Slope Stabilization Expert

A. About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and
climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with
governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society,
private sector, media, and other key stakeholders.
Established in 1986 as a technical capacity building center, ADPC has grown and diversified
its expertise across social and physical sciences to support sustainable solutions for risk
reduction across a broad range of specialist areas. With over 100 staff from 19 different
nationalities and a wide range of professional expertise from atmospheric scientists to
social scientists with experiences from all levels of engagement typically required for
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Resilience (CR) in an effective manner. ADPC is a
competent regional resource center and has seven thematic departments: ADPC Academy,
Risk Governance, Climate Resilience, Urban Resilience, Health Risk Management,
Preparedness for Response and Recovery, Geospatial Information. These are supported by
Finance, Human Resources and Administration, and Strategic Planning departments. In
addition to the departments, ADPC works on three cross-cutting themes: Gender and
Diversity, Poverty and Livelihoods, and Regional and Transboundary Cooperation through
permanent working committees.
ADPC Strategy 2020 guides the organization in providing comprehensive risk reduction
support to countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. ADPC recognizes the
importance of examining the linkages between disaster risk management, poverty
reduction, gender equality, sustainability, rights-based approaches, climate change and
regional cooperation.
For details please refer to ADPC website at http://www.adpc.net/

B. Background
Disasters take a huge toll on the development agenda of SAR countries. Between 2000 and
2017, disasters in South Asia incurred estimated damages of US$ 149.27 billion. Public
expenditure is under stress by the repeated need to reallocate capital budgets away from
long term development planning and towards reconstruction activities in post-disaster
environments. For example, since 2005, Pakistan has suffered losses on the order of US$ 16
billion due to natural disasters. In Bangladesh, 2007 Cyclone Sidr resulted in damages and
losses of US$1.7 billion, or 2.6 per cent of GDP.
To increase resilience and achieve climate commitments, there is a need for a

transformational shift towards policies and institutions that enable climate resilient
investments. Investing in more resilient infrastructure is both profitable and urgent as
disruptions are extremely costly for governments, households and private sector and large
ongoing investments in infrastructure assets will have long-lasting repercussions as poor
maintenance and natural disasters result in a vulnerable stock.
With the financial support from the World Bank Group, ADPC will be implementing a five
years’ project, titled “Climate Adaptation and Resilience Project for South Asia” (CARE). The
project aims to create an enabling environment for climate resilience policies and
investments across South Asia. This objective will be achieved through enhanced regional
cooperation and knowledge exchange for climate resilience and adaptation and
mainstreaming of resilience and adaptation in national policies, plans and investments.
Scaling up the climate-resilient infrastructure strategy for strategic and rural roads plays a
vital role in satisfactorily implementing all the required components of the project. It would
involve development of standardized geospatial databases and other data for climate-
related risk assessments on the transport sector.
Accordingly, ADPC would like to hire a Slope Stabilization Expert, as a consultant, to deliver
key outputs under the transport sector. The objectives of this consultancy service are:
 To produce a report on the current status of slope stabilization & protection
measures and suggest a set of innovative ways and means for slope stabilization
and protection of roads against slope failure in Nepal.
 To work with the Resilient Transport Specialists to integrate and operationalize the
slope stabilization methods in road design and construction guidelines in
Bangladesh and Nepal.
 To lead the assessment of landslide susceptibility, hazard, vulnerability, and risk of
the road networks in Nepal and Bangladesh (in consultation with Department of
Roads and National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Authority in Nepal and
Local Government Engineering Department in Bangladesh).
 And finally to develop training modules related to slope stabilization and deliver
training sessions as per the work plan.

C. Statement of Intent
The Slope Stabilization Expert will provide technical leadership as well as subject-matter-
expert inputs to related project activities under the CARE for South Asia project’s Resilient
transport sector on slope stabilization, landslide investigation and risk management
activities. The expert will take a leading role in all the landslide hazard assessment related
tasks for Bangladesh, and Nepal, which include the data needed to characterize climate
change exposure and vulnerability, climate inclusive hazard and risk mapping; and also
facilitate in guideline developments for slope stabilization and protection measures.
This position is located in Bangkok, Thailand.
Note: It is not the intent of this Terms of Reference to cover every aspect of the position
requirements, rather to highlight the most important areas of personal and joint responsibilities.

D. Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead the landslide hazard assessment for Bangladesh and Nepal (for selected
districts/provinces) as well as support the regional hazard, vulnerability and risk
assessment (landslide part).
• Support the development of a hazard-risk and exposure-based scale-up plan for
implementation of advanced bio-engineering slope stabilization and protection
measures for Department of Roads, in consultation with the National Disaster
Risk Reduction & Management Authority, Nepal.
• Support the integration of the updated Climate Change Policy 2019 into
developing resilient road networks, slope stabilization and protection measures in
Nepal;
• Provide inputs on review of climate risk assessment methods/approaches and
summary of needs for the transport sectors.
• Support developing a climate-resilient infrastructure strategy for rural and
strategic roads in Bangladesh (specific to landslide hazards).
• Support resilient transport specialist (regional) in developing regional road
infrastructure development guidelines specific to landslide and slope
stabilization.
• Support the Resilient Transport Specialists to integrate and operationalize the
slope stabilization methods in road design and construction guidelines in
Bangladesh and Nepal.
• Support capacity building activities related to landslide hazard and bio-
engineering slope stabilization and protection measures.

E. Qualifications
The candidate should at least have:
 A master’s degree in Engineering Geology, Civil Engineering, Landslide Hazard, or
related field
 At least 7 years of experience in Landslide hazard assessment
 Experience in climate risk assessment, and generation of related information
 Experience in utilizing geospatial data and other data for climate-related assessments
 Experience in developing climate-resilient strategies and guidelines, particularly for
road infrastructure
 Excellent English proficiency oral and written communication, including a
demonstrated track record in technical report writing and ability to communicate
technical matters effective to general audience

F. Reporting Relationships
The Slope Stabilization Expert will report to the Project Director and work in close
coordination with Director, Geospatial Department, ADPC. The specialist will also coordinate
with the other CARE project specialists at the regional and national level to carry out
different activities under the project.

G. Contract Duration
The contract duration will be for 1 year. The consultant’s performance will be reviewed on a
quarterly basis.

H. Selection Method
The consultant will be selected in accordance with ADPC’s recruitment process and in
compliance with the World Bank Procurement Regulations.