Submission deadline: 22 January 2025

SPA/RAC launches a call for consultancy to undertake the following tasks:

• Elaborate the National Operational Strategy for the monitoring of Candidate Indicator 24 based on the regional operational strategy
• Launch and implement the National Monitoring Programme of Candidate Indicator 24 in collaboration with national institutes and relevant national authorities.
• Train and enhance the capacities of the national team involved in monitoring IMAP Candidate Indicator 24 through the organization of capacity-building meetings and targeted technical training.
• Collect standardized data on marine litter ingested/entangled by sea turtles according to the SPA/RAC-INDICIT protocol on monitoring interactions between marine litter and turtles (ingestion and entanglement) to harmonize data collection methods for monitoring and assessment and evaluate how GES (Good Environmental Status) can be achieved.

Further details are available in the Terms of Reference.