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Terms of Reference (TORs)
1. Objective
GCA’s Water and Urban Program provides technical assistance for cities and national governments to identify priorities for climate adaptation investment. This is done together with Multilateral Development Banks and other partners that support water services, urban development and informal settlements upgrading.
Comprehensive Climate Risk Assessments typically serve some or all of the following purposes for water services, urban development, and informal settlements upgrading:
• Informing detailed planning and design of investment projects, sector master plans, resilience roadmaps and community resilience investments. As part of this process, adaptation options are prioritized, including Nature Based Solutions (NBS).
• Development of investment plans, adaptation project concepts, and other actions to enable adaptation financing.
Rapid Climate Risk Assessments typically serve some of or all the following purposes:
• Initiating or advancing a dialogue between city officials and financiers (currently Multilateral Development Banks and Development Banks) towards an urban investment portfolio that is informed by climate risk.
• Building capacity and aligning city decision makers around a climate adaptation agenda that has clear priorities.
• A precursor for detailed climate risk assessment and resilience options appraisal linked to a specific urban investment.
Within this context, GCA is seeking Service Provider/s to enter into a Framework Agreement to carry out Comprehensive and Rapid Climate Risk Assessments (RCRAs) in Africa and Asia.
2. Tasks and activities
General description
Both rapid and comprehensive climate risk assessments typically comprise three tasks (outlined below) whose granularity and level of detail depend on the objectives and scope of work of individual assignments (to be specified in each Work Order).
Key tasks in a Rapid Risk Climate Risk Assessment
1. Hazard assessment
For rapid assessments, key climate hazards are typically analyzed from secondary data and or global data (major databases and credible sources) and from interviews and discussions with key city stakeholders. For comprehensive assessments, remote sensing and other data from monitoring stations are also used to estimate parameters needed for hydrological and hydraulic modeling as appropriate.
This may include:
• Historical analysis and future projection of temperature and precipitation for at least two time horizons and two emissions scenarios.
• Historical analysis and future projection of climate hazards over at least two time horizons with estimates of intensity, frequency, and duration.
• Development of climate hazard maps and validation by relevant officials and key stakeholders
• Rapid scan of hazards using global data for multiple cities
2. Vulnerability assessment
Analysis of the sensitivity and adaptative capacity of systems (places, people, institutions, infrastructure (assets, systems, services)) when exposed to key hazards. The impacts of hazards on systems are prioritized and mapped to identify hotspots. For some assignments, detailed analysis is done for hotspots.
This may include:
• For infrastructure systems, physical assets and facilities and economic land uses: estimates of flood impacts from direct asset or economic damage and or indirect service disruption
• For rapid city assessments: identifying key city sectors or services that will be impacted by hazards.
• Identifying any societal, environmental, or economic factors that either worsen impact or that lead to beneficial impacts.
• Combining hazard assessment, and the most relevant non-climatic trends (demographics; socio-economic development, etc.), to identify the areas where the most people will be affected by hazards.
• Identifying any factors that enable systems (including communities and institutions) to respond to climate hazards and their impact.
Check the RFP for more information.