Open position
WUSC and CECI are launching a call for proposals for a consultancy mandate within the framework of the NbS-Guinean Forests project. The project would like to engage the services of a Consulting Firm legally operating within any of the project implementing countries (Ghana, Côte d’Ivoir and Guinea), to develop biodiversity benefits financial methodologies including accompanying pilot implementation strategies, that are anchored on voluntary standards, and can attract private sector investments to address biodiversity loss in project communities through climate adaptation processes. Interested firms that are located outside of NbS project countries can also submit applications jointly with locally operating firms.
For the purposes of this assignment, biodiversity credits are credits that are generated with the intention of having a net-positive impact on nature and biodiversity in the long, medium or short term. As a result, these are referenced within this assignment to mechanisms for financing the benefits of adaptation and biodiversity. The scope of this assignment does not include biodiversity offsets, a different market-based tool, which is intended to compensate for companies’ negative and unavoidable impacts on nature. Our overall goal is to promote external financial investment mechanisms that will contribute biodiversity benefits within target communities and landscapes, using voluntary standards.
See the full terms of reference and application requirements here.