Posted on October, 26 2015

Background – 
WWF Tanzania is a registered International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with local registration under the United Republic of Tanzania. It has legal status and formal agreement with Government of Tanzania as part of WWF-International.  Freshwater Programme runs four different categories of Projects; River Basin Management (Ruaha Water Programme and Mara River Basin Management Initiative,  Mau-Mara  Serengeti  Landscape), Payment for Environmental Services Project (Equitable Payment for Watershed Services- East  Usambara),  Education  for  Sustainable Development  Project  and  Climate  Change Adaptation Project.  These projects fall in three drainage basins in Tanzania.
 
Freshwater Resources in Tanzania
 
Tanzania is endowed with numerous and diverse water resources in the form of rivers, lakes, wetlands and aquifers, with the water resources managed based on hydrological units known as basins. There are nine basins of which four are lake basins; Victoria, Tanganyika, Nyasa and Rukwa.  Four are river basins; Rufiji, Ruvuma and Southern Coastal, Wami Ruvu and Pangani.   The last one is the Internal Drainage basin covering the internal drainage system in the central part of the country. The Rufiji is the largest basin covering 183,000 km², equivalent to about 20% of the country.
 
WWF freshwater projects in Tanzania are located in the major catchments of the Ruaha and Serengeti, both with extremely high ecological importance for the country and the homes of the largest National Parks in Tanzania. The catchments are home to about 5 million people who depend on water for social and economic activities, with about 4 million people in the Great Ruaha and 1 million people in the Mara River Basin. More than 45% of the hydropower generated in the country depends on the Great Ruaha River, with two major dams – the Mtera and Kidatu - producing 80 MW and 204 MW respectively. The Great Ruaha River is a feature of the Kipengere- Usangu-Ruaha- Mtera –Kidatu landscape, while the Mara River is the transboundary river system that forms part of the Mau-Mara-Serengeti landscape. The Great Ruaha River originates in the Kipengere ranges, whilst Mara River originates in the Mau mountains in Kenya. The Great Ruaha catchment  covers 185,000 km² stretching to about 200 km from the Kipengere ranges  through to Usangu wetland, Ruaha National Park, Mtera and Kidatu dams to the confluence where it drains the Rufiji River about 20 km upstream of the Stieglers gorge in the Lower Rufiji Basin. Mara River basin covers 13,750 km² and stretches to about 395 kilometres from the Mau mountains through Masai Mara game reserve and Serengeti National Park to Musoma where it drains Lake Victoria around Kirumi area after passing through the Masurura wetland. 

Despite the significance of these vital rivers to the country, they have degraded environmental flows in terms of quantity, quality and timing as the result of threats such as; unsustainable land use practices, pollution from mining and agricultural wastes, overstocking, deforestation, inadequate awareness on environmental protection, climate change, unsustainable fishing, uncontrolled fire, water sources encroachment, and large development initiatives such as Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) and Big Results Now (BRN). These critical challenges are impacting efforts for effective freshwater resources management and putting them at risk of continual depletion.
 
WWF Tanzania has been working with a range of government partners and community stakeholders in the Great Ruaha catchment and Mara Basin since 2004 to address key challenges and promote solutions for effective and sustainable water resources management.  Key interventions and pilots have included: the establishment of the local water resources management institutions (catchment and sub-catchment committees and Water User Associations),  introduction of alternative income generating activities; water sources and river bank protection; introduction of social learning approaches to stimulate multi-stakeholder efforts to improve water management; Environmental flows assessment; Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments; environmental and water sources awareness creation; provision of technical support to basin offices and capacity building of government officials on water resources management and learning visits to different basins. 
 
The WWF-Tanzania 2016-20 Country Strategy and the need for a Freshwater Technical Advisor as consultancy support to the Freshwater Programme
 
The WWF-Tanzania 2016 – 2020 Country Strategic Plan has identified freshwater as a priority programme whose goal is:  “By 2020, environmental flows are restored to, or maintained at, target levels in Great Ruaha, Mara & Kilombero Rivers contributing to water security for men, women and wildlife dependent on those flows”
 
The strategy aims to build on WWF’s experience and lessons learned in the Rufiji and Mara Basins, expand activities to the Kilombero catchment, and provide technical support for freshwater resource management and conservation in the Ruvuma landscape.  The success of this goal requires the freshwater programme to develop stronger capacity to implement a programmatic approach capable of influencing change at a large landscape level along with the ability to attract significant new funding resources and develop new types of partnerships. 
 
WWF-Tanzania, supported by WWF-UK, is now looking for consultancy support over approximately  a six month period to provide technical support and fundraising expertise to support the development of the WWF-Tanzania freshwater programme investing significant effort in soliciting resources for putting the strategy in action.
 
Overall Function and Specific Tasks:
 
The primary goal of the consultancy is to support WWF Tanzania’s development and implementation of a robust, vibrant, and highly effective Freshwater Programme consistently achieving high level impacts at broad scale on national and internationally relevant freshwater issues with clear cross-sectoral linkages and integration with other key WWF goals and strategies (on forests, climate, wildlife, and drivers of land use change especially focusing on agriculture). 
 
The major output of the consultancy will be a base funding proposal that positions WWF to attract high level funding to achieve freshwater programme objectives, and which can be adapted by WWF for use in partnership development and fundraising from multiple donors.  The consultant will work with the WWF team to prioritize potential funding opportunities and develop tailored and targeted funding proposals. 
The consultant will also provide ongoing and regular technical support and expertise to support the development and implementation of the Freshwater programme.
 
The consultant will report to the WWF-Tanzania Conservation Manager and work closely with the WWF Tanzania Freshwater Team and well as staff from related technical, policy and partnerships units.  A critical emphasis for the consultancy will be to emphasize knowledge and skills transfer to WWF Tanzania counterparts during the commission of the work.  Specifically, the consultant will carry out the following activities: 
 
Developing WWF-Tanzania Freshwater Programme in alignment with the 2015-2020 Country Strategic Plan (CSP): Provide technical expertise and assistance to the effective programming and launching of a comprehensive Freshwater Programme in line with the new country strategic plan. In order to strengthen strategic thinking and expertise in freshwater-related institutional programming the consultant will:

Develop a WWF-Tanzania freshwater action plan based on the existing CSP.

Facilitate the preparation of a base funding freshwater programme proposal that strongly positions WWF to attract resources and achieve high level impacts on forest program objectives. 

Work closely with the WWF-Tanzania Freshwater Programme Coordinator and the Development and Partnerships Manager, to explore funding opportunities and develop funding proposals for soliciting funding from public/private sectors and multilateral donors to support the programmatic approach to the implementation of the freshwater strategy. 

Strengthen WWF staff capacity for freshwater programme delivery and in developing high impact, strategic partnerships:

Identify required staff competencies for implementing the freshwater action plan and assist the organization in developing detailed terms of reference for these competencies.   

Act as a professional mentor to the Lead, Freshwater Programme and develop a plan for continued capacity development and learning among WWF freshwater programme staff (e.g., including knowledge exchange, professional development, and coaching and mentoring approaches).

Develop an engagement plan with private sector leaders as well as relevant decision makers in policy and investment organizations (such as line ministries, Water Sector Development Programme, World Bank, SADC, others).  Potential for advancing public private partnerships and private sector engagement models supporting Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) to support the country strategy and the National Water Policy will be emphasized. 

In line with the above, engage relevant partners on establishing new strategic partnerships for delivering the freshwater action plan.

Increase WWF-Tanzania freshwater understanding of, and representation at, the national and international level as a thought leader.

Strengthen institutional collaboration with national and international water related sector agencies and CSOs.
Consolidate relevant and high level lessons emerging from the Freshwater programme and coordinate and guide communications to help promote WWF-Tanzania and its Freshwater programme to the WWF network, national and international fundraising institutions to leverage interest, funds and technical support.  Coordinate with WWF’s Global Freshwater Team and key experts in WWF-UK and elsewhere to foster knowledge exchange and share relevant lessons both regionally and globally. 

Provide technical backstopping to the Freshwater team:

Support policy level engagement to inform national policy-level perspectives on freshwater issues – including at a regional scale i.e. Transboundary Water Resources Management and development of Water Allocation Plans. Involving regional bodies such as Nile Basin Initiative, Lake Victoria Basin Commission and SADC-HYCOS. 
Undertake other strategic roles related to freshwater work as appropriate, as opportunities emerge and as directed by WWF-Tanzania including that received from WWF Regional Office Africa, WWF UK and/or other WWF offices.  In particular, explore potential for targeted knowledge exchange, peer review, and learning with other WWF Africa offices working on similar initiatives (e.g., WWF Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, and Uganda). 
Outcomes
 
A robust, vibrant, and highly effective Freshwater Programme responding to national and international freshwater issues.

WWF-Tanzania Freshwater programme staff and relevant partners have increased capacity and focus for running and nurturing a framework of donors, partners and corporates/private sectors who will be supporting the implementation of the WWF-Tanzania Freshwater programme 2015-2020. 
 
Deliverables
 
WWF-Tanzania Freshwater action plan aligned to the new CSP, including a Monitoring and Evaluation plan, adaptive management considerations, and learning objectives.
WWF-Tanzania Freshwater workforce/staff structure with needed staff competencies identified and documented.
WWF-Tanzania PPP, private sector engagement, policy, and investment models developed in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
Drawing from above, a strategic engagement plan including identified/strengthened strategic partnerships for delivering WWF-Tanzania Freshwater action plan.

WWF-Tanzania Freshwater Programme base proposal (based on WWF format / standards).
WWF-Tanzania Freshwater base proposal developed and used as the basis to reach out to WWF National Offices and / or develop proposals for at least 3 external donors securing, or with a high likelihood of securing, significant and mid-long term funds.

A strategic communications plan and supporting communication materials / products including high level lessons documentation relevant to WWF freshwater efforts.

A plan for continued capacity development and learning among WWF freshwater programme staff (e.g., including knowledge exchange, professional development, and coaching and mentoring approaches). 
Duty station
WWF-Tanzania Country Office, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Duration
Full time over a 6 months period
 
Mode of application
 
Interested candidates can send their proposals to lmaiga@wwftz.org copy to angusaru@wwftz.org  The last date for receiving applications is 22nd December 2015 not later than 05:00pm