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National Consultant for Drought Study of Cambodia

Phnom Penh

  • Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Location: Phnom Penh
  • Grade: Consultancy - National Consultant - Locally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Disaster Management (Preparedness, Resilience, Response and Recovery)
    • Crisis Response
    • Scientist and Researcher
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background

Cambodia is facing mounting development challenges due to climate change.  The observed longer dry seasons and shorter, more intense rainy seasons have become a common observation in Cambodia. In addition, climate change exacerbates the frequency and severity of natural hazards (such as floods and droughts), as well as impacts the agricultural production which is dependent on seasonal rainfall.  Recovery from such events puts strain on the least developed country’s limited resources and forces shifts in development priorities - hindering Cambodia’s ability to progress and to achieve its development goals.

The Early Warning System (EWS) is one of the priorities of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (RGC). The purpose of an EWS is to monitor climate and environmental data on a real-time basis, detect adverse trends and conduct reliable predictions of possible impacts in the form of early warning information.  An early warning therefore refers not only to advisories in emergency situations, but also to information related to the changing climatic trends revealed after tracking and analysing climate and weather data over time.  An effective EWS would thus enable timely response to natural hazards and extreme weather events, to support the implementation of the risk-informed development.

The project “Strengthening climate information and early warning systems in Cambodia to support climate resilient development and adaptation to climate change” (henceforth “the EWS project”) is being implemented to assist the Government in achieving the early warning system gaps and challenges in the country. The project seeks to address the current barriers through three complementary outcomes:

  1. Increased institutional capacity to assimilate and forecast weather, hydrological, climate and environmental information.

  2. Climate and weather information available and utilized for national, sectoral and sub-national planning as well as for transboundary communication in the region.

  3. Strengthened institutional capacity to operate and maintain EWS and climate information infrastructure, both software and hardware, to monitor weather and climate change.

To meet the above three outcomes, the project ensures and increases the availability of hydrological and meteorological data through installation of automatic weather and hydro stations in Cambodia for climate analysis. Various application of climate analysis is also implemented, including implementation of climate change adaptation through local-level drought mitigation.

Duties and Responsibilities

The main objective of this assignment is to conduct a national drought study of Cambodia and develop a nationally adopted drought indicators in Cambodia, integrating global academic literatures on drought and technical reports on drought in Cambodia.

Specifically, this assignment shall also include the localization of existing regional drought platform and validation of the information from the regional drought platform with the available data from Cambodia.

A concrete output of the assignment is a technical document detailing the drought analysis in Cambodia, including historical drought in the country and their indicators; detailing the aspects specified below:

  1. Commissioning a detailed desk study of drought theory and indicators, yielding to drought indicators review for Cambodia.

  2. Commissioning a drought risk assessment in Cambodia including identified drought risk provinces / areas in Cambodia and updating the existing drought risk map in Cambodia

  3. Commissioning a detail analysis of historical drought in Cambodia, supported by their indicators and its impacts to the Cambodia’s population and livelihood. 

  4. Providing recommendations for drought early warning design in Cambodia.

  5. Conducting drought model validation report of an identified regional drought platform

  6. Incorporating the comments from the relevant / identified stakeholders of the deliverables and updating the draft based on the comments

  7. Presentation of findings to the stakeholders (two sessions; to be organized by UNDP Cambodia)

Competencies

  • Time management (in managing deliverables);

  • Team management;

  • Professionalism, courtesy, patience;

  • Outstanding inter-cultural communication, networking and coordination skills.

Required Skills and Experience

Education: Advanced University Degree in Environmental / Earth Science. Advanced University Degree Masters / PhD on drought risk management on Cambodia context is highly desirable.

Experience:

  • Substantial relevant experiences on applied research on drought risk management.

  • A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience working on drought risk management or drought risk study.

  • Working experiences in Cambodia on drought study.

  • Experience in working with reputable research organization (internationally and nationally), government agencies, NGO’s or United Nations in carrying out the similar assignment would be an added value.

Language Requirement:

  • Excellent written and oral English.

  • Proficiency in Khmer.

Interested Offerors must visit this link http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=56722 to download Individual Consultant Procurement Notice, Terms of Reference, and Document Templates to be included when submitting this online application.

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email aphikovith.phin@undp.org and cc procurement.kh@undp.org . While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.

 
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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