Climate Impact Expert – Disaster Risk

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT SELECTION)

Thailand

Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South Asia (CARE) Project

Loan No./ Credit No./ Grant No.: IDA-D6220

Assignment Title: Individual Consultant – Climate Impact Expert – Disaster Risk

Management – Nepal

Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan TH-RIMES-381229-CS-INDV)

The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) has received/has applied for financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South Asia (CARE) Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services (the Services) include an individual consultant – Climate Impact Expert – Disaster Risk Management – Nepal who is to support the CARE Component 1 Nepal Team in customizing the Multi-Hazard Early Warning DSS of the NDRRMA, to respond to stakeholders’ requirements.

The Terms of Reference (TOR) for the primary procurement stage for the assignment are attached to this request for expressions of interest or can be found at the following website: www.rimes.int or via the address given below.

The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES)

2nd Floor, Outreach Building,

Asian Institute of Technology Campus,

Klong Nung, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120

Thailand

The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) now invites eligible individual consultant (Consultants) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide CV demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are:

Certification and Knowledge:

• At least Master’s Degree in Environmental Science, Climate Science, Disaster Preparedness, or a related field
• Knowledge of modelling of weather/climate events and their impacts; knowledge of landslide/flood impacts modeling is preferred
• Knowledge of climate risk management/reduction concerns in Nepal, including vulnerabilities and coping mechanisms vis-à-vis climate hazards/disasters, climate-resilient policies, and others relevant

Experience:

• At least 15 years of experience in research on weather/climate impacts; experience in modelling of short-range weather/climate impacts, including modeling of impacts of secondary hazards like landslide, flood, and others, is an advantage
• Preference will be given to candidates with at least 3 years of experience in working with government and/or development institutions in Nepal in providing operational/development planning guidance in weather/climate-informed planning and decision-making in disaster risk management/reduction
• Operational experience with communities/sub-national institutions in Nepal, in disaster risk management/reduction, is desired
• Publications on weather/climate impacts research is an advantage

Skills and abilities:

• Demonstrable ability to digest complex technical information and convey them in easy-to-understand forms to a variety of stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal command of Nepali and English languages

Personal qualities:

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; demonstrated ability to plan and organize work independently; excellent interpersonal and communication skills; high commitment to responsibility and work quality; ability to work effectively and efficiently independently and/or within a multi-cultural team; openness/receptiveness to critique for enhancing work and outputs.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the individual consultants method set out in the Procurement Regulations and to be specifically set out in the Request for Expressions of Interest (REoI).

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 08:00 to 17:00 hours Bangkok Standard Time.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by fax, or by e-mail) by December 19, 2023.

The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES)

Attn: Dusadee Padungkul, Head, Operational Support Department

2nd Floor, Outreach Building, Asian Institute of Technology Campus,

Klong Nung, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand

Tel: +66 (0) 2516 0120

Fax: +66 (0) 2516 5762

E-mail: rimesprocurement@rimes.int

Click on the link below for TOR:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MXwCf8O1kN7DE1ovkERHRdHe8DF19Rl1/view