considerations through proper stakeholder consultations

Scope of Work

Summary:

• To review the existing strategies, policies and their historic trends, especially in alpine and subalpine regions of the project landscapes.
• To evaluate existing strategies that integrates biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate mitigation, sustainable community resource use and socio-economic consideration through proper stakeholder consultations.
• To define extent of landscape in the project and landscape level vision and objectives in consultation with multi-stakeholders
• To develop “Participatory Integrated Landscape Level Management Strategy and Plans”.

Context of the Requirement:

 The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India along with UNDP has commenced a new GEF funded project: SECURE Himalaya (Securing livelihoods, conservation, sustainable use and restoration of high range Himalayan ecosystems) in Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim. The project aims to support the Government of India and State Governments to effectively promote sustainable land and forest management in alpine pastures and forests in high range Indian Himalayan ecosystems that secure sustainable livelihoods and ensures conservation of globally significant biodiversity and threatened species. It will engineer a paradigm shift from the current approach of conservation to demonstrate a new approach of landscape - based conservation. This is an integrated approach, which focuses on working with various sectors and partners in areas within and outside protected areas, to effectively reduce threats to biodiversity of local, national and global significance.

Brief Description of the Required Services

To review the existing strategies, policies and their historic trends, especially in alpine and sub-alpine regions of the project landscapes.

To evaluate existing strategies that integrates biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate mitigation, sustainable community resource use and socio-economic consideration through proper stakeholder consultations.

To define extent of landscape in the project and landscape level vision and objectives in consultation with multistakeholders

To develop “Participatory Integrated Landscape Level Management Strategy and Plans”.

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For further queries, please contact – Mr. Vijay Thapliyal

Email ID: vijay.thapliyal@undp.org