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Introduction

Country:   Philippines

 

Description of the Assignment:  

I. Project Title

Strengthening Institutions and Empowering Localities Against Disasters and Climate Change (SHIELD) Programme

II. Project Description

The Philippines remains one of the most climate-vulnerable countries globally, as evidenced by more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, prolonged monsoon rains, droughts, and sea¿level rise. Climate change poses more significant risks to the stability of both human and natural systems if the economy continues to grow without addressing environmental degradation and social inequality, and the government fails to plan for new and emerging threats such as disease outbreaks. Acknowledging and responding to these multidimensional risks are the key to strengthening resilience.

To address this challenge, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through the support of the Government of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Philippines (DFAT), is implementing the Strengthening Institutions and Empowering Localities Against Disasters and Climate Change (SHIELD) Programme. Together with its consortium partners, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Philippine Business 

for Social Progress (PBSP), National Resilience Council (NRC), and Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society (CBCS), SHIELD aims to transform its 11 target provinces, Metro Manila, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) into safer and resilient communities by achieving three interdependent components:

Component 1: Government, private sector, and civil society stakeholders in targeted local government units (LGUs) are collaborating to unlock funding and implement informed and inclusive resilience actions

Component 2: Relevant national government agencies (NGAs) are prioritizing action on local climate and disaster resilience 

Component 3: Philippine scientific agencies are producing tailored and accessible information for local resilience action

The third outcome, led by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), focuses on translating science into practice. Specifically, it is built upon the need to generate more accurate and sophisticated scientific and technical information that will enable localities to understand, and build resilience to, the impacts on people, their businesses, critical assets, and livelihoods throughout the country. Intended to support the realization of Outcomes 1 and 

2, it aims to ensure the availability, credibility, and accessibility of various datasets and information relevant to climate change, hazards, and disasters which can provide essential inputs for local resilience planning and proposal development. Furthermore, the component aims to bridge the knowledge gap by translating complex scientific and technical datasets into more comprehensible information and actionable insights. This will empower decision-makers 

at all levels, from national and local governments to community stakeholders, to make data¿driven decisions and prioritize resilience actions.

At present, there are numerous ongoing developments related to resilience building in the Philippines. However, there is currently a lack of a comprehensive methodology framework to measure the benefits of resilience across various sectors, including the economy, society, and the environment. This gap extends to the economic valuation of resilience investments within government operations and the evaluation of the effectiveness of climate change adaptation 

and disaster risk reduction (CCA-DRR) projects at the national and local level. Despite the presence of budget tagging mechanisms, determining whether these allocations result in measurable socioeconomic benefits remains a challenge. Resilience, encompassing more than mere disaster preparedness, constitutes a fundamental pillar of sustainable development. Therefore, there is an urgent need to articulate and quantify the resilience dividend to 

underscore the tangible benefits derived from resilience planning and investments. This approach is essential for ensuring that decision-makers fully appreciate and prioritize resilience-related investments in policy and planning initiatives.

In this context, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), in collaboration with UNDP, has identified the need to establish a Conceptual Framework and Methodology for Resilience Dividend. The conceptual framework will form the basis for developing the methodology in partnership with Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). Its primary objective is to aid decision-makers at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) to fully understand the need to invest more in resilience. Moreover, the framework will serve as a guide for policymakers, implementers, and other stakeholders in prioritizing resilience initiatives, grounded in robust, evidence-based analysis.

III. Scope of Work

UNDP seeks to engage the services of a Technical Advisor who shall help the DOST-Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Unit (DRRCCU) develop a Resilience Dividend Conceptual Framework, by leading the research work and providing substantive technical and strategic advice towards its development. The product of this engagement shall be a paper organizing the available knowledge in the theory, modeling, and valuation of resilience and its dividends, illustrating the relationship between the different concepts and variables, and proposing a roadmap for understanding, explaining, and investigating the resilience dividend/s. The conceptual framework will form the basis for developing further hypotheses, identifying variables and indicators, and developing ways to empirically understand and demonstrate the resilience dividend/s. In pursuit of this objective, the Technical Advisor shall perform the following activities:

1. Prepare a scoping report as pre-work for the development of the Resilience Dividend Conceptual Framework. This includes conducting initial research to define key concepts, identifying relevant stakeholders, and outlining the rationale and strategic approach for developing the framework, to set the foundation for subsequent project activities.

2. Design and organize meetings, workshops, write shops, and other relevant activities as needed, to validate and extend the results of the desk review and gather additional insights from relevant stakeholders as input to the study. This includes engaging with academic institutions to gather and provide the latest and relevant research on resilience dividend/s.

3. Prepare the first draft of the Resilience Dividend Conceptual Framework, building on the results of desk reviews, consultation meetings and workshops, and other data gathering and validation activities,

4. Present the draft framework to DOST-DRRCCU, UNDP and relevant SHIELD partners and revise the output based on the feedback and recommendations generated from the presentation, resulting into the final proposed Conceptual Framework.

5. Submit all relevant information and documents gathered throughout the engagement upon completion and acceptance of the final output.

 

Period of assignment/services: 60 person-days  spread over 8 months

 

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