Consultancy Services: Biodiversity Monitoring Under

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Việt Nam, Vietnam IUCN Full time

**Scope of Work**

**Consultancy Services: Biodiversity monItoring under RLLV**

**This assignment is exclusively for Vietnamese nationals or registered Vietnamese organizations**

**1. **Introduction**

IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together.

Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN implements a large and diverse portfolio of conservation projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being.

SNV, the Netherlands Development Organization, and Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA) have jointly designed Restoring Land and Livelihoods (RLLV) in Viet Nam. RLLV is a landscape restoration initiative to transform and rejuvenate degraded agricultural and forest land, restore their productivity, resilience and ecological vitality while enhancing community well-being through inclusive value chain development.

RLLV is expected to generate greenhouse gas emission removals to be verified and issued. RLLV will be implemented in selected districts in Son La and Lam Dong Provinces by a consortium led by SNV with IUCN and ICRAF as partners. IUCN is responsible for designing a biodiversity monitoring system that can efficiently and effectively measure the impact of forest restoration on above
- and below-ground biodiversity. GEA has hired the European Forest Institute (EFI) to provide technical assistance to the consortium.

**2. **Goal and tasks**

The RLLV inception phase runs from July 2024 to January 2025. For the inception phase, IUCN is responsible for two tasks:

- Establish a biodiversity baseline for different forest types
- Design a biodiversity and forest connectivity monitoring system

About 70% of the forest restoration will take place on farms and about 30% in Protection Forests or SUFs.

**3. **Expected specialist team composition and level of effort**

To help complete these objectives, IUCN wishes to contract with a team of Vietnamese nationals or a Vietnamese organization with expertise in biodiversity monitoring in both agricultural and forest landscapes. Team members should have relevant technical backgrounds and demonstrated experience working on similar assignments, ideally in Son La and Lam Dong. The team should have no more than six members. Positions can be merged or adjusted depending on the team members’ expertise. The total estimated level of effort is no more than 90 days including office and field work.

**Table 1. Proposed positions, roles and approximate number of days per position**

**No.**

**Position**

**Roles**

**Days**

**1**

**Team Leader: Ecologist/Bird Specialist**
- Lead to whole team to implement the activities agreed in the inception report/work plan
- Develop a detail work plan for the team
- Be responsible for managing and delivering report timely in close collaboration with other assessment team members

16

**2**

**Reptile & Amphibian Specialist**
- Identify potential indicators for monitoring
- Develop a monitoring protocol for reptiles and amphibians
- Conduct two field surveys and data collecting
- Data analysis and group report

13

**3**

**Fish & Aquatic Biodiversity Specialist
- Identify potential indicators for monitoring
- Develop a monitoring protocol for fish and aquatic animals
- Conduct two field surveys and data collecting
- Data analysis and group report

13

**4**

**Entomologist**
- Identify potential indicators for monitoring
- Develop a monitoring protocol for insects
- Conduct two field surveys and data collecting
- Data analysis and group report

13

**5**

**Soil Health/Invertebrate/ Nematode Specialist**
- Identify potential indicators for monitoring
- Develop a monitoring protocol for soil invertebrates and nematodes
- Conduct two field surveys and data collecting
- Soil sampling
- Data analysis and group report

28

6

**GIS Specialist**
- Conduct two field surveys at the sites
- Vegetation/habitat mapping
- Species distribution mapping

7

**TOTAL**

**90**

**4. **Expected methodology and outputs**
- Review the RLLV project documentation and guidelines and IUCN’s Land Health Monitoring Framework.
- Meet SNV and ICRAF to discuss selection of districts/communes in both provinces and to design a survey sampling strategy.
- Conduct biodiversity surveys in sites in both provinces that cover the range of land uses where RLLV will intervene and an SUF to serve as reference.
- Analyze survey data to determine initial patterns of above and below ground biodiversity in relations to land use.
- Visit sites in both provinces to repeat biodiversity surveys using revised methodology based on result of first visit.
- Analyze survey data to:

- Map patterns of above and below



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