The Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania (JGI-TZ) with funding
from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is
seeking to subcontract a short-term consultant to provide technical and
professional support to the GIS activities under the Landscape
Conservation in Western Tanzania (LCWT) Project.

Summary of the Scope of the Assignment:
The
USAID-funded Project “Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania” (LCWT)
requires the services of a consultant to support GIS and Remote Sensing
tasks in the three major activities including Zonal Land Use Planning,
the second major Chimpanzee Survey covering 25 sites under LCWT, and
Support Village Forest Monitors on technical issues particularly on
using ESRI Survey123 App for data collection and uploading.

2. General Summary:
The
Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania (LCWT) activity is a
five-year initiative funded by the Government of the United States of
America (USA), through its Agency for International Development (USAID)
and implemented by The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in collaboration
with four districts in Kigoma and Katavi regions, Implementing Partners
including Research Triangle Institute (RTI) and Pathfinder International
and village authorities within the project area in Western Tanzania.
The project is designed to protect chimpanzee populations and their
habitat, strengthen local government capacity in natural resource
management, and improve community livelihoods through sustainable
natural resource management empowering local communities. A key focus is
to sustain the chimpanzee population in western Tanzania and the native
tropical forests they inhabit within the Gombe-Masito-Ugalla (GMU)
ecosystem.
The project has 5 Intermediate results that include the following activities:
•
Natural Resource Management: Building the capacity of local governments
to facilitate conservation practice and effective natural resource
management.
• Land Use Planning & Sustainable Development:
Helping local governments and communities implement sustainable land use
plans and livelihood development.
• Monitoring: Improving the
monitoring of conservation and development targets and threats using
innovative technologies to compile, analyze and share data as part of
decision support and alert system. The information from the system will
enable JGI and local stakeholders to test, validate and adapt decisions
that will guide LCWT Project activities.
• Family Planning and
Reproductive Health: Expanding activities to improve awareness and
access to reproductive health and family planning resources.
•
Environmental Education: Expanding the reach and effectiveness of
community-based sensitization and environmental education efforts to
inspire behavior change that will protect chimpanzees and their
habitats.

The project is leveraging and using the powerful Esri ArcGIS Online
platform and associated technologies and apps as its Decision Support
System (DSS) to improve conservation management decisions. Esri’s ArcGIS
platform and apps are used to collect, store, manage, integrate,
analyze, visualize, communicate, and share all the monitoring data on
chimpanzee populations, habitats, and human threats collected from the
field and aerial surveys and satellite imagery.

3. Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
The
agreement covers GIS and Remote Sensing support to the four major
activities under LCWT Project including Zonal Land Use Planning, the
second major Chimpanzee Survey covering 25 sites, and Support to Village
Forest Monitors.

4. Specific Tasks for the Consultant:
4.1 Work
closely with district staff and the National Land Use Commission (NLUPC)
to Support GIS and Remote sensing tasks to the Zonal Land Use Planning
for two specific areas within the project area in the following aspects.
a)
Map existing land uses, highlighting all areas with intact or patches
of natural forests using very high resolution Maxar and Planet satellite
imagery and high-resolution Sentinel-2 and Landsat satellite images,
map local knowledge using participatory interpretation of very high
resolution satellite imagery with the local communities, and combine
these data with other GIS data on watersheds and ecosystems to identify
‘ideal’ areas for village forest reserves as a primary reference to the
land use planning team.
b) Participate in field data collection for
the purpose of coordinating and collecting spatial data about land use
zone boundaries.
c) Processing data and developing proposed zonal land use maps.
4.2
Work closely with the Chimpanzee Survey Team Leader to support the
planning and implementation of the second major Chimpanzee Survey in the
Masito Ugalla Ecosystem.
The survey covers 25 sites with a total of
400 transects with 1km each. The survey is using ESRI’s Survey 123 for
data collection and Garmin Handheld GPS for navigation into transects.
Specifically, the consultant is expected to provide the following GIS
support:
a) Working closely with the Survey Team Leader and/or GIS Officer to revise and update survey sites and transects.
b) Work closely with the GIS Officer to prepare and load handheld GPS start and endpoints of transects for field navigation.
c) Regularly update the Chimpanzee Survey Form on Survey123 Connect App as proposed by the field survey team.
d) Field visit to survey teams for troubleshooting of any technical problem with navigation and data collection devices.
e)
Support regular data uploading to the Organization’s ArcGIS Online,
particularly during the time when a survey team is shifting from one
site to another to minimize possibilities for data loss.
4.3 Work closely with GIS Officer to support Village Forest Monitors.
The
LCWT Project supports more than 160 village forest monitors who use
ESRI Survey123 App for data collection when they monitor their
respective village forests. These village volunteers need regular
technical support in troubleshooting problems on their handheld devices
as follows: –
a) Support VFMs on data uploading to ArcGIS Online
b) Support updating of the survey form as changes are made and confirmed by developers.
c) Replies to queries from VFMs as they continue to monitor their village forests.
d)
Provide VFMs and village government with printed maps of their
observations and support their access to Community Forest Monitoring
Dashboard to view their data in the DSS.

5. Required Qualifications:

One (1) consultant with the following skills and qualifications will be required for 90 days to undertake this assignment.

a) Bachelor or Master’s Degree in GIS and Remote Sensing or related degree with a strong bias in GIS.

b) A master’s degree in the field of Natural Resources Management would be added advantage.

c) Experience in using ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Online
platform tools and apps particularly ESRI Survey123 is a must.

d) Technical skills and experience in using Garmin Handheld GPS are a must.

e) At least five years’ experience in implementing conservation projects in the role of GIS tasks.

f) Experience in working with government stakeholders would be highly preferred.

g) Ready to spend days in the field environment living in tented camps in the middle of the wilderness in remote areas.

h) Good communication skills: fluent in Kiswahili and English
languages both verbal and written. This service involves working with a
wide range of people within the institution, local communities,
districts, and international partners, including technical and
non-technical colleagues.

6. Location & Level of Effort:

The consultant will be based in Kigoma but will be required to travel
to support various field activities in Kigoma and Katavi regions or any
other location where activities related to the assignment above will be
conducted. Transport costs to the assignment activities will be covered
by the project. Given the nature of the activities, sometimes the
consultant might be required to work for extended periods and/or over
the weekends to meet pressing deadlines.

7. Supervision & Contact Person:

The consultant to be supervised by the IR3 Team Lead or his
designated staff. She/he will also work closely with IR 2 Team Lead and
Chimpanzee Survey Team Lead.

8. Duration of the Assignment:

This assignment is planned to start around the beginning of June to
September 2022 for a priod not less than 90 days based on 5 working days
per week.

9. Deliverables:

The following are key deliverables. The timeline for each activity
below will be discussed and agreed upon with the IR3 Team Lead and the
consultant depending on the start date of a particular activity.

9.1 Zonal Land-use Plans:

a) Field Notes

b) Maps of existing land uses in the two project areas (to be specified).

c) Ideal maps of zonation of the two specific areas which request
development of zonal land use plan showing areas that still have patches
of natural forests, the value of these forests to wildlife, people, and
the ecosystems, and possibilities of linking them with the nearby major
district local authority forest reserves.

d) Spatial analysis statistics and maps showing the distribution of
population, social services, and livestock, after participating in field
data collection.

e) Proposed maps of land use zones after working closely with various stakeholders in the process.

9.2 The Second Major Chimpanzee Survey:

a) Updated Maps of chimpanzee survey sites

b) Survey123 forms (chimpanzee survey form) updated and loaded to
smartphones ready for the field survey team to use for data collection.

c) Start and end points of transects updated and loaded to handheld Garmin GPS devices for navigation by field survey teams.

d) Field Notes.

e) Chimpanzee survey data uploaded to ArcGIS Online

9.3 Support Village Forest Monitors on technical issues:

a) Village Forest Monitors data uploaded to ArcGIS Online for sharing
with decision-makers as part of the dashboards and tools in the DSS.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Please send your CV and a Covering Letter by June, 05th 2022 to the following e-mail address: [email protected]

Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

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