| Introduction : The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is on behalf of Government implementing Phase-II of the project on “Building Transformative Policy and Financing Frameworks to Increase Investment in Biodiversity Management (BIOFIN)” with financial support from the Governments of Germany and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). The global programme seeks to assist countries effectively mobilize and align domestic and international biodiversity funds, including the implementation of the National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plans (NBSAPs) , and to accomplish long-term development goals through continuously improving a method for measuring current biodiversity expenditure levels, assessing future financial needs, and designing comprehensive plans to leverage finance tools and solutions to boost financing effectiveness.
Uganda is implementing its phase -II programme and adequate financial resources are critical to the process of ramping up efforts aimed at meeting the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) targets by 2030. The objective of the programme is to close the country’s financing gap for the conservation and management of biological diversity by assisting Uganda in implementing the National Biodiversity Finance Plan (NBFP). One of the solutions for implementation is the development of the biodiversity index to inform the establishment of Ecological Fiscal Transfers (EFTs) that will guide allocation of resources to local governments for biodiversity management. The biodiversity indexes are quantitative measure of the diversity of species that will help to assess the ecological health and conservation value of different habitats.
Ecological Fiscal Transfer (EFT) are policy instruments that distribute a share on intergovernmental fiscal transfers and revenue sharing schemes according to ecological indicators such as protected areas or watershed management areas . The rationale for Ecological Fiscal Transfer (EFT) is allocate fiscal resources to relevant sub-national government jurisdictions for performing ecological functions such as conservation area for which benefits are shared beyond the jurisdiction. The EFT scheme has already started to work in several country. Portugal and Brazil are among evidence for EFT practices while among the BIOFIN countries, it is Indonesia, and Malaysia. Portugal and Brazil introduced a financial scheme in 2007 which corresponded to a transfer from central government to municipalities as a compensation of preservation costs because of nature conservation regulations. The basic idea is that municipalities receive a share of tax revenue and since the transfer is given to all municipalities this policy is rather to assign lower level of government regarding conservation activities.
It is against this background that UNDP would like to engage a firm to provide Consultancy services to develop a biodiversity index and design the ecological fiscal transfer system (EFT) to guide resource allocation to local government for biodiversity management
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