Consultant for Developing Practitioners- Roster on Asian Preparedness Partnership... Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Cambodia

Summary : Consultant for Developing Practitioners- Roster on Asian Preparedness Partnership (APP) Portal

Deadline : 28 Jun 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 24317361

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : Other Funding Agencies

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : ASIAN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CENTER
Cambodia
Cambodia
Email :shivani.gupta@adpc.net/nuntarut.l@adpc.net

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultant for Developing Practitioners- Roster on Asian Preparedness Partnership (APP) Portal.

Program Background

ADPC with support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) launched the Asian Preparedness Partnership (APP) under the auspice of “Strengthening Capacity of Government and Local Humanitarian Organizations on Preparedness for Response in Asia” program to improve preparedness and humanitarian response to disasters in Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka by strengthening the interface and partnership between Government and Local humanitarian organizations and enhancing capacities through partnerships, knowledge resources, training, and networking opportunities.

The ‘One Stop Knowledge Hub- of APP (https://app.adpc.net/) was established to enhance humanitarian information and knowledge exchange on disaster preparedness and emergency response in the region and beyond. This portal will disseminate best practices and lessons learned, emphasizing South-South learning and knowledge exchange initially from the six program countries but also encouraging participation from the other countries in the region and beyond. This platform hosts a range of features from e-learning courses, news and event content, factsheets, videos and infographics. APP with support from member countries would be involved in continuous updating of activities on the portal throughout the program duration and beyond.

Purpose and Outline of Assignment

One of the key activities identified under APP portal is to create an online pool of local experts (Practitioners- Roster) to facilitate identification of qualified experts within program countries in South and South-East Asia region to support activities being implemented in national platforms under APP. Initially, the roster would consist of a database of experts/practitioners from which countries could identify, select and meet their requirement on the APP platform.

Key features of the roster would include:

1. An online, interactive interface on the APP portal to search and filter experts, view their profile, area of expertise, knowledge resources, publications which is accessible for different country requirements.

2. Creation of User Profiles: The profile of candidates would be created in a standard template of essential qualifications, work experience, competency pertaining to different sectors/themes.

3. Country Focal Points to broadcast roster webpage link to all established networks for joining the roster. Invitations can be sent via email and provide a link to the entry point web page through which experts will input their profiles.

4. Submission: Each expert uploads required information in the format. National focal points review the submissions for consistency. After their approval, submissions to be sent for further endorsement to APP Regional Secretariat through standard email templates. After Regional Secretariat-s consent, login details and profile for the expert can be created.

5. Creation of individual profile pages in a standardized format and login-ids of users for content updation.

6. Search functionality: Search engine on home page for finding experts through- country, area of expertise, years of work experience etc. Content should be optimized to increase visibility in search engine results.

7. Linkage: Notification link to social media networks of APP when experts upload news/ update information.

8. Analytics: Creation of Analytics page for tracking expert usage, number of documents uploaded, pages referred etc.

9. Create active/inactive tab for experts according to their participation, availability, updates on profiles etc.

10. Creation of a moderated discussion forum between experts for sharing regular updates and knowledge products.

11. The profiles of experts will be created, uploaded, managed by the experts themselves and will be moderated by APP secretariat. Permissions will be configured to allow some users with higher and other users with lesser administrative and content-editing rights

12. Mobile responsive design to open the roster/publications in all device screen sizes.

13. Provide program tracking, training and documentation in the administration and user of the website:

14. The vendor will make the prototype of the interface under development visible to the client, to allow feedback and guidance and corrections to content or function. The vendor will maintain daily contact with the client's program managers about the progress of development, to communicate needed inputs or feedback, to receive guidance or improvements to existing development version, etc.

Documents

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