Training and Workshop Consultant (National)

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Title: Training and Workshop Consultant (National)

Reports to: Programme Manager DRR

Duty Station: Jakarta

Expected Places of Travel (if applicable): Provinces in Indonesia

Duration of Assignment: From< Oct 2011> to: < Dec 2011> / 3 months

BACKGROUND

The project “Safer Communities Through Disaster Risk Reduction in Development” (SC-DRR) was officially launched on September 11, 2007, and is designed to make disaster risk reduction a normal part of the development process established in core functions of Government as well as its public and private partners at all levels especially local communities where the most effective actions can be taken to reduce the physical, economic and social vulnerability to disasters. The ultimate aim of this project is to ensure that, over the long-term, development takes place in a way that disaster risks are considered and accounted for so that, over time, a culture of safety becomes the norm in Indonesia leading to sustainable development and poverty reduction in one of the most disaster prone countries in the world.

The project is intended to attain four key outputs:

1) Disaster risk reduction policy, legal and regulatory frameworks established,

2) Institutional systems that support decentralized disaster risk reduction established, strengthened and integrated with local level development,

3) Communities and decision makers better informed on disaster risks and measures that can be taken to reduce those risks,

4) Local disaster risk reduction processes, methodologies, guidelines and tools developed, applied, documented and fed-back into the policy framework.

The implementation of this project is undertaken through the National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS) in close partnership with the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA). In order to ensure the effective implementation of the project, strategic partnerships have been initiated with other relevant GOI ministries and agencies, and will be followed with public and private partners at the international, national, provincial, district, sub-district and village levels. The overall target budget figure for the five-year programme stands at USD 18.000.000 million from different donor sources (DFID, AusAid, BCPR-UNDP, UNESCAP, DSF and DHL).

With support from UNESCAP, the government of Indonesia through the SCDRR is implementing a sub-national project namely “Making Provincial Communities Safer Through Disaster Risk Reduction in Development (DRR-PC)” in West Sumatera Province. DRR-PC is a part of the umbrella SCDRR Project that is designed to make DRR a normal part of the community level development process established in a core functions of local government agencies and their NGO or Red Cross’s partners of a tsunami prone province. It emphasizes on the province’s local communities and among its families where the most effective actions can be taken to reduce physical, economic and social vulnerability to disasters. The project will achieve its outcome and purpose through a range of activities under the specific outputs and contribute to the SCDRR outputs.

One of DRR intended target is to disseminate and exchange the lesson and experience of DRR-PC to other countries in the region specifically the Indian Ocean Countries with the focus of the donor to support the tsunami-affected countries. The initiative will be facilitated through a regional workshop with support from the CPR Practice area team in UNDP Asia Pacific Regional Centre (APRC). With emerging need to maximize synergy between regional and country office level, the workshop will be conducted in alignment with APRC initiative for a Peer-to peer Policy Exchange Forum among the countries. This is to understand policy choices and investment decisions including lessons learned that have underpinned significant institutional transformation and ultimately, enabled states to make communities safer through disaster risk reduction and achieve development goals. The consultant will be assigned to support the preparation of this workshop especially to prepare

the report to capture the result of this workshop which will be beneficial for the Government of Indonesia as reference for the 5th AMCDRR in 2012.

In addition to funding support from the donors, the SCDRR has also received in-kind contribution from a private sector (DPAG DHL) to train government officials especially airport staffs and authorities anchored at Ministry of Transportation (MoT) to be prepared and ready to manage the airport during the crisis through a training namely Get Airport Ready for Disaster (GARD). The existing global agreement between UNDP and DHL allows the utilization of technical expertise from this company for imparting skills to the government officials with pro-bono agreement. The Office of Ministry of Transportation (MoT) Indonesia has recently submitted a request to UNDP Indonesia to facilitate similar training as part of their efforts to increase the capacity of both hub and destination airports to manage logistic, apron and relief cargo during the crisis and undertake surge assessment. This training is implemented in alignment with the work-plan of Ministry of

Transportation (MoT) in 2011 responding to the growing need and commitment to continue the previous training.

DPAG-DHL and UNDP have successfully launched a pilot training for Get Airport Ready for Disaster (GARD) in two airports; one hub and one destination airports in eastern part of Indonesia: Sultan Hasanuddin- Makassar (South Sulawesi) and Mutiara-Palu (Central Sulawesi). Similar exercises have been rolled-out in several airports in Nepal and Bangladesh in 2010 and 2011 respectively within the context of global agreement between DPAG-DHL and UNDP. This year the training will be rolled-out by incorporating the lessons from previous experiences by providing specific session for introducing the national legislation and system on disaster management and providing recommendation for Government of Indonesia to support policy formulation especially contingency plan for the airport to get ready for disaster. The consultant will be assigned to prepare the report and recommendation for Government of Indonesia especially the ministry of Transportation to

institutionalize this initiative with required policy framework to ensure the result of training is useful in longer term and be part of MoT future programme.

OBJECTIVES OF ASSIGNMENT

Under direct supervision of Programme Manager DRR UNDP and close coordination with DRR cluster team, SCDRR project manager, focal point of MoT, and UNOCHA, the Training and Workshop Consultant’s will be assigned to provide substantive and administrative input on training preparation and arrangement, prepare reporting and evaluation of the trainings and workshops with focus on documenting the process and result of GARD Training with recommendation and also documenting the process and including outcome report for combined regional workshop.

SCOPE OF WORK

The consultant will perform the duties with detailed scope of work as follow:

· Establish and maintain good communication and coordination with DRR team, SCDRR, and MoT and other related key stakeholders of GARD training;

· Establish and maintain good communication and coordination with APRC and DRR team, SCDRR, local government of West Sumatera province, and other related key stakeholders of DRR-PC;

· Provide advice to APRC, DRR team, SCDRR, and/or MoT covering the substances and organisation of the training and workshop;

· Review the documents of the previous GARD training conducted in 2009 in Makassar and Palu including the reports, proceedings, modules, and other related documents

· Review the documents of DRR-PC implementation in West Sumatera province including reports of pilot projects implemented in West Sumatera province including the reports, proceedings, modules, and other related documents;

· Prepare and finalize the agenda for GARD Training and regional workshop in consultation with APRC, DRR team, SCDRR and respected agencies from Government of Indonesia

· Record and analyse the process and the result of the training and workshop including the group discussion (if any);

· If required, with coordination with DRR team and SCDRR, conduct interviews, discussions, and correspondence in order to obtain more detail and clear information

· Obtain and get detailed information on the needs and expectations from Government of Indonesia on disaster risk reduction support in West Sumatera province for DRR-PC and disaster risk reduction efforts in order to get airports ready for disaster;

· Consultation and discussion with the key stakeholders such as Bappenas, BNPB and MoHA and other partners at national as well as local levels;

· Identify and collect lessons learned regarding the process and substance of GARD training and DRR-PC regional workshop.

REQUIREMENTS

· Good understanding of National and/or Provincial Regulation and Policies on Disaster Management;

· Knowledge of disaster management issues, particularly disaster risk reduction is an advantage;

· Knowledge of initiatives of getting airports ready for disaster is an advantage;

· Maturity and confidence in dealing with senior and high ranking members of national and local institutions, government and non-government.

· Excellent communication and writing skills;

· Strong interpersonal skills;

· Highly developed analytical skills.

· Able to under-pressure with tight time schedule.

Please apply online through the following link:

http://www.undp.or.id/jobs/