Scope of Work
Development
of Academic Paper and Drafting for Ministerial Regulation in Support of
Implementation of Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
Background
USAID’s
five year “Adaptasi Perubahan Iklim dan Ketangguhan” (APIK) Project
supports the Government of Indonesia to strengthen climate and disaster
resilience, working in an integrated manner from the national level down
to the regional and community levels. In support of this overall
objective, APIK seeks to:
• Mainstream climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction into national and sub-national governance frameworks;
• Build
the capacity of local communities and the private sector to address
climate change and weather-related natural hazards; and
• Support the use of information for climate and disaster risk management among key stakeholders.
At
the national level, APIK provides technical assistance to national
level ministries to strengthen their understanding of climate change
(including climate variability) and the impact of climate-related
natural disasters, and to mainstream tools and approaches that
facilitate the systematic consideration of climate change adaptation
(CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in their core planning,
budgeting, and operations as well as monitoring and evaluation. Given
the cross-cutting nature of CCA/DRR, APIK works with economy-wide
agencies—such as the Ministry of Planning (Bappenas) and the National
Disaster Management Agency (BNPB)—as well as technical ministries such
as Environment and Forestry (KLHK), Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP),
Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Public Works and Public Housing
(PUPERA), Agrarian and Spatial Planning (ATR), and Agriculture
(Kementan).
At
the subnational level, APIK seeks to build the capacity of local
governments in East Java, Southeast Sulawesi, and Maluku to address CCA
& DRR through planning and operations, public outreach, and the
institutionalization of resilience-building practices in day-to-day
activities. With a regional office located in the respective provinces,
the Project works in targeted landscapes with the communities on the
front lines of climate change and disaster resilience in the target
districts to implement measures and link those measures to the relevant
government processes in a holistic systems approach.
Crosscutting
the national and subnational levels, APIK further seeks to mainstream
CCA/DRR into the private sector as well as the improved uptake and
utilization of relevant climate vulnerability and climate risk, climate
and weather information (CWI) services. Private sector engagement is
critical to addressing shared economic risks and livelihoods, while
improved climate and weather information services empower public and
private institutions alike to better prepare for and respond to climate
and disaster risk.
In
order to develop a system for obtaining information related to
vulnerability that will be utilized for the activities of vulnerability
assessment and selection of adaptation to climate change in Indonesia,
the Ministry of Environment and Forestry has made information system on
vulnerability index data (SIDIK). Within the framework of policies,
strategies, and actions of national climate change adaptation, this
system provides data and information related to the vulnerability of
social, economic, and environment aspects as well as measures climate
risk to specific climate-related hazards (e.g. flood and drought) in the
form of an index. The index can be used as a category in measuring
potential climate risks.
SIDIK
is a database which generally provides services for users, namely the
Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) and regions; provincial and
district/city. This type of service is generated as an index of
vulnerability and risk visualized in maps, with a formula taking into
account national and regional characteristics, both of which can be
modified by the user according to their distribution.
The purposes of SIDIK are:
1. Provide information on the levels of vulnerability and climate risk up to the village level
2. As a reference in determining priority adaptation actions
3. As an indicator of Monitoring and Evaluation of the implementation of local development.
The
role and function of the SIDIK need to be improved based on the
consideration that the SIDIK is a national system that serves as an
indicator of the development activities of planning and monitoring and
evaluation. Thus, development will be more adaptive to climate change
and SIDIK can be utilized by all sectors and regions. SIDIK needs
improvement on various aspects, among others; development of
vulnerability indicators and SIDIK infrastructure towards the one data.
Currently,
the SIDIK system that has been developed is still limited to generic
indicators with reference to available data across Indonesia.
Vulnerability indicators are highly dependent on the characteristics of
each sector/field. In the framework of the implementation of the
National Action Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (RAN API), SIDIK
is placed as an instrument to assist in the implementation of adaptation
action plans in Indonesia.
Within
the framework of APIK Project, there are opportunities to develop SIDIK
to be used by various sectors and decision-making needs. The challenges
of the current SIDIK include institutional setup, consistency of data
provision, the agreement of the indicators used, and the integration
with other systems in ministries/institutions. However, it takes an
overall framework to assist in the implementation appropriately. This
framework provides an overview of the purpose and put the SIDIK as one
of the instruments to assist the implementation of adaptation measures.
While
APIK implements vulnerability and risk assessment in the regions, APIK
supports landscape resilience teams to initiate and conduct
vulnerability and risk assessments that integrate climate change and
disaster risk reduction approaches. It is critical that the
Vulnerability and Risk Assessment is led by the city/ district
resilience team and facilitated by APIK. Therefore, the commencement of
the process is contingent upon the establishment or existence of the
resilience team. This is to ensure that the VA process becomes
institutionalized and integrated into local systems with local capacity
in place to carry out VAs in the future. As such, those areas that have
already appointed the team will initiate VA. APIK is currently working
to strengthen or establish these teams in all target areas. This VA will
be a foundation to build resilience strategy at the sub-national level.
It is essential the VA is accurate and of a high quality to ensure the
resilience strategy is accurate as well. The site-based assessment
results have also purpose to support the enhancement of use of SIDIK at
local level for defining adaptation strategies, including the mechanism
of public participation.
Therefore, APIK intends to hire an Expert in the Climate Risk Modeling and Policy Formulation as Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA).
Objective
Improvements
in the services provided by SIDIK will accelerate the ownership of data
and information and development of map of vulnerability to climate
change. Therefore, the needs are;
1)
development of an academic paper/framework formulation on vulnerability
and risk assessment with regards to scientific theories and Indonesian
regulations and
2)
drafting of the Ministerial Regulation to support the utilization of
currently available vulnerability and risk assessment tools.
The
expected outcome is to support the process and efforts to improve the
vulnerability and risk system that satisfactorily functions as
management of the one data. The data and information are then overlaid
into map of vulnerability and risk to climate change that are useful for
development of climate change adaptation options and formulation of
options for policy planning, strategy, and action plan of climate
adaptation. Thus, this instrument will encourage active involvement of
local government and sectors in understanding and considering the
threats and develop potential climate change adaptation options. In the
future, the integrated system is planned to be developed into a system
called SIAPI (Sistem Informasi Adaptasi Perubahan Iklim – System
Information of Climate Change Adaptation) for which the roadmap is also
suggested to be defined.
Target Output
The
output of this activity is the draft Ministerial Decree of SIDIK based
on the developed academic paper. Specific outputs are criteria for
defining vulnerability indicators that are integrated into the SIDIK.
The indicators are to reflect overall aspects that affect the
vulnerability to climate change, such as social, economic,
environmental, and governance.
1.
Deliverables
and Activities
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Deliverable
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Topics
of Discussions
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Activities
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DRAFT
Framework/
Academic
Paper
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Review of regulations related to risk and
vulnerability in Indonesia.
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Defining Approaches for vulnerability and risk
assessments, and its interpretation/application.
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Identification of data requirement and compatibility.
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Policy on data and information suppliers: formal
and informal.
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Public participation on data verification and
validation.
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Collecting materials.
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Reviews.
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Drafting.
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Internal consultation.
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Refinement.
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External consultation (National Consultation/ Workshops).
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Collecting inputs and responses.
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Refinement draft.
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Stakeholders’ inputs.
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Refinement draft.
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Submission.
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DRAFT
Ministerial Decree
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The objectives of vulnerability and risk
assessment for managing climate change impacts.
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Methods for risk and vulnerability assessment
and its leveling analysis.
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Recommendation for defining Indicators for each
sector of the RAN API.
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Spatial and temporal scale of data availability
and its utilization.
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Policy on data and information access, including
public participation.
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Interpretation and application of the
vulnerability and risk assessments.
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Evaluation and reporting.
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Summary of main messages of the draft framework.
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Internal consultation on the main messages.
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Drafting the ministerial decree.
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Internal consultation.
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Refinement.
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External consultation (National
Consultation/Workshops).
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Collecting inputs and responses.
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Refinement draft.
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Stakeholders’ inputs.
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Refinement draft.
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Submission.
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APIK
Project will hire/assign a consultant (STTA) to develop the academic
paper and drafting the ministerial decree. The STTA is assigned to work
with the APIK national team focused on the subject. The STTA should also
work closely with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry when
drafting the academic paper and ministerial decree. The activities are
conducted through desk study and series of discussions through focus
group discussions and workshops/consultations.
Qualifications
The requirements needed for the STTA are as follows:
1. Min. Master Degree (preferably PhD) with strong knowledge and experience in CCA Strategic planning development.
2. At
least 7 years of experience in climate adaptation practices in
Indonesia, particularly on climate adaptation policy, including climate
disaster related.
3. Ability
to analyze and develop government/ministerial regulation/technical
instrument on climate change adaptation or environmental issues.
4. Has capability in organizing stakeholder meeting.
5. Able to communicate the results of activities and analysis to KLHK, Bappenas, and APIK.
Location
This position will be based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Reporting
The Climate Risk Modeling and Policy Formulation will report to Climate Adaptation Governance Advisor
Application Send
Interested applicants are invited to send their CV to APIK_Recruitment@DAI.com. Please send applications not later than 24 March 2017. Applicants are instructed to write “Climate Risk Modeling and Policy Formulation Consultant – NAME”
as the Subject line of their email. We regret that we are unable to
acknowledge receipt of all applications and only shortlisted candidates
will be notified.
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