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5th Mission Report _KE3_March-April 2013Annex 5 - Terms of Reference Short Term senior Biologist Non-Key ExpertShort Term Other Biologist Non-Key Expert(s) for: Activity 2.2 - Water body identification and typology;Activity 2.3 - Analysis of baseline situation, Activity 2.4 - Joint field surveys to cover the gaps.I. Background and general objectivesThese assignments will contribute to the implementation of the Activity 2 - Development of joint RiverBasin Management Plans (RBMPs) for selected river basins, specifically to accomplish the following subtasksunder the Result-2 of the Project Terms of Reference: Activity 2.2 - Water body identification andtypology; Activity 2.3 - Analysis of baseline situation, including preliminary classification of water bodiesbased on available data; Activity 2.4 - Joint field surveys to cover the gaps, including survey designmanuals.Identifying and determining type of the water bodies in the selected pilot basins shall become the core ofthe WFD approach for the project. After identifying water bodies, defining current state of play andtypology for each identified water object, the Programme of Measures will be developed to address thosewhere the ‘good’ state is threatened.A preliminary identification of the water bodies will be undertaken using the guidelines proposed inAnnex II of the WFD and the relevant WFD Common Implementation Strategy guidelines. The first step inthis process will be determining the geographical extent of these water bodies based on all relevantconsiderations including but not limited to river types, human impacts, protected areas and use of thewater bodies. For a simpler typology System-A, based on Eco-regions as specified in Annex XI of the WFD,shall be used for the project pilot basins. This will result in identifying basic water bodies, but that whereadditional information is available and where the resources of the project and beneficiaries allow, furthersub-division of the water bodies will be considered. Final specification of identified water bodies shall beendorsed by the beneficiaries as it will involve some further actions to implement Program of Measures inthe selected basins.Analysis of baseline situation shall be conducted for identified and typed water bodies. Therefore, thisactivity will undertake preliminary classification after identification of water bodies to describe ecologicalconditions and identify ecological/biological, hydro-morphological and physico-chemical classes for eachsegment of water bodies, as well as ecological potentials for heavily modified water bodies. And finally, tocover the gaps discovered after identification of water bodies, topological description and initialclassification, the project will conduct joint field surveys in each selected pilot basin. This will allow fillingin the gaps with respect to reference conditions, as well as baseline data required for final classification ofthe water bodies and establish type-specific reference conditions wherever these are not available.II.Specific objectives and scope of workThe specific objectives and scope of work of the Other Biologist Non-Key Expert (s) with this assignmentwill be assisting country water teams and the project Key Experts in fulfilling the following tasks as partsof the above mentioned Activities 2.2, 2.3, 2.4:1. Identify and describe water body types in each of the pilot basins / sub-basins, taking into accountthe general characteristics of the River Basins based on the biological parameters;2. Define typology of the water bodies based on the Eco-regions approach of the WFD (Type-A) witha possibility of further sub-division, when possible, and the final output of full description andPage 19 of 23