Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh

Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)

Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP)

Project Management Unit (PMU), LGED-RDEC Bhaban (Level-3)

Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar,Dhaka -1207.

www.lged.gov.bd

Request for Expression of Interest (EOI)

for

selection of National Individual Consultant: Climate Change Specialist (CCS)

Memo No.: LGED/PD/HILIP/M-02/2012/805 Date: 27/04/2015

The Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (GOB) has received a grant from IFAD’s (International Fund for Agricultural Development) adaptation for smallholder agriculture program (ASAP) Trust fund (ASAP Trust Grant No. G-COFIN-ASP-847A-BD) for Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP) including Climate Adaptation and Livelihood Protection (CALIP): a supplementary project of HILIP and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this grant to cover eligible payments under the contract for the provision of consultancy services for the project by the following individual national consultant.

In view of above, the project intends to engage the same consultant. The services, experience, resources and delivery capacity expected for the position is as follows:-

Package no.	Name of the position	No. of post	Qualification and Experience	Key Responsibilities/ Accountabilities
CALIP/14/SD1	Climate Change Specialist (CCS)	1	A master level degree in one of the following disciplines of water resources engineering (WRE) /civil engineering (CE)/ ecology in aquatic environments or environmental management/ community-based natural resource management/physical geography. Basic degree shall be B.Sc. in civil engineering or water resource engineering. At least five (5) years relevant working experience out of a total ten (10) years working experience shall be required in rural development with a focus on climate change adaptation and familiar with the issues of Haors. Preference will be given to the applicant familiar with the activities regarding development of flash flood early warning system.	The incumbent shall be responsible for: · Coordinating & leading all climate change agenda in the Haor regions and oversee the development of strategic knowledge management and building climate change adaptation capacity (CCAC) · Coordinating the development of flash flood early warning system (FFEWS) and oversee the action research studies/ activities of the partner institutions like-IWFM (BUET), BMD, BWDB & IWM etc. · Establishing climate change cell (CCC) within LGED to pull together climate change best practices from all IFAD’s and other donor aided projects implemented by LGED and to facilitate cross-fertilization. · Leading climate sensitive pro-poor policy dialogue for strengthening local access/control/ management of natural resources and development of pro-poor climate change adaptation pathways. · Providing hydrological inputs to canals & Beels for re-excavation and assistance in designing & building model village, flash flood platforms (Killas).

Package no.

Name of the position

No. of post

Qualification and Experience

Key Responsibilities/ Accountabilities

CALIP/14/SD1

Climate Change Specialist (CCS)

A master level degree in one of the following disciplines of water resources engineering (WRE) /civil engineering (CE)/ ecology in aquatic environments or environmental management/ community-based natural resource management/physical geography. Basic degree shall be B.Sc. in civil engineering or water resource engineering. At least five (5) years relevant working experience out of a total ten (10) years working experience shall be required in rural development with a focus on climate change adaptation and familiar with the issues of Haors. Preference will be given to the applicant familiar with the activities regarding development of flash flood early warning system.

The incumbent shall be responsible for:

· Coordinating & leading all climate change agenda in the Haor regions and oversee the development of strategic knowledge management and building climate change adaptation capacity (CCAC)

· Coordinating the development of flash flood early warning system (FFEWS) and oversee the action research studies/ activities of the partner institutions like-IWFM (BUET), BMD, BWDB & IWM etc.

· Establishing climate change cell (CCC) within LGED to pull together climate change best practices from all IFAD’s and other donor aided projects implemented by LGED and to facilitate cross-fertilization.

· Leading climate sensitive pro-poor policy dialogue for strengthening local access/control/ management of natural resources and development of pro-poor climate change adaptation pathways.

· Providing hydrological inputs to canals & Beels for re-excavation and assistance in designing & building model village, flash flood platforms (Killas).

The project director of Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP) including Climate Adaptation & Livelihood Protection (CALIP): a supplementary project of HILIP now invites eligible applicants to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested applicants are invited to provide information indicating that they are qualified and competent to perform the services (A complete CV with other details as required as per the application forms (RFA) provided by the undersigned).

Only one consultant will be selected using the Time-Based Selection method in accordance with the Public Procurement Rules-2008 (PPR-2008), issued by the GOB. It is expected that the services may be commenced on August 2015.

Interested applicants may obtain further information and collect the request for application (RFA) documents /forms by applying to the address below during office hours up to 14/06/2015.

Expressions of interest (EOI) shall be submitted by the applicants on or before 15/06/2015 by 2.00 pm, in sealed envelope delivered to the undersigned and be clearly marked “Request for expression of interest for selection of individual consultant: climate change specialist.” Only short listed applicants will be invited for interview.

(Signed)

Project Director

Phone: 02 8144578

Email: gopalpdhilip@gmail.com

CC:

1. The chief engineer, LGED, Dhaka.

2. The director general, CPTU, Dhaka. He is requested to give necessary direction to the concerned official for publishing the above notice in CPTU website.

3. The project director, ______________________________________, LGED, Dhaka.

4. The country program officer (CPO)-Bangladesh, Asia and the Pacific Division-IFAD.

5. The unit in-charge, MIS Unit, LGED, Dhaka. He is requested to publish the above notice in LGED website.

6. The editor, the daily Inqilab/the daily Financial Express. He is requested to publish the above notice in his widely circulated daily newspaper in inner page for 1 day only before 02/05/2015.