Background

NOTE: Signed Offeror’s Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability - http://www.ba.undp.org/content/dam/bosnia_and_herzegovina/docs/Operations/Jobs/Offerors%20Letter%20to%20UNDP%20Confirming%20Interest%20and%20Availability.docx Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability.docx - to be sent to e-mail: ba.shared.hr@undp.org with Subject: Job ID 86728

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been facing several significant extreme climate and weather events, manifested through more frequent occurrence of disasters. The lack of interest for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the country, resulted in creation of additional disaster risks and low capacities of citizens and systems to understand and address disaster risks. Some improvements in DRR are evident, yet, to date the country failed to introduce identified critical changes of the system and behavior of citizens. Given the climate change projections, the country can expect an increase in the frequency, unpredictability and intensity of flooding, drought, heatwaves and wildfires. This can have an immensely adverse effect on the lives and livelihoods of people if adequate actions fail to be taken.

Currently, there is a dysbalanced focus on higher-level DRR governance structures, compared with those of local governments. This is the main cause for lack of important community DRR initiatives that proved to be most effective means of empowering citizens, including vulnerable categories, and transforming them from disaster victims and creators of disasters to agents of change. It is evident that a true opportunity to decrease disaster risks in BiH lies in investing and increasing resilience of local communities. In this context, aim of the Joint Swiss-UN Programme “Reducing Disaster Risk for Sustainable Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina”  is to address key priorities in DRR identified by local authorities and various actors in the sectors of protection and rescue, education, social and child protection, health and agriculture. The Programme will work with 10 municipalities on improving local coordination mechanisms in the area of DRR, as well as on affirmation of the strategic risk planning processes and implementation of identified actions with an emphasis on the most vulnerable categories of population.

Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, Disaster Risk Assessment - GIS Expert, is to prepare detailed inventory of the elements exposed to flood and landslide hazard for municipalities of Sanski Most, Bihac, Tomislavgrad, Capljina and Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Inventory should include the identification and valuation of the building stock, infrastructure, and population exposed to the flood and landslide hazards. The inventory may also contain data for essential facilities, high potential loss facilities, selected transportation and lifeline systems, demographics and agriculture. The actual content of the inventory may vary according to the study area under consideration. The Inventory should be prepared in GIS (Geographic Information System) as a shape file for its integration into Disaster Risk Analysis System (DRAS)[1].

Example of Inventory of elements at risk with weight factors

[1] DRAS https://dras.undp.ba/

Duties and Responsibilities

The inventory of the elements exposed to flood and landslide hazard is used to calculate flood and landslide risks.

The inventory should describe the categories used to classify the various elements at risk (e.g., the building stock should include categories such as residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, religious, government, infrastructure, roads and education buildings).
In other words, attributes describing the elements at risk provide information to allow estimation of potential damage to selected set of landslide and flood parameters (depth and/or velocity).

The inventory shall include, at least:

• Demographic data;
• Buildings classified by model type and occupancy, type of economic activity;
• Essential facilities;
• Lifeline utility systems.

Deliverables:

The consultant will be entrusted with the following tasks:

• Carry out a review of the available information to obtain a detailed identification and classification of the elements at risk;
• Carry out a review of existing data on the elements at risk (quality, accuracy and suitability for the project). Identify gaps regarding mapping of elements at and/or their description;
• Prepare the inventory of the elements at risk, including the description of the attributes selected to perform the vulnerability analysis;
• Collect all the data and new information that may be required prepare the inventory of elements at risk;
• Produce GIS database describing the inventory of the elements at risk for the municipalities of Bihac, Sanski Most, Tomislavgrad, Capljina and Mostar.
• Example of GIS database will be given to the selected consultant and the produced GIS database has to be done in exactly the same way.

The duration of this task is estimated to be 50 working days within 4 months.

Deliverables/outputs
The consultant is expected to provide the following deliverables and services:

Competencies

Corporate competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Plans, prioritizes and delivers tasks on time;
• Strives for and promotes excellence in performance continually;
• Participates effectively in a team-based, information-sharing environment, collaborating and cooperating with others;

Functional competencies:

• Strong interpersonal skills, communication and diplomatic skills, ability to work in a team
• Openness to change and ability to receive/integrate feedback
• Recognizes and responds appropriately to the ideas, interests, and concerns of others;
• Builds trust and engenders morale by displaying open, transparent and credible behaviour;
• Respects individual/cultural differences; utilizes diversity to foster teamwork;
• Ensures others’ understanding of, involvement in, and adaptation to a change process.
• Communicates sensitively and effectively across different constituencies;
• Ability to work as a member of a team as well as work autonomously.
• Plans and procedures quality results to meet established goals.
• Technical writing skills, formulates written information clearly and persuasively;
• Strong communication skills;
• Presents information in a clear and articulate manner.
• Strong analytical skills;
• Knowledge and experience on disaster risk assessments and risk management;

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualifications/Education:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in in information systems, Geo-informatics, GIS, IT or related fields.

Experience:

• At least 3 years of professional experience in design and management of spatial database management systems, including programming skills;
• Relevant experience in using proprietary and open source GIS programs such as ArcGis desktop, ERDAS, Mapinfo, QGIS, GvSig, etc;
• Experience in implementing Web map services and metadata catalogues applying OGC and Inspire standards is an asset. Working knowledge of GeoNetwork Open source and Geoserver is an asset;

Languages Requirements:

• Fluency in spoken and written B/H/S language and working knowledge of the English language is a requirement.

Other Requirements:

• Experience in hazard and risk assessment is an asset;
• Experience in working with international organizations in the region is an asset;
• Ability to work under pressure in a multi-cultural environment on a wide range of tasks and deliver quality results on time;
• Ability to identify issues, and analyse and participate in the resolution of issues/problems;

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 point would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

Long/Shortlisting Criteria

Technical Evaluation Criteria

EVALUATION

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology:

Cumulative analysis

When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
a) responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
b) Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

• * Technical Criteria weight-70%
• * Financial Criteria weight- 30%

Applicants are required to submit an application including:

• Proposal:

  • Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work; or sample of previous document/strategy/paper done by the consultant.

• Latest personal CV, including past experience from similar projects, and email, telephone and any other contact details for references;

Please scan all above mentioned documents and upload as one attachment only online through this website.

Note:

• For an assignment requiring travel, consultants of 65 years or more require full medical examination and statement of fitness to work to engage in the consultancy.
• Due to large number of potential applicants, only competitively selected candidates will be contacted for remaining steps of the service procurement process.