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FrançaisTo systematically and comprehensively assess existing drought management and establish an integrated drought management strategy, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) with capacity development technical assistance (TA) for the Strategy for Drought Management. The key recommendation of this TA was to shift from reactive emergency response to proactive risk management. Based on the outputs of the TA, the MWR prepared a national anti-drought plan that included a drought management strategy and an action plan. Managing drought risk is the principle of this plan.
Following the recommendations of the TA, the government requested that a new TA be provided to pilot and develop tools for managing drought risk, strengthen the capacity of officials involved in drought management, prepare a detailed and tailored plan to manage drought risk for each pilot province, and prepare guidelines for implementing the national drought management strategy across the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Gansu, Liaoning, and Sichuan will be the pilot provinces, as they have been seriously affected by drought and offer a range of locations that allow scaling up the piloted and developed models and methodologies.
Qualifications:
The specialist will have
a bachelor’s or higher degree, or equivalent qualification, in water resource management or a related field and
at least 10 years of work experience in saving water and managing water demand. The specialist will do the following:
(i) Review past and ongoing national and provincial activities for saving water and assess the outcome for inclusion in the pilots.
(ii) Together with the national capacity development specialist, survey staff of the FCDRHs in national and other government administrations; the MWR and its surrogate institutions at other tiers of government administration, such as provincial DWRs; and other agencies to assess their understanding of water saving.
(iii) Assess measures for introducing water-saving mechanisms, such as education and awareness raising, water pricing, and wastewater recycling.
(iv) Define the roles of the FCDRHs in national and other government administrations; the MWR and its surrogate institutions at other tiers of government administration, such as provincial DWRs; and other agencies in water saving.
(v) Identify how to spur cooperation between agencies for water saving.
(vi) Together with the national capacity development specialist, prepare a program for agencies on institutional and capacity development for saving water and an educational and public awareness program for water users on saving water.
(vii) Together with the national capacity development specialist, implement part of the institutional and capacity development program.
(viii) Assist the international drought risk management specialist and team leader in organizing and conducting an international study tour for the staff of the MWR and the DWRs of the three pilot provinces.
(ix) Strengthen the capacity for saving water of officials of national and provincial FCDRHs and other national and provincial agencies, as necessary, by implementing part of the institutional and capacity development program, including seminars, workshops, and/or training; through the international study tour; and through on-the-job training in the course of preparing a plan for managing drought risk in each pilot province.
(x) Provide inputs to the plans for managing drought risk in the pilot provinces; the guidelines for implementing drought risk management across the PRC; and the inception, interim, draft final, and final reports.
(xi) Undertake any other work assigned by the team leader.
Start / Duration:
The TA will be implemented over 18 months, tentatively starting on 8 January 2013 and ending on 11 July 2014.
If you are interested to cooperate with AFC Consultsns in this tender, please send your most recent CV to:
Barbara.Braun [at] afci.de
Thank you!