General Information
Activity
Consultant for designing, planning, organizing, and delivering 5 days Training of Trainers (TOT) on earthquake, tsunami and coastal hazard preparedness for Project staff.
The consultant will be provided support from IFRC regional office to develop material and impart training (remotely)
Project Title
Strengthening tsunami and earthquake preparedness in coastal areas of Pakistan project in Sindh and Baluchistan.
Location
Islamabad, Pakistan however travel to project areas including Karachi (Sindh) and Gwadar (Baluchistan), Pakistan
Duration
45 working days
Timeframe
Sep 2020- 15th October 2020
Reporting To
Senior Manager Grants and Partnership, IFRC country office (CO) Pakistan.
Doted line: PM UNDP PRCS
1. IFRC
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, with 192 member National Societies, 160,000 branches and 17 million volunteers. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, our work is guided by seven fundamental principles; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian network, reaching 150 million people each year through its 192-membership of National Societies. The Organization acts before, during and after disasters, crises and health emergences in order to meet the needs and build the resilience of vulnerable people.
2. PRCS
The Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) is the leading humanitarian organization of Pakistan, founded in 1947, with the mission “To alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable population by mobilizing the power of humanity.” Its vision is “To be the leading humanitarian organization of Pakistan, which is dynamic, self-reliant and committed to preventing and alleviating human sufferings at the national and international level, while acting in compliance with fundamental principles and humanitarian values of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.” PRCS is auxiliary to the government, and its core areas of working are: 1) Disaster Management, 2) Healthy and Safe Living, 3) Youth and Volunteering and 4) Organizational Development. PRCS operates through 90 district branch offices across the country, with technical staff at district, provincial and national level, and 1.8 million volunteers at community level.
3. Purpose of the assignment with brief background:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has signed global Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in which both parties indicated to cooperate in areas of mutual conern the effectiveness of their development efforts. In particular, the work of UNDP supporting governments-with its vision “To help countries achieve the simultaneous eradication of poverty and significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion”- share a wide range of common objectives with IFRC in reducing vulnerabilities and building resilience of communities. The IFRC’s work includes developing its National Societies’ capacity to enhance their role as auxiliary to public authorities. The MoU also seeks to increase UNDP and IFRC cooperaion at all levels, including at the headquarters and regional and within countries at the national and local levels.
PRCS and UNDP Pakistan has entered into partnership and signed a bilateral agreement with technical support of IFRC Pakistan. During the IFRC Pakistan engagement with UNDP Pakistan, a partnership has been developed between UNDP and PRCS with the purpose to strengthen PRCS. According to the letter of agreement that PRCS shall be fully responsible with respect to implementation of project interventions with assurance of meeting regulations and compliance matter of the Project titled “Strengthening Tsunami and earthquake resilience project in coastal areas of Sindh and Baluchistan Pakistan. Whereas IFRC role remains to provide technical support for quality assurance and standardisation of the project delivery. One of the areas of working together is to work with UNDP for the Government of Japan funded project ‘Strengthening Tsunami and Earthquake Preparedness Coastal Areas’. The areas of partnership are project outputs and interventions related to DRM institutional strengthening at local level, enhanced resilience of coastal communities through structural and non- structural tsunami risk mitigation activities. PRCS is the responsible party to implement the project to achieve stipulated results. Whereas IFRC role remains to quality assurance and standardisation of the project delivery.
3.1 Project Objective
The main objective of the project is to undertake community based disaster risk management (CBDRM) activities in the project districts and build resilience of communities against tsunami and earthquake through formulation of village disaster management committees, capacity enhancement in emergency response, strengthening of EWS and raising awareness & education.
3.2 Output: Enhanced resilience of coastal communities to coastal hazards and expansion of livelihood opportunities (with a focus on most vulnerable, women and children, people with disabilities).
a) Activity .1: Establish village Disaster Risk Management committees and train 30 youth groups for promoting resilience among communities through sessions, drills and simulations to help maritime communities better prepare for, respond to, and recover from earthquake and tsunamis.
b) Activity .2: Production of educational and outreach material and 10 Training of Trainers in earthquake, tsunami & coastal hazard preparedness for educational institutions and community volunteers.
c) Activity .3: Develop 10 preparedness, mitigation, and response plans to help maritime district/ sub district level administration (the lowest governance structure) and communities be more resilient to tsunami hazards.
d) Activity .4: Communities and school safety, preparedness and evacuation plan with periodic drills (75 schools and 15 health facilities).
3.3 Project Deliverables
a. Inception report with detailed work plan and implementation strategy.
b. Detail community mobilization and formulation of village DMCs, TOT of youth groups, simulation drills.
c. Educational and outreach material and TOTs on tsunami and coastal hazard preparedness, community and school safety preparedness and evacuation plans.
d. Submission of 10 mitigation & response plans and submission of final completion report
e. Economic Empowerment through Livelihood Improvement
f. Identification of safe heavens & feasibilities for safe heavens construction
4. Consultancy Methodology
The consultant will be based in Islamabad with occasionally field visit to project sites i.e. Karachi and Gwadar. The IFRC CO focal point for Tsunami project will regularly stay in contact with the consultant and update him/her about his/her availability requirements to be in the office or remotely working from home. The consultant will review all available material on the Tsunami, and earthquake preparedness available at UNDP, PRCS, IFRC Asia Pacific Regional Office, IFRC CO, NIDM and NED university. A desktop research will be practised to get and consolidate the info on Tsunami, and earthquake, material available to include in the Training of Trainers module for 5 days for 25-30 participants. The module contents will be developed in close consultation with PRCS project team, and IFRC APRO & CO team. The consultant will also collaborate with relevant stakeholders to develop training material and prepare draft manual of the training. The manual will be reviewed by experts of PRCS, UNDP and IFRC to get it approved. The consultant will be provided with international support to develop TOT material and imparting some session (remotely).
S/He will be primarily responsible for delivering of training of trainers on the module at Karachi. The expected participants will be Tsunami project including IFRC, PRCS staff responsible for the project delivery. The training of trainers will be organized while adhering to strictly abide by standard operating procedures (SOPs) issued by government of Pakistan, WHO and IFRC pertaining to COVID-19 guidelines. In case face to face event is not preferred then solutions will be sought to arrange online/remote training of trainers, for which PRCS and IFRC will make necessary arrangements.
5. Key Activities, Outputs and Deliverables
Training Objective
Phase/activity
Deliverable
Description
Time frame
Designing of ToT module & content development while in close coordination with UNDP, PRCS and IFRC.
The consultant will be provided with international support to develop TOT material and imparting some session (remotely)
The inception Report
Development of TOT module for 5 days training on Tsunami, flood and earthquake
Actual Conducting/Facilitating ToT along with International/Regional Trainer(Remotely) . Printing of module will be done while engaging IFRC admin department.
Training Report with approval
While working with PRCS focal point, to coordinate and consultation with National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM[i]), NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi[ii], UNDP, PRCS and IFRC.
Engaging IFRC regional office Kuala Lumpur and Climate centre to bring knowledge & expertise pertaining to Tsunami preparedness.
How to apply:
To apply, please forward your CV along with proposal to jobs.pakistan@ifrc.org, for detailed TORs please visit https://sites.google.com/site/downloadforjobs/home
Please mention the position applying for in subject field of the email, otherwise your application may not be considered. Deadline for submission of applications is 31 August 2020. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.