Deadline: 4-Nov-20
UNDRR invites not profit-making organizations to submit grant proposals that focus on the project “Disaster risk and displacement in Ethiopia – strengthening the vulnerability component in the assessments of disaster displacement risk”.
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.
UNDRR 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 programme.
The aim of this project is therefore to contribute conceptually and methodologically to the assessment of displacement risk, bringing into focus ways to better integrate aspects of vulnerability. A geographical focus is put on the Greater Horn of Africa and Ethiopia.
Purpose
- Provide a comprehensive overview of existing approaches, tool and data used to assess the risk of disaster displacement in the Horn of Africa;
- develop methodological recommendations to integrate multidimensional vulnerability and resilience data into the assessment of disaster risk and disaster displacement risk and into DRR planning in the Horn of Africa and in Ethiopia;
- Through extensive consultations with stakeholders working on DRR and displacement, develop a resource to contribute to DRR, climate change adaptation and displacement/migration planning in Ethiopia and at the IGAD level.
Funding Information
- The duration of the proposed project cannot exceed 8 months.
- The maximum amount requested from UNDRR for the implementation of this project cannot exceed 80,000USD.
Outcome
- DRR stakeholders engaged in DRR and migration work in Ethiopia and in the IGAD region benefit from global good practice on assessing the vulnerability and resilience of populations and ecosystems for assessing disaster-related displacement risk;
- The vulnerability component in risk assessment and assessment of disaster displacement risk is strengthened and promoted through critical discussion among key national and regional stakeholders;
- Policy and planning in the domain of DRR and displacement/ forced migration benefit from improved risk information.
Output
- This project output is a comprehensive study of the methodological approaches, tools and data used for the assessment of disaster risk with specific focus on disaster displacement. The findings will serve to develop detailed recommendations for further advancement of assessment of disaster displacement and its risk in Ethiopia and at the IGAD level.
- Attention will be paid to integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches and data to strengthen the representation of the multiple dimensions of vulnerability and resilience that characterise populations at risk of becoming displaced or being affected by displacement, and of the multiple factors that influence displacement decision-making by individuals, households and communities at risk of different hazards.
Suggested Activities
Activity 1: Inception
- This activity will aim to ensure maximal engagement of UNDRR’s partners and both DRR and migration stakeholders in Ethiopia and IGAD. This will be done through a consultative process to confirm the scope, methodology and timeline for the work.
Specific outcomes:
- The methodology of the research project and the form of the agreed outputs reflects the needs and interests of relevant stakeholders;
- Key partners are informed from the beginning of the project and their contributions have been solicited and reflected in the project.
Deliverables:
- Virtual inception meeting with UNDRR and key partners and stakeholders regionally and in Ethiopia working on risk knowledge, risk assessment and displacement;
- virtual inception meeting with IGAD counterparts and the Government of Ethiopia to establish needs and specify the objectives of the study;
- bilateral consultations with UNDRR’s key partners and stakeholders working on disaster risk assessment and disaster displacement both in Ethiopia and at IGAD level;
- inception report outlining the objectives, scope, methodology and timelines for the work.
Activity 2: Review of good practices
- A review of good practices will be undertaken to analyze existing conceptual and methodological approaches to assess disaster risk and specifically disaster displacement risk. Specific focus will be on vulnerability, adaptive capacity and resilience of individuals, households, and communities who are at risk of hazards.
Specific outcomes:
- A resource is made available to DRR stakeholders on best practice approaches to assess risk of disaster displacement with a focus on vulnerability, adaptive capacity and resilience;
- Good practices are identified for ways to strengthen the vulnerability component in quantitative risk assessment and to produce a comprehensive, multidimensional analysis of risk relevant to disaster-related displacement.
Deliverables:
- Targeted review of concepts, approaches, methodologies and data used to assess the risk of disaster-related displacement in Ethiopia, the IGAD region and where relevant, globally. Particular attention to be paid to the vulnerability component of risk assessments and the ways in which qualitative and quantitative data and methods have been linked.
- Report summarizing the consultations with experts and key stakeholders undertaken to collect input into, further complement and validate the review. Stakeholders engaged in the consultations will include government bodies, donor agencies, academic institutions, think tanks and non-governmental organization in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, working in the domains of DRR, forced migration, climate risk assessment, sustainable development;
- A working paper detailing good practices, developing recommendations and providing a critical discussion of the findings of the review (linked to the working paper in activity 3).
Activity 3: Development of recommendations and guidelines to integrate robust analysis of vulnerability into the assessment of disaster-related displacement risks in Ethiopia and at IGAD level.
- Elaborate methodological and practical recommendations to advance the collection of data and assessment of disaster displacement risk in Ethiopia and for the IGAD region with the aim to strengthen the vulnerability component in risk assessment in the context of assessing disaster displacement risk.
Specific outcomes:
- Increased capacity to integrate multidimensional vulnerability and resilience data into DRR planning in Ethiopia, with specific focus to increase knowledge on the risk of disaster displacement
- Context specific recommendations are available to stakeholders in Ethiopia and in the Horn of Africa with the aim to improve the methodology of risk assessment and focused on integrating robust analysis of vulnerability, resilience, adaptive capacity and the drivers of displacement into the assessment of disaster-related displacement risks.
- Analytical input is made available feeding into preparations for the Africa Regional Platform 2021.
Deliverables:
- Stakeholder consultations in Ethiopia and in IGAD to understand the current approaches, processes, practices, data and technologies that are currently being used to assess vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity in relation to disaster risk and disaster-related displacement and to understand the needs and opportunities to advance assessment of disaster displacement risk;
- Review of existing sources and repositories of data on socio-economic and bio-physical vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity as well as the institutional context of this data ecosystem;
- proposed methodological approach and recommendations elaborated in a final technical report
- 2 virtual workshops to discuss and validate the findings and the recommendations of the proposed approach;
- a working paper / guideline to disseminate the findings and recommendations of the proposed approach to assess disaster-related displacement risks in Ethiopia by integrating robust analysis of vulnerability, resilience, adaptive capacity and the drivers of displacement into existing assessment methodologies (to be combined with the working paper in activity.
For more information, visit https://www.undrr.org/vacancy/011-call-proposals-disaster-risk-and-displacement-ethiopia