Consultant for development of an atlas of housing designs and policy briefs

Project of “Improving the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change related impacts in Viet Nam” financed by Green Climate Fund (GCF) through UNDP Viet Nam will be implemented from 2017 to 2021 in 7 participating provinces of: Thanh Hoa, Nam Dinh, Quang Binh, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Ca Mau.

Project specific objectives are:

- Improving the resilience of residence’s housing infrastructure to climate related impacts, supporting livelihoods and safety conditions to vulnerable coastal households to climate change impacts.

 - Enhancing forest coverage and improving mangrove forest quality for resisting tide ways and protecting coastal communities which contributed to carbon sequestration for emission reduction and biodiversity development.

 - Establishing and improving application of climate and disaster risks information system for supporting climate risks and resilience capacity planning and decision making to climate change.

Project consists of 3 components: Component 1: Storm and flood resilient design features added to 4,000 new houses on safe sites, benefiting 20,000 poor and highly disaster-exposed people in 100 communes in 5 central provinces of Vietnam; Component 2: Regeneration of 4,000 hectares of coastal mangrove storm surge buffer zones using successful evidence-based approaches; Component 3: Increased access to enhanced climate, damage and loss data for private and public sector application in all 28 coastal provinces of Viet Nam.

The Project - Component 1: Support on storm and flood resilient house construction covers five provinces: Quang Ngai, Quang Nam; Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Binh, Thanh Hoa. The Project-Component 1 aims to support poor stakeholders in 5 provinces to construct houses, adding storm and flood resilient design features. Housing and Real Estate Management Bureau (Ministry of Construction) acts as the Project owner of the Project - Component 1. Project Management Unit- Component 1 would like to invite applicants to submit your application documents for the position: National Consultant for development of an Atlas of Housing Designs and Developing a Policy Brief – Component 1: Support on storm and flood resilient house under the Project:” Improving the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change related impacts in Viet Nam” as described in the attached file to the following address:

Ms. Tang Lam Ha
Project Management Unit- Component 1 (GCF Project)
Room 317 – Housing and Real Estate Management Bureau – Ministry of Construction, 37 Le Dai Hanh Street, Hanoi

Download TOR and application document forms for detail information.

Deadline for submission: 4:00 P.M, December 24th, 2018

CVs cannot be returned. In the outer envelope containing the application document, the position applied should be clearly stated.

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