Project Title: Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol

International Consultancy for the development and creation of guidelines on the utilization of Genetic Resources and associated Traditional Knowledge

Background

The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS), an agreement under the Convention on Biological Diversity, was adopted on 29 October 2010 in Nagoya (Japan) and entered into force on 12 October 2014. The Republic of Seychelles is a Party to the Nagoya Protocol since its entry into force (ratification) on October 12, 2014. 

The UNDP-GEF Project “Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks, and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol” (Global ABS Project) is a 3-year project that specifically aims at assisting 24 countries in the development and strengthening of their national ABS frameworks, human resources, and administrative capabilities to implement the Nagoya Protocol.

With the support of the UNDP-GEF Global ABS project, the ABS policy and the Traditional Knowledge inventory were created to preserve and valorise Seychelle’s GR and aTK. Against this background and following the request of the national ABS team in Seychelles, the Global ABS project is now seeking a international consultant to develop and define guidelines for the utilization of GR and aTK in Seychelles.  

The international consultant will review the work done by the TK Inventory consultant in 2019 and from there develop and define guidelines for utilization of Genetic Resources and associated Traditional Knowledge and build awareness amongst relevant stakeholders and stakeholder groups to disseminate the former. 

Main output from the consultancy is stakeholder validated guidelines on utilization on Genetic Resources and associated Traditional Knowledge.

Duration of the work
The assignment will be for a maximum of 40 days over 4 months

Duty Station

The Contractor will be “home-based”  for report writing and with travel to Seychelles once or twice, depending on the deliverables within the consultancies. 

Deadline for submission of offers -  no later than Friday 19 July at 24:00 hours Seychelles time (GMT +4 hrs) to the email address below:

[email protected]

Annexes

Annex A - Letter of confirmation of interest and availability and Submission of financial proposal
Annex B - Model Contact IC 
Annex C - UNDP GCC IC
Annex D - P11
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