In order to help countries accelerate their preparation and take rapid actions to implement the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and align their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (SNPAB), including national biodiversity goals, monitoring, policy and funding frameworks and, with the financial support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a global project of” Support for the anticipated actions of the post-2020 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework”, implemented jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The objective of the project is to accelerate the preparation of the first actions to implement the CMB by providing financial and technical support to eligible countries for 1) the alignment of national biodiversity goals; 2) evaluations of the monitoring system; 3) political and institutional alignment; 3) political and institutional alignment; and 4) activities related to the financing of biodiversity. The project focuses on identifying and assessing gaps, so that Parties are ready to take action and implement an updated NBSAP in accordance with the Kunming-Montreal CBD.

Burundi, being a Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity and like any other eligible country, has just received funding from this project to develop an aligned and coordinated response to global goals in order to strengthen efforts for the conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity and develop urgent measures to promote the restoration of nature through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the interests of populations, while aligning with the new post-2020 Global Framework at through the updating of its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.

It is in this context that these terms of reference are developed to recruit a National Consultant in charge of a National Consultant responsible for setting up a monitoring mechanism for the implementation of the revised National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. Consult the TDRs HERE