Overview
Consultancy to identify practical and scalable Nature Based Solutions (NBS) to strengthen community resilience, reduce disaster risk, support livelihoods, and enhance ecosystem services in southern Pakistan.
Tasks Summary
- Review existing interventions and partner activities to identify NBS integration opportunities.
- Document stakeholder consultations on potential NBS entry points.
- Conduct context analysis of selected locations, assessing climate risks and ecosystem vulnerabilities.
- Assess technically and socially appropriate NBS options.
- Evaluate implementation feasibility, community acceptance, and resource requirements.
- Identify replication and scale-up potential for NBS.
- Develop practical recommendations for NBS intervention integration, piloting, or design support.
- Align recommendations with ongoing programming.
- Prepare a final synthesis report and presentation to stakeholders.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience in climate resilience, environmental management, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience working on nature-based solutions, ecosystem-based adaptation, climate adaptation, or environmental resilience programming, preferably in humanitarian or development contexts.
- Demonstrated familiarity with climate adaptation programming and contextual priorities in southern Pakistan, particularly in climate-vulnerable settings.
- Practical experience engaging with community-level and field-based interventions, including familiarity with rural and climate-vulnerable settings.
- Experience coordinating with government counterparts, UN agencies, NGOs, and local partners in programme design or implementation.
- Proven experience in managing and engaging with both local and international organizations in the implementation of humanitarian, development, and/or climate resilience programming.
- Experience in leading engagement and coordination with district-level authorities, inter-governmental institutions, UN agencies, and national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
- Experience in line management of staff and familiarity with UN administrative and management processes.
- Advantageous: Prior experience working with UN agencies, particularly within multi-partner or consortium-based programmes.
- Advantageous: Familiarity with UN risk management, procurement, due diligence, accountability to affected populations, protection mainstreaming, monitoring and evaluating, and sustainability and exit processes.
Qualification Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Environmental Sciences, Climate Change, Natural Resource Management, Ecology, Geography, Development Studies, or related fields.
- Bachelors or Equivalent degree level.
