| Overview : The concept of ecosystem services is becoming popular as a way to encourage discussion about the dependence of people on nature and what this means both socially and economically. Ecosystem services are crucial to survival and to the social and economic development of human societies. Individuals, rural and urban areas as well as industries rely on the services that ecosystems provide. In the case of Ethiopia ecosystem services and goods are the main contributors to the GDP and societal wellbeing. Despite being valuable assets and contributing to the country’s economy, ecosystem goods and services have not, historically, been adequately represented in markets and are largely public goods. One of the reasons for this is that most of the ecosystem goods and services have a public property characteristics. This in turn develops negative externalities among the users in the sense that no body internalize the costs and catastrophes posed on the ecosystem and the environment as a whole, as this behavior leads to a free riding. Application Instruction: Download both TOR and RFP Proposal Submission Form from the following link: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=40722; Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the IC Proposal Submission Form uploaded hereto; and Firms are not eligible for this consultancy assignment (open only for National Firms) The following proposals must be prepared as per the RFP Proposal Submission Instructions. The Proposals shall be submitted on or before application deadline September 21 via UNDP Ethiopia Secured mail address: procurement.et@undp.org - Technical Proposal in pdf under file name: ETH-IC-2017-022 – TP - [insert your name];
- Financial Proposal in pdf under file name: ETH-IC-2017-022– FP - [insert your name];
- Please note that these proposals shall be submitted to the designated secured email into two files but in one email unless both Files are Greater than 9MB file size.
Important Note: - A candidate applying only by uploading CV to this job site will not be considered. Instead, both Technical and Financial Proposals shall be submitted to UNDP Secured email: procurement.et@undp.org
- Those prospect consultants who fail to submit both Technical and financial proposals as per the standard format and to the designated secured email will not be further considered for evaluation.
- Please group all your documents into single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.
- While submitting your proposals to procurement.et@undp.org be sure your email subject line is ETH-IC-2017-022 in order to let our Office easily locate your respective proposals from secured email and be considered in subsequent evaluations.
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