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.