Enumerators: Agroforestry Blocking for the Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation (TREPA) Project in the Eastern Rwanda at International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): ( Deadline 10 October 2023)

Request for Expression of Interest

Enumerators: Agroforestry Blocking for the Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation (TREPA) Project in the Eastern Rwanda.

1. Background

The IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) operates in twenty-four countries in the Horn of Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. The current ESARO programming is composed of a suite of mutually interrelated programs and projects designed to address some of the most profound challenges affecting people and nature in the region. Among the projects implemented by IUCN’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office is the TREPA Project – Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation. It is a six-year project, based in IUCN Rwanda Country Office, and funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

The TREPA Project intends to restore 60,000 hectares of drought-degraded landscapes into climate resilient ecosystems through re-forestation, agroforestry, restoration of pasture-lands, and soil erosion control measures in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. In addition, irrigation infrastructure projects in the targeted landscapes of the eastern province will be climate-proofed by the TREPA Project. These projects under MINAGRI could include Export Targeted Modern Irrigation (ETI) in Mpanga (600 hectares) and Mahama (1200 hectares), Kayonza Irrigation and Integrated Watershed Management Project in Kayonza (2000 hectares), Warufu- Mugesera in Gatsibo and Ngoma as well as Rurambi dyke in Bugesera.

IUCN Rwanda as part of Executing Entity of TREPA Project, is responsible for the Project Monitoring and Evaluation activities. Among the above, Monitoring, Control and Evaluation of supported Agroforestry (AF) areas is part of its responsibilities. This will help to ensure that agroforestry areas are mapped and registered in the agroforestry database embedded in the Forest Monitoring and Evaluation System (FMES).

In order to complete the above assignment, IUCN Rwanda would like to hire short-term Enumerators who will facilitate in AF blocking in the Eastern province of Rwanda and its Database Compilation in the FMES.

2. Technical Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the GIS and Knowledge Management Officer, the Enumerators will be responsible for (not limited to) the followings:

• Use Tables to demarcate AF block of 5-10 Ha each in each AF landscape and Overlay each block on the administrative boundaries,
• Carry out AF baseline mainly AF tree species available in consolidated block of 5-10 ha, list of owners, names of farmer leaders/FFS, facilitators/FPs, number and names of existing and /or planted AF trees per species,
• Ensure the quality and field reality check of the Baseline before its daily submission into the FMES database
• Access and report and challenge impacting on the AF Blocking work progress
• Live and work in the assigned District of the Eastern Province
• Carry out any other related task that might assigned to Her/Him by the Supervisor

3. Required Experience

The Enumerator, AF Blocking should meet the following requirement:

• Bachelor Degree in Agroforestry, Forestry, GIS, Land Survey, Remote Sensing, Environmental Management, Community Development, or similar subject
• 0-2 years of working experience in Monitoring and Evaluation, Field Data collection, and Mapping
• Experience of conducting field surveys by using Mobile data collection Apps, Kobo Collect, Tablets, and GPS
• Working experience on projects related to Landscape restoration, watershed management, natural resources management, Forestry and Agroforestry
• Having previously worked with IUCN in similar assignments will be a strong asset
• Good reporting and communication skills in Kinyarwanda and English
• Willingness and ability to work in difficult rural areas with rough terrain and extra hours
• Should be available to start immediately

5. Work time line

The assignment will last approximately for 30 working days ranging from 16^th October to 17^th November 2023.

6. Evaluation criteria

7. Application procedure

Interested candidates should submit their Cover Letter and updated Curriculum Vitae in electronic format (in a single PDF file) to tenders.rwanda@iucn.org  with a copy to lamek.nahayo@iucn.org by Tuesday 10^th October 2023 at 5:00 PM.

The review of applications will be done on a rolling basis and if you don’t hear us after application deadline, consider your application unsuccessful.