Institutional Capacity Buildiing Group Training 2026 for NEA Staff on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), and Environmental Management

Scope of Work

The Training Service provider is expected to design and deliver a comprehensive, in-house training program for approximately twenty-five (25) NEA staff. The training should be practical, participatory, and tailored to the specific context of The Gambia's coastal environment. The scope of work covers the following key areas:

1. Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Environmental Governance
2. Build a clear and practical understanding of the ICZM concepts, principles and approaches
3. Provide training on coastal planning, zoning, permitting systems, and integration of Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA)
4. Enhance understanding of institutional arrangements, inter-agency coordination mechanisms, and stakeholder management for effective ICZM implementation
5. Strengthen understanding of coastal hazards, climate change, coastal erosion, flooding, ecosystem degradation and competing coastal land uses
6. Introduce practical approaches for addressing coastal development pressures and cumulative impacts
7. Monitoring, Evaluation and Environmental Data Management
8. Improve understanding of M&E concepts, principles and frameworks
9. strengthen participants’ ability to develop appropriate environmental indicators
10. Develop capacity to establish baselines, targets, milestones and means of verification
11. Improve systems for environmental data collection, management, analysis, and results-based reporting
12. Equip participants with skills for compliance monitoring and enforcement procedures
13. GIS, Remote Sensing and Spatial Planning
14. Provide practical training on the use of GIS, remote sensing, and other digital monitoring tools for coastal management
15. Demonstrate remote sensing applications for environmental monitoring
16. Demonstrate mapping of coastal risks, land-use change and ecosystem conditions

Requirements & Qualifications

For the key experts proposed, the following minimum requirements should apply. The requirements are intended to recognize the specialized nature of ICZM while allowing relevant professionals from closely related coastal, marine, environmental, natural-resource, spatial-planning, governance and climate-resilience disciplines to contribute where they demonstrate practical relevance to the assignment. Team Leader / Senior ICZM and Coastal Management Specialist

1. Master’s degree or higher in Coastal Zone Management, Environmental Management, Marine Science, Natural Resources Management, Geography, Climate Change, or a closely related discipline
2. Minimum 10 years of professional experience in coastal, marine, environmental, natural resources, climate-resilience or related management fields
3. Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience in ICZM, coastal planning, coastal governance, coastal resilience, marine spatial planning or closely related integrated coastal management work
4. Demonstrated experience in at least two relevant areas such as coastal planning/zoning, policy and institutional development, stakeholder coordination, coastal hazards and resilience, permitting, ecosystem-based management, environmental governance or related areas
5. Demonstrated experience designing and/or delivering professional training or capacity-building for government officials, technical institutions or other adult professional audiences
6. Strong practical experience in adult-learning approaches, facilitation, case-based learning, group work, coaching, practical exercises and assessment of learning outcomes is highly desirable
7. Experience in West Africa or comparable coastal developing-country contexts is desirable.

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