Mauritius – General management consultancy services – Sustainable Western Indian Ocean Programme (SWIOP) - Recruitment of Technical Assistance Team to support Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMO)

The EU Delegation in Mauritius is procuring a Technical Assistance Team (TAT) for the implementation of the activities in support of two Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs), notably the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (IOTC/FAO), with a mandate to manage fisheries of highly migratory species (e.g., tuna species) in both the waters under the jurisdiction of coastal States and in the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ), and the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA), an autonomous international agreement, mandated to manage fisheries resources, excluding highly migratory species, in the ABNJ under the Sustainable Western Indian Ocean (SWIO) programme (https://international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/countries/sub-saharan-africa_en) The services to be provided under this contract will contribute to Output 1.2 of the SWIO programme at : - strengthening the capacity of the RFMOs for the stock assessment of shared species; - provide technical assistance to RFMOs to design capacity building activities and training with the aim to improve beneficiaries’ capacity to comply with conservation and management measures adopted; - provide technical assistance to beneficiaries on data collection, analysis and reporting to improve their capacities to comply with obligations stemming from RFMO membership; - support beneficiaries for the organisation of meetings and other activities within the framework of RFMOs, notably the areas related to the conservation and management of shared resources The work of the key fisheries expert and pool of non-key experts (NKE) is to provide technical assistance at administrative and implementation levels to the IOTC and SIOFA Secretariat to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of the project outputs, tasks and work plans of the RFMOs to ensure implementation of the IOTC and SIOFA components of the SWIOP. The technical assistance team will undertake the following...