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- Country: Zimbabwe
- Summary: Consultancy for Final Evaluation
- ZWT Ref No: 56484491
- Deadline: 31 Aug 2021
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- Tender Value: Refer Document
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- Tenders are invited for Consultancy Request for Final Evaluation. The Strengthening Community Law Enforcement and Sustainable Livelihoods in Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) is a three year action that started on 01/03/2018 and ends pm 31/08/2021. It focuses on three key nature conservation sites in the KAZA TFCA with high poaching pressure: the Silowana complex bufferzone of the Sioma Ngwezi National Park in Zambia, the Chizarira - Sengwa complex (within the Sebungwe complex) in Zimbabwe and the Lake Liambezi Trust in Zambezi region of Namibia). These areas experience high poaching pressures but are also characterized by low human development (high poverty indices) with people relying almost entirely on natural resources for their survival. Yet, these areas are still high in biodiversity and pristine habitat constituting important wildlife corridors - which are of great importance for achieving the KAZA TFCA Vision “To establish a world-class transfrontier conservation and tourism destination area in the Okavango and Zambezi River Basin regions of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe within the context of sustainable development.”. Situated in the low rainfall areas characterised by inherently nutrient deficient Kalahari sands, the project area is also strongly affected by climate change impacting negatively on the livelihoods of small farmer households and their subsistence agricultural production. Zimbabwe suffered extensively from droughts and subsequent extreme flooding events in 2016, making it one of the three countries in the world most affected by climate change (UNFCCC COP 23). Equally, Zambian farmers in the project area nearly lost the entire maize harvest due to prolonged droughts in 2015/16 requiring government food aid interventions. There is an urgent need to diversify crops and introduce drought resistant varieties and cultures, as planned by the action. During the first year of action implementation, Zimbabwe and Zambia was once again affected by droughts. The Southern and Western parts of Zambia have also received less than 50% of the normal annual precipitation and crop was being estimated to be around 70%. The objectives of the action[1] is to promote long-term sustainable ecosystem management and sustainable livelihood approaches among local communities in KAZA TFCA, such that their improved benefits from natural resources contribute to biodiversity conservation and the reduction of illegal killing and trafficking of wildlife, especially elephants. To achieve this, the action enables 4,100 small farmer households in Zambia and Zimbabwe to implement climate smart conservation agriculture, improving their food security, increasing resilience and adaptation capacity to climate change and improve their household income. This reduces shifting cultivation, encroachment on national parks and biodiversity loss by conserving wildlife habitats and directly contributing to long-term sustainable ecosystem management. The action also improves the effective participation of communities in anti-poaching and law enforcement in and around key conservation areas in Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia. This is achieved by increasing the number of equipped and trained community guards in the areas as well as supporting the implementation of joint patrols with national park rangers. The coordination between community scouts across borders will also be improved. Additionally, the project operationalises one performance based reward system for community anti-poaching in Zambia, providing blue prints for replication across the KAZA landscape. In terms of activities, the action (1) builds capacity of rural farming households, community institutions and selected local government officials in the Zambian and Zimbabwean project areas in implementing climate adapted conservation agriculture. Prior to activities, a participatory baseline study was carried out to assess the community-s socio-economic situation, household income and climate adaptation capacity including the identification of climate resilient crops and suitable conservation agriculture methodologies. A village based extension system is being established and/or strengthened to provide support and ensure adoption of these methods. (2) Community seed multiplications schemes are being established / strengthened in Zambia and Zimbabwe to reduce HH costs for seeds and increase income from seed commercialisation. (3) A new community anti-poaching system will be established in Namibia and Zimbabwe with the recruitment and training of additional community guards. In Zambia the existing scheme with 22 community guards is being strengthened and improved. Community and joined patrols with state rangers in and around the national parks in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia are being supported. The existing yet insufficiently functioning performance-based reward scheme in Zambia will be operationalised and assessed for its replicability into other areas in KAZA TFCA. (4) To enable better cross border collaboration between community scouts, workshops will be held in the second and third year of the project to support the harmonization of methods, exchange experience and nurture networking across the TFCA. The Logical Framework Matrix (Logframe) and additionally, documents containing further information on Intervention will be provided to the evaluator and will be subject to his/her scrutiny and reconstruction during Inception 2. Purpose Evaluations should provide an understanding of the cause and effect links between: inputs and activities, and outputs, outcomes and impacts. Evaluations should serve accountability, decision making, learning and management purposes. The main objectives of this evaluation are to provide to WWF Germany, the relevant services of the European Union and the interested stakeholders with: · an overall independent assessment of the past performance of the Strengthening Community Law Enforcement and Sustainable Livelihoods in Kavango Zambezi TFCA (KAZA) Action*,* paying particular attention to its results measured against its expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results; also, the most important impacts of the project should be highlighted. · key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations, in order to improve future Actions. ** The main users of this evaluation will be WWF Germany, WWF Zambia, WWF Zimbabwe, the Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation Trust (IRDNC) and the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Zambia and COMESA.
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Purchaser : WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE
Harare
Email :may.hokan@wwf.de
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