Mombasa Mangrove Restoration Assessment using ROAM Full Time NEW

Request for Proposals (RfP)

Mombasa Mangrove Restoration Assessment using ROAM

IUCN Kenya Country Office, Save Our Mangroves Now! (SOMN 3) Project, Programme or other requisitioning unit

RfP Reference: IUCN-25-04- P04454

Welcome to this Procurement by IUCN. You are hereby invited to submit a Proposal. Please read the information and instructions carefully because non-compliance with the instructions may result in disqualification of your Proposal from this Procurement.

1. REQUIREMENTS

A detailed description of the services and/or goods to be provided can be found in Attachment 1.

2. CONTACT DETAILS

During the course of this procurement, i.e. from the publication of this RfP to the award of a contract, you may not discuss this procurement with any IUCN employee or representative other than the following contact. You must address all correspondence and questions to the contact, including your Proposal.

IUCN Contact: [email protected]

3. PROCUREMENT TIMETABLE

3.1. This timetable is indicative and may be changed by IUCN at any time. If IUCN decides that changes to any of the deadlines are necessary, we will publish this on our website and contact you directly if you have indicated your interest in this procurement (see Section 3.2).

DATE – ACTIVITY

07 March 2025- Publication of the Request for Proposals

12 March 2025- Deadline for expressions of interest

12 March 2025- Deadline for submission of questions

12 March 2025- Planned publication of responses to questions

21 March 2025- Deadline for submission of Proposals to IUCN (“Submission Deadline”)

28 March 2025- Clarification of Proposals

31 March 2025-Planned date for contract award

31 March 2025- Expected contract start date

3.2. Please email the IUCN contact to express your interest in submitting a Proposal by the deadline stated above. This will help IUCN to keep you updated regarding the procurement.

4. COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

4.1. Your Proposal must consist of the following four separate documents:

• Signed Declaration of Undertaking (see Attachment 2)

• Pre-Qualification Information (see Section 4.3 below)

• Technical Proposal (see Section 4.4 below)

• Financial Proposal (see Section 4.5 below)

Proposals must be prepared in English.

4.2. Your Proposal must be submitted by email to the IUCN Contact (see Section 2). The subject heading of the email shall be [RfP Reference – bidder name]. The bidder name is the name of the company/organisation on whose behalf you are submitting the Proposal, or your own surname if you are bidding as a self-employed consultant. Your Proposal must be submitted in PDF format. You may submit multiple emails suitably annotated, e.g. Email 1 of 3, if attached files are too large to suit a single email transmission. You may not submit your Proposal by uploading it to a file-sharing tool.

IMPORTANT: Submitted documents must be password-protected so that they cannot be opened and read before the submission deadline. Please use the same password for all submitted documents. After the deadline has passed and within 12 hours, please send the password to the IUCN Contact. This will ensure a secure bid submission and opening process. Please DO NOT email the password before the deadline for Proposal submission.

4.3. Pre-Qualification Criteria

IUCN will use the following Pre-Qualification Criteria to determine whether you have the capacity to provide the required goods and/or services to IUCN. Please provide the necessary information in a single, separate document.

Pre-Qualification Criteria

1. 3 relevant references of clients similar to IUCN / similar work

2. Confirm that you have all the necessary legal registrations to perform the work

3. State your annual turnover for each of the past 3 years

4.4. Technical Proposal

The Technical Proposal must address each of the criteria stated below explicitly and separately, quoting the relevant criteria reference number (left-hand column).

Proposals in any other format will significantly increase the time it takes to evaluate, and such Proposals may therefore be rejected at IUCN’s discretion.

Where CVs are requested, these must be of the individuals who will actually carry out the work specified. The individuals you put forward may only be substituted with IUCN’s approval.

IUCN will evaluate Technical Proposals with regards to each of the following criteria and their relative importance:

Description- Information to provide- Relative weight

1. Background of the assignment and Consultant’s understanding-25

Detailed understanding of the ROAM process

2. Methodology-45

Detailed description on methodology to be used, target population and broader understanding of the geography including socio-economic and ecological dynamics related to mangroves

3. Activity Plan-15

Outline the activities and timelines to be followed to deliver the assignment

4. Professional experience-15

Highlight professional background and experience for lead and other two (for consortium) undertaking similar assignments

TOTAL= 100%

4.5. Financial Proposal

4.5.1. The Financial Proposal must be a fixed and firm price for the provision of the goods/services stated in the RfP in their entirety.

4.5.2. Prices include all costs

Submitted rates and prices are deemed to include all costs, insurances, taxes (except VAT, see below), fees, expenses, liabilities, obligations, risk and other things necessary for the performance of the Terms of Reference or Specification of Requirements. IUCN will not accept charges beyond those clearly stated in the Financial Proposal. This includes applicable withholding taxes and similar. It is your responsibility to determine whether such taxes apply to your organisation and to include them in your Financial Proposal.

4.5.3. Applicable Goods and Services Taxes

Proposal rates and prices shall be exclusive of Value Added Tax

4.5.4. Currency of proposed rates and prices

All rates and prices submitted by Proposers shall be in US Dollars [currencyBreakdown of rates and prices

For information only, the price needs to be broken down as follows:

Description- Quantity-Unit Price-Total Price

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4.6. Additional information not requested by IUCN should not be included in your Proposal and will not be considered in the evaluation.

4.7. Your Proposal must remain valid and capable of acceptance by IUCN for a period of 90 calendar days following the submission deadline.

4.8. Withdrawals and Changes

You may freely withdraw or change your Proposal at any time prior to the submission deadline by written notice to the IUCN Contact. However, in order to reduce the risk of fraud, no changes or withdrawals will be accepted after the submission deadline.

5. EVALUATION of PROPOSALS

5.1. Completeness

IUCN will firstly check your Proposal for completeness. Incomplete Proposals will not be considered further.

5.2. Pre-Qualification Criteria

Only Proposals that meet all of the pre-qualification criteria will be evaluated.

5.3. Technical Evaluation

5.3.1. Scoring Method

Your Proposal will be assigned a score from 0 to 10 for each of the technical evaluation criteria, such that ‘0’ is low and ‘10’ is high.

5.3.2. Minimum Quality Thresholds

Proposals that receive a score of ‘0’ for any of the criteria will not be considered further.

5.3.3. Technical Score

Your score for each technical evaluation criterion will be multiplied with the respective relative weight (see Section 4.4) and these weighted scores added together to give your Proposal’s overall technical score.

5.4. Financial Evaluation and Financial Scores

The financial evaluation will be based upon the full total price you submit. Your Financial Proposal will receive a score calculated by dividing the lowest Financial Proposal that has passed the minimum quality thresholds (see Section 5.3.2) by the total price of your Financial Proposal.

Thus, for example, if your Financial Proposal is for a total of CHF 100 and the lowest Financial Proposal is CHF 80, you will receive a financial score of 80/100 = 80%

5.5. Total Score

Your Proposal’s total score will be calculated as the weighted sum of your technical score and your financial score.

The relative weights will be:

Technical: 70%

Financial: 30%

Thus, for example, if your technical score is 83% and your financial score is 77%, you will receive a total score of 83 * 70% + 77 * 30% = 58.1% + 23.1% = 81.2%.

Subject to the requirements in Sections 4 and 7, IUCN will award the contract to the bidder whose Proposal achieves the highest total score.

6. Explanation of procurement procedure

6.1. IUCN is using the Open Procedure for this procurement. This means that the contracting opportunity is published on IUCN’s website and open to all interested parties to take part, subject to the conditions in Section 7 below.

6.2. You are welcome to ask questions or seek clarification regarding this procurement. Please email the IUCN Contact (see Section 2), taking note of the deadline for submission of questions in Section 3.1.

6.3. All Proposals must be received by the submission deadline in Section 3.1 above. Late Proposals will not be considered. All Proposals received by the submission deadline will be evaluated by a team of three or more evaluators in accordance with the evaluation criteria stated in this RfP. No other criteria will be used to evaluate Proposals. The contract will be awarded to the bidder whose Proposal received the highest Total Score. IUCN does, however, reserve the right to cancel the procurement and not award a contract at all.

6.4. IUCN will contact the bidder with the highest-scoring Proposal to finalise the contract. We will contact unsuccessful bidders after the contract has been awarded and provide detailed feedback. The timetable in Section 3.1 gives an estimate of when we expect to have completed the contract award, but this date may change depending on how long the evaluation of Proposals takes.

7. Conditions for participation in this procurement

7.1. To participate in this procurement, you are required to submit a Proposal, which fully complies with the instructions in this RfP and the Attachments.

7.1.1. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have submitted a complete and fully compliant Proposal.

7.1.2. Any incomplete or incorrectly completed Proposal submission may be deemed non-compliant, and as a result you may be unable to proceed further in the procurement process.

7.1.3. IUCN will query any obvious clerical errors in your Proposal and may, at IUCN’s sole discretion, allow you to correct these, but only if doing so could not be perceived as giving you an unfair advantage.

7.2. In order to participate in this procurement, you must meet the following conditions:

• Free of conflicts of interest
• Registered on the relevant professional or trade register of the country in which you are established (or resident, if self-employed)
• In full compliance with your obligations relating to payment of social security contributions and of all applicable taxes
• Not been convicted of failing to comply with environmental regulatory requirements or other legal requirements relating to sustainability and environmental protection
• Not bankrupt or being wound up
• Never been guilty of an offence concerning your professional conduct
• Not involved in fraud, corruption, a criminal organisation, money laundering, terrorism, or any other illegal activity.
  

  7.3. You must complete and sign the Declaration of Undertaking (see Attachment 2).

  7.4. If you are participating in this procurement as a member of a joint venture, or are using sub-contractors, submit a separate Declaration of Undertaking for each member of the joint venture and sub-contractor, and be clear in your Proposal which parts of the goods/services are provided by each partner or sub-contractor.

  7.5. Each bidder shall submit only one Proposal, either individually or as a partner in a joint venture. In case of joint venture, one company shall not be allowed to participate in two different joint ventures in the same procurement nor shall a company be allowed to submit a Proposal both on its behalf and as part of a joint venture for the same procurement. A bidder who submits or participates in more than one Proposal (other than as a subcontractor or in cases of alternatives that have been permitted or requested) shall cause all the Proposals with the bidder’s participation to be disqualified.

  7.6. By taking part in this procurement, you accept the conditions set out in this RfP, including the following:

• It is unacceptable to give or offer any gift or consideration to an employee or other representative of IUCN as a reward or inducement in relation to the awarding of a contract. Such action will give IUCN the right to exclude you from this and any future procurements, and to terminate any contract that may have been signed with you.
• Any attempt to obtain information from an employee or other representative of IUCN concerning another bidder will result in disqualification.
• Any price fixing or collusion with other bidders in relation to this procurement shall give IUCN the right to exclude you and any other involved bidder(s) from this and any future procurements and may constitute a criminal offence.

8. Confidentiality and data protection

8.1. IUCN follows the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The information you submit to IUCN as part of this procurement will be treated as confidential and shared only as required to evaluate your Proposal in line with the procedure explained in this RfP, and for the maintenance of a clear audit trail. For audit purposes, IUCN is required to retain your Proposal in its entirety for 10 years after then end of the resulting contract and make this available to internal and external auditors and donors as and when requested.

8.2. In the Declaration of Undertaking (Attachment 2) you need to give IUCN express permission to use the information you submit in this way, including personal data that forms part of your Proposal. Where you include personal data of your employees (e.g. CVs) in your Proposal, you need to have written permission from those individuals to share this information with IUCN, and for IUCN to use this information as indicated in 8.1. Without these permissions, IUCN will not be able to consider your Proposal.

9. Complaints procedure

If you have a complaint or concern regarding the propriety of how a competitive process is or has been executed, then please contact [email protected]. Such complaints or concerns will be treated as confidential and are not considered in breach of the above restrictions on communication (Section 2.1).

10. Contract

The contract will be based on IUCN’s template in Attachment 3, the terms of which are not negotiable. They may, however, be amended by IUCN to reflect particular requirements from the donor funding this particular procurement.

11. About IUCN

IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together.

Headquartered in Switzerland, IUCN Secretariat comprises around 1,000 staff with offices in more than 50 countries.

Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of more than 1,300 Member organisations and some 10,000 experts. It is a leading provider of conservation data, assessments and analysis. Its broad membership enables IUCN to fill the role of incubator and trusted repository of best practices, tools and international standards.

IUCN provides a neutral space in which diverse stakeholders including governments, NGOs, scientists, businesses, local communities, indigenous peoples organisations and others can work together to forge and implement solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development.

Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN implements a large and diverse portfolio of conservation projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being.

www.iucn.org

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12. ATTACHMENTS

Attachment 1 Specification of Requirements / Terms of Reference

Attachment 2 Declaration of Undertaking (select 2a for companies or 2b for self-employed as applicable to you)

Attachment 3 Contract Template

Terms of Reference for IUCN Consultancy

Title: Mombasa Mangrove Restoration Assessment using ROAM (Restoration Opportunity Assessment Methodology)

Objective of the Consultancy

This consultancy has the following objective(s):

1. Identify proxies of degradation, challenges, targets/objectives;
2. Map/review and quantify degradation in mangrove ecosystems – including the degradation risk and hot spots in and around the target landscapes (Mombasa County).
3. Based on the key project objectives use a GIS-based Multi-CRITERA Analysis to map and analyse opportunities and priorities focusing on mangrove ecosystems in Mombasa.
4. Define, map, and quantify interventions for restoring degraded mangrove ecosystems (may include the development of community-centric restoration plans that encourage improved livelihoods).
5. Identify key restoration enabling conditions – around existing policies, institutional arrangements, culture, governance, etc., and use the Rapid Restoration Diagnostic tool to demonstrate the restoration readiness in the target landscape.

Background

Project Reference: P04454

Donor reference:

About IUCN

IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together.

Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of more than 1,400 Member organisations and around 15,000 experts. It is a leading provider of conservation data, assessments and analysis. Its broad membership enables IUCN to fill the role of incubator and trusted repository of best practices, tools and international standards.

IUCN provides a neutral space in which diverse stakeholders including governments, NGOs, scientists, businesses, local communities, indigenous peoples organisations and others can work together to forge and implement solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development.

Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN implements a large and diverse portfolio of conservation projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being.

www.iucn.org

https://twitter.com/IUCN/

About the Project

The Save Our Mangroves Now (SOMN) initiative has been working to protect Western Indian Ocean mangroves since its establishment in 2016. Bringing together governments, conservation specialists, and coastal communities, the initiative aims to reverse the decline of WIO mangroves, restore biodiversity, protect livelihoods, and mitigate against the impacts of the climate crisis. It is a joint initiative by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Worldwide Fund (WWF), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and Wetlands International. Throughout its operations, the SOMN initiative has produced a wealth of valuable assessments and publications relating to the state of WIO mangroves, the benefits they bring to communities, and the threats these ecosystems are facing. This synthesis report provides an overview of this material, summarizing the current state of mangroves in Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Tanzania, before giving a synopsis of the current policy landscape both regionally and internationally, and identifying opportunities for further protection of these precious ecosystems.

Now in its third phase (SOMN3), the four partners are working together to stop global mangrove loss under the title “Save Our Mangroves Now!” (SOMN). The overall project goal is to ensure that the conservation and restoration of mangroves are accelerated and scaled up in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region for the benefit of people, biodiversity, and climate through the implementation of existing national and regional commitments. SOMN3 builds on the achievements, findings, and lessons learned from the first two phases of the initiative (SOMN1 & SOMN2), which focused on developing knowledge products, capacity-building, advancing policy at the various levels from international to regional (WIO) and national (Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania), as well as accelerating partnerships related to mangrove conservation and restoration. In its third phase, SOMN focuses on further supporting the implementation of the commitments made by Mozambique and Kenya towards mangrove protection, aiming to support the WIO region in unlocking additional finance, and building capacity on international best practice tools, knowledge, and initiatives. The project is designed as a WIO regional contribution to the Global Mangrove Breakthrough, which aims to unlock USD 4 billion to secure the future of 15 million hectares of mangroves globally by 2030 through collective action on halting mangrove loss, restoring half of recent losses, doubling protection of mangroves globally and ensuring sustainable long-term finance for all existing mangroves. To achieve this in the Western Indian Ocean region, SOMN aims to reduce barriers to effective mangrove conservation and restoration in the Western Indian Ocean region. These barriers are regularly identified as lacking policies, limited capacities, and limited financial resources.

In order to meet the third objective (on additional financing), the project team is currently conceptualizing an initiative that is expected to attract financing and or investment for upscaling SOMN gains and efforts in selected landscapes namely, Mombasa (Kenya) and Maputo (Mozambique). These efforts will contribute towards the Global Mangrove Breakthrough initiative – a global goal set by the Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) and the Climate Champions for UNFCCC COP26 and COP27 to “Invest USD 4 billion to secure the future of 15 million hectares of mangroves globally by 2030 through collective action on halting mangrove loss, restoring half of recent losses, doubling protection of mangroves globally, and ensuring sustainable long-term finance for all existing mangroves.”

ROAM was developed by IUCN in collaboration with WRI and combines a situation analysis of degradation and deforestation with geospatial analysis and biophysical and economic modeling, within a framework that assesses the social, political, and institutional readiness to implement large-scale landscape restoration. ROAM is not a sequence of steps or an exercise, but rather an iterative process that utilizes a theory of change for systematically addressing deforestation and degradation at the landscape scale. ROAM can build on successful dialogue and collaborative structures that are already in place in the assessment area, and is by definition and multi-stakeholder, participatory process.

A ROAM process can deliver the following products:

• Potential areas for restoration.
• Opportunity areas for restoration identified and prioritized;
• A shortlist of the most relevant and feasible restoration intervention types across the assessment area and site-specific restoration models;
• Quantified costs and benefits of each intervention type;
• Estimated values of additional carbon sequestered by these intervention types;
• Analysis of the finance and investment options for restoration in the assessment area; and
• A diagnostic of ‘restoration readiness’ and strategies for addressing major policy and institutional bottlenecks.

Read more about the guidelines and tools used during application of ROAM:

1. Handbook on ROAM.
2. Gender-responsive restoration guidelines.
3. Biodiversity guidelines for FLR opportunities assessments.
4. A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analysing FLR Decisions;
5. 2022 Enhancing the integration of governance in forest landscape restoration opportunities assessments

A strong alignment is expected with existing guidance and standards such as (but not limited to):

1. 2020 Guidelines on Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration for the Western Indian Ocean Region Restoration Guidelines (also included in the GMA guidelines)
   1. 2023 Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA) Best Practice Guidelines for Mangrove Restoration (including ROAM and Community-based ecological mangrove restoration methodology and principles/CBEMR);
2. 2024 Restoration guidelines Kenya and the associated order (in development).
3. 2021 Guiding principles on sustainable mangrove ecosystem management (elements linked to restoration).
4. 2020 IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions: a user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of NbS: first edition.

Description of the Assignment

The main objective of this assignment is to conduct a rapid ROAM with a particular focus on mangrove ecosystems in Mombasa, (Kenya). The assignment will map out potential areas within Mombasa with maximum restoration potential. The assignment will be fully desk based and provide a map of mangrove restoration potential for Mombasa County.

Specifically, the assignment will do the following:

• Identify proxies of degradation, challenges, targets/objectives;
• Map/review and quantify degradation in mangrove ecosystems – including the degradation risk and hot spots in and around the target landscapes (Mombasa County).
• Based on the key project objectives use a GIS-based Multi-CRITERA Analysis to map and analyse opportunities and priorities focusing on mangrove ecosystems in Mombasa.
• Define, map, and quantify interventions for restoring degraded mangrove ecosystems (may include the development of community-centric restoration plans that encourage improved livelihoods).
• Identify key restoration enabling conditions – around existing policies, institutional arrangements, culture, governance, etc., and use the Rapid Restoration Diagnostic tool to demonstrate the restoration readiness in the target landscape.

The consultancy team/consultant may also propose additional research methods. To support the ROAM assessment, IUCN will provide the consultancy team with preliminary findings from the project preparation phase, which includes: an overview of environmental conditions, ecosystems and biodiversity within the Focus Area; an initial assessment of significant biodiversity and areas of importance for its conservation; a description of threats to natural values and impact on local communities; suggestions for restoration interventions suitable for the context.

IUCN will also facilitate communications with national authorities and county level stakeholders (including NMCC/CMCC for Mombasa) to support the collection of additional information required for the ROAM assessment and the design of restoration interventions. In the event of delays in the data provision, the project time schedule may be adjusted accordingly.

The existing analysis to build on:

1. 2021 SOMN Socio-economic valuation of mangrove in Kenya 2021
2. 2020 SOMN Mapping report / state of the mangroves in the WIO report 2022
3. Various policy briefs, etc

1. Key tasks & proposed Areas of Expertise

a) Stocktaking of Restoration Successes

The team will review the existing datasets and analyze the data gaps. The team will then produce a summary 1-2 pager for SOMN3 Project Manager/SOMN3 IUCN team to review and provide any inputs for the next stage.

b) Mapping of Restoration Opportunities

The purpose of the task is to identify/review and map drivers of mangrove degradation using Multi-criteria Analysis (MCA) and using the restoration objectives as a multiplier to map out opportunities and priorities. The mapping component will be co-led by IUCN Geospatial counterparts and the in-country GIS experts drawn from concerned in-country institutions. This work will entail a number of specific tasks and methods of work, including:

• Collecting data to produce a repository of biophysical and social data that could be used in the restoration opportunity assessment. Methods may include:
  • Desk research of various national and regional web-based data portals.
• Reviewing the repository of data to determine the best-available datasets to use in restoration opportunity mapping analysis.
• Determining criteria to scale up identified restoration interventions based on best-available datasets

Duration of the Assignment

From 31 March 2025 to 30 April 2025

Deliverables and Activities

The consultant will provide the following deliverables and carry out the following activities:

Deliverable/Activity, Description, Deadline

1. Deliverable 1:- 04 April 2025;

   The ROAM inception report which outlines the structure of the final ROAM report, describes the methodology and highlights the results of the preliminary analysis

   Description;

• In collaboration with the IUCN team and project stakeholders, organize an online/physical ROAM induction workshop. The workshop aims to present and discuss the ROAM methodology, as well as to specify the objectives, priorities, and expected outcomes of the ROAM assessment.
• Conduct preliminary analysis to identify:
  • a list of specific questions to be addressed by the ROAM assessment;
  • potential restoration sites and methods as well as criteria and indicators that will be used to assess and prioritise restoration measures in the Focus Area;
  • available data and knowledge, data gaps and solutions to address identified gaps within the project timeline;
  • capacities for restoration interventions, including available resources (seedlings, materials, equipment, etc.) and service providers for conducting restoration fieldwork within the project timeframe.

2. Deliverable 2:- 21 April 2025;

The draft ROAM report including a set of analytical maps of the Focus Area. Maps should be compatible to national geospatial standards and/or requirements to be accessible and editable be national geospatial agencies. Shape file formats need to be delivered

Description;

• Data collection and analysis (desk based). Collect data and conduct geospatial, biodiversity, socio-economic and legal analysis. The analysis should include, but not limited to, the following aspects:
  • a geospatial analysis of physical, ecological and socio- economic characteristics of the Focus Area;
  • a review of the management plans for the landscapes in focus, including their zoning and buffer zones as well as community engagement and benefit sharing aspects
  • an analysis of the carbon sequestration potential and the associated co-benefits;
  • a legal analysis that will determine the willingness of public authorities to mainstream restoration actions in their strategies and action plans.

3. Deliverable 3: 30 April 2025;

A final report on assessment of restoration potential of the Mombasa County

Description;

• a set of analytical maps and graphs, presenting restoration sites and methods, including:
  • general maps illustrating physical, ecological and socio- economic characteristics of Mombasa county;
  • a degradation map(s): maps of degraded lands and the individual proxies used to identify degradation, including a calculation of degraded hectares and presentation of the degradation drivers;
  • an opportunity map(s): maps presenting restoration opportunities and a calculation of available hectares for restoration;
  • a priority map(s): maps of priority sites recommended for the restoration actions;
  • an intervention map: maps of potential restoration interventions, including sites/land plots, their physical parameters and corresponding intervention types.
  • a list of priority restoration interventions (sites and methods) both suitable and feasible for the local context;
• a quantified costs and benefits analysis of each intervention type and priority site (preferable/optional);
• recommendations for mainstreaming gender in the restoration interventions proposed;
• estimated values of additional carbon sequestrated by the restoration interventions.

Payment Schedule

The Timetable below summarises the chronological order of deliverables and indicates milestones at which IUCN will pay the Consultant.

Deliverable- Milestone payment

The ROAM inception report which outlines the structure of the final ROAM report, describes the methodology and highlights the results of the preliminary analysis (04 April 2025)- 20%

The draft ROAM report including a set of analytical maps of the Focus Area. Maps should be compatible to national geospatial standards and/or requirements to be accessible and editable be national geospatial agencies. Shape file formats need to be delivered (21 April 2025)- 50%

A final report on assessment of restoration potential of the Mombasa county (30 April 2025)-30%

Skills and Experience

The consultant must have the following skills, education and experience as a minimum:

• Five (5) to Ten (10) years of experience in ecosystem restoration, forestry, and other related fields of expertise; specific experience with mangroves a significant plus
• An additional thematic expertise / experience in GIS, biodiversity conservation, socio- economic and gender aspects of conservation interventions.
• Demonstrated experience in both restoration opportunities assessment and design of restoration interventions.
• Excellent analytical skills and proven record of preparing similar project design studies and reports.

Supervision and coordination

The consultant will report to and work under the supervision of Francis Okalo, Programme Manager, Coastal and Ocean Resilience (COR)- IUCN Kenya Country Office.

Declaration of Undertaking in relation to RFP-Mombasa Mangrove Restoration Assessment using ROAM

I, the undersigned, hereby confirm that I am an authorised representative of the following organisation:

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5. None of the Organisation’s staff has ever been convicted of grave professional misconduct or any other offence concerning their professional conduct.
6. Neither the Organisation nor any of its staff and representatives have ever been convicted of fraud, corruption, money laundering, supporting terrorism or involvement in a criminal organisation.
7. The Organisation acknowledges that engagement by itself or any of its staff in fraud, corruption, money laundering, supporting terrorism or involvement in a criminal organisation will entitle IUCN to terminate any and all contracts with the Organisation with immediate effect.
8. The Organisation is a going concern and is not bankrupt or being wound up, is not having its affairs administered by the courts, has not suspended business activities, is not the subject of proceedings concerning those matters, or in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure provided for in national legislation or regulations.
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Declaration in relation to Mombasa Mangrove Restoration Assessment using ROAM

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