| Overview : The UNDP Country Office in the Solomon Islands is implementing a range of projects in support of Sustainable Development Goals and the National Development Strategy 2020- 2035 one of which is related to Disaster Risk Management. Disaster Risk Management cuts across almost every Sustainable Development Goals particularly goals number 1, 11, and 13. UNDP’s project on Integrated Approach to Disaster Risk Management in Solomon Islands supports Strategic Goal Number Four of the NDS which calls for environmentally sustainable with effective disaster risk management, response, and recovery. UNDP is embarking on a two-year project in partnership with the Ministry of Environment Climate Change Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) to have an integrated approach to addressing disaster management and climate and disaster risks. The DRM Project’s overall goal focuses on having increased national capacity to anticipate hazards, withstand the impacts, recover from, and better inform development as well as reducing risks associated with human and natural hazards to sustain development gains. The project has three main outputs which consist of the following: - Government institutions capacity strengthened with improved policy and governance frameworks for gender-responsive DRM;
- Strengthened sub-national institutional arrangements to coordinate and implement gender-responsive DRM programs and promote community resilience; and
- Improving national and local level early warning systems, information, and knowledge management system for DRM.
In connection to Output Two (2), the project will support scaling- up of inclusive community-based approaches to build resilience to climate and disaster risks, while also strengthening sub-national institutional arrangements for disaster risk management. Communities and local government institutions and civil society organizations will be engaged through participatory approaches to identify issues and opportunities to deal with disaster and climate risks. Support to Climate Change Division of MECDM in progressing the Solomon Islands Integrated Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (SIIVA) one of the main initiatives under output two of the IDRM project that encourages community participation in identifying climate vulnerabilities. The Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (IVA) developed by the Secretariat of Pacific Community (SPC) and its partners in 2016, offers an integrated, holistic, country-wide approach to climate change vulnerability assessment and planning. Led by the Climate Change Division the IVA tool was further adapted in Solomon Islands as part of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) to further capture and incorporate community-level vulnerability information into the NAP process.[1] The Solomon Islands Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (SI-IVA) process aims to systematically collect and collates vulnerability data from multiple perspectives, sectors, and scales to inform planning, monitoring change, and measure the impact of adaptation action across areas. . The SI-IVA methodology has been in existence for over five years and requires a review of the processes involved based on lesson from IVAs conducted so far in the country. The IDRM project is looking to engage an Individual Contractor to support the Climate Change Division (CCD) of the MECDM to review the SI-IVA methodology and scale up SI-IVA in selected sites in three townships in collaboration with PDMOs, civil society organizations and key stakeholders. [1] https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/national-adaptation-planning/how-integrated-vulnerability-assessments-support-nap-processes-in-the-pacific-region For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to procurement.sb@undp.org | 
