MINISTRY OF TOURISM, WILDLIFE AND HERITAGE TENDER MARCH 2023
State Department for Wildlife
REQUEST FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
CONSERVANCY MANAGEMENT PLANS FOR ORPUA AND
MBOKISHI MARA CONSERVANCIES, NAROK COUNTY, MAASAI
MARA ECOSYSTEM – SDW/RFP/004/2022-2023
TERMS OF REFERENCE
1. Background to the Consultancy
The Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage in partnership with UNDP is implementing the GEF funded; The GEF-6/UNDP
Project “Combating Poaching and Illegal Wildlife Trafficking in Kenya through an Integrated Approach” (IWT-Kenya). The project
recognizes that while the country has made advances in combating poaching of large bodied wildlife such as rhino and elephant,
poaching and illegal wildlife trade remains a threat and continue to contribute to loss of wildlife in Kenya.
Under component 3; Strengthening Community Wildlife Conservancies in Tsavo and Maasai Mara Ecosystems Reduce Poaching
and Improve Community Benefits and Co-management; the project prioritizes interventions that result in outcomes that increase
community engagement to live, manage and benefit from wildlife. This will be realised through increased integrated landscape
management practices and restoration plans to maintain forest ecosystem services and sustain wildlife. The activity targets to
establish three new conservancies and expand the area under community conserved areas by 23,000ha.
The component focuses on developing, in a participatory manner, integrated conservancy management plans to lay the foundation
for locally-managed wildlife and grazing systems through community conservancies. The conservancy plans once implemented
will ensure that benefits from wildlife conservation and sustainable livestock grazing accrue directly to, and are fairly
distributed among, the community members. Further the planning process shall identify viable enterprises to be under the UNDP’s
small-grants facility and in future the conservancy Trust Fund to be operationalized through the Kenya Wildlife Conservancy Association
(KWCA) to ensure more long-term access to micro-financing. Support to the conservancies is aimed at increasing the
average annual income per household in the target conservancies from wildlife conservation and implementation of Sustainable
land Management (SLM) practices while ensuring women and youth and involved in conservancy plans and benefit sharing. The
planning process designed will comply with Kenya’s guidelines in preparing conservation plans and will integrate the First Line of
defence (FLOD) approach.
The Conservancy Natural Resources Management Plan will be align with the Tsavo and Maasai Mara ecosystem plans and the
Taita Taveta and Narok County Spatial plans and in line with the country’s tourism strategies to ensure wildlife tourism, livestock
production and carbon credits among others are optimized as key source of income to the conservancy and the local community.
The plans will outline the resources required to implement priority IWT interventions and to further attract investments, making
the conservancies sustainable in the long-term. The conservancy plans will be developed in close collaboration with Kenya Wildlife
Service (KWS), Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association (MMWCA) and Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA),
all of whom are project partners.
2.0 Scope of the Consultancy
The project implementation team identified Orupua and Mbokishi conservancies for the targeted support. The conservancies
occupy areas considered significant elephant corridor facing risk of habitat conversion due to absence of structured conservation
of the elephants and other wildlife. Furthermore, the areas considered neighbours agricultural communities with human-wildlife
conflict being a threat. Land degradation, charcoal burning and the risk of conversion of the wildlife areas to cultivation lands are
threats to be addressed through improved planning and management.
Orpua Conservancy: Located along the Greater Sand River corridor (GSRC), an integral ecological connection of Maasai Mara
National Reserve (MMNR) to the Loita Naimina Enkiyio Forest. In 2021 the local community of Naikarra came together to pull their
land parcels to establish an initial conservancy core area of 12,500 acres owned by 625 landowners, effectively creating a second
conservancy within the GSRC after Olderkesi conservancy to secure the entire corridor, protect their culture and wildlife and enable
compatible land uses.
Mbokishi Mara Conservation Area: The northern Extension of the Enonkishu Conservancy in the Mara ecosystem is a group conservation
area established to address a myriad of challenges affecting conservation and the local community on this critical area of
the Mara ecosystem. Established in 2020, the area covers 3769Ha conserves critical forest, water catchment and creates a buffer
between the largescale and subsistence farming to the north and the community managed conservation areas to the south.
3.0 Objectives of the Consultancy
The objective of the Consultancy ss to develop Management Plans for Orpua and Mbokishi Conservancies in the Maasai Ecosystem
in accordance with the Section 44 of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act (WCMA), 2013 and the Planning
Framework provided under the Fifth Schedule of WCMA,2013.
4.0. Scope of Work
The Consultant shall: –
• Carry out a literature review on best practices in conservancy governance and management and identify factors in conservancy
sustainability
• Review the FLOD approach and legal considerations in developing, approval, gazetting of conservancy
• Engage the project implementation teams to understand project components and key outcomes proposed
• Engage the relevant conservancy partners and conservancy boards and management to document progress in conservancy
establishment
• Visit the conservancies and undertake situational analysis and SWOT
• Map resources and conservancy attributes needed for conservancy planning
• Facilitate stakeholder planning meetings and workshops develop conservancy programs and activities in the short and longterm
• Collect and collate information relevant to conservancy planning
• Synthesise planning meeting outputs and other planning information into draft plans
• Ensure the plans being developed are in line with WCMA, 2013, appropriate to the conservancies, and realistic for conservancy
managers to implement
5.0 . Expected Outputs/Deliverables
• An Inception Report.
• Draft Conservancy Management Plan for Mbokishi Conservancy
• Draft Conservancy Management Plan for Orpua Conservancy
• Final Conservancy Management Plan for Mbokishi Conservancy
• Final Conservancy Management Plan for Orpua Conservancy
6.0. Submission of Technical and Financial Proposals
Eligible individual consultants should submit the following;
1. Technical and financial proposals
2. Curriculum Vitae (CV) of consultant(s)
Interested Consultants may obtain Request for Proposal document from the Ministry of Tourism Wildlife and Heritage website (www.
tourism.go.ke) or the National Treasury suppliers’ portal (http://tenders.go.ke).
Duly filled Request for proposal documents in plain sealed envelopes clearly marked “Provision of Consultancy for Development of
Conservancy Management Plans for Orpua and Mbokishi Conservancies, Narok County, Maasai Mara Ecosystem” and bearing no indication
of the identity of the Consultant should be addressed to The Principal Secretary, State Department for Wildlife, P. O. Box
41394 – 00100, and be deposited into the tender box at the reception of State Department for Wildlife, NSSF Building, Block-A,
Eastern Wing, 15th Floor, on or before 11:00 Noon, on 28th March, 2023
Bids will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of consultants or their representatives who choose to attend.
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY
STATE DEPARTMENT FOR WILDLIFE