River Basin Management – Water Resources Expert Consultancy (Laos national)

Scope of Work

The consultant will support the development of a targeted TDA. The process will be highly consultative with strong engagement of related parties and cooperation with expert groups on different thematic/technical themes as needed to support the process.

The comprehensive assessment will focus on the targeted basins and the consultant will carry out the following tasks, but not limited to, in consultation with SNV and targeted parities:

• Identify the transboundary issues, making use of the project studies and reports.
• Support stakeholders to gather and interpret information on environmental impacts and socio-economic consequences of each problem/impact.
• Analyse the immediate, underlying, new/emerging, and root causes of each challenge; and in particular identify specific practices, sources, locations, and human activities of relevant sectors that are causing, or threatening to cause environmental degradation.
• Facilitate TDA workshops and meetings with different stakeholders at national, basin and community levels.
• Validate findings and areas of analysis prior to finalisation of the reports, to ensure ownership and close coordination with relevant state Party representatives and within the framework of transboundary water cooperation including promotion of joint actions to address basin environmental sustainability and management challenges.

The current consultancy is expected to start around Q2 2024.