Baseline Study Tender, Liberia - 25596051

Procurement Summary

Country : Liberia

Summary : Baseline Study

Deadline : 23 Aug 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 25596051

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : World Health Organization (WHO)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : LIBERIA METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE
Attn: Mr. Arthur Gar-Glahn, Director & Permanent Representative with WMO / Mr. Gar-Glahn Tel 0886 565 245/0770 565 245 Ministry of Transport Carey & Warren Streets Monrovia
Liberia

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Baseline Study for Liberia National Framework for Climate Service (NFCS).

1. General Information
? Object: Climate Services Capacities baseline assessment
? Total Duration: 3 months
? Starting date: September 3, 2018
? Ending date: November 27, 2018
? Funding of the activity: EWOWAS / WMO
? Key contacts:
- Arthur Gar-Glahn, Permanent Representative with WMO
- Bernard Gomez, WMO Representative for North, Central and West Africa
- Filipe Lucio, GFCS Director
- Dr Pascal Yaka, GFCS Regional Coordinator
- Galine Yanon, GFCS Regional expert


2. Background and Justification

Climate services involve the provision of climate information in a way that assists decision making by individuals and organizations through appropriate engagement, an effective access mechanism and by being responsive to user needs (WMO, 2011). The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) was established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in collaboration with other relevant United Nations organizations and partners, with a vision to enable better management of the risks of climate variability and change and adaptation to climate change, through the development and incorporation of science-based climate information and prediction into planning, policy and practice on the global, regional and national scale (WMO, 2011).

The objective is, through this initiative, to allow producers, researchers and different users to join their forces in order to increase the volume and improve the quality of climate services worldwide, especially in developing countries. The countries adhering to the GFCS are committed to putting in place and operationalizing national components of the framework with the support of different partners (mainly UN agencies and other partners).

Hence the Liberia Meteorological Services Department working with UN agencies, other Government Departments, academic institutions and partners has initiated the process of developing the National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS). The Liberia NFCS will focus on agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, water, energy and health as priority areas. The Framework will be developed by using the GFCS guidelines and benefiting from WMO/GFCS support.

The NFCS development will start with a baseline survey, to be carried out September to November 2018 to identify the current status of the climate services for the selected sectors in terms of:

1. Identifying the stakeholders in the climate services value chain (stakeholder matrix).

2. Establishing the range of climate services available and in use.

3. How the climate information is collected, analysed, developed and shared (packaging, dissemination).

4. Identifying the gaps in the current climate services value chain

a. Observation network

b. products (accuracy/ adequacy, completeness/ comprehensiveness/usability),

c. communication channels (relevance/appropriateness)

d. feedback mechanisms (relevance/appropriateness)

e. financial and human capacity (funding opportunities, staffing including competencies, equipment and linkages with other like institutions locally, regionally and abroad)

5. Identifying the already existing user interface platforms and sustainability issues

a. Establishing overall sector needs and gaps in climate services provision for the different sectors.

b. Possible sector specific weather and climate products.

6. Identifying the status climate indigenous knowledge status

a. What are they using in term of weather forecasting and climate prediction

b. How reliable they are?

c. How it is disseminate in the communities?

d. How it is used and disseminate?

e. How to mix it/to build complementary actions (a bridge) with climate applied sciences?

7. Identifying the status on climate policy (climates services governance)

a. At national level, what are the policies that driving climate services development?

b. What are the gaps? How to fill them

8. Identifying the gender matters link to climate services

a. climate services and rural women organization

b. climate services and most vulnerable people

9. Identifying Climate services related initiatives in the country

a. What are the current or future initiatives related to climates services in the country?

b. In which priority area, GFCS component these initiatives are focusing on?

3. Activities to be covered under the Baseline Study

1. Design and develop data collection templates in consultation with the Technical Committee.

2. Conduct interviews with key institutions in the five (5) priority areas at national, provincial, district and ward levels including Academia, Rural District Councils, municipalities, private sector, women organisation, civil society organization, gender organisation

3. Carry out interviews with relevant sectorial committees of the five priority sectors
such as the Disaster Committees and Food and Nutrition Security Committees, water
supplying committees, health promotion committee, renewable energy organizations,
disasters recovering associations, at national, provincial, district and ward levels.
4. Carry out focus group discussions in selected wards.
5. Review other relevant data sources
6. Data collection to be carried out in three months (September to November 2018) with
data analysis and report writing assigned two to three weeks
7. Produce draft baseline report
8. Present draft report to Technical Committee
9. Hold a national validation workshop on the draft baseline report
10. Incorporate input from national consultation for finalization of report
4. Methodology
With respect to the methodological approach, it is expected that the successful consultant will
propose to the study order how he intends to proceed to achieve the expected results. As such,
he will submit, at the beginning of the consultation, a detailed methodological approach that
will be amended and validated by the Liberia Met service. However, it is important to take
into account that the following elements and orientations will be considered in the
methodology to be adopted:
? Alignment, concordance with GFCS guidelines in conducting a capacity assessment
(tools developed by GFCS)
? Participatory, inclusive approach, promoting the involvement of all key stakeholders
? Flexible, consensual, learning approach
? Provide progress reports, periodical situation points to ensure effective follow-up and
allow possible adjustments
? Combine interviews and focus group discussions
? Organization of a validation workshop

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