.PROJECT BACKGROUNDThe countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America (El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala) are experiencing the negative impacts of climate change, and global climate models predict even more severe scenarios for the coming years. These scenarios include higher average annual temperatures with lower and more erratic rainfall, marked by extreme rainfall events during tropical cyclones and followed by prolonged droughts. These conditions, together with the lack of coverage by government agencies to serve farmers with technical assistance and extension, result in agricultural production methods that are leading to a degradation of the top layer of soil and the land, which in turn reduces agricultural productivity and resilience at smallholder farming communities' scale. In addition, the three countries are facing accelerated rates of forest degradation. The main direct causes of deforestation include land use change due to agriculture and livestock, unsustainable extraction of wood for industrial and energy uses, and forest fires, mostly related to conventional slash-and-burn practices used to prepare soils for the establishment of annual crops and pastures.The "Triangular Cooperation Project between Korea-Mexico-Three Central American Countries to Strengthen Capacities for Forest Landscape Restoration in Response to Climate Change" project, funded by KOICA and executed by GGGI, provides a platform for technical collaboration with the Republic of Korea, Mexico, and Central America´s Northern Triangle countries to establish enabling environmental policies and accelerate green investments, with a focus on reducing poverty and increasing resilience in climate-vulnerable smallholder farming communities.The Project seeks to strengthen the capacity of technicians and beneficiaries of the "Sembrando Vida" Project executed by the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID), with a productive restoration approach to enhance resilience to climate change.In this context, AMEXCID and GGGI have selected six (6) specific topics to be reinforced in technicians and beneficiaries of the "Sembrando Vida" Project, for their contribution to landscape restoration and productive resilience. As a result, GGGI is seeking an experienced consultant to carry out the following capacity-building activities:Develop a curriculum to provide theoretical-practical training on the selected topics.Prepare teaching material to be distributed among the attendants to the training activities on the selected topics.Design a training execution schedule to teach all topics in a maximum period of five months (October 2024 - January 2025), in four (4) locations defined by the Project.OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTINGStrengthen the capacities of technicians and beneficiaries of the "Sembrando Vida" Project through training activities with a landscape restoration and productive resilience approach to climate change
