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Research Associate for PHIVOLCS’ Generation of Built-Up Areas Using AI
Procurement Process
IC - Individual contractor
Office
UNDP-PHL - PHILIPPINES
Deadline
17-Dec-24 @ 07:00 AM (New York time)
Published on
03-Dec-24 @ 12:00 AM (New York time)
Reference Number
UNDP-PHL-00633
Contact
UNDP Procurement Philippines Philippines - procurement.ph@undp.org
Introduction
Country: Philippines
Description of the Assignment:
The Strengthening Institutions and Empowering Localities Against Disasters and Climate Change (SHIELD) Program is a six-year initiative implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the support of the Government of Australia (GOA) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Philippines (DFAT), to assist the Government of the Philippines (GPH) in building the country’s institutional and community resilience to climate change and disasters. 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 outcomes:
Outcome 1: Government, private sector, and civil society stakeholders in targeted local government units (LGUs) are collaborating to unlock funding and implementing informed and inclusive resilience actions
Outcome 2: Relevant national government agencies (NGAs) are prioritizing action on local climate and disaster resilience
Outcome 3: Philippine scientific agencies are producing tailored and accessible information for resilience action
The third outcome 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. In doing so, the Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) will be working hand in hand with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to develop and apply sound climate modelling, projections, and scenarios, and improve hazard and risk assessment coordination and accessibility of data.
In line with this, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), the Service Institute of the DOST mandated to mitigate disasters that may arise from volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami, and other related geotectonic phenomena, will lead the development of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based methodology for generating built-up areas of SHIELD project sites in support for risks and hazards assessment.
Scope of Work
UNDP seeks to engage the services of a Research Associate who shall primarily assist DOST-PHIVOLCS in undertaking empirical and quantitative research work towards the generation of built-up areas using AI. Specifically, the Research Associate shall perform the following activities:
● Conduct collection and processing of remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) data for land cover analysis
● Conduct data gathering, processing, analysis, and interpretation of results related to hazard and risk mapping
● Explore techniques on AI, geophysics and remote-sensing and contribute to developing up-to-date methodologies
● Coordinate with the SHIELD Support Unit (SSU), DOST-PHIVOLCS, and other project partners in support to the fulfillment of above outputs
● Prepare manuscripts, technical reports, presentations, and other documents related to the project
● Prepare project-related correspondence and administrative documents as needed
● Provide technical inputs in project-related internal and external meetings, planning sessions, workshops, and other associated activities
● Provide technical assistance to DOST-PHIVOLCS to ensure that the project deliverables are produced on the scheduled time
Period of assignment/services: office-based, with an expected duration of 242 person-days of effort equivalent to eleven (11) working months
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