The Ministry of Environment Water and Climate has been implementing the project entitled National Biodiversity Planning to Support the Implementation of the CBD 2011-2020 Strategic Plan in Zimbabwe that was signed by Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate and the United Nations Development Programme and ended on 31 March 2015. The project was extended by four months to 31st July 2015 to allow for additional work on spatial data analysis to be completed. The spatial data analysis was done and the Project has now been completed operationally with the production of a draft Strategy and Action Plan, the 5th National Report. A Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) for biodiversity has also been developed. However, there is need finalise and print project documents (5th National Report and the NBSAP) and to launch them officially. Towards the end of the project the NBSAP targets were revised. The revision of the targets in the 5th National Report has been necessitated by the comments from the NBSAP Peer Review and the PULSE Lab work. The documents are at the editorial stage and will need to be launched by the Honourable Minister of Environment Water and Climate once printed.
A consultant is therefore required to finalise the processes with the editor, to coordinate the launch and prepare a presentation for the launch. Services required to edit the Fifth National Report to the CBD, is to review the revised targets incorporate them in the 5th National Report. The Biodiversity Clearing House Mechanism which has been set up in the Ministry also need to be reviewed and finalised.
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