UNEP DELC - Implementing Recommendations of the MEA IKM Initiative and further developing InforMEA

Background: The MEA IKM initiative, which brings together 13 Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) Secretariats representing 17 global and one regional instrument(s) has implemented its first project "InforMEA". InforMEA organises MEA decisions and resolutions, national focal points, and news and events around a set of agreed terms. UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC) strives to implement this tool with national and international case law, national legislation, UNGA and GC decisions, global environmental goals and e-courses also linked to the set of terms behind InforMEA. Objective: UNON, on behalf of UNEP, seeks qualified firms to develop an Integrated Environmental Law and Governance Portal (IEG Tools Portal) which draws information from InforMEA (www.informea.org), Ecolex (www.ecolex.org), the judicial portal developed under the aegis of the Supreme Court of Brazil, as well as from UNEP Data and the Global Environmental Goals (GEGs) as established through a multi-governmental process under the auspices of UNEP. Activities shall include: 1. Implement the IEG Tools portal based on the structure and wireframes from the two annexes (Annex 1 - Overall Architecture of the IEG Tools Site and Annex 2 – IEG Tools wireframes); 2. Develop the Global Environmental Goals portal (subsection of the IEG Tools portal) a. Setup a Content Management System for the GEG Portal; b. Design and implement the GEG website new interface, its design and branding, consistent with UNEP branding but different from InforMEA; c. Prepare automatic harvesting and update of the InforMEA decisions, treaties and controlled vocabulary into the GEGs database; d. Specific requirements for the International cases of Environmental Law – database structure: title, court, year, adversary parties – plaintiff and defendant who are individuals, countries or companies, location of the incident, damage, resource (country), etc, with whole text available including such data types as are relating to one or more countries and MEAs; e. Investigate if the data can be automatically harvested through Web services from the original sources (e.g. InforMEA) or directly provided in SQL format (e.g. ecolex.org) and adapted to the GEG database structure; f. Build administrative forms in the CMS for extracting text portions from the International cases of Environmental Law and tagging them with terms from the controlled vocabulary; g. It should also be possible to add cases manually through the CMS administration area. It needs to be possible to input whole judgements and/or portions of those and to extract clippings to tag to the terms; h. Implement term search capability across MEA treaties and decisions with the addition of UNGA resolutions pertaining to the Environment as well as UNEP GC decisions, including: i. Adjustments to the database structure to include UNGA and GC decisions (format like decisions) ii. Additions to the administrative forms to insert UNGA and UNEP Governing Council Decisions iii. Additions to the administrative forms to also provide the means to insert and tag these decisions i. Prepare the search function for GEG portal, with results pointing to the original source of information (e.g. ecolex.org website);