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- **Programme overview**

The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has contracted NIRAS, in partnership with ONF Andina and GITEC, to lead the implementation of the third pillar of**_Territorios Forestales Sostenibles (TEFOS 3_**).**

The full TEFOS programme represents a commitment from the UK Government to provide £64m of International Climate Finance (ICF) over seven years (2020-2026) to the Government of Colombia to reduce deforestation in conflict-affected and high-deforestation areas of rural Colombia. The programme has three intervention pillars:

- Strengthening land registry systems to incentivise sustainable land management systems (delivered by the World Bank).
- Strengthening the criminal justice system to tackle environmental crime in deforestation hotspots (delivered by UNODC)
- Promoting sustainable economic opportunities for communities in deforestation hotspots (delivered by the NIRAS-led consortium, with ONFA and GITEC as partners).

**TEFOS 3** focuses on kickstarting and improving livelihoods in prioritised deforestation hotspots, through:

- Increasing communities’ skills and knowledge of sustainable agriculture practices and sustainable forest management to protect and increase forest cover.
- Promoting commercialisation and improving market access for sustainable commodities and services through public-private partnerships that protect standing forests in the deforestation border.
- Promoting conservation incentives (such as payment for ecosystem services (PES) and conservation agreements led by environmental authorities) in areas with land-use restrictions.

The geographic scope of TEFOS will align with Government of Colombia requirements.



TEFOS will only work in municipalities that have been prioritised for Pillar 1 implementation which are centred in deforestation clusters that include San Jose del Guaviare and Cartegena del Chairá. An initial assessment with the Government of Colombia has identified the Cuemaní deforestation cluster as a priority area for Pillar 3, as it has accounted on average for 15% of deforestation in the Amazon for the past five years.

The inception phase of TEFOS 3 kicked off on the 20th of May 2024, with the implementation period officially starting in July 2025. As a response to key priorities identified with the British Embassy and changes made to the scope of work (in particular to the geographical focus, working solely in Caquetá and no longer in Guaviare) during the implementation period, as well as the shorter duration of the contract (with the total contract period being reduced from 38 to 30 months), we have re-designed our team structure to ensure that we can cover the resourcing needs of the team to successfully deliver to the activities in the workplan in a shortened implementation timeframe and achieve the programme’s overall objectives.

**2. The role and responsibilities**

The Conflict Sensitivity Adviser will ensure that all activities delivered by TEFOS 3 are designed and implemented through a conflict sensitivity lens.



At the heart of this role is the analysis of how the changes to the economic and productive dynamics of the territory as a result of the activities implemented by TEFOS 3 can trigger, exacerbate, or mitigate the armed conflict, evaluating the impact of the project’s interventions on its interactions with key actors in the territory, and making appropriate recommendations to move forward. This includes, for example, an analysis of how the introduction of new value chains in the territory can affect power and inequality balances in the territory or strengthen actors with extractive or illegal practices; as well as recommendations on approaches to minimising unintended consequences and socialising change in the territory.

The Conflict Sensitivity Analyst will also be expected to have a deep understanding of the actors operating in the region and their motivations, and will monitor the discussions that take place at the _Mesas de Diálogo_. They will also provide analyses and recommendations on how TEFOS 3 can adapt its activities to respond to the evolution of the dynamics of the armed conflict in the territory and, similarly, how the activities of TEFOS 3 might influence and change the dynamics of the armed conflict.

This specialist role will work hand-in-hand with the Project Leadership Team (PLT) and the Project Management Unit (PMU), helping to scale up/down planned activities in response to changes in the armed conflict situation.

This role will report to the TEFOS 3 Team Leader, also working closely with the TEFOS 3 Delivery Lead and the Political Team at the British Embassy in Bogotá.

This role will:

- Conduct thorough analyses on:

- Socio-economic conflicts: how the implementation of sustainable livelihoods projects can generate increased tensions between and within community members (beneficiaries vs non-beneficiarie

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📌 Conflict Sensitivity Adviser (Bogotá)
🏢 NIRAS
📍 Bogotá