Service Provider/ Consultant team (CRS)

Background

The Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) Program – Program 553 “Project for community awareness raising and community-based natural disaster risk management, with a vision to 2030” (Decision No. 553/QD-TTg dated 6 April 2021 by Prime Minister) (previously Program 1002) is considered one of the most important long-term programs in Vietnam addressing emerging needs to prepare for natural disasters. The Program indicates that there is a need for increasing school’s disaster preparedness and have effective disaster management system to ensure safety in implementation of DRR/CCA into curriculum and extracurricular interventions.

Job Details

Please refer to the attached TOR for detailed requirements.

• Deadline: 20/8/2023

Scope of work 

Pre-training activities: Before conducting the training, the trainer will carry out the following key pre-training activities including:

- Collect and review key supporting materials/information relevant to the objectives/topic of the training activity consisting of CBDRM, safe shelter and DRR integration into educational activities. - Develop the appropriate materials for the training and reference document to hand out to participants. - Collect and review key supporting materials (session plan, training PowerPoints) in order to design the program/materials for the training activity (or updating of or adjusting to the requirements/objectives of the training activity; etc...)

Conduct training courses: The logistics of the training will be conducted by the consultants. The training will be conducted in 02 days – expected at the end of August or in September 2023.

Training activities - Cooperate with CRS and its partner to develop 2-day training agenda to meet the above objectives and develop training facilitation guide using CRS provided format for the training based on developed contents and methodology. - Prepare training materials (hand-outs, text, slides, reference document, video/clips...) for distribution during the training. - Facilitate training in order to meet outcomes expectations including the lessons learnt sharing on DRR and CCA integration into educational activities at junior secondary schools. - Develop simple pre-test and post-test (no more than 1 page) - Analyze pretest, post-test and write training report in Vietnamese

Training participants: 35 individuals including: local government authority staff, NDPC staff, educational staff/teachers in charge of natural disaster prevention and controls in schools.

Training contents:

Introduce the content of the Program for community awareness raising and community- based natural disaster risk management; Roles and responsibilities of the Education and Training sector in the organization and implementation of Program 553; - Program 553’s implementation steps; - Ministry of Education and Training implement Program 553 via the DRR integration into school/educational activities; - Sharing on disaster prevention and control activities conducted in schools; - Introduction on disaster risk management, identification, and introduction on shelter risk assessment before disaster.

Requirements

Expertise of the consultants

• Having at least 10 years of service in natural disaster management or adaptation to climate change
• Having at least 3 consultancy contracts relating to disaster risk management, or climate change in Vietnam;
• Having experience in working directly with government agencies and international organizations is an advantage;
• Demonstrated experience with government agencies in policy making and/or legal institutional reform.
• Demonstrated experience in providing DRM/CCA related training.
• Having at least 3 consulting contracts related to providing training services.

Personnel qualifications

* Team Leader

• Hold a Master degree or equivalence in the fields of water resources, irrigation, disaster risk management, dyke management, natural resources and environmental management, hydro- meteorological, and/or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing tasks relating to natural disaster prevention and control, community-based disaster risk management.
• Excellent oral communication skills and the ability to deliver high quality written reports in Vietnamese.
• Demonstrable experience in producing high-quality, credible evaluations, documentation.
• Experience in designing and implementing training programs.

* Team member: 02 persons

• Having a Bachelor degree in the fields of irrigation, DRM, dyke management, water resource management, hydrometeorology, agriculture and rural development;
• Having 5 years of experience in natural disaster prevention and control in Viet Nam, including occasions working directly with natural disaster prevention and control agencies in Viet Nam;
• Demonstrated experience in implementing tasks relating to natural disaster prevention and control, community-based disaster risk management; Relevant knowledge of safe shelter is an advantage.
• Having good skills to organize seminars, events and workshops;
• Experience in training document compilation, and organization of a training of trainer course.
• The ability to communicate with diverse groups of people respectfully and effectively.
• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills, and cultural and gender sensitivity in working with local communities and a range of stakeholders.

Application Procedure

Interested parties are requested to submit the proposal in Vietnamese: Technical proposal:

• Expression of Interest (1 page maximum)
• A concise technical proposal
• A tentative work plan
• CVs demonstrating relevant capacity and experience
• Minimum 2 references for similar assignment
• Business license (if any)
• Company profile (if any)

Financial proposal:

• Propose consultant fee with a detailed breakdown of the daily rate in Vietnam dongs and including PIT/VAT
• Propose travel costs.

How to Apply

Only shortlisted applicants shall be contacted for an interview before contracting.

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