Oxfam in Laos is looking for a National or an International consultant for conducting an assessment to understand the current situation of disasters, shocks, climate change impacts and their consequences on the lives and livelihoods of the affected communities in Laos, and design a new project proposal. Objectives of the assignment are:
1) To produce an assessment report on Climate Change impact, disasters and other risks on the lives and livelihoods of the communities in Laos investigating disasters, hazards, chronic shocks, climate change risk, vulnerabilities and community and the national coping capacities.
2) To design a project proposal based on the findings of this assessment report for supporting the women, men and children of the selected provinces in Laos
3) To propose recommendations for Oxfam’s country strategy (OCS) paper for providing strategic directions on humanitarian, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation programming in coming years
Duration of the assignment: December 2014 - January, 2015 total 20 working days
Job location: Vientiane, Laos
Roles and responsibility of the consultant of design team and consultant:
i) Review secondary data: review key findings of rapid assessments, available secondary data on climate change in the Mekong countries and in Laos. Assessment documents of MoNRE, MOLSW World Bank, ADB, UNDP, Oxfam, CARE, SCI, Red Cross etc.
ii) Design data collection methodologies and tools: According to the objectives and needs of the assignment the consultant produces data collection tools, checklist and methodologies.
iii) Collect field information: Visit selected province, districts and villages. Meeting with the Province Authority, relevant departments, Disaster Prevention and Control Committee , PoNRE, district authorities, village heads and the community women, men and children,
iv) Consultation meetings: meeting with the MoNRE, MoLSW, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Red Cross, ADB, World Bank, INGOs (CARE, SCI), Mass organizations (Women Unions, Lao Red Cross) and selected NPAs.
v) Consultation meeting with Oxfam staff and other stakeholders: Following the findings from the field and various departments/ ministries and organizations, consultant facilitates a consultation meeting with Oxfam staff to get their inputs, comments and suggestions.
vi) Writing Assessment report, share and finalize: Following the discussions, the lead consultant write an assessment report, share with design team and advisory team members, CD and CLT ( Country Leadership Team) members, get their comments and inputs and finalize the assessment report
vii) Develop a concept note: consultant drafts a concept note of the project proposal, shares and receives comments and revises concept note
viii) Finalise a project proposal: following the assessment report the consultant drafts a project proposal following an agreed format includes logframe, MEL framework, risk analysis and management. Share draft proposal with the advisors and all concerns, get comments and finalyse the project proposal.
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