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Request for Proposals (RfP)

Title: Documentation of TREPA Achievements 2022-2025

IUCN Rwanda Country Office

RfP Reference: IUCN-2025-04-P03168-03

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

1.1.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

28 April 2025-Publication of the Request for Proposals

05 May 2025-Deadline for confirmation of intention to bid

10 May 2025-Deadline for submission of questions

12 May 2025-Planned publication of responses to questions

19 May 2025-Deadline for submission of proposals to IUCN (“Submission Deadline”)

NA-Interviews / site visits / presentations

26 May 2025-Clarification of proposals

30 May 2025-Planned date for contract award

30 May 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 [IUCN-2025-04-P03168-03– 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

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:

No-Criteria-Information to provide-Weight

1.Clarity and completeness of the Proposal(10 pt.)

Information to provide:

Technical proposal

2.Approach and Methodology-55

2.1.Critical analysis of the project objectives and the TOR(15pt.)

Information to provide:

Included in technical proposal

2.2.(b) Explanation of the relevance and effectiveness of the methodological approach (20 pt.)

Information to provide:

Included in technical proposal

2.3. Operationalization of the approach and Methodology:20

1. Working programme / working schedule for delivery of outputs. Service provider providing the most advantageous and realistic delivery schedule (15 pt.)
2. Work organization, back-up services, quality control, logistics (5pt.)

Information to provide:

Included in technical proposal

3.Consultants Competencies-10

3.1.Education: have an advanced degree (master’s or higher) in Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource, Food Systems and Nutrition, development studies or equivalent (10pt).

Information to provide:

Copy of degree

3.2-25%

• proven experience of a minimum of 5 years in carrying out studies in agriculture development, integrated agricultural systems, rural poverty alleviation and gender studies ,rural development and socio-economic data analysis (10pt).
• Experience of synthesizing lessons and evidence of disseminating findings of project reviews/evaluations to donors, project partners, communities, and governments (10pt)
• At least five (5) years’ experience in socio-economic and food security assessment, and livelihoods assessment. (5pt)

Certificate (s) of good completion provided by the client institution or service certificate by the employer

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 Rwanda Franc (RWF).

4.5.5. Breakdown of rates and prices

For information only, the price needs to be broken down in the following Table. Kindly, add all related price information like daily rates, transport, logistics fees that will be used while conducting this study. The price quates should in Rwandan Francs.

Description-Quantity-Unit Price-Total Price

1

2

3

TOTAL

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 criteria 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. 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

https://twitter.com/IUCN/

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: Documentation of TREPA Achievements 2022-2025

1. Objectives

The consultancy services under these terms of reference pursue the following objective: gathering information and documentation of TREPA project achievements.

It is expected that the outcome from these consultancy services will:

• Provide one single illustrated and comprehensive report (maximum 40 pages) summarizing the achievements from TREPA’s interventions to date.
• Promote accountability for the results achieved through TREPA.
• Utilize available data and reports to assess and document the reach and impact of TREPA project implementation on farmers, landscapes put under restoration, farmer organizations (FFPs, cooperatives, SMEs, etc.), districts, and other government entities.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing among key stakeholders based on the experiences of implementing partners.

2. Background

Project Reference: P03168

Donor reference: FP167

3. 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 people’s 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/

4. About the Project

The current ESARO programming is composed of a suite of mutually interrelated programs and projects designed to address some of the most profound challenges affecting people and nature in the region. Among the projects implemented by IUCN’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office is the TREPA Project – Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation. It is a six-year project, based in IUCN Rwanda Country Office, and funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

The TREPA Project intends to restore 60,000 hectares of drought-degraded landscapes into climate resilient ecosystems through re-forestation, agroforestry, restoration of pasturelands, and soil erosion control measures in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. In addition, irrigation infrastructure projects in the targeted landscapes of the eastern province will be climate-proofed by the TREPA Project.

The TREPA Project will finally support the national and local institutions to effectively plan, manage and monitor climate adaptation outcomes from improved land use at national and decentralized levels.

The TREPA Project is implemented by IUCN (accredited entity) together with the Rwanda Forestry Authority and Enabel as executing entities in partnership with ICRAF, World Vision, and CORDAID. The Ministry of Environment is responsible for chairing the Project Steering Committee and ensures coherence with national strategies and policies.

TREPA is designed to strengthen climate resilience of forest landscapes, people and markets, and subnational institutions. By employing a paradigm shift approach to deployment of nature-based solutions, TREPA hypothesizes that adoption of these NbS within 100 landscapes (each landscape comprising of 400 ha of agroforestry adjacent to protected forest, public forest, smallholder private forest and pasturelands) will positively impact livelihoods and resilience of smallholder farmers and the health of their lands while creating environmental co-benefits.

For its implementation, three components are considered:

Component 1: Restored landscapes that support climate resilient agro-ecological systems and livelihoods in Eastern Province.

Component 2: Market and value chain development for climate resilient agricultural and tree products linked to financial products and services for sustainable management of agro-ecological systems.

Component 3: Strengthened enabling environment to effectively plan, manage and monitor climate adaptation outcomes from improved land use at national and decentralized levels.

5. Description of the Assignment

This assignment will use primary and secondary data from implementing partners and reports to collect, summarize and organize the key achievements (outputs & outcomes) from different implementing partners.

The documentation of TREPA achievements will concern all its implementing partners’ interventions, project documents, reports, project monitoring data, government data, etc.). The consultant will quantify and describe the achievements with data relevant key performance indicators, present a comparison of the situation before and the state with the project; all presented visually using charts, graphs, and images, that demonstrate achievements that communicate key information effectively to readers.

The consultant will clearly elaborate on the approach and methodology he/she will use to accomplish the following tasks:

a. Review and analysis of project documents, reports and data

The consultant will work closely with the M&E, Communications team and project managers from different implementing partners (IPs). The documents below will be availed to the consultant:

• The project appraisal document
• Annual Work Plan and Budget (2022-2025)
• Annual Performance Reports (2022 -2024)
• TREPA Project Baseline Report
• TREPA Annual Household Survey Report
• TREPA Proposal and relevant reports
• Gender and Youth Action Plan
• Environmental and Social Management Framework
• Publications and events

The consultant will hence be able to understand the project background, key stakeholders and how each of them is contributing to the success of the project. He/she will identify the main achievements (quantity &quality), existence/or lack of synergy between different interventions and lessons learned that should be highlighted in the report.

Based on expected deliverables for each implementing partner, the consultant will gather and compile all relevant deliverables declared achieved from the IPs. Arranging this documentation in a single structured folder per output/Activity/deliverables will facilitate not only easy reference for any user but also constitute a proof and supporting document of each accomplishment.

b. Collection of additional qualitative data

This is expected to be collected using key informant interviews with IP’s key staff including hub coordinators and selected chairpersons of the district project coordination committees (DPCC) to compliment the analysis of project documents and shape the outcomes with in-depth understanding of the dynamics of project impact. Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) are envisaged for complementing the information from desk reviews and data gathered from project reports.

c. Ensure full participation

The consultant will keep in mind the following:

• A stakeholders’ workshop will be organized to give them the opportunity to make their appreciation of the report. The Consultant will be responsible for communication with stakeholders in close collaboration with IUCN TREPA project Manager.
• The project will need to communicate achievements and lessons learned among the consortium partners and avail it to external consultants for reference in subsequent project evaluations and thematic studies. In close collaboration with MEL staff, Project indicators will be updated via review of project reports and other records. This will be among other annexes to the main report.

6. Duration of the Assignment

It is planned that the assignment will commence immediately after signing the contract and last for 20 working days. The Consultant is responsible for submitting a detailed timetable for the various activities to be undertaken. This should include, but not limited to, the following outputs in the timescale indicated below:

Activity-Est. # Days-Responsible

• Discussions about the objectives and the outcomes of the study with ITREPA team-1 day-Consultant & TREPA Team
• Review of documents, identification of pertinent questions, information or data and draw the draft report content structure-2-3 days-Consultant
• Submission of the Inception Report-4 days-Consultant
• Presentation of the Inception Report-7 days-Consultant & TREPA team
• Documents/knowledge products analysis and report writing linking outputs to outcomes-8-12-Consultant
• Submission of the first draft report & draft documentary for review-12 days-Consultant
• Draft report and analysis and feedback by the project-13-14 days-TREPA Team
• Incorporate observations and comments and submit second draft to the project-15 days-Consultant
• Submit the draft final report -16days-Consultant
• Validation workshop-16-18 days-Consultant & TREPA Team
• Include observations and comments from participants-19 days-Consultant
• Submit the final report-20 days-Consultant

7. Deliverables and Activities

The consultancy service will run from 30th May to 30th June2025. The expected deliverables are:

Deliverable/Activity-Description-Deadline

**Inception report-**10 June 2025

Description

Produce an Inception Report within 7 days from contract signature date including methodology, data collection tools, detailed work plan, analysis plan, proposed outline of the report and timeframe for IUCN inputs and decisions. He/she will convene an inception meeting/workshop to discuss the inception report with a view to making comments for improvement. This part should also elaborate on the production of the documentary film as well.

Draft report-17June 2025

A draft report including a 3-pager high-level narrative and infographics summarizing the project achievements and intermediate impact for review and comments.

Validation workshop-23 June 2025

Design and lead a validation workshop, including presentation of preliminary findings. The validation workshop allows the consortium members to discuss the status and quality of the report and the visual part of it, providing inputs to the consultant.

Final Report-30 June 2025

Incorporate the comments and submit the final report and a final 3-pager high-level narrative and infographics summarizing the project achievements and outcomes.

8.Cost

Applicants are expected to submit a broken-down budget when submitting a proposal to IUCN. The budget is inclusive of professional/consultant fees, data collection and analysis, travel, and accommodation, reporting and validation costs.

9. Payment Schedule

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

Deliverable-Milestone payment

Approved inception report-20%

Validated Draft report -30%

Approved Final Report-50%

10.Supervision and coordination

The consultant will report to and work under the supervision of the IUCN TREPA project Manager

11.Skills and Experience

The consultant (individual/consultancy firm) should satisfy the following minimum qualifications and requirements:

Consultant

• have an advanced degree (master’s or higher) in Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource, Food Systems and Nutrition, development studies or any other related fields
• have proven experience of a minimum of 5 years in carrying out studies in agriculture development, integrated agricultural systems, rural poverty alleviation and gender studies.
• At least five (5) years’ experience in socio-economic and food security assessment, and livelihoods assessment.
• Fluent in spoken and written English; Knowledge of Kinyarwanda language is added advantage
• Have a strong background and experience in a wide range of development, rural, socio-economic data analysis (proven by certificates of good completion).
• Have a strong experience in documenting project actions and achievements including infographic presentations of outcomes.

Declaration of Undertaking in relation to RFP- Documentation of TREPA Achievements 2022-2025

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

Registered Name of Organisation (the “Organisation”): _______________________

Registered Address (incl. country): _______________________________________

Year of Registration:__________________________________________________

I hereby authorise IUCN to store and use the information included in the attached Proposal for the purpose of evaluating Proposals and selecting the Proposal IUCN deems the most favourable. I acknowledge that IUCN is required to retain the 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 reasonably requested.

Where the Proposal includes Personal Data as defined by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), I confirm that the Organisation has been authorised by each Data Subject to share this Data with IUCN for the purposes stated above.

I further confirm that the following statements are correct:

1. The Organisation is duly registered in accordance with all applicable laws.
2. The Organisation is fully compliant with all its tax and social security obligations.
3. The Organisation and its staff and representatives are free of any real or perceived conflicts of interest with regards to IUCN and its Mission.
4. The Organisation agrees to declare to IUCN any real or perceived emerging conflicts of interests it or any of its staff and representatives may have concerning IUCN. The Organisation acknowledges that IUCN may terminate any contracts with the Organisation that would, in IUCN sole discretion, be negatively affected by such conflicts of interests.
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.
9. The Organisation complies with all applicable environmental regulatory requirements or other legal requirements relating to sustainability and environmental protection.
10. The Organisation is not included in the UN Security Council Sanctions List, EU Sanctions Map, US Office of Foreign Assets Control Sanctions List, or the World Bank listing of ineligible firms and individuals. The Organisation agrees that it will not provide direct or indirect support to firms and individuals included in these lists.
11. The Organisation has not been, is not, and will not be involved or implicated in any violations of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, or injustice or abuse of human rights related to other groups or individuals, including forced evictions, violation of fundamental rights of workers as defined by the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Declaration on the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, child labour, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment.

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< Name and position of authorised representative of the Proposer >

Declaration in relation to RfP- Documentation of TREPA Achievements 2022-2025

I, the undersigned, hereby confirm that I am self-employed and able to provide the service independent of any organisation or other legal entity.

Full name (as in passport):

Home or Office (please delete as appropriate) Address (incl. country):

I hereby authorise IUCN to store and use the information included in the attached Proposal for the purpose of evaluating Proposals and selecting the Proposal IUCN deems the most favourable, including Personal Data as defined by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I acknowledge that IUCN is required to retain my 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 reasonably requested.

I further confirm that the following statements are correct:

1. I am legally registered as self-employed in accordance with all applicable laws.
2. I am fully compliant with all my tax and social security obligations.
3. I am free of any real or perceived conflicts of interest with regards to IUCN and its Mission.
4. I agree to declare to IUCN any real or perceived emerging conflicts of interests I may have concerning IUCN. I acknowledge that IUCN may terminate any contracts with me that would, in IUCN sole discretion, be negatively affected by such conflicts of interests.
5. I have never been convicted of grave professional misconduct or any other offence concerning my professional conduct.
6. I have never been convicted of fraud, corruption, money laundering, supporting terrorism or involvement in a criminal organisation.
7. I acknowledge that engagement in fraud, corruption, money laundering, supporting terrorism or involvement in a criminal organisation will entitle IUCN to terminate any and all contracts with me with immediate effect.
8. I am not included in the UN Security Council Sanctions List, EU Sanctions Map, US Office of Foreign Assets Control Sanctions List, or the World Bank listing of ineligible firms and individuals. I agree that I will not provide direct or indirect support to firms and individuals included in these lists.
9. I have not been, am not, and will not be involved or implicated in any violations of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, or injustice or abuse of human rights related to other groups or individuals, including forced evictions, violation of fundamental rights of workers as defined by the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Declaration on the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, child labour, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment.

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