Overview : The project was designed to mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production lands in the Greater Amboseli landscape and improve the sustainability of Protected Area systems(PAs). It aims to provide a resource governance model that allows communities and conservationists to utilize revitalized skills, and, guided by knowledge-based landscape planning, taking advantage of modified policies and market based incentives to balance resource use and resource conservation across the greater Amboseli, to secure a broader range of benefits for the onsite and offsite dependents, in a more equitable and sustainable manner. The project partners , in line with their designated roles and responsibilities; support national efforts to secure conservancy management, set up a series of conservancies across the landscape, map out and secure wildlife dispersal areas, secure connectivity corridors between the core PAs of Amboseli, Tsavo and Chyulu Hills, to offer greater protection of selected species (GEF BD SO 1). The partners are expected to catalyze a shift from the current sector-focused planning to a more integrated land use planning system; thus, increasing productivity of livestock and agriculture while protecting environmental services, including the watershed services of the Chyulu Hills (GEF BD SO2). The project comprises three complementary components, which are cost-shared by the GEF and co-financing. Each addresses a different barrier and has discrete outcomes and are defined as follows: - Component 1: Effective governance framework for multiple use and threat removal outside PAs. Component 2: Landscape based multiple use/management delivers multiple benefits to the widest range of users, reducing threats to wildlife from outside the ecosystem. Component 3: Increased benefits from tourism shared more equitably. Qualified candidates are requested to email their applications to consultants.ken@undp.org to reach us not later than COB on Friday, 27 April 2018. Please quote “KEN-IC-2018-009 – UNDP-GEF MTR” on the subject line. |