| Overview : Under the Climate Change Adaptation Programme, UNDP is working with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (5 Cs) to formulate a 8-year program “Operation Coastal Resilience (OCR): Innovative Financing for Nature-based Solutions that Support Climate-resilient Caribbean Islands” for submission to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The overall objective of the OCR program is to reduce the climate vulnerability and increase the resilience and sustainability of coastal populations and ecosystems across the Caribbean by scaling up nature-based solutions (NBS) to adaptation—particularly through innovative financing mechanisms that address long-term NBS costs. . We kindly invite you to submit your offer for a consultant to perform as Coastal Ecologist for Green Climate Fund Proposal Pre- Feasibility Study, as detailed in Annex 1 of this Individual Contract Procurement Notice; when preparing your offer, please be guided by the form attached hereto as Annex 2. Quotations may be submitted on or before 4 August 2021, no later than 15:00 (UCT /GMT -5), time of the Republic of Panama via e-mail to the following address with subject line as follows: Subject Line: 18795-2021 - Coastal Ecologist for Green Climate Fund Proposal Pre- Feasibility Study Email: procurement.rblac.regionalhub@undp.org The procedures for the acquisition of services will be the ones indicated by the United Nations Development Programme. This process is directed only to one individual. Any proposal received by more than one individual jointly or legal entity will be rejected. Likewise, all the proposals from consultants involved in the elaboration of the present Terms of Reference will be rejected. | 
