Consultant (Biologist) [cancelled]

Result of Service
The Consultant (Biologist) will be responsible for delivering a complete proposal of urban parks management plan regarding their technical specialty and the civil society’s perspective.
The Consultant will work in close collaboration with the operational and technical teams of UN-Habitat in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Government officials, multilateral and bilateral donors, and civil society.

Work Location
São Paulo (hybrid)

Expected duration
The consultancy has an expected duration of twelve (12) months.

**Responsibilities**:
Background

The main mandate of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is to promote sustainable development of human settlements and policies conducive to adequate housing for all. Within this framework, UN-Habitat supports central and state governments, as well as local authorities and other partners for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda with the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.

UN-Habitat helps reducing urban poverty by transforming cities into safer, more inclusive, compact, integrated, resilient and connected places with better opportunities where everyone can live with dignity. It works with organizations at every level, including all spheres of government, civil society and the private sector to help build, manage, plan and finance sustainable urban development.

UN-Habitat’s Regional Office for Latin American and the Caribbean - ROLAC - is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Agency puts emphasis on developing and managing activities in the host country. Indeed, for the past years, UN-Habitat has expanded its portfolio in Brazil by working with the three tiers of government in order to support the formulation and implementation of more effective, sustainable, participative and socially fairer urban economic, social and environmental policies. As part of a partnership with the Municipality of São Paulo to improve green public spaces, the project “Viva o Verde SP” implements city-wide and neighborhood-level approaches to generate more inclusive and sustainable green public spaces.

One of the project’s outcomes aims at improved frameworks of São Paulo municipality for managing green public spaces. Contributing to achieve this outcome, the project’s output 3.1 is a built management and maintenance framework for green areas, including the Parks Management Plan foreseen in the Municipality's 2021-2024 Target Program. For this purpose, UN-Habitat will develop management plans for eight municipal parks, aiming to generate more inclusive and sustainable public spaces. Within this purpose, UN-Habitat will design new and innovative methodologies for the development and implementation of urban parks management plans. The content of the plans will include: identifying the parks’ fundamental values, as well as key related issues, assessing and prioritizing data, current policies and legal framework, objectives and action plans, zoning, rules, regulations and management guidelines, and the results of the workshops and public hearings conducted during their development.

In order to properly implement this project, a Consultant (Biologist) is required to ensure good execution of the work programme.

Report to UN-Habitat Manager

The Consultant (Biologist) will report to the National Officer for Brazil, who will evaluate them.

Outputs/Work Assignment

The following products foresee activities to be conducted in eight urban parks in São Paulo. The main result is to deliver eight management plans, one for each park. The contemplated parks are: 1) Água Podre; 2) Alto da Boa Vista; 3) Aristocratas; 4) Augusta; 5) Bispo; 6) Fazenda da Juta; 7) Jardim Apurá: Búfalos; 8) Paraisópolis. The contemplated parks can be changed to better meet the needs of the project.

Product 1: Work Plan

Description: Work Plan including: (i) Purposes, goals, and a preliminary summary; (ii) description and schedule of activities; (iii) fact sheet for each of the eight urban parks; (iv) evaluation of available data, needs assessment, and prioritization needs.

As part of the Work Plan, the Consultant must indicate unavailable and insufficient data. The consultant will also collect the necessary primary and secondary data and define a methodology and schedule for fieldwork.

Expected delivery date: 7 days after the signature of the contract.

Product 2: Report on fundamental and dynamic elements

Description: The assessment must have: (i) purposes, goals, and significance of the 8 urban parks; (ii) analysis of urban, historical, social, and environmental main values; (iv) analysis of each urban park’s main issues; (v) review on legal framework; (vi) fieldwork report.

The analysis will focus on:
a. Environmental risks and vulnerabilities;
b. Biomes and phytophysiognomy;
c. Current and historical occurrences of typical flora and fauna species;
d. Threatened, rare, endemic, migratory, exotic, invasive, hunted, synanthropic, an