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 two-year project in partnership with the Ministry of Environment Climate Change Disaster Management and Meteorology to have an integrated approach to addressing disaster management and disaster risk reduction. 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:
- institutional capacity development, coordination, planning and policy advisory support to consolidate the establishment of a robust and resilient Solomon Islands disaster risk management system that also considers climate change and sustainable development.
- scale up of support to strengthening sub- national governance and operational arrangements to enhance community resilience.
- strengthening of linkages between climate and disaster risk reduction and sustainable development through better information and knowledge management system for planning and decision- making.
This assignment is related to output number one of this project and focuses on the development of the handbook for the Solomon Islands National Emergency Response Team (NERT).
The NERT is the rapid deployment mechanism under the National Disaster Management Plan 2018 operational arrangements. It is the field deployment component of the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) located in the National Disaster Management Office with the main goal to support disaster response coordination. The NERT currently has 35 trained members and has done deployed 10 rotations so far to support the COVID-19 response in Solomon Islands.
National Consultant on Development of National Emergency Response Team Handbook
Individual IC General Terms and Conditions
Individual Contract_Offerors Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability
P11 – Personal History Form
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