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CONSERVING THE NGORONGORO BLACK RHINO POPULATION IN NORTHERN TANZANIA The purpose of this project is to support a conservation effort in Ngorongoro, Tanzania by studying and monitoring the black rhinoceros population to meet growth targets based on rigorous scientific data for long-term viability. This project is intended to conserve the Eastern black rhinoceros and their habitat by addressing the lack of metapopulation analysis and management in a changing landscape. Specific activities include: (1) designing a long-term monitoring program; and (2) analyzing habitat use and diet to assess the ecological carrying capacity in Ngorongoro Conservation Area for the improvement of black rhinoceros monitoring and management for the future.
IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF THE ELEPHANTS OF THE KATAVI NATIONAL PARK TRANSBOUNDARY AREA AND THEIR HABITAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO SUPPORT AN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION EFFORT IN KATAVI NATIONAL PARK AND LWAFI GAME RESERVE BY IMPROVING TRANSBOUNDARY ELEPHANT MANAGEMENT BETWEEN TANZANIA AND ZAMBIA AND ENHANCING LOCAL PARTNER ENGAGEMENT. AS PART OF THE LARGER WESTERN TANZANIA REGION SAVANNA ELEPHANT STRONGHOLD, THIS ECOSYSTEM IS HOME TO THE LARGEST POPULATION OF ELEPHANTS IN EAST AFRICA, WITH AN ESTIMATED 20,145 INDIVIDUALS. THIS PROJECT IS INTENDED TO CONSERVE AFRICAN SAVANNA ELEPHANTS AND THEIR HABITAT BY ADDRESSING THE IMPACTS OF POACHING, HABITAT FRAGMENTATION, AND HUMAN ELEPHANT CONFLICT (HEC). SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES INCLUDE (1) CONDUCTING COMMUNITY BASED CAMERA TRAP MONITORING AND MAPPING OF TRANSBOUNDARY ELEPHANT MOVEMENTS (2) ORGANIZING COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDER COORDINATION MEETINGS AND TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE VISITS BETWEEN TANZANIA AND ZAMBIA AND (3) CONDUCTING COMMUNITY BASED HEC MITIGATION PLANNING AND TRAINING.
Investigation into the potential use of African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei) to detect illegal timber and pangolins in shipping containers. The purpose of this project is to counter wildlife trafficking in ports by using African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei) to detect timber (hardwoods) and pangolin skin and scales in shipping containers.
Chimpanzees and Fires: Assessing the impact of annual fires on chimpanzees and critical chimpanzee habitat in western Tanzania : 1) identifying landscape features that are associated with burning patterns across the Greater Mahale Ecosystem; 2) identifying areas of overlap between burning and chimpanzee habitat use; 3) identifying the effect of burning on vegetation and establishing monthly monitoring; and 4) sponsoring and training a post-graduate MSc student in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Dar es Salaam.
Engaging community support for Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuarys black rhino conservation activities effects of climate change. There are six known
SUPPORT OF BLACK RHINOCEROS MONITORING AND PROTECTION IN THE GREATER SERENGETI ECOSYSTEM AND MKOMAZI NATIONAL PARK, NORTHERN TANZANIA. The purpose of this project is to support a conservation effort in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem and Mkomazi National Park, northern Tanzania by providing technical and material support for monitoring and protection in order to ensure the long-term survival of important black rhinoceros populations. This project is intended to conserve the Eastern black rhinoceros and their habitat by addressing the impacts of poaching and the loss of tourism revenue due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Specific activities include: (1) providing field equipment and repairing vehicles for rhinoceros protection teams; (2) monitoring rhinoceros populations; (3) upgrading infrastructure; (4) improving water provision; and (5) facilitating communications among stakeholders.
Critically Endangered Animals-International Grants Ensuring the long term survival of Africas largest and rarest forest antelope, Abbotts Duiker, in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
Evaluating the Efficacy of Conservation Drone Technology for Chimpanzee Monitoring in..Western Tanzania The purpose of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of using Conservation Drones to monitor chimpanzee populations in Western Tanzania. The recipient will compare chimpanzee nest densities along the same transects using two different survey methods (ground, UAV); and determine the costs associated with each method to cover the same survey area to evaluate which method will be most cost-effective for future monitoring.
Strengthening community-based chimpanzee protection and monitoring in key village forests in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem, western Tanzania The purpose of this 1-year project is to empower a local community-based organization, the Tongwe Trust, to conserve the eastern chimpanzee in Tanzania. Specific activities include: 1) improving patrols and surveillance in the Nkata Forest to enhance chimpanzee protection; 2) partnering with the Ugalla Primate Project for monitoring implementation to increase understanding of chimpanzee populations, human activities, and threats to chimpanzees; 3) generating greater community support for chimpanzee conservation through education and forest management planning; and 4) developing the capacity of Tongwe Trust to sustainably manage and develop the project.
Supporting Village Game Scouts on Waga Wildlife Management Area in the Ruaha ecosystem, Tanzania In order to improve patrol efficiency, this project will fund village game scout anti-poaching patrols and the pilot phase of a spatially explicit law enforcement monitoring technique, SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool), in the community-owned Waga Wildlife Management Area bordering Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
SECURING CHIMPANZEE CONSERVATION IN THE MAHALE - TONGWE WEST CORRIDOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO STRENGTHEN THE PROTECTION OF HIGH BIODIVERSITY FORESTS AND ENDANGERED CHIMPANZEE POPULATIONS IN THE MAHALE TONGWE WEST CORRIDOR OF TANZANIA BY IMPROVING THE CAPACITY OF VILLAGES TO PROTECT VILLAGE FORESTS IN THE CORRIDOR WHILE DERIVING SUSTAINABLE INCOME FROM THEM. ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: 1) ENGAGING TWO KEY VILLAGES TO INTRODUCE THE PROJECT AND OBTAIN COMMUNITY INPUT 2) ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING DEMARCATION OF VILLAGE FORESTS 3) CHOOSING VILLAGE FOREST SCOUTS AND AGREEING ON FOREST USE RESTRICTIONS 4) IDENTIFYING FOREST AREAS FOR SUSTAINABLE INCOME GENERATION ACTIVITIES 5) ASSISTING COMMUNITIES IN DEVELOPING BYLAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF VILLAGE FORESTS 5) IDENTIFYING SUPPLEMENTARY INCOME STREAMS FOR DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING AN ECO 1 TOURISM FACILITY AND CARBON-BASED INCOME GENERATION AND 6) ESTABLISHING A RANGER POST FOR USE BY VILLAGE FOREST SCOUTS.
STRENGTHENING LONG-TERM PROTECTION OF ELEPHANTS IN SOUTHERN TANZANIA - 2 Tanzania lost over half its elephant between 2006 and 2015 (Thouless et al, 2016). The majority of these .losses occurred in southern Tanzania, particularly the Ruaha-Rungwa and Selous-Mikumi ecosystems. .These declines were driven by demand for ivory, as well as insufficient resources, personnel, capacity and .information for adequate protection of southern Tanzanias vast protected areas. .Since 2014, Southern Tanzania Elephant Program (STEP) has worked to increase protection for elephants .in the Ruaha-Rungwa ecosystem by building the capacity and resources of protected areas, increasing .access to conservation technologies, expanding patrol coverage through aerial surveillance, increasing the .effectiveness of patrols through mapping and analysis of law enforcement data, and conducting applied .elephant monitoring and research to identify priority areas for protection efforts. Significant progress has .been made under the current AECF grant to STEP (September 2017 September 2019; F17AP00448). This .Award will continue and expand this work for a further two years.
Support USAID Priorities - Tanzania Installing a new, secure, digital radio system for the Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary in Tanzania
Support USAID Priorities - Tanzania Monitoring the long-term effects of poaching on elephants in southern Tanzania
Reinforcing black rhino protection through environmental education in schools surrounding Mkomazi National Park, Tanzania To raise awareness and understanding of the importance of Mkomazi to the local ecology and economy, and to engender a sense of ownership and responsibility among the parks neighbors, the Rafiki wa Faru Program will sponsor at least thirty groups of school teachers, students, and local residents from fourteen local villages into the park for a day of environmental education and interaction with park and rhino project staff.
GENERATING LOCAL SUPPORT FOR ELEPHANT CONSERVATION NEAR RUAHA NATIONAL PARK, TANZANIA- 4 THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO SUPPORT AN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION EFFORT IN RUAHA NATIONAL PARK AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES IN THE GREATER RUAHA-RUNGWA ECOSYSTEM BY IMPROVING HUMAN-ELEPHANT COEXISTENCE AND BUILDING A CONSTITUENCY FOR ELEPHANT CONSERVATION. AS PART OF THE LARGER WESTERN TANZANIA REGION SAVANNA ELEPHANT STRONGHOLD, THIS ECOSYSTEM IS HOME TO THE LARGEST POPULATION OF ELEPHANTS IN EAST AFRICA, WITH AN ESTIMATED 20,145 INDIVIDUALS. THIS PROJECT IS INTENDED TO CONSERVE AFRICAN SAVANNA ELEPHANTS AND THEIR HABITAT BY ADDRESSING THE IMPACTS OF HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT HEC AND POACHING. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES INCLUDE 1 ORGANIZING PARK VISITATION AND ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES LIVING WITH ELEPHANTS 2 CONSTRUCTING BEEHIVE BARRIER FENCES TO REDUCE ELEPHANT CROP RAIDING 3 SYSTEMATICALLY MONITORING HEC EVENTS AND 4 CONDUCTING COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION PROGRAMMING THROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND CONSERVATION FILM SCREENINGS WITH VILLAGES IDENTIFIED AS HEC HOTSPOTS.
Support USAID Priorities - Tanzania Support for rhino protection and monitoring at Kidai Rhino Post in Northern Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
Support USAID Priorities-Tanzania In response to widespread elephant poaching throughout southern Tanzania, this organization is working to protect a key population near Tanzanias elephant strongholds of Selous and Ruaha. Activities will include training staff from Tanzanias wildlife research institute, TAWIRI, assessing four elephant populations for early warning signs of decline, and training national park staff in monitoring elephant populations and conducting anti-poaching activities.
Support USAID Priorities-Tanzania This project will strengthen the institutional capacity of the Community Based Conservation Training Centre (CBCTC) staff to adequately train Village Game Scouts to protect wildlife in the Greater Selous Ecosystem, Tanzania. The major outputs are the development of a strategic plan and new curriculum for the CBCTC based on a participatory assessment with stakeholders. Activities include creating new user-friendly course and resource materials including a Tool Kit for Village Game Scouts that also serves as a teaching tool for CBCTC trainers, providing training equipment, and making infrastructure improvements.
Support USAID Priorities - Tanzania Support for Community Based Conservation Training Centre (CBCTC) in Likuyu Sekamaganga, Selous Game Reserve
STRENGTHENING LONG-TERM PROTECTION OF ELEPHANTS IN SOUTHERN TANZANIA - 2 The purpose of this project is to support a conservation effort in the Rungwa-Kizigo-Muhesi Game Reserve complex, Nyerere National Park, Udzungwa Mountains National Park, and the Kilombero Valley, by improving human-elephant coexistence and enhancing local livelihoods. As part of the larger Western Tanzania Region and Selous-Niassa Region savanna elephant strongholds, this landscape is home to an estimated 31,000 elephants. This project is intended to conserve African savanna elephants and their habitat by addressing the impacts of human-elephant conflict (HEC) and poaching. Specific activities include: (1) monitoring and mitigating HEC through community-based data collection, beehive and solar-powered strobe light fence construction, and improved crop storage; (2) training rangers to document and report HEC incidents in the communities; (3) conducting community engagement and outreach, including Swahili-language human-elephant coexistence films; and (4) supporting a community loan and insurance program and alternative livelihoods development.
Wildife Without Borders - Critically Endangered Animals Conserving kipunji Rungwecebus kipunji strongholds in southern Tanzania
Engaging community support for Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuarys black rhino conservation activities To raise awareness and understanding of the importance of Mkomazi National Park in Northern Tanzania to the local ecology and economy, and to engender a sense of ownership and responsibility among the parks neighbors, the Rafiki wa Faru Program will sponsor at least thirty groups of school teachers, students, and local residents from fourteen local villages into the park for a day of environmental education and interaction with park and rhino project staff.
Sustainable Infrastructure Programme (SIP) - Latin America The Sustainable Infrastructure Programme Latin America (SIP-LA) is a £177.5m bilateral programme funded by UK International Climate Finance (ICF) and delivered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). SIP-LA supports partner countries to achieve their emission reduction commitments by mobilising private investment into low-carbon infrastructure. The programme provides public sector technical assistance alongside private sector technical assistance and blended finance investments. It works with four partner countries: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
TEFOS (“Territorios Forestales Sostenibles” in Spanish and “Forest, Communities and Sustainable Growth” in English) TEFOS (formerly “ForTREES For People) aims to stabilise the deforestation frontier in the areas of Colombia most acutely threatened by deforestation and affected by conflict, by improving land systems and usage rights, building capacity to effectively tackle environmental crime, and promoting sustainable forest livelihoods and enterprises.
This programme was transferred from BEIS (now DESZN) to FCDO in April 2022. All annual reports and other relevant results from that date onwards are shown in the FCDO dev tracker website here: (DevTracker Programme GB-GOV-1-301502 (fcdo.gov.uk)
Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) The REPP programme provides support to private sector developers of small scale renewable energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa. REPP supports solar, hydro, biomass, biogas, geothermal, and wind projects up to 25MW installed capacity (up to 50MW for wind). REPP provides technical assistance direct to project developers, provides pre-construction and bridging loans, post-construction financing, and equity financing.
Green Climate Fund (GCF) To increase the scale of climate change finance and support low-carbon, climate resilient growth in developing countries. The Green Climate Fund will finance projects and programmes in a range of developing countries, including the poorest and most vulnerable, through a range of financial instruments and terms designed to meet country priorities and needs. It will also leverage private finance in support of low-carbon, climate resilient development.
Partnerships for Forests (P4F) The Partnerships for Forests programme (P4F) supports investment models in which the private sector, public sector and communities can achieve shared value from forests and sustainable land use. It aims to add value to standing forests by incubating new investments in agroforestry and non-timber forest products, and helping local and indigenous community enterprises, smallholder farmers and larger businesses connect to new markets and scale up production. It can also target commodities that have traditionally driven large-scale deforestation, facilitating multi-stakeholder approaches and solutions which support transitions to sustainable production models to fulfil zero-deforestation supply-chain commitments.
UK Climate Investments (UKCI) UK Climate Investments (UKCI) invests in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects across sub-Saharan Africa and India to demonstrate that low carbon development is possible, replicable at scale, commercially viable and capable of lowering carbon emissions and supporting economic growth. The fund (£200m of UK International Climate Finance) provides late-stage minority equity investments on a commercial basis to get projects off the ground that would not otherwise reach financial close
Independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Unit for  FCDO’s Africa Regional Climate and Nature (ARCAN) programme The purpose of this contract is to deliver an independent monitoring, evaluation and learning function on behalf of FCDO that will implement the following three, interlinked components in support of delivery of the ARCAN programme: 
1)	Supporting the programme to identify what is working and what is not working (and for who -  with a particular focus on gender, economic and social inclusion), complimenting and strengthening the ARCAN partners own monitoring and learning, through the provision of robust monitoring, evaluation, learning and VfM assessment at portfolio level and ensuring relevant lessons feed into the global evidence base on climate change adaptation and mitigation.
2)	Provision of targeted technical advice to ARCAN programme partners to ensure their reporting and M&E approaches are aligned to and support the overall objectives of ARCAN.
3)	Facilitate and inform strategic programme decision making, ensuring the application of learning from monitoring, evaluation and research activities across the programme are used to refine delivery of programme components.
Public Finance and Tax Department (PFTD) Review Acquisition Ecorys has been commissioned to undertake an independent review of FCDO's programming on taxation. The objectives of the review are to:
•	 Describe the degree to which the programming portfolio has performed as expected, highlighting where it has performed well and where it has not met expectations. 
•	 Describe the impact so far of the programming portfolio and the degree to which impact level results are attributable to the PFTD’s efforts.
•	 Provide an index of evidence that supports findings about PFTD’s achievements and failures regarding the contribution of FCDO’s tax portfolio to strengthening tax systems in developing countries. 
•	Provide lessons on implementation processes; identifying initiatives that worked well and those that failed to meet expectations; and detailing how well PFTD programme partners have interacted/collaborated with FCDO country office bilateral tax programmes.
DFID Performance Evaluation for the UK Aid Match II Programme The purpose of this performance evaluation of the UK Aid Match II programme is to investigate two assumptions which the programme’s theory of change is built upon: that the programme leads to a wider and more diverse constituency of the UK public engaging with international development issues, leading to greater engagement and demand for transparency and accountability; and that the programme leads to increased public funding available to CSOs by matching donations from individuals. The evaluation is a learning opportunity, and will strengthen DFID’s work with civil society partners. Ecorys UK, with our evaluation partner IPSOS Mori, will develop evidence to test these assumptions using a theory based evaluation approach and will evaluate the programme using cutting edge quantitative evaluation techniques (randomised controlled trials) as well as other leading evaluation techniques to evaluate the impact and efficiency of the programme in reaching its objectives.
PO 8549 Independent Monitoring and Evaluation of DFID's African Union Support Programme The African Union Support Programme (2018-2021) builds on a previous phase of programming which ran from July 2014 to December 2017. As part of its goal to develop deeper partnerships with key African institutions, DFID is providing the African Union Commission (AUC) with £5 million over a three year period to deliver on shared UK-Africa priorities in the areas of trade, migration, electoral assistance and conflict prevention and response. Ecorys was commissioned by DFID to undertake an evaluation of the AUSP in August 2019. The evaluation will assess programming from July 2018 to April 2021, addressing four core objectives: 1. Assess the capability and capacity of the AUC to consistently follow through on its policy commitments across the programme’s three priority areas 2. Set realistic success metrics that the evaluation can measure progress against 3. Provide a performance evaluation and qualitative assessment of the benefits of interventions under the programme 4. Undertake bespoke action research, with a primary focus on identifying gender-related elements under interventions and assessing the impact of the programme on these.
Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND) To provide a comprehensive package of interventions to reduce the disability, disfigurement, stigma, deaths, lost livelihoods and poverty which occur as a result of NTDs.
Evaluation of DFID's funding to the ODI Fellowship Scheme This evaluation will concentrate on addressing the following objectives - 1. Impact: To evaluate how effectively the fellowship scheme contributes to sustainable capacity building in participating developing country institutions and where appropriate at a country level, i.e. to what extent it is achieving its stated objectives at outcome and impact levels. 2. Theory of change: To review and test the theory of change and log frame, with a view to revising and deepening both the theory of change and log frame/assessment criteria and ensuring that the two are consistent. As part of this review process, use interim findings to provide a draft of the ODI annual review (due 29th June 2020). 3. Delivery model: To assess how ODI’s delivery model compares to other similar capacity building schemes funded by DFID and other UK Government departments. 4. Diversity and access: To assess how the scheme’s approach to diversity and broadening access in recruitment, particularly with regards to socio-economic diversity as well as protected characteristics, compares with identified best practice. 5. Safeguarding and duty of care: To assess whether the ODI Fellowship Scheme’s approach to and policies on safeguarding and duty of care, of and on behalf of fellows is sufficient. It will do this through a mixed methods ( qualitative and quantitative) approach. It will be theory-based and participatory and include a desk review, self-report survey, semi-structured interviews and country case studies.
Seychelles Audit of TIS project Contract related to: Seychelles Audit of TIS project - Support measures under this Action will reinforce efficiency, performance and impact of the thematic programme implementation. These measures will allow for preparation, follow-up, monitoring, audit and evaluation activities, as well as other relevant activities directly linked to the achievement of the thematic programme¿s specific objectives, such as studies, meetings and consultations, exchanges of best practices, networking, training, information sessions, communication and public diplomacy.This Action will entail support for programme implementation in both HQ and EU Delegations, including preparation, implementation and monitoring of the CSO Roadmaps.This action document frames the use of support measures, as envisaged in Article 24 of the Regulation (EU) 2021/947 establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument - Global Europe and in the Multiannual Indicative Programme for Civil Society Organisations 2021-2027. The objectives of this action will mainly be achieved through services contracts directly managed by the competent European Commission services. This is justified by the nature of the activities (trainings, studies, events, evaluations or audits).
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