DAI, the implementer of the “USAID-funded Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (IUWASH)
Project” invites qualified offerors to submit proposals to supply and deliver
“CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNICAL WRITER (Water Supply VA&AP Summary Report for Sibolga and Batang)” in
support of program implementation. The
Indonesia Urban Water Sanitation and Hygiene (USAID IUWASH) Project (or, the
“Project”) is a sixty-month program funded by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) and implemented under the leadership of DAI.
USAID IUWASH works with government, the private sector, NGOs, community groups
and other stakeholders to improve access to safe water supply and sanitation in
Indonesia’s urban areas. The overall goal of USAID IUWASH is to assist the
Government of Indonesia (GOI) in making significant progress in achieving its
safe water and sanitation Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets by
expanding access to these services. The expected results to be achieved are: 2 million
people in urban areas gain access to improved water supply; 250,000 people in
urban areas gain access to improved sanitation facilities; and the per unit
water cost paid by the poor in targeted areas decreases by at least 20%. To
achieve the above, assistance provided by the project is divided under three
main technical components, including:
- Mobilizing demand for water supply and sanitation service delivery;
- Improving and expanding capacity for water and sanitation service delivery; and
- Strengthening policy and the financial enabling environment for improved water supply and sanitation service delivery.
An
important element of the second component is to provide assistance to local
governments and water utilities to better manage and protect raw water
supplies—i.e. improved “water security”—specifically as the twin forces of
economic development and climate change place increasing pressure on these
finite resources. In many ways, municipal water utilities are on the front line
of efforts to mitigate or adapt to the wide-ranging effects of climate change.
Towards this end, the IUWASH Project is working with water utilities to conduct
water supply vulnerability assessments and adaptation plans. This work is in
accordance with Outcome IC-4: “At least 20
PDAMs implementing necessary climate change adaptation measures based on
preliminary raw water sources vulnerability assessments.”
Briefly,
under the auspices of the Water Supply Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation
Planning (VA&AP) process, the IUWASH Project:
· a.
Implements a baseline
vulnerability assessment in cooperation with a local partner such as a
university or consulting firm;
·
b. Facilitates a series of
stakeholder workshops to hone in on key natural and physical asset
vulnerabilities and identify priority adaptation options;
·
c. Supports the development of an
Action Plan, including the integration of this plan into PDAM and local
government planning/budgeting documents.
·
d. Compiles a “Summary Report”
that documents the major elements of the process and the final results.
Objective
The objective of this scope of work is to
provide assistance to the IUWASH Project’s climate change team in the
preparation and finalization of the water supply VA&AP summary report for
two PDAMs, namely Kota
Sibolga in North Sumatra and Kabupaten Batang in
Central Java. The baseline assessment and stakeholder workshops are approaching
completion and, as such, the Project team requires the assistance of a climate
change technical writer (hereafter referred to as “the Consultant”) to compile
the “Summary Report” for each of the two locations.
For these purpose, IUWASH inviting the potential bidders to submit the proposal, detail Scope of Work (SoW) etc, please see : HERE
Thank you very much for your kind attention
Sincerely yours,
Procurement IUWASH
