UNDP Jobs - 79770- Consultant –Post Disaster Needs Assessment in Camb

Consultant –Post Disaster Needs Assessment in Cambodia

Location :

Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

02-Jul-2018

Application Deadline :

16-Jul-18 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

84 working days total from August to November 2018

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

84 working days total from August to November 2018

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

The United Nations Development Group (UNDG), the European Union (EU) and the World Bank (WB) signed a joint declaration in 2008 on Post-Crisis Assessments and Recovery Planning committing their organizations to collaborate and harmonize post-crisis frameworks to support post-disaster needs assessments and recovery planning. The outcome of the agreement was the establishment of the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) procedural and technical guidelines and the Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF) guide; officially launched at the Sendai Third World Conference on DRR on 14 March 2015.

The development of the PDNA and DRF guides represents a unique outcome towards a harmonized and standardized approach in Government-led efforts to estimate the needs for recovery after disastrous events and to plan and implement recovery strategies to help rebuild the physical, social and human capital of disaster affected communities.

The PDNA guidelines state that “The PDNA is a government-led and government-owned process carried out with the participation of national and international agencies. The National Government’s leadership of the exercise is critical to a successful assessment. It is therefore recommended that the Government conveys its commitment to undertake the PDNA at the appropriate level and provides the requisite support.” under Cambodia’s Law for Disaster Management, National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) as the ‘headquarters of the Royal Government is to lead, administer and coordinate all disaster management activities.’ (Article 6). Utilizing the above structure, NCDM is to conduct disaster risk assessments of development activities (Article 14), coordinate all disaster management activities (Article 15), issue guidelines for conducting risk assessments (Article 16), lead and coordinate post-disaster damage, loss and recovery needs assessments and develop the recovery plans and programs for the Royal Government of Cambodia (Article 27).

Duties and Responsibilities

The selected consultant is to assist NCDM and UNDP in implementing PDNA-related activities set out in the Deliverables Section.

(1) Inception report with detail work plan produced

(2) Review of post-disaster needs practices in Cambodia, including analysis of existing tools and methodologies at provincial level (output in English)

(3) Adopting (from the global guidelines) the PDNA and DRF sectoral guidelines and translation to local language (output in English and Khmer).

Agriculture
Housing
Community Infrastructure
Health
Education

(4) Development of tools for data collection of each sector for PDNA (output in English and Khmer).

Agriculture
Housing
Community Infrastructure
Health
Education

(5) Development of templates for conducting the needs assessments in each selected sector (output in English and Khmer):

Agriculture
Housing
Community Infrastructure
Health
Education

(6) Development of a set of training package for NCDM’s future use in rollout of the PDNA beyond the initial six target provinces (output in English and Khmer).

(7) Development of a set of Standard Operating Procedures for conducting a PDNA in Cambodia (English).

(8) Assisting in delivering the training at the provincial level in Kampong Cham and Siem Reap (training to be delivered in Khmer and English). The consultant will act as a presenter / resource person in the training, together with representatives from NCDM and UNDP

Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=47657 for more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

Competencies

Time management (in managing deliverables);
Well communicated
Team management;
Professionalism, courtesy, patience;
Outstanding inter-cultural communication, networking and coordination skills.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s degree in Development Study, Economics, Environmental Science, Earth Science, Political Science or any other development-related field.

Professional Experience:

Substantial relevant experiences (minimum 5 years) in Disaster Risk Management in Cambodia.
A minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience in Post Disaster Needs Assessment in Cambodia
Direct experiences working with NCDM on related disaster management activities in Cambodia would be preferred.
Experiences in providing capacity building training on DRR to national and sub-national levels
Experience in working with other government agencies/ entities in Cambodia, NGO’s or UNDP would be an added value.

Language Requirement:

Fluency of English language and Khmer is essential.

Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=47657 for more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email procurement.kh@undp.org. While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.