Regional: Central Asia and Caucasus

Monitoring Expert, Southern Caucasus Region

Rural Development and Environment

Implementation

02/11/2022

30/11/2022

Promotion of Eco-Corridors in the Southern Caucasus Region KfW

The “Eco-corridors Programme in the Southern Caucasus” is implemented in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Caucasus Programme Office with funds provided by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through KfW Development Bank. Additional components of the programme are funded by Slovenia and Switzerland. The consortium of GOPA Consultants and DFS are providing consulting services for implementation under the German funding.

The objective of the project is to support communities in establishing sustainable land use in selected eco-corridors in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan and thus to contribute to interlinking protected areas and enhancing their ecological stability. More information can be found at https://www.ecfcaucasus.org/.

The tasks of the Monitoring Expert are:

• Develop an understanding of the methods used and progress made so far in developing the monitoring and reporting system for the ECF.
• Develop an understanding of the demand for the outputs of monitoring by different users (stakeholders) including KfW, WWF, beneficiaries including Community based organizations and their caretakers, scientists, as well as local regional and national authorities.
• Review the individual methods and tools used so far, looking at their cost (monetary and labour), comprehensiveness, including the gaps, delays, weaknesses, and limitations of method(s) applied, quantity and quality of data and opportunities to integrate the data in the expected web-based application.
• Identify and review potential new methods and tools needed for a complete monitoring system with the indicators to be reported (including beyond those set by ECF). It should include remote sensing data acquisition and analytical tools (e.g. automatic classification of camera trap data). The review should look at the cost of methods and tools (monetary and labour), comprehensiveness, quantity and quality of data, opportunities to integrate the data in the expected web-based application and overall feasibility.
• Review existing experiences of running conservation monitoring platforms in other regions of the World.
• Make recommendation regarding improvement or modification of existing methods and tools as well as on the selection of future tools to be used.
• Jointly with ECF Team, develop the Conceptual Monitoring Framework responding to the requirements listed above based on the analysis of demand for information, existing and potential methods and tools.
• Assess the available and needed capacity (staff, equipment), cost and main challenges (technical, institutional, legal…) of the implementation of the proposed concept.
• Prepare one or more sets of Terms of Reference for the implementation of the proposed concept.
• Prepare a work-plan at the start of the assignment including a list of activities, participation of ECF team, beneficiary staff and other stakeholders needed and time schedule.
• Develop a draft report with the findings and recommendations.
• Present the draft report to the ECF Team.
• Prepare the final report including the relevant ToRs.
• Regularly communicate and coordinate with the ECF CTA, National Coordinators and WWF.
• Other unforeseen tasks as needed in agreement with the CTA and GOPA backstopper.

 

• Master's Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Natural Resources Management, Conservation or similar
• Experience in the collection and monitoring of ecological and socio-economic data

For application, please send your CV to Christian.Tunk [at] gopa.de (Christian[dot]Tunk[at]gopa[dot]de). Detailed TOR can be found under attachments. 

11/15/2022

05/31/2023

First name:	Christian
Last name:	Tunk
Phone:	+49-6172-930
Email:	Christian.Tunk@gopa.de
Department:	Rural Development and Environment
Address:	Hindenburgring 18 61348 Bad Homburg Germany