The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is scaling up its efforts to build resilience to natural disasters and climate change in Nepal via DFID’s Nepal Resilience Portfolio - DFID has gone out to tender with contracts for two major new programmes worth an estimated £7 million.
Nepal is subject to a wide range of disaster risks and impacts, including both earthquakes and climate related hazards such as floods, droughts and landslides. Disasters cost the government about six percent of its annual development expenditure per year. Recent estimates indicate that the negative impact of weather variability is equivalent to around 2 % of current GDP per year rising to 5 % or more in extreme monsoon flood years.
The impacts are expected to increase significantly due to climate change - to address the challenges; DFID Nepal is now taking forward two major new programmes, ‘Climate Smart Development for Nepal’ and ‘Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Nepal’.
DFID has gone out to tender to implement two contracts in support of the implementation of the two major new programmes.
Lot One seeks a supplier to act as a Portfolio Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Unit, and Lot Two seeks a supplier to act as a Policy and Institutions Facility (PIF).
The MEL will synthesise monitoring data and conduct analysis to help DFID Nepal flexibly manage the programmes, ensuring strong value for money.
The MEL will also generate evidence through evaluations on DFID Nepal's disaster resilience and climate smart development programmes, sharing findings and facilitating learning with a range of audiences.
By building the systems for Government of Nepal to lead on disaster resilience and climate change, DFID said the PIF will help to strengthen Nepal's policy and institutional framework for disaster resilience and climate change. It is also expected to help to deliver a sustained and transformational impact on Nepal's resilience to climate disasters and earthquakes beyond the beneficiaries directly supported through programme activities.
DFID intends to award up to two contracts for up to 5.5 years –the total budget available for the MEL is approximately £3.5 million and approximately £3.5 million also identified for the PIF.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 9th January 2017 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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