Responsibilities: Under the supervision of the national Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader and in consultation with other Sector Experts, the national Climate and Disaster Resilience Expert shall co-lead the entire consulting team with regards to setting-up priorities, direction, and to ensure all proposals are evaluated for building climate and disaster resilience, and promoting sustainability. The national Climate and Disaster Resilience Expert would undertake the following tasks, but not limited to: undertake a rapid climate risk assessment using the preliminary climate (and disaster) risk screening checklist for each prioritized subproject to establish the climate resiliency of the improved urban infrastructure plans and feasibility studies, particularly site selection and designs. Based on the outcome of the checklist assessment („medium‟ or „high‟ risk), prepare an initial climate change assessment (CCA) during the subproject preparation stage. Results and findings from the initial CCA will then be the basis of proposed climate change adaptation and/or mitigation plans, whose costs will determine the subproject‟s climate financing contribution. The initial CCA will undergo further modification, based on a more detailed climate risk and adaptation assessment or CRA undertaken by adopting ADB‟s CRA (formerly climate risk and vulnerability assessment or CRVA) Tool; undertake research on new technologies in water supply, sanitation, roads/ transport, and other project components that focus on climate resilience innovations for target cities, taking in consideration any existing information on state-/region-/sector-level vision, policy and/or strategy papers, master plans, sector plans, etc., already undertaken by the government, ADB, etc.; facilitate discussions on the new technologies with state and central agencies, and sensitize the government to the benefit of adopting viable climate proofing/resilience technologies, including support to strengthen urban infrastructure vision/plans; prepare climate resilience framework for onward guidance and to address climate risks/ climate change impacts and disaster risks aspects in detailed planning and infrastructure design (which would be useful during subsequent implementation, operation and maintenance processes as well), include the applicable new technologies in the “List of Best Practices” sheet to be considered for planning and design purposes, design viable climate and disaster resilience measures–such as risk avoidance/ minimization measures, adaptation, and/or mitigation measures, etc.; as a lead on building climate and disaster resilience, assume responsibility for the consulting team and its performance of services under the consultancy contract to ensure that climate and disaster resilience measures are integrated into the planning and detailed engineering designs to achieve (as per national standards/ international standards and/or best practices, including ADB‟s South Asia Department framework and practice, etc.), and demonstrates resilience as per rapid climate risk assessment/ detailed CRA (formerly CRVA) and the climate resilience framework and measures prepared, i.e., ensure mandatorily that “disastersecure engineering,” “structural norms/ non-structural measures,” etc., for risk reduction are built-in the plans/designs, including design considerations for any “climate proofing” of existing infrastructure, from the very beginning at subproject/project-level towards supporting climate-disaster-and-urban resilience; while duly following provisions made in the PRF PAM, and in any other governing/guidance documents of ADB, including those approved by ADB for the PRF project; collect data of gender-differentiated climate change and disaster impacts in collaboration with Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Expert, identify marginalised/ excluded groups, most vulnerable communities and areas; identify and create an awareness of climate risks/ climate change impacts and disaster risks on existing communities and future growth areas; and proactively document and address vulnerabilities to climate risks/ climate change impacts and disaster risks in the climate resilience framework, while ensuring that infrastructure should also be resilient against human made risks under integrated urban sector–project formulation and preparedness assessments, and for project development/ implementation; provide guidance to the design team members for various sectors, to consider necessary parameters in planning and detailed engineering designs/any other design work, from the context of building climate and disaster resilience; co-lead the team of consultants to collaborate for the integration of the climate resilient measures into the main designs, in an inclusive and sustainable manner, with due consideration to concepts of IWRM, IUWM, WSUD, etc.; review the material strength adopted in the design of all the structures; review the design to ensure that the planning, and detailed structural analyses and design are in accordance with the prescribed national codes and standards/international codes and standards;
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