International and National Consultants at GRC

Position: 1 International consultant (lead), and 1 National consultant

1.     Summary

Title: Participatory evaluation of the VCA used by the VNRC and comparative analysis with the Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Assessment (CBDRA) with involvement of relevant stakeholders and vulnerable groups.

Duration & timing: Maximum of 34 working days for the international consultant and 27 days for the national consultant, over 17 week period from 24th November with the final report completed by 21th March 2015

Duty station: Hanoi, Viet Nam, with travel to selected communes in provinces

Reporting: German Red Cross DRR delegate

2.     Background

The project, Enhancing the capacities of disaster risk reduction practitioners in Viet Nam through the consolidation of best practices and lessons learnt for community based disaster risk management, vulnerability capacity assessment and disaster response mechanisms, funded by European Union humanitarian aid, supports disaster risk reduction (DRR) practitioners in Viet Nam to be better equipped and prepared to implement disaster risk management programmes.

The project will be implemented by the Vietnamese Red Cross (VNRC) with support from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the German Red Cross (GRC), and the Spanish Red Cross (SRC).

The GRC will directly provide support to the VNRC for the implementation of the Result 2 of the project which can be summarised as follows: The experience and knowledge of VNRC in implementing Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) is consolidated for replication by government staff and non-government DRR practitioners, through the evidenced based documentation of good practices including the incorporation of gender, disability and climate change adaptation approaches. The outputs of the evaluation and the consolidated VCA approach will be widely shared among relevant government and non-government DRR actors.

3.     Purpose

GRC is seeking for a National and an International consultant to conduct a participatory evaluation of the VCA used by the VNRC as well as to provide a comparative analysis with the Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Assessment (CBDRA) by involving relevant stakeholders and vulnerable groups.

Application Procedure

Interested candidates are invited to send their applications by email in English consisting of a CV, a letter of motivation and a financial and technical offer to: [email protected].

Please indicate clearly your application subject: “VCA consultant”.

Deadline:  15th November 2014 at 17:00, Hanoi time. Please note that only applications which are submitted in English shall be considered. While German Red Cross appreciates all responses, only candidate under consideration shall be contacted and invited for an interview.