Nepal: Disaster Resilience of Schools Project

Education / Education sector development

Three natural disasters threaten school infrastructure in Nepal: earthquakes, landslides and flood. Records show that the risks linked to an earthquake in terms of casualties, number of affected persons and physical damages remains the greatest of all. Making school infrastructure resilient to earthquakes is a priority and doing so would make them resistant to flood and landslide damages as well.

The Project would mainstream the reconstruction and retrofitting of the most vulnerable schools in the 14 affected districts of Nepal. A DRR program would complement the retrofitting effort. The proposed Project would pilot a community-driven retrofitting by local government of 3 schools in selected municipalities. The objective is also to train the remote communities to replicate the good practice in future government funding.

Disaster risk management for human resource development enhanced (Post Disaster Recovery Framework and School Sector Development Plan)_a

[a = Government of Nepal, National Reconstruction Authority. 2016. Nepal Earthquake 2015: Post Disaster Recovery Framework, 2016-2020.Kathmandu; and Government of Nepal, Ministry of Education.2016. School Sector Development Plan, 2016-2030. Kathmandu.

Heavily damaged schools reconstructed and improved

Unsafe schools retrofitted and disaster risk reduced

Institutional capacity for disaster resilience strengthened_g

[g = Capacity of MOEST, municipalities, SMCs, and communities strengthened.]

MOU has been done with CEHRD/EMIS for this activity. Coordination with CEHRD/EMIS is continued.

Contract with DRM consultant was done on 20 September 2020 and will be mobilized from 01 November 2020 to conduct trainings.

Contract with DRM consultant was done on 20 September 2020 and will be mobilized from 01 November 2020 to conduct trainings.

Contract with DRM consultant was done on 20 September 2020 and will be mobilized from 01 November 2020 to conduct mentioned activity.

Contract with DRM consultant was done on 20 September 2020 and will be mobilized from 01 November 2020 to conduct mentioned activity.

Reconstruction and retrofitting of schools is at initial stage and activities on solar power is initiated. Aid Implementation Support Team (National Consulting firm) for solar component: Evaluation of technical proposal is continued.

" Recon1 comprises of 66 schools that are under construction. Of 66, 59 schools are in advance stage of implementation, while progress of 7 schools is comparatively less.

" Recon 2 comprises of 107 schools that are packaged into 9 contract packages. 7 packages have been awarded while packages belong to Sindhuli and Okhaldhunga are in the process of awarding.

" Ramechhap and Dolakha (28 Schools) just started joint survey. 79 schools in other districts foundation work almost complete and superstructure work going on.

DRM consultant will perform this activity. It is agreed that DSC will develop the design and DRM Team will review and implement.

91 schools under the reconstruction (Recon 1; Recon 2) and 62 additional schools have been identified to be covered under the retrofitting.

Financial Bid opening process completed of Recon 1 and Recon 2 Retrofitting.

From 62 additional list of schools for retrofitting: Package 3: 14 schools, bidding documents preparation going on. Package 4: 10 schools, design and estimate is continue. Package 5 to 9: Design and Estimate is going on as per Plan.

Contract with DRM consultant was made on 20 September and the team will be mobilized from 1 November 2020.The consultant will prepare DRM action plan.

All consultants will be recruited according to ADB Procurement Policy (2017, as amended from time to time) and ADB Procurement Regulations (2017, as amended from time to time). The terms of reference for all consulting services are detailed in Section D.

An estimated 7,418 person-months (7,262 through firm and or NGO and 156 through individual person-months) are required to (i) facilitate project management and coordination, (ii) design and supervise civil works, (iii) organize community disaster risk reduction, (iv) implement of solar component, and (v) strengthen the institutional and operational capacity of the implementing agency. Consulting firm will be engaged using the quality and cost-based selection (QCBS) method with a standard quality cost ratio of 80:20.

All procurement of goods and works will be undertaken in accordance with ADB Procurement Policy (2017, as amended from time to time) and ADB Procurement Regulations (2017, as amended from time to time).

Open competitive bidding (OCB) method with international advertisement will be used for any civil works contract estimated to $5 million or more, and any goods contract estimated to cost $ 2 million or more. OCB method with national advertisement will be used for any civil works contract estimated to cost below $5 million and any goods contract estimated to cost below $2 million. Shopping will be used for any civil works or goods contract estimated to cost below $100,000.