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Introduction
Contract type:
Desk based – field work
This consultancy is part of the Marine Program and covers widely all other WWF-Pakistan program’s. It
aims to provide technical advice and expertise in developing projects, implementation, reports, scientific
publications, awareness materials, compliance to international agreements and advocating and lobbying
government and non-government stakeholders for improved natural resource management (for themes
such as fisheries, wildlife, illegal trade, but not restricted to them).
Background:
The management of the marine natural resources is a serious concern, as limited information about the
resources, their spatial and temporal distribution and extent of exploitation is generally not known. The
habitat destruction, illicit catch of juveniles of commercially important fish species, in particular for the
highly migratory species (such as tuna and tuna like species) have marred the marine biodiversity in
Northern Indian Ocean. High bycatch in fishing operations, excessive pollution and dumping of untreated
waste in the sea have further deteriorated the natural habitat and stocks of important species in the area.
This has led to the disturbance of the whole ecology of the northern Indian Ocean. The coastal and marine
ecosystem is largely affected from the overexploitation of natural resources and ill planned development
on the coast. There are settlements all across the coastline whose main source of earning is from fishing,
but because of the use of destructive practices including use of banned or small mesh sized nets, increase
in fishing capacity and effort are all related with overexploitation of the fish stocks. This is further flawed
with post-harvest losses, poor facilities at landing sites, lack of awareness and limited access to markets.
While, Pakistan has a rich coastline stretching from the Rann of Kutch in the east to Jiwani in the west
which is around 1,050 km long, having EEZ of approximately 250,000 Sq Km. Pakistan comprises of two
coastal provinces, i) Sindh, and ii) Balochistan. The coast of Balochistan comprises of sandy beaches and
the continental shelf is steep whereas the Sindh coast is comprised of creeks and the continental shelf is
shallow. One of the prominent features of the Sindh coast are the mangrove forests, however due to
several anthropogenic factors such as the diversion of freshwater, illicit cutting of mangrove wood,
overharvesting of fisheries and poor natural resource practices have degraded the habitat affecting
mangrove forest cover, biodiversity loss and decline in fisheries production. Whereas, Balochistan coast
is known for its serene and unpolluted beaches, presence of lagoons and important bays which are known
for its rich marine diversity.
The Balochistan and Karachi coast are famous for nesting sites of green turtles, whereas around 140
species of elasmobranchs (sharks, rays, skates and guitarfishes) and 19 species of cetaceans, along with
300 species commercially important fish have been recorded from Pakistan’s waters. This showcases that
Pakistan has rich marine resources and it supports livelihoods of around a million people directly and
indirectly. The unsustainable practices however continue to deplete the marine/oceanic resources
through the uncontrolled catch of juveniles of commercially important fish species, illegal trade, the
extensive and unregulated use of nets which are in non-compliance to many regulations as well as marine
pollution are some of the very pertinent issues that the Arabian Sea and the North Indian Ocean faces.
Fisheries are the major economic resource and comprise of around 1% of GDP of Pakistan. It is being
exploited unsustainably and has severe pressure, with increasing vessel numbers operating in the
Northern Arabian Sea and resource practices it is important to put a cap on the exploitation of these
resources. Although Pakistan’s fishing fleets are mostly small scale in nature, there is no regulation and
the practices of artisanal fishers are at risk. In order to better understand the nature of artisanal fishers
and their use of bait in fisheries it is important to encompass knowledge and management efforts to
secure the vested interests of artisanal fishers.
The Task
The scope of this consultancy is to provide technical advice and expertise on the program activities of
WWF-Pakistan’s marine programme, in particular project related activities for promoting sustainable tuna
fisheries in the Indian Ocean and strengthening the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission supported by WWFSwitzerland. Under this consultancy, toolkits, tuna action plans, facilitate development of NIO informal
group, development of at least 2 FIPs for small scale fisheries and help development of bycatch saferelease and best practice guidelines for tuna gillnet fisheries feeding into the project and the 5-year action
plan. Accordingly, the consultant will prepare project proposals, reports, scientific publications, NPOA for
tuna and tuna like species, sea turtles, awareness materials, and conduct/moderate dialogues at the
national and provincial level from the tasks which are proposed as under (this can be amended in
discussions with the consultant):
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Provide technical input in developing FIPs for small-scale fisheries
Provide technical expertise and knowledge for developing national plan of action for tuna and
tuna like species
To develop scientific publications on tuna landings, bycatch and other species
To advocate and lobby with government and non-government stakeholders for adopting robust
conservation management measures
To lobby with concerned stakeholders to help pilot new MCS technologies
To develop content and designs for awareness material
Conduct trainings and build capacity of observers collecting data on-board tuna gillnet vessels
Conduct trainings of at least 10 fishermen communities on best practice management
Facilitate formation of informal group at the NIO level
Develop safe-release and best practice guide for tuna gillnet fisheries
Specific Deliverables
The consultant is expected to provide the following services deliverables, which must include but are not
limited to the following:
Activities
Outputs
Endorsement of NPOA Sharks
Advocate and lobby with government stakeholders for endorsement
of NPOA for sharks
Status of Tuna in Arabian Sea
Publications
One scientific publication on neritic tuna and determine its CPUE
Develop awareness materials, such as banners, brochures, fact sheets
for safe release and best practice guides for tuna gillnet fisheries
Develop NPOA for Tuna
Support and facilitate 2 FIP
development and pilot
questionnaire
Fisheries value addition plans
Facilitate formation of informal
group at NIO level
Development of NIO toolkit for
fisheries under MSC and
potential fisheries for MSC
certification
Conduct trainings and build
capacity of observers collecting
data on-board tuna gillnet vessels
Conduct trainings of at least 10
fishermen communities on best
practice management
Develop bird identification guide
Draft NPOA-Tuna
Develop agenda, consultation with experts, and moderate field testing
of questionnaire
Baseline, value addition plans, implementation
Facilitation, dialogues, working papers
Toolkit
Trainings, curriculum, observer forms
Fisher trainings, modules
Requirements for experience and qualifications
Minimum Requirements
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Education: Degree in fisheries, marine biology, environmental related studies and some
experience on trainings and capacity building
At least 10 years of experience of and knowledge of fisheries sector
Good understanding of fisheries related issues
Excellent writing skills and fluency in English
Competencies
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Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
Demonstrate abilities of analytical work and excellent report writing
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Proactive and able to work with minimal supervision and high degree of initiative, reliability ,
flexibility, motivation and resourcefulness
Professionalism, flexibility to make ad-hoc changes as and when the need arises, ability to
perform under stress, willingness to keep flexible working hours
Duration
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The duration of this consultancy would be from October 2016 – February 2017 (5 months)
The consultant will need to work a minimum of five-days a week from WWF-Pakistan Sindh
regional office
Two weeks will be considered a man-month
Funding
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The funding for this consultancy will be borne by WWF-Pakistan’s programs, based on projects,
in case where project funding is not available, the funds may be sought from core or other
regional pool of funding.
The consultancy is not restricted to project based activities.
The numeration of the consultant will be PKR 120,000/= (only) for one month exclusive of all
taxes (sales tax and withholding tax).
Documents to be included when submitting the proposal
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate
their qualifications:
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Proposal (i) explaining why they are the most suitable for the work, (ii) provide brief
methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work
Financial proposal (including fee, travel cost, (if any) and other relevant expenses)
Curriculum vitae