| Overview : The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme, with financial support from the European Commission and the Governments of Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Flanders. This global initiative is envisioned to transform the way in which biodiversity finance is mobilized allowing for greater resources to be enacted as required within the Aichi Targets defined in the Convention on Biological Diversity Strategic Plan (2011 – 2020). Over the past nine years, the UNDP Global BIOFIN team together with 41 countries have been involved in developing and piloting the BIOFIN methodology which is continuously refined through national, regional and global learning. In South Africa, the BIOFIN programme is implemented at a national level by the UNDP in partnership with the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE). South Africa initiated its BIOFIN programme in 2015 and has met several envisioned goals including the undertaking of a Policy and Institutional Review (PIR), Financial Needs Assessment (FNA), Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER) and Biodiversity Financial Plan (BFP). Within the Biodiversity Finance Plan, 16 financial solutions were identified as being instruments that could be developed or refined to increase financial flows earmarked for biodiversity protection and 8 of these Finance Solutions have been prioritized for implementation under BIOFIN Phase II. (Detailed background can be found in the Terms of references.) Based on the above and the background found in the terms of references, we require services of an individual contractor:Transactional Advisor for a brokerage function to support the online Biodiversity Investment Portal Details on how to submit proposals can be founf in the sourcing documents found on this post. | 
