Southern African Development Development Community Climate Services(SADC-CSC) - Africa Development Bank Group (AFDB)
Request for Expressions of Interest Consulting Services
Title
Institutional Support to African Climate Institutions Project (ISACIP)
Financing Agreement reference
Don FAD n° 2100155016866
Project ID No
P-Z1-CZ0-003
ITB Number
SADC/AfDB ACMAD DMC/CSC PROJECT/8/2012
The Institutional Support to African Climate Institutions Project (ISACIP) has received a Grant from the African Development Bank toward the cost of the Institutional Support to African Climate Institutions Project (ISACIP) and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for an individual consultant to undertake a Vulnerability and Socio-economic Impact Assessment
The Institutional Support Project to the African Climate Institutions (ISACIP) funded by the African Development Bank (ADB) aims to strengthen the capacity of African climate centres to generate climate information and to allow their wide dissemination to users end. These centres are: the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) Regional Centre for Agro meteorology and Operational Hydrology (AGRHYMET), IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) and SADC Climate Services Centre (SADC-CSC) former Drought Monitoring Centre (DMC). This project will strengthen the capacity of various African scientists to generate relevant information on climate and to make them available to end users referred through appropriate channels.
This request for an individual consultant to undertake a Vulnerability and Socio-economic Impact Assessment
The overall objective is to undertaken assessment of the impacts and vulnerability of climate variability and climate change for the fifteen SADC Member States countries. The study has a number of key aims to assess the potential impacts of climate Variability and change on key sectors on the economy and non-market sectors (such as health) so Members States can understand what is at stake for them. More specifically, the study is to include at a country level:
(a) Impact Assessment: substantive analysis to develop a comprehensive and quantified assessment of the economic impacts of climate variability and change. The impact analysis should emphasize climate effects both on economy and prospects for growth, as well as on the poorer and more vulnerable sections of society (specifically via the MDGs).
(b) Costed Options for Mitigation and Adaptation: analysis of the costs and benefits of climate change mitigation and adaptation in the short, medium and long term, including an assessment of regional interdependence and its consequential multiplier effect. (Time horizons may be informed by country planning processes, e.g. 2020, 2025 and 2030. For adaptation use of the MDG 2015 target may be helpful).
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) now invites eligible individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.). Consultants may constitute joint-ventures to enhance their chances of qualification.
Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with the African Development Bank’s “Rules and Procedures for the use of Consultants”, dated January 2000, which is available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org.
Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours:
Head - Procurement Unit
SADC Secretariat
Plot 54385
New CBD
Private Bag 0095
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: 267 395 1863
Attn: Mr. Snowden Mmadi
Email addresses: smmadi@sadc.int
Expressions of interest and CVs must be delivered to the address below by Friday, 21st December 2012 at 14.30 hours and mention “Vulnerability Study”
The Tender Box
At the reception area
Secretary - Tender Committee
SADC Secretariat
Plot 54385
New CBD
Private Bag 0095
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: 267 3951863
Attn: Mr. Snowden Mmadi
Email addresses: smmadi@sadc.int
