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National Consultant for the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Support of the Risk Informed Development Report of UNDP Philippines Consulting National Consultant for the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Support of the Risk Informed Development Report of UNDP Philippines
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National Consultant for the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Support of the Risk Informed Development Report of UNDP Philippines

National Consultant for the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Support of the Risk Informed Development Report of UNDP Philippines has been closed on 06 Sep 2021. It no longer accepts any bids. For further information, you can contact the United Nations Development Programme

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Location: Philippines

General information

Donor:

United Nations Development Programme

Industry:

Consulting

Status:

Closed

Timeline

Published:

22 Aug 2021

Deadline:

06 Sep 2021

Value:

Not available

Contacts

Description

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=82287
National Consultant for the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Support of the Risk Informed Development Report of UNDP Philippines
Procurement Process :IC - Individual contractor
Office :UNDP Country Office - PHILIPPINES
Deadline :06-Sep-21
Posted on :22-Aug-21
Development Area :CONSULTANTS  CONSULTANTS
Reference Number :82287
Link to Atlas Project :
00128485 - Recovery and Resilience-building Philippines
Overview :
Background:

Project Title:  Capacity for Experience Sharing Initiative (CESI)

 

Project Description and Background

Through their Country Programme and the Regional Programme, UNDP Country Offices (COs) in Asia-Pacific have achieved significant results and have tangibly contributed to domestic development. In doing so, said COs have acquired specialized experiences and expertise.

This experience would be of direct relevance to other UNDP Offices and countries in Asia-Pacific as well as in other regions. In fact, UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP) COs have been repeatedly approached by other COs with requests for sharing of lessons learned, guidance, and oftentimes direct support through conference calls and missions. However, COs have found it difficult to respond to the growing demand due to the need to prioritize their country-level work, as well as due to their limited capacity in providing “beyond borders” support in demand.  As a result, direct experience sharing and support has been limited in scope and duration, helping, but not fully meeting the needs of the requesting Offices. This is a lost opportunity for these requesting Offices and the countries they serve—as well as for UNDP overall, as this direct horizontal sharing and support provides corporate benefits in terms of capitalization and dissemination of UNDP experience.

The RBAP “Capacity for Experience Sharing Initiative” (CESI) therefore aims to fill these gaps, through meeting CO needs in terms of supporting capacity for experience sharing, and operationalizing “Beyond Borders Country Offices” in Asia-Pacific. CESI will cover an area that is unattended to, and will not intersect with the different functions and work of the Global Policy Centers—though some of the findings may be shared with some Centers in specific thematic areas. The UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) will support and contribute to the initiative through the Regional Programme and the BRH-based Global Policy Network. However, BRH cannot be a substitute, or even an intermediary, in the direct sharing of experience from CO to CO, which is being sought, and which CESI can enable. 

The UNDP Philippines’ CO was identified for CESI support, with the focus area being Risk-Informed Development (RID). This was identified, given the CO’s broad range of experiences in the fields of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (CCA-DRR); security, peace and conflict prevention; and health and pandemic response. This enables the synthesis and application of findings from said thematic areas under the RID framework: to reduce risks and avoid risk creation in resilient and sustainable development efforts—with the understanding of multiple, concurrent threats and complex risks, trade-offs, and opportunities arising from development decisions, and acting on that knowledge.

In this regard, UNDP Philippines’ CESI project is hiring three (3) experts to conduct the consolidation and mapping of key resilience development lessons and knowledge from past and ongoing UNDP projects/ initiatives for documentation in each of the following thematic areas: (i) CCA-DRR; (ii) data-driven tools for planning; and (iii) conflict prevention and peace-building.

 

Institutional Arrangement

  • For the duration of the contract, the National Consultant will be under the direct supervision of the CESI Project Coordinator and overall supervision of the UNDP Programme Unit Team Leaders for Climate Action Programme Team (CAPT) and Institutions and Partnerships (I&P).
  • The consultant will also be provided guidance, as necessary, by the RID expert.

 

Duration of Work

  • The expected duration of work is thirty (30) working days spread over 2 months, from 1 September 2021 to 31 October 2021.
  • The UNDP CO will review and give comments on outputs maximum of four (4) working days after output presentation (or submission if presentation is not necessary).

 

Duty Station

Duty Station: Home-based

The Consultant is expected to work remotely and provide their own laptop, work space, internet connection for the work requirement. In light of the CoVID-19 pandemic and declaration of State of Public Health Emergency in the Philippines, all work and travel of the Individual consultant shall be done within the guidelines and protocols set by the local and national government and in compliance with community quarantine policies.

No field work/ duty travel is expected. Regular reporting will be done through virtual means.

 

Scope of Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments

The financial proposals from possible candidates should be expressed in lump sum amount inclusive of all financial costs related to this engagement (i.e. professional fees X number of working days, communications including internet).

Medical/health insurance must be purchased by the Individual at his/her own expense, and upon award of contract, the Contractor must be ready to submit proof of insurance valid during contract duration.

The Payment terms are as follows:

Percentage

Description

Deadline

20%

Upon submission and acceptance of:

  • Inception Report
  • Unified Reporting Template

Within 2 weeks from start of contract

40%

Upon submission and acceptance of:

  • Draft MARL Report
  • Initial Database of codified RID Lessons Learned
  • Progress Report on Support to RID and KMS

Within 3-5 weeks from previous tranche

40%

Upon submission and acceptance of:

  • Final MARL Report
  • Final Database of codified RID Lessons Learned

Within 1-3 week from previous tranche

 

Description of Responsibilities :

Scope of Work

The Project will hire three (3) experts as National Consultants, that will work on respective thematic areas, namely CCA-DRR, conflict prevention and peace-building, and data-driven tools for planning -related initiatives. These will be done under the overall guidance of their corresponding programme units that implement initiatives under these thematic areas respectively.

Each of these experts will produce a respective Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons (MARL) report, which will serve as the primary resource in the development of a UNDP CO Risk-Informed Development (RID) report. Said RID report synthesizes consolidated findings and packages them under the RID framework. The results of which will later on feed into the Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS) system, to be developed under the project, that will serve to support direct UNDP CO to CO sharing of relevant experience.

For this work, the National Consultant will be covering the thematic area of CCA-DRR. Specifically, the set of services required by the project is covered under the following five (5) objectives:

  1. To develop, in coordination with the two (2) other MARL experts, a unified or harmonized framework or reporting template, umbrella methodology, and codification scheme for documenting lessons learned, which will be prescribed to in all three reports;
  2. To conduct a rapid scoping of information, operationalizing the agreed upon methodology, which will serve to consolidate and map key resilience development lessons from past and ongoing UNDP projects/ initiatives, covering the National Consultant’s assigned thematic area—systemic risks/ failures will be reflected on, and best practices (direct or indirectly brought about by the projects/ initiatives) will be codified;
  3. To analyze and organize information in their respective thematic area reports, prescribing to the unified or harmonized framework, highlighting instances wherein Risk-Informed Development (RID) approach was implemented;
  4. To provide support, as needed by the Risk-Informed Development (RID) expert, in the development of the UNDP CO RID report, generating additional supporting data, information, and analyses, among others, as co-identified with the RID expert;
  5. To turn-over their respective MARL reports and corresponding supporting database, which includes the codified lessons learned, to: (i) the RID expert; and (ii) IKM specialist developing the UNDP CO KMS system;

 

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

The main outputs of this consultancy will be:

  1. A report on the Mapping and Analysis of Key Resilience Development Lessons (MARL) in Support of the Risk-Informed Development (RID) Report; and
  2. Database of synthesized lessons learned, prescribing to the agreed-upon standard codification scheme.

Deliverable/Output

Estimated Duration to Complete

Target Due Dates

Review and Approvals Required

Inception Report (IR). The IR shall contain a proposed strategic framework for implementation towards the completion of the MARL report, covering the expert’s assigned thematic area. It will include a workplan indicating specific activities and corresponding timelines.

Unified Reporting Template. The IR will be developed in coordination with the two (2) other MARL experts, and will include as annex a unified or harmonized framework or reporting template, umbrella methodology, and codification scheme for documenting lessons learned, which will be prescribed to by all three reports.

10 working days

Within 2 weeks from start of contract

Programme Unit Team Leader-CAPT

 

Programme Unit Team Leader-I&P

 

Project Coordinator

Draft of the MARL Report. This report should cover addressing objectives nos. 2 and 3 under Section C: Scope of Work.

Initial Database of codified RID Lessons Learned. As annex to the MARL report, the populated database based on the agreed upon coding scheme shall be developed.

Progress Report on Support to RID and KMS. A separate report documenting the assistance provided to the RID expert and IKM specialist shall be generated. It will also indicate the expected remaining work to be done and requirements towards a full turnover of outputs.

15 working days

Within 3-5 weeks from previous tranche

Final MARL Report. This should be the completed report incorporating final comments.

Final Database of codified RID Lessons Learned. This should be the completed database of lessons learned, in the form acceptable to the RID expert and for use by the KMS system. The database shall be supplemented by a file inventory (e.g., MS Excel, or similar tools) for ease of navigation.

5 working days

Within 1-3 week from previous tranche

TOTAL

30 working days

 

 

 

Competencies :

Corporate competencies

  • Must have strong leadership and project management skills
  • Must have an extensive background and understanding of the Philippine DRR, recovery, and resilience policies, programmes, and activities
  • Must be detail-oriented
  • Has excellent analytic skills especially in understanding complex information to produce evidence-based comparisons and conclusions.
  • Excellent written and spoken English is required.
  • Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN's values and ethical standards;
  • Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity and adaptability;
  • Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Functional and technical competencies

  • Ability to work in a diverse and multi-cultural environment;
  • Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure and to meet strict and competing deadlines;
  • Displays analytical judgment and demonstrated ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner;
  • Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities

 

Qualifications :

Offers will be evaluated based on the combined scoring method :

  • Technical qualifications = 70%
  • Financial Proposal = 30%

For the evaluation of the Technical Proposal, the selection of the successful consultant must be based on the following qualifications (with the appropriate obtainable points).

Qualification

Points Obtainable (70 points)

Education

At least a bachelor’s degree in disaster risk reduction, climate change studies, environmental science, land-use mapping, or other relevant degrees, with preference to those with relevant certifications or training.

(11 points for Bachelor’s degree, 13 points for Master’s; 15 points for Ph.D;  additional point for each additional degree/ certification relevant to the work; maximum of 15 points)

15 points

Experience

At least five (5) years previous work experience on climate change adaptation and/or disaster risk reduction, risk management, land use planning, and other related fields, with a focus on addressing multiple, concurrent threats and complex risks, trade-offs, and opportunities arising from development decisions, and acting on that knowledge.

(14 points for 5 years’ experience, additional point for each additional year; additional 5 points if work covers addressing multiple-concurrent threats and complex risks;  maximum of 20 points)

20 points

At least three (3) years previous work experience in international development, with a preference to experience working with the UN system.

(11 points for 3 years’ experience, additional point for each additional yea;, additional 3 points if previous work is within the UN system; maximum of 15 points)

15 points

Completed a minimum of one (1) qualified/ comparable project on mapping of development lessons learned, risk-informed development, and/or related initiatives.

(14 points for one completed project, an additional point for each completed project; maximum of 20 points)

20 points

TOTAL

70 points

Only applications that will obtain a minimum of 50 out of 70 obtainable points will be qualified for the financial evaluation.

 

Recommended Presentation of Offer

Interested applicants must submit the following documents/information at https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=101414 to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload of a maximum of one document.

  1. Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP;
  2. UNDP Personal History Form (P11) or Curriculum Vitae (following the template attached) indicating all past experiences from similar projects or requirements, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references;
  3. Financial Proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided, and clearly stating the payment percentage as indicated in this TOR. If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP.

Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document.

 

Interested applicants to note that personal Medical/health insurance (to be purchased by the individual at his/her own expense) is mandatory for the issuance of contracts. Upon award of the contract, the consultant must be ready to submit proof of insurance valid during the contract duration.

The following templates / Annexes and IC General Terms & Conditions can be downloaded from?http://gofile.me/6xdJm/bE9TCw8fU:

  • General Terms and Conditions for Individual Contract
  • Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability
  • P-11 form

 

In view of the volume of applications, UNDP receives, only shortlisted offerors will be notified.

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