| Overview : The Arafura and Timor Seas (ATS) is part of the North Australian Shelf large marine ecosystem (LME), which is a tropical sea lying between the Pacific and Indian Oceans and extending from the Timor Sea to the Torres Strait and including the Arafura Sea and Gulf of Carpentaria. The marine environment in the ATS region is in serious decline, primarily as a result of overharvesting and other direct and indirect impacts of anthropogenic stresses and global climatic changes. This project will covers the five priority transboundary environmental problems identified by the TDA: (i) unsustainable fisheries and decline and loss of living coastal and marine resources; (ii) modification, degradation and loss of coastal and marine habitats; (iii) marine and land-based pollution; (iv) the decline and loss of threatened and migratory species; and (v) impacts of climate change on the ATS. This project is also designed to strengthen the institutional and human resource capacities towards integrated approaches in natural resource management. The project will support a critical review of national and local policies and programs in Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea, and facilitate a regional level dialogue aimed at rationalizing relevant policies according to international best practice The Policy and advocacy will be responsible to facilitate the formalized of ATSEF into Sustainable Partnership Forum (SPF), functioning and formalized thru legal and/or institutional arrangements to support National Action Plan in Arafura and Timor Seas and support to conduct assessment of national and subnational policies and regulations. To assist you in understanding the requirements of this assignment, we have attached hereto the following: a) Procurement Notice (Information about document that you should be submitted) b) The Terms of Reference (Annex I); c) The standard Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability (Submission Form), which you must accomplish and submit to UNDP; and d) P11 Form/CV that you must complete and submit it duly signed; and e) The Individual Consultant General Terms and Conditions (Annex II), which you would be expected to sign in the event you are the selected Offeror in this procurement process. Should you be interested and decide to submit an offer for this assignment, kindly send them no later than 12 February 2021, 05.00pm (17.00 hrs) Jakarta time to bids.id@undp.org. Documents submitted by email must be limited to a maximum of 8 MB and virus free. It shall remain your responsibility to ensure that your documents will reach the address above on or before the deadline. | 
