Wwf-myanmar: Consultancy - Brussels, België - WWF-België

WWF-België

Geverifieerd bedrijf

Brussels, België

3 weken geleden

Geplaatst door:

Sophie Dubois

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Beschrijving

Posted on 31 July 2023_

Background

Objective of the consultancy

The main objective of the consultancy is to identify the critical areas for forest restoration in rubber dominated landscape based on ecosystem services, ecological connectivity and the impact of climate change.

Responsibilities
The consultant will work with WWF's Forest team, supporting them with the following:

Support sourcing high-resolution imagery from planet and medium-resolution sources from Landsat and Sentinel comparing semi-annual data for the last five years.
Analyse the correlation of forest coverage and rubber plantation in specific project areas using remote sensing.
Suggest the potential forest restoration sites to initiate field level assessment based on land use changes, habitat connectivity and ecosystem services.

Expected Outputs

The time series map showing the evolution of rubber plantation and associated forest coverage areas in project areas over the last 5 years, on an annual basis.
The set of shapefiles and/or google earthengine scripts for the above maps to provide the WWF team for future reference.
The final reports which express the priority forest restoration sites using the results of above data analysis.

The specific objectives and evaluation criteria can be seen

here.

Requirements:

The consultant should have academic background or training completion in forest restoration and GIS with at least 5 years of experiences in the implementation of sustainable development and conservation projects (different combinations of education degrees can be considered based on their field experience).
Strong applied work on sustainable development in Myanmar or places with similar conditions.
Previous experience working in Myanmar is strongly desired.
Proven understanding on forest restoration and GIS projects
Awareness of the sociopolitical and economic context of the country.

**14th August 2023.