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Posted 2019-05-07 02:02:20
Call for Consultancy Work
1. Introduction
NHCC is working with the Barotse Royal
Establishment (BRE) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Zambia Country
Office in strengthening the conservation and management of cultural and natural
resources in the Upper Zambezi Landscape otherwise called the Barotse Plains
Cultural Landscape. Specifically, NHCC and WWF in collaboration with various
partners in the landscape, seek to support the declaration of the Barotse Plains
Cultural Landscape as a World Heritage site under the UNESCO World Heritage
Convention.
In the past seven
years, the NHCC has been working on the nomination file to have the Barotse
Floodplains inscribed on the World Heritage List as a World Heritage Cultural
Landscape. In 2014, the site was evaluated and received a Referral Decision from the World Heritage
Committee, implying that additional information to justify the outstanding
universal values was still required. Further, the Decision requested the State
Party to give information on the condition status of the key cultural, social
and physical features of the landscapes.
2. Specific Objectives
The Commission is desirous to engage a
Consultant to come up with a detailed report on traditional land management
practices, governance systems and other traditions that will feed into the
Barotse Plains Cultural Landscape nomination dossier.
The objective of this assignment is to
document and analyze traditional management practices and governance practices
with the aim of responding to the 2013 requirements of International Council on
Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and UNESCO World Heritage Committee as well as
providing recommendations for the revival of particular traditional governance
practices with a view of combining them with legally recognized community
regulations.
- Describe all the key aspects of the social, political
and cultural structures that have allowed collective use of resources such
as fisheries, forestry, canals and livestock including their status on the
Barotse Floodplains.
- Describe and determine the dynamic organization of
families, clans and larger community grouping, economic livelihoods and
social interactions between the wider communities and how these are
influenced and reflected in the social and cultural systems.
- Provide a clear understanding of the many complex
cultural and social traditions that make up the Transhumance practiced by
the Lozi and how those have shaped the landscape over time and continue to
shape it in an exceptional way.
- Provide information on how the overall Lozi cultural
landscape needs to be seen as one ongoing dynamic cultural tradition of
land management involving transhumance land drainage to allow arable
cultivation, navigation and settlement, mounds and establish the
conditions of the authenticity, integrity and criteria.
3. Key deliverables &
suggested timeframes
- Detailed proposal & budget with an emphasis on
suggested methodologies and implementation plan;
- Presentation to stakeholders on methodology and
implementation plan Field work and data collection;
- Database management, report writing and representation
to stakeholders; and,
- Incorporation and refinement of report findings in
nomination dossier.
4. Desired Profile of
Consultant
- The successful institution/candidate will be required
to have sufficient experience and knowledge of cultural and natural
heritage resource management.
- Experience and knowledge of UNESCO’s World Heritage
Convention Operational Guidelines as well as the nomination processes will
be added advantage.
Interested eligible individuals
and firms may obtain detailed Terms of Reference (ToR’s) and further
information from the following: National Heritage Conservation Commission, Plot
No. 9304, Dedan Kimathi Road, P.O. Box 320013, Lusaka, Zambia
Submit a bid by
emailing a cover letter, technical proposal, accompanying budget, and CV/s to
the following address: National Heritage Conservation Commission, Plot No.
9304, Dedan Kimathi Road, P.O. Box 320013, Lusaka, Zambia not later than 22nd May 2019. Alternatively email to wwfcareers@wwfzam.org with ‘Documentation of Traditional
Management and Governance Practices’ in the subject line.
DEADLINE: 22nd May 2019
by 17:00hrs.
