Resilience Consultancy - Head Office

NORCAP is the Norwegian Refugee Council’s expert deployment capacity. We aim to improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. We do this by bringing actors together and by sending experts to the UN and to national, regional and international organisations and institutions.

Background:

The humanitarian system is increasingly overwhelmed by escalating humanitarian needs and complexity. Climate change and more frequent extreme weather events causes additional pressure on vulnerable countries, the humanitarian system and funding mechanisms. There is wide agreement that investing in building resilience is key to addressing these challenges.

In order to fulfil parts of NORCAPs mandate to “provide support during all phases of a crisis, from prevention and early warning, to monitoring, reconstruction, conflict resolution, sustainable development and democratic governance”, NORCAP has placed disaster risk reduction  and climate change adaptation as  central components of its work to contribute to resilience building.

NORCAP applies the following definition of resilience: “The process of strengthening people’s, communities’ and countries’ capacity to anticipate, prevent, manage and recover from crises such as natural disasters and conflicts”.

NORCAP is contributing to strengthening the capacity of national authorities and regional institutions to build resilience – directly or through UN agencies - by providing senior advisory support through expert deployments within disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. In response to the increasing partner needs for expertise within resilience building the NORCAP roster is constantly developing in fields of disaster risk management, meteorology, hydrology, agriculture and food security, climate change adaptation, coordination and governance.

NORCAP is experiencing a continuous demand for these experts and needs to expand its funding base in order to meet this demand.

Overall objective:

Develop a coherent and comprehensive approach to NORCAPs resilience building activities with a view of approaching key donors with requests for annual and/or multi-year funding.      

Specific objectives:

1. Review of previous and existing background documents, concept notes and project documents concerning resilience, including DRR/M, agriculture/food security and climate change adaptation. This may also include end-of-deployment reports.

2. Map donor priorities and international trends within resilience building, including an assessment of opportunities based on donor-specific information and NORCAPs comparative advantage in the field.

3. Based on existing background documents and discussions with representatives from key partners, roster members and key advisors in NORCAP, develop a generic Resilience Concept Note.

    

Deliverables:

• A review report, highlighting main findings and recommendations.

• A preliminary donor mapping related to resilience opportunities.

• A comprehensive Resilience Concept which can be disseminated to key donors.

The consultant will keep a close dialogue with the Project Manager Climate and Resilience. When the review report is ready, the focus of the other deliverables will be further elaborated and defined.

Please send application with CV  to Astrid Tveteraas, Project manager Climate and Resilience, astrid.tveteraas@nrc.no. Deadline for submission February 24th^h.