The Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), through a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is looking for experienced consultants to provide specific consultancy services for the Integrated Community-based Ecosystem Management (ICEMA) project. This project aims to scale-up community-based ecosystem management for the benefit of rural people, biodiversity conservation and sustainable land use.

                                                       Background

 
The Integrated Community-Based Ecosystem Management (ICEMA) Project is designed to support activities within the larger framework of a national Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) programme.


The CBNRM Programme in Namibia is based on policy and a legal framework which grants rights over wildlife and tourism management to communities on their lands once they are organized as "conservancies". Conservancies are multiple-use zones with legal status, registered with the authorities (Ministry of Environment and Tourism), where residents currently continue farming but collectively manage wildlife in order to benefit both from better natural resource management practice, and from capturing tourism and natural resource revenues.

The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) through the World Bank (WB) as the GEF's Implementing Agency has provided a grant in an amount of US$ 7,1 million to the Republic of Namibian. The Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) is responsible executing agency for this five-year project and will closely work together with other CBNRM stakeholders. The grant will support the Ministry of Environment and Tourism to scale-up community-based ecosystem management for the benefit of rural people, biodiversity conservation and sustainable land use through the Integrated Community-Based Ecosystem Management (ICEMA) project.

The project development objective is to promote community-based integrated ecosystem management that accrues socio-economic benefits, and prospect for benefits, to conservancies. The project global objective is to restore, secure and enhance key ecosystem processes in conservancies that increase the prospects to improve significantly the conservation of globally important biodiversity and to reduce land degradation in the country as a whole.     

Project Components

Contacts

Mr. Jo Tagg 
Project Coordinator 
Directorate of Environmental Affairs 
Ministry of Environment and Tourism 
3rd Floor, Capital Centre building 
Levinson Arcade 
Private Bag 13306 
Windhoek, 
NAMIBIA

Tel: +264 61 249015 
Fax: +264 61 240339 
E-mail:

Mr. Bennett Kahuure 
Procurement Officer 
Directorate of Environmental Affairs 
Ministry of Environment and Tourism 
E-mail:

Mrs. Vita Stankevica 
Office Administrator 
Directorate of Environmental Affairs 
Ministry of Environment and Tourism 
E-mail:

Mr. Nico E. Willemse 
Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist [Consultant] 
Directorate of Environmental Affairs 
Ministry of Environment and Tourism 
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