| Overview : BACKGROUND The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), acting as an implementing agency of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has been requested by the Government of São Tomé e Principe (GoSTP) in the preparation of the GEF Full Size Project (FSP) “Enhancing Capacity for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management”. The vision of the project is to facilitate a transformative shift where biodiversity is seen as an asset, integrating species protection, sustainable forest and land management within the framework of livelihoods improvement to meet environmentally sustainable development goals. A Project Preparation Grant (PPG) has been obtainebAd to carry out the necessary analyses and prepare the full-fledge project proposal. In order to ensure the results of the project preparation works, UNDP is seeking an international specialist with demonstrable expertise in Sustainable Land Management & Livelihoods that will be part of the team that will develop the project document along with a set of relevant evidence-based analysis for submission to the GEF in the last quarter of 2019. The Project Identification Form (PIF) will be the basis for the developing the proposal. | 
