Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the guidance of the Programme Management Officer in liaison with the UN Decade Multi-Country Mountain Flagship Focal Point for the Virunga Region, the consultant will carry out the following activities:

• Literature and project review of restoration and in the GVL mountains (Uganda and Rwanda);
• Identification and analysis of restoration and EbA best practices;
• Identified barriers and lessons learned from interventions that underperformed or lacked sustainability;
• Developed criteria for prioritizing solutions for upscaling, including ecological impact, cost-efficiency, social inclusion, and co-benefits, and replicability in different contexts of the GVL;
• Comprehensive report including: Annotated catalogue of best practices and case studies, Prioritized list of solutions for scaling based on validation by stakeholders and Recommendations for investment, policy support, and capacity development; The consultant is also responsible for delivering/submitting the above mentioned deliverables via email to the supervisor in editable documents (except for final products) for review and input by the project team.
• Reporting lines: The consultant will report to the Programme Management Officer, responsible for the project: “Multi-Country Mountain Flagship” under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and outputs delivered by the consultant will be evaluated by the supervisor in liaison with the UN Decade Multi-Country Mountain Flagship Focal Point for the Virunga Region.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced University degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in environmental science, restoration ecology, climate adaptation, natural resource management, or a related field is required.
• A first level University degree (bachelor's degree) with an additional 2 years of qualifying relevant working experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced
• University degree. Minimum of 5 years of experience in ecosystem restoration or climate adaptation, preferably in East or Central Africa, is required.
• Familiarity with nature-based solutions, EbA, and community-based conservation approaches is desirable.