TA-6534 MON: Strengthening Integrated Early Warning System in Mongolia - ICS1 National Disaster Early Warning Expert and Project Coordinator (53039-002)
TA-6534 MON: Strengthening Integrated Early Warning System in Mongolia - ICS1 National Disaster Early Warning Expert and Project Coordinator (53039-002) has been closed on 01 Feb 2022.
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Description
https://www.adb.org//node/767341
The consultant will support the executing and implementing agencies in project preparation, ensure
project readiness, and avoid implementation delays after loan effectiveness.
The objectives of TA 6534-MON are to: (i) design the project, ensuring the design is suitable for ADB
financing through identifying the most appropriate
project components and providing innovative ideas, concepts, management approaches, and technology
including pilot testing to enhance project impacts;
(ii) review proposed project components based on detailed due diligence assessment of technical,
economic and financial, governance, safeguards and
poverty and social, and project risk and mitigation measures; (iii) provide training to the executing
agency, implementing agency, their project
implementing units, local design institutes, and other relevant stakeholders, to increase institutional
capacity on effective project development and
implementation; (iv) coordinate the project activity at all levels; (v) maintain high quality of project
design and reporting; (vi) maintain firmly the
schedule and project processing milestones; and (vii) prepare inputs to project documents, including
feasibility study reports, safeguard documents, and
ADB’s draft report and recommendation of the president. The project being prepared under the TA will
include components involving high level technologies which require a special technical consideration and
due diligence.
The disaster early warning expert and project coordinator will work with the executing and implementing
agencies, TA consultant team, and ADB to coordinate timely and efficient project preparation. The
consultant will provide support in refining the technical design of project components, with focus on
dzud disaster (TA output: feasibility study report and draft project design and monitoring framework).
The consultant will (i) support the executing agency in securing project readiness and day-to-day
coordination with the implementing agency, steering committee, line ministries including Ministry of
Finance, local governments, consultants, and other partners; (ii) in conjunction with the procurement
specialist, guide the executing agency through ADB project development cycle, and help meet the
requirements listed in the project administration manual; (iii) assist ADB to liaise with MOF, NEMA and
other relevant government agencies as well as other project stakeholders, as needed; (iv) ensure
representatives of both the executing agency and implementing agency and ADB are constantly kept
informed on the progress and results of the assignment as well as any potential difficulty that could
arise at any time during the assignment; (v) support the project coordination and maintain a smooth
communication channel between ADB, consultants, NEMA, and other relevant parties; (vi) assist ADB to
review all queries and submittals from the consultant’s team, (vii) provide advice, response to comments
and inputs when requested by ADB, (viii) assist in facilitating the coordination and work of the project
steering committee which is envisaged to continue during project implementation, (ix) assist in liaising
with other key stakeholders to ensure timely commencement of project implementation, and (x) liaise
effectively with the concerned Mongolian agencies; and identify and assess key issues, problems, and
remedial measures related to all aspects of project management, including procurement and contract
management
The expert should be a national of Mongolia with a degree in economics, engineering, development
planning, or equivalent, and preferably with 10 years’ experience in disaster risk management in
Mongolia under ADB or multi-lateral bank funded projects. He/she should be familiar with ADB project
cycle and domestic requirements for project approval and project implementation. The consultant should
be fluent in spoken and written English and Mongolian language.