Consultant ? Community Based Reed+ Country Plan Development - Colombo

‘Support to Community-Based REDD+’ (CBR+) is a partnership between the UN-REDD Programme and the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), to deliver grants to indigenous peoples and community-based organizations to empower them to engage in REDD+ readiness activities. The vision for CBR+ is to bring resources and capacity to communities, empowering them to define their engagement in national REDD+ readiness activities and to develop experiences, lessons, and recommendations at the local level to feed into national REDD+ readiness processes. Specifically, CBR+ aims to:

Support the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, communities and civil society in national-level processes related to climate change mitigation, including supporting communities to determine whether and how they see themselves engaging in REDD+;Build the capacity and awareness of communities to engage in REDD+ activities and processes; Facilitate the integration of community-based activities, knowledge and ideas into national REDD+ processes; and Develop and share knowledge and lessons learned from community-based experiences to inform national and international REDD+ policies and practice.

The initiative will focus primarily on supporting community-level projects that align with existing national REDD+ processes, including UN-REDD National Programmes, national REDD+ readiness processes and/or national REDD+ strategies (when developed) . During the pilot phase, CBR+ will be implemented in six countries that have benefitted, or are benefitting, from UN-REDD National Programmes, of which Sri Lanka is one. CBR+ is co-financed by UN-REDD and SGP, and grants will be delivered to the community level, through the existing grant-delivery mechanism of SGP. 

In each participating country, a CBR+ Country Plan will be prepared .This Plan will be a simple and user-friendly tool to guide the CBR+ National Steering Committee in the selection of CBR+ projects. The Plan will describe the approach to prioritizing and selecting CBR+ projects within the country. It will also ensure that CBR+ activities align with the UN-REDD National Programme and/or existing REDD+ readiness processes in the country, and are complementary to the SGP Country Programme Strategy (CPS) in the country.

The CBR+ Country Plan should lay out a strategy for the disbursal of CBR+ grants in Sri Lanka, in a way that complements ongoing national REDD+ processes and existing SGP Country Programme Strategy. The Plan should identify priority focus areas for the disbursal of CBR+ grants. These could be geographic or thematic focus areas. The CBR+ Country Plan may allocate a certain percentage of available CBR+ funds for activities by indigenous peoples specifically.

The Plan should be developed in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including indigenous peoples, forest-dependent communities, and civil society. Before the Plan is finalized, the grantee should conduct a multi-stakeholder validation meeting to take on board the views of relevant stakeholders.

The UN-REDD Programme and the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) are seeking to identify one national consultant, who will work with the Sri Lanka UN-REDD programme Programme Management Unit (PMU) to carry out a participatory process to develop and produce a CBR+ Country Plan to guide the disbursement of CBR+ grants in Sri Lanka. The process should include consultation with and validation by relevant stakeholders, including indigenous peoples, forest-dependent communities, and civil society, and the preparation of the Plan.

The overall aim of the assignment is to develop and produce the above-mentioned CBR+ Country Plan to guide the disbursal of CBR+ grants in Sri Lanka. The process should include consultation with and validation by relevant stakeholders, including indigenous peoples, forest-dependent communities, and civil society, and the production of the Plan. The CBR+ Country Plan for Sri Lanka should be developed following the template and guidelines provided for this purpose. 

The Consultant will work with the Forest Department and other key stakeholders to achieve the tasks detailed under the Responsibilities section of the Terms of Reference. The position is of full time basis.

The Consultant will work under the direct guidance of GFE Small Grants Programme Coordinator and UNDP Technical Advisor for UNREDD programme, with additional guidance from the Regional Advisors of the UN-REDD Programme. 

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