Forest Governance Markets and Climate - Phase 2 Programme Management Support Team

The UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will be seeking a supplier to assist in the management and oversight of its Forest Governance, Markets and Climate 2 (FGMC2) programme - PMST Supplier. This will include managing and overseeing Accountable Grants (AG) on behalf of FCDO, conducting the programmes' overall monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), and providing strategic and technical advice to FCDO and programme partners, while ensuring overall coherence with the programme Theory of Change.

The PMST Supplier will work closely with the FCDO supporting political and strategic engagement to assist in the delivery of programme objectives; consolidate programme level reporting, provide technical oversight over a broad range of delivery partners working in multiple countries; and manage a portfolio of grants (approximately 20 with a value of about £50 million) across a range of partner countries in Asia, Pacific, Africa and South America. The PMST Supplier will be expected to work closely with FCDO and partners in an iterative and flexible manner.

We will also advertise separately for: Facilitation Service: to support national multi-stakeholder reform processes. Facilitation ensures the quality of national deliberations by promoting stakeholder inclusion, transparency, and participation in forest governance processes. These processes may relate to forestry, mining, carbon, and a country's Nationally Determined Contributions to name a few. A Facilitator's role is to establish themselves as an impartial, trusted adviser to each of the key sector stakeholder groups in a forest governance reform process, and to use this role to build constructive working relationships both within and between stakeholder groups in support of a governance reform agenda. FGMC2 will make provision for Facilitators in up to 10 countries in the 1st 5-year period (with an initial estimated budget in the range of £12-16 Million).

Long term Technical Assistance projects: in support of partner government governance reform processes. The supplier will ensure the provision of technical assistance, capacity building and analysis on a demand-led basis, ensuring it is tailored to country context and aligned with partner priorities. Technical Assistance will respond to demand from across up to 16 countries with a budget in the range of £70 -80 million anticipated for the first 5-year period.

This programme is currently working through Business Case approvals and this is a Prior Information Notice and not a call for competition at this time. It is used to highlight to the market that we intend to reach tender stage in the future. We are giving interested suppliers the opportunity to register interest for the PMST on the FCDO Portal at pqq_1565, access a very draft Terms of Reference, and we welcome pre Business case approval engagement through the questionnaire: https://forms.office.com/e/nD4rKjUxem

Additional information: To access the Terms of Reference and register interest, please login or register to FCDO's e-sourcing portal https://fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk . You can also access our Questionnaire: If you have any technical issues with accessing the Portal please call e-sourcing helpdesk: +44 0203 868 2859.