Deadline: 23-Aug-20
UNDRR invites not profit-making organizations to submit grant proposals that focus on the project “Disaster Risk Reduction Capacity Building in Ethiopia: Development of an information management system for early warning for forest fires in Ethiopia”.
UNDRR is the United Nations’ focal point for the coordination of disaster risk reduction, working with countries and a broad range of partners and stakeholders to support the implementation, monitoring and review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in coherence with the 2030 Agenda and other instruments, for the multi-hazard management of disaster risk in development and the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses.
It issues grants, in line with UN Financial Regulations and Rules, to apolitical and not profit-making organizations to facilitate, implement, or carry out activities related to UNDRR’s and the partner’s mandates and work programmes.
Aim
- This project aims to support the Government of Ethiopia in the development of an effective mechanism to manage the risk of a forest fire at the national level, namely through development of tools and procedures for an early warning system for a forest fire.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount requested from UNDRR for the implementation of this project cannot exceed 230,000 USD.
- The duration of the proposed project cannot exceed the date of 20 August 2021.
Outcomes
Anticipated high-level outcomes of the project include:
- data and information relevant for the development and implementation of an impact-based forest fire EWS is available, systematically organized and shared across relevant stakeholders to enable decision based on the most accurate assessment of the impact.
- technical capacity and scientific knowledge is further strengthened among key EWS stakeholders, making high-quality analysis available through state-of-the-art modelling and reliable tools to monitor and forecast modelling forest fire risk;
- NDRMC and key partner institutions are fully equipped to produce and disseminate a standardized warning bulletin;
- Coordination is strengthened among key EWS stakeholders, drawing on their individual mandates, to ensure information sharing and targeted action;
- Lessons from the project are made available at the regional level through IGAD-ICPAC and IGAD DRR Unit to promote multi-hazard impact-based forecasting and warning and to support trans-boundary risk management.
Key national partners comprise the National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC), namely its Early Warring Unit as well as the National Meteorological Agency, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ministry of Agriculture, the United Nations agencies and DRR stakeholders at the regional level.
Output
Indicators of achievement:
- A real-time data exchange system for impact scenario building is developed, tested and ready for used by a trained team based within NDRMC and across partner institutions;
- A model for the assessment of forest fire risk and for forecasting is developed, integrated in the above platform and tested;
- A customized tool for the generation of a semi-automatic warning bulletin is developed to render actionable the outputs generated through the model;
- The new EWS for a forest fire is institutionally and technically integrated with existing mechanisms and tools;
- Technical staff members from NDRMC Early Warning Directorate and across relevant national organizations are trained in the use of the above tools and have agreed the most appropriate and effective dissemination of the warning;
- NDRMC benefits from technical and scientific assistance to ensure a sustained functioning of the EWS for forest fire;
- The EWS for forest fire is compatible with information management systems used and envisaged by IGAD-ICPAC.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants should be not-for-profit organizations. The project is implemented concurrently with other UNDRR’s activities in Ethiopia focused on the collection of disaster loss data, on DRR budgeting and displacement.
- There is no requirement that these activities and the proposed project feed into each other, but it would be desirable that the successful applicant takes into consideration the planning for these activities and ensures possible synergies across the efforts.
For more information, visit https://www.undrr.org/vacancy/006-call-proposals-drr-capacity-building-ethiopia