The ABS Partnership project is a technical cooperation between India and Germany and is commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) under the Indo-German Biodiversity Programme. The project is implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), National Biodiversity Authority and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with three pilot State Biodiversity Boards namely, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand.
The ABS Partnership Project aims at strengthening the capacities of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), the State Biodiversity Boards (SBBs), Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs), as well as raising awareness and build the capacities of the commercial user groups of biological resources and associated knowledge for the effective implementation of ABS mechanisms under the Biological Diversity Act 2002, in keeping with India’s commitments under the Nagoya Protocol on ABS.
The proposed assignment will focus on capacity development of pilot BMCs and documentation of People’s Biodiversity Registers. Specific tasks under this assignment are (details are given in the ToR):
The detailed documentation with regards to this call for proposals includes:
Posting date: 26th June, 2019 Deadline to receive queries: 5th July, 2019 Clarifications to the queries: 9th July, 2019
The deadline for submission of proposal is: 15th July, 2019, by 17.30hrs
GIZ reserves the right to cancel/modify this tender and / or reject a bid document including subsequently a technical and financial proposal, without assigning any reasons.