Deadline: 11-Nov-20
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is implementing the “Strengthening the Social Stability and Resilience of Vulnerable Jordanian Communities and Syrian Refugees in Amman against Flash Floods”.
Funded by Government of Japan, the project seeks to address these urgent needs by providing a comprehensive and integrated response against flash floods through community consultations and awareness raising, training and capacity building on resilience to floods, urban management and construction standards, and implementation of urgent flood effect mitigation activities.
The overall goal of the project is to strengthen government and community resilience and capacities to better manage flash floods through the implementation of flood resilient infrastructure. The project will proactively reduce the actual or expected vulnerabilities of local communities and refugees to flash floods. It will provide a number of solutions to strengthen government and community resilience and capacities to better manage flash floods.
The main objectives of this assignment is to
- Collect and map information on the potential risks affecting the users of the targeted area, based on the knowledge and experience of the communities, and listing them in order of priorities; and
- Discuss with the communities viable solutions for reducing the identified risks and building resilience.
Outcomes
The Expected Outcomes and Outputs of the project are:
- Improved protection and resilience to flooding in the target project location in Amman
- Identify most flood vulnerable and hot spot areas in downtown Amman.
- Reduced vulnerabilities of local communities and Syrian refugees to flash floods in Amman
- Implement short-term emergency and flood-resilient infrastructure intervention to reduce the risk of flash floods on the population of Amman downtown area.
- Strengthened capacities of government and communities to better manage floods in urban areas in Amman
- Conduct technical capacity needs and gaps assessment for GAM staff, local community and Syrian refugees on flash flood risk preparedness and management.
- Build the technical capacity of GAM, local community and Syrian refugees on flash flood risk preparedness and management.
Targeted Areas
- The targeted zone has an area of approximately 39 hectares and stretches approximately 2 km in length along Koraysh and King Talal streets, Al-Hashimi Street and part of Al-Jaysh Street in downtown Amman. The width of the targeted zone varies from approximately 130 meters to 390 meters depending on the elevation of the terrain with an average width of approximately 200 meters. The zone starts at the intersection of Prince AlHassan Street with Koraysh Street and King Talal Street and ends at the intersection of Al-Jaysh Street with AlUrdon Street.
Criteria
The NGO is expected to fulfil the following responsibilities:
- Liaise with UN-Habitat focal point in Jordan office and ensure full coordination throughout the assignment.
- Consult and coordinate with Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), Amman Chamber of Commerce, and other relevant key stakeholders and governmental authorities to engage them with the different planned activities,
- Map and identify the key stakeholders and community leaders in the targeted area
- Be in charge of all the logistical preparations needed for the community consultation sessions and focus group meetings
- Organize and facilitate the community consultation sessions and focus group meetings and support the technical consultant in moderating the sessions / meetings.
- Ensure submitting high quality reports at the end of each task/ session as listed in the expected deliverables, including proof reading and translating the reports in Arabic/English language, and professionally edit and design the submitted material.
- Ensure full documentation for the conducted activities (including list of participants, photographs and videos).
For more information, visit https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/116844