Regional : Enhancing Disaster Risk Understanding and Resilience
The KSTA seeks to enhance disaster resilience across ADB's portfolio of projects in alignment with its Strategy 2030. In its initial phase, it will address systemic gaps in existing ADB and DMC disaster risk management capacity by establishing technical guidance for geophysical hazard risk management and preparing country studies on disaster resilient infrastructure standards in priority Group A countries.
Project Details
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Project Officer
Hewitt, Belinda
Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
Request for information -
Country/Economy
Regional -
Sector
- Multisector
| Project Name | Enhancing Disaster Risk Understanding and Resilience | ||||
| Project Number | 55357-001 | ||||
| Country / Economy | Regional |
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| Project Status | Active | ||||
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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| Operational Priorities | OP3: Tackling climate change, building climate and disaster resilience, and enhancing environmental sustainability OP4: Making cities more livable OP6: Strengthening governance and institutional capacity OP7: Fostering regional cooperation and integration |
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| Sector / Subsector | Multisector / ADB's corporate management, policy and strategy development |
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| Gender | Some gender elements | ||||
| Description | The KSTA seeks to enhance disaster resilience across ADB's portfolio of projects in alignment with its Strategy 2030. In its initial phase, it will address systemic gaps in existing ADB and DMC disaster risk management capacity by establishing technical guidance for geophysical hazard risk management and preparing country studies on disaster resilient infrastructure standards in priority Group A countries. | ||||
| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | Disasters pose a substantial threat to sustainable socioeconomic development in Asia and the Pacific. Countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations and small island developing states are particularly vulnerable to social impacts and economic shocks that result from disasters, while the vulnerable groups--especially of women, poor, people with disabilities--bearing the disproportionate impacts. The importance and benefits of disaster-resilient planning and infrastructure investment to better manage geophysical and climate-related risks has been increasingly recognized, with such investment a regional imperative that can generate strong returns. Seismic events comprised four of the five most severe disasters in terms of human impact worldwide over the 2001-2020 period. As such, there is a need to strengthen geophysical risk assessment in ADB DMCs and ensure that infrastructure guidance and standards adequately address geophysical risk management. Comprehensive geophysical risk assessment and the integration of appropriate risk reduction measures in infrastructure pipelines and projects are critical to minimize the human and economic impact of such events. At present, the quality of project-level geophysical risk assessment in DMCs varies across sectors and investments, with many government and ADB-supported projects relying on a limited geophysical risk information, such as national and provincial maps or interpretations of a project's initial environmental examination or impact assessment. Strengthening project and portfolio geophysical risk assessment requires addressing barriers related to DMC knowledge, technical capacity, guidance, and resources for designing and implementing resilient investment projects, availability of granular and sector-specific hazard data and mapping to inform decision-making, and integration of disaster risk reduction in governance and upstream planning. There is a need to develop guidance for ADB, DMCs, and other regional stakeholders on good practice approaches and standards for systematic geophysical risk assessment as part of broader multihazard risk assessment processes. ADB's 2021 Disaster and Emergency Assistance Policy emphasizes that risk management begins with risk reduction; and acknowledges that DMCs have differentiated risk profiles and, thus, opportunities for enhanced resilience. The TA will directly support improved differentiated risk information and disaster risk reduction by (i) developing best practice technical guidance and innovative knowledge solutions for geophysical hazard assessment and management, (ii) assessing the current landscape of geophysical hazard resistant codes and standards in priority Group A DMCs, and (iii) developing action plans and convening regional dialogue to enhance country systems and standards for resilient infrastructure and urban development. |
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| Impact | Impact of ADB's support to DMCs to strengthen resilience to disasters enhanced |
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| Description of Outcome | ADB investments that are informed by comprehensive disaster risk assessment and incorporate disaster resilience measures increased |
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| Description of Project Outputs | Knowledge on disaster risk assessment enhanced National resilience standards strengthened |
| Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | |
| Geographical Location | Regional |
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| Consulting Services | ADB will engage the consultants and carry out procurement following the ADB Procurement Policy (2017, as amended from time to time) and its associated project administration instructions and/or staff instructions. Quality- and cost-based selection (90:10) will be used to engage a consulting firm while 5 person-months of international and 6 person-months of national consultants will be recruited through individual consultant selection. Output-based contracts will be considered where appropriate. Resource persons will likewise be engaged to support the delivery of knowledge-sharing events under the TA. |
| Procurement | Procurement (for workshops, training, seminars, and conferences) will follow ADB's Procurement Policy (2017, as amended from time to time). |
| Responsible ADB Officer | Hewitt, Belinda |
| Responsible ADB Department | Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department |
| Responsible ADB Division | Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster (CCRE) |
| Executing Agencies |
Asian Development Bank |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 13 Apr 2022 |
| Fact Finding | 01 Dec 2021 to 01 Dec 2021 |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 13 Jul 2022 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| Last PDS Update | 13 Jul 2022 |
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 13 Jul 2022 | - | 13 Jul 2022 | 31 Dec 2024 | - | - |
| Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
| 450,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 450,000.00 | 31 Aug 2023 | 45,833.05 |
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| Title | Document Type | Document Date |
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| Enhancing Disaster Risk Understanding and Resilience: Technical Assistance Report | Technical Assistance Reports | Jul 2022 |
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Tenders
| Tender Title | Type | Status | Posting Date | Deadline |
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| National studies on disaster resilient infrastructure standards (Tajikistan resilient community housing) | Firm - Consulting | Active | ||
| Geophysical Hazard Resilience Specialist | Individual - Consulting | Closed | ||
| Technical Assistance Coordinator | Individual - Consulting | Closed |
Contracts Awarded
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