Overview
The Technical Specialist (Forest-Positive Policy Analysis) will coordinate with government focal points to map national land-use, agro-forestry tenure, and commodity practices, and conduct a gap analysis to assess readiness for forest-positive and deforestation-free market alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop a detailed work plan for the consultancy.
- Collect and assess relevant international, national policy, institutional, and local tenure related instruments & practices.
- Focus on instruments related to forest-positive and sustainable production systems, and country’s readiness in deforestation free-based instruments, focusing on land tenure considerations.
- Complement desk research with national repositories, past assessments, and key stakeholder interviews.
- Map responsible institutional entities.
- Assess availability of data, documents, and systems to support due diligence.
- Take stock of traceability efforts and systems for the targeted commodities.
- Identify key tenure, policy and institutional gaps, overlaps, and challenges targeting agricultural and community forestry land practices.
- Propose actionable short- and medium-term solutions to strengthen the enabling environment & policy coherence.
- Prepare a Detailed Report Outline.
- Draft Policy Report summarizing key findings and recommendations.
- Organize and facilitate a validation meeting with key stakeholders.
- Present findings and gather technical inputs.
- Revise and finalize the report based on feedback.
- Perform related duties as required.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of professional experience in a relevant field related to environmental, agriculture-forestry nexus and tenure, natural resources and/or forestry policy in Cambodia
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in forestry, agriculture policy, tenure, economics or related matters
