Friday, January 2, 2015

Vacancy Announcement : Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) For Spatial Planning


Working in 30+ countries globally, Conservation International (CI) Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to empowering societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature for the good of humanity. At Conservation International we are constantly growing and expanding into areas new and old. With each step, we need more and more hands. We are in the process of recruiting consultant for:
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) For Spatial Planning
The Sustainable Landscapes Partnership (SLP) is an innovative public-private partnership in Indonesia that brings governments, communities, businesses, and non-governmental organizations together to develop and test new approaches to land use planning and management.  It is aimed at creating sustainable agricultural economic opportunities, while maintaining natural capital and avoiding deforestation and associated greenhouse gas emissions. 
 
Consultant Tasks and Deliverables
Key Aims:
1.     Support the local government to develop a SEA;
2.     Improve the capacity of district-level Task Forces to develop the SEA;
3.     Support the local government to assess their existing policies, plans, and programs
(PPP), streamline various PPP, and provide recommendations on Low Emission Development (LED);
4.     Do a thorough stock-take of existing environmental indicators & targets set out in the PPP and assess if the targets are measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound;
5.     Improve information on key natural capital assets in the landscape, so stakeholders can understand implications of PPPs on ecosystem services. The landscape value include High Conservation Value (HCV), carbon value, water procurement, agriculture, economic, and cultural values;
6.     Improve the scientific evidence base of environmental assets and set-up monitoring of relevant indicators. Information on environmental assets will include spatially explicit;
7.     Provide information on High Conservation Value (HCV), Carbon value, water provisioning value, agriculture, socio-economic and cultural values;
8.     Encourage investments from the private sector by supporting streamlined PPPs and simplified regulatory systems.
 
Key Responsibilities:
1.               1.      MOU Agreement signed by all parties;
2.               2.       Multi-stakeholder Forum (MSF) Report and Attendance List;
3.               3.       SK POKJA signed by Bupati and List of POKJA members;
4.               4.        POKJA Training Manual (Syllabus); Attendance List; Pre and Post-Training Evaluation; Minutes of Training
5.               5.        Screening Report
6.               6.          Scoping Report
            7.     Analysis Report.
8.     Formulation and Recommendation Report
9.     SEA Final Draft for Tapanuli Utara.
10.    Bupati’s Letter on Tapanuli Utara District Government receipt of SEA Final Draft and commitment to install this as a key reference into next local government spatial plans.
 
 
Qualifications & Experience
The Technical Assistant Team of Experts should have interdisciplinary background in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA); GIS spatial modelling; environmental planning (particularly focused on biodiversity and ecosystem services); Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) planning and assessment, cultural anthropology/sociology, sustainable development and public policy.
 
 
Apply your passion, skills, and talents to helping us protect the most important places around the world.
Please send your complete proposal in response to our Request For Proposal (RFP) to: ciindonesia.hrd@gmail.com       

For interested team of consultants please send email to request for complete Call for Proposal and Terms of Refeference to: slpprocurement@conservation.or.id, or send email to: hkameswara@conservation.org
 
Indicate the position title “Strategic Environmental Assessment Consultant in the email subject line.
Closing date for the proposal submission is 12 January 2015
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