| Overview : ADMINISTRATION To apply, interested persons should upload the combined* Technical Proposal/Methodology (if applicable), CV and Offeror’s Letter to “UNDP Jobs” by navigating to the link below and clicking “APPLY NOW”, no later than the date indicated on the “UNDP Jobs” website. Applications submitted via email will not be accepted**: - UNDP Job Site – https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=88223 (cut and paste into browser address bar if the link does not work) * PLEASE NOTE: The system allows the upload of one (1) document ONLY – if you are required to submit a Technical Proposal/Methodology, this document along with your CV/P11 and Offeror’s Letter, MUST be combined and uploaded as one. NOTE: The Financial Proposal should not be uploaded to “UNDP Jobs”**. **Please email the password-protected Financial Proposal to procurement.bb@undp.org. The subject line of your email must contain the following: “BBRSO##### Financial Proposal – Your Name” If the password for your Financial Proposal is required, it will be requested by the Procurement Unit. Any request for clarification must be sent in writing to procurement.bb@undp.org within three (3) days of the publication of this notice, ensuring that the reference number above is included in the subject line. The UNDP Barbados & the OECS Procurement Unit will post the responses*** two (2) days later, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to: - http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=60384 (cut and paste into browser address bar if the link does not work) A detailed Procurement Notice, TOR, and all annexes can be found by clicking the above link. *** UNDP shall endeavour to provide such responses to clarifications in an expeditious manner, but any delay in such response shall not cause an obligation on the part of UNDP to extend the submission date of the Proposals, unless UNDP deems that such an extension is justified and necessary BACKGROUND The Commonwealth of Dominica’s Protected Areas Estate consists of Forest Reserves, National Parks and Proposed Buffer Zones. Since 1975, The Commonwealth of Dominica has established several protected areas (PAs) with varying designations, covering 203.8 km2, approximately 27% of the island’s 751 km2. In addition to the island’s three (3) national parks (Morne Diablotin, Cabrits, and the Morne Trois Pitons National Parks), there are the Northern and Central Forest Reserves, Stewart Hall Water Catchment, and Soufriere/Scott's Head Marine Reserve (SSMR). Additional terrestrial and marine sites are proposed for protection but are not formally designated. PAs fall primarily under the responsibility of the Division of Forestry, Wildlife, and National Parks (DFWNP) and the Fisheries Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF). Each of the marine reserves, the responsibility of the Fisheries Division, are managed by a Local Area Management Authority (LAMA). There are seven (7) legally established PAs of the Commonwealth of Dominica, both marine and terrestrial, that would constitute a System of Protected Areas. The list also includes an additional three (3) proposed sites that would also fall under a System of Protected Areas if/when legal designation is obtained. Draft management plans have for been prepared for Morne Trois Pitons, Morne Diablotin and Cabrits National Parks as well as for Soufriere Sulphur Springs, but none have been approved by Cabinet nor implemented. Cabrits National Park (CNP) includes both a marine and terrestrial portion. The DFWNP and the Fisheries Division were unable to agree on a single management plan for the CNP due to different management philosophies (promoting non-consumptive vs. consumptive uses, respectively), resulting in 2 discrete plans. A 2011 draft Buffer Zone Plan for the Morne Trois Pitons National Park (MTPNP) was developed though not yet approved nor implemented. The Central Forest Reserve covers an area of 410 ha (1013 acres) and the Northern Forest Reserve 5,560 ha (13,733 acres). Until 2000, the Northern Forest Reserve was 8,814 ha (21,770 acres); approximately 3450 ha (8525 acres) of this site was re-designated as the Morne Diablotin National Park (MDNP) in January 2000 in order to provide increased protection to the habitat of the 2 single island and globally threatened parrot species. The Commonwealth of Dominica’s National Park System comprises three (3) legally established national parks: MTPNP 6,875 ha, was established in July, 1975 and designated World Heritage Site in 1997 under Natural Criteria viii outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation”. In addition, as part of the overall development and operationalization of a wider system ofnational protected areas in the Commonwealth of Dominica , the project aims to enhance both opportunities for sustainable livelihoods in and around its network of protected areas, as well as community participation and collaboration in effective management of the sites and their resources. This would entail increasing community members’ access and capacity for livelihood opportunities in keeping with the goals and objectives of the protected areas. | 
