Background
Forest landscape restoration best practices are designed to ensure that restoration is successful, long lasting through generation of tangible economic and ecological benefits. IUCN and WRI (https://afr100.org/content/best-practice) have categorized best FLR practices as constituting the following-1) they involve trees and other woody plants in landscapes where appropriate, 2) possible to scale up successes from individual sites, 3) able to restore functionality, ecosystem services, not “original” forest cover, 4) balance local needs with national and global priorities, 5) employ a range of restoration strategies, 6) adapt to circumstances over time, 7) avoid strategies that lead to the conversion of natural ecosystems. Whereas this is the ideal situation, in reality, investment needs and divergent stakeholder interests makes it hard for delivery of restoration in a way that attains all the seven categories. As a results there is danger of proliferation of substandard, low quality restoration implementation, leading to dilution of the very definition of FLR which is -the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded forest landscapes (https://www.iucn.org/theme/forests/our-work/forest-landscape-restoration ).
The lack of standards in the current FLR implementation regime in many landscapes across Africa presents a risk of delivering low quality results that provide little if any ecological and economic benefits to the local people and national economies. Further, without building social safeguards and FPIC principles, the restoration efforts risk contributing to resource conflict and human rights violations which are negative attributes a well-designed FLR ought to resolve in the first place. With the standards and guidelines in place, WWF offices and partners implementing FLR can fine-tune their interventions and deliver restoration at scale that answers ecological and climate needs while delivering economic needs and aspirations of local communities and national economies.
Objective of the consultancy
To undertake an analysis of FLR practices undertaken throughout Africa to help develop best standards and functional guidelines to help restoration initiatives across the continent with the incorporation of Environmental and Social safeguards
Application procedure & Submission of Applications
All interested applicants may get the detailed ToR on WWF websites at
https://www.wwf.or.tz/jobs_and_opportunities/jobs/ and also, send your full proposal (technical & financial) through procurement email at [email protected] only softcopy proposals are accepted addressed to;
Secretary, Procurement Committee
WWF Tanzania
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All applications should reach us by or before 1600hrs Tanzania local time on Monday, 16th May 2022.
