Call for Proposals: Consultancy for Design Solutions For City Resilience

The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is requesting proposals for a new consultancy on Consultancy for Design Solutions For City Resilience

Working in collaboration with the IFRC and American Red Cross, the GDPC has received an award (to be referred to as the Coastal Cities Project) from USAID/OFDA to design and test a set of tools and services to assist RCRC National Societies and other local organizations to create effective city coalitions on community resilience, targeting climate smart resilience and coastal risk reduction in particular. The idea is that the RCRC National Societies or other local organizations would convene relevant partner organizations in lasting coalitions to focus city-wide expertise, capabilities, and resources on priority risks facing vulnerable communities in the city. The coalitions are intended to complement existing urban governance processes led by the local governments and draw wider support from the business community, universities, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders into city-wide civic engagement on community resilience.

The GDPC seeks consultancy services to the overall design, development, prototyping and coaching services for the design solution process and a toolkit to help city coalitions develop and implement viable, inclusive and sustainable solutions to the priority problems identified.

The Consultant(s) will deliver the four following outputs:

1) Development of a cutting-edge methodology for a participatory solution design process which

a. Focuses on inclusive community resilience

b. Complements existing resilience assessment and coalition-building processes and methodologies developed under the project; this also will link with the community-level assessments which the National Societies will use to facilitate a deeper analysis of the issue identified through city-level assessment.

c. Takes into account evolving innovation initiatives and technology available to communities

d. Facilitates iterations on the design process to refine and combine solutions for use in addressing community resilience at scale across countries

e. Takes into consideration the process, experiences and learning of the pilot design solutions process exercises done in the current three project cities. This could be done through interviews/meetings with by visiting the cities or through skype.

2) Piloting of the methodology and materials in the project city of Myanmar. Documenting the process and incorporating feedback and learning into the finalized versions.

3) Development of a toolkit that would help Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies, local government leaders and communities to apply similar design solutions processes in the city communities. 

4) At the end of the consultancy, submit a final report of the process, summarizing the lessons learnt, successes and recommendations for improving the process and the materials. 

Please see the attached Terms of Reference for additional information on the consultancy and the submission guidelines.

Submission of proposals: deadline December 21st, 2017. Please send your application with required supporting docouments to the email address colin.fernandes@redcross.org and paul.rebman@redcross.org with the subject line SOLUTION DESIGN PROCESS (Name and Organization).

Are you sure you want to delete this "resource"?
This item will be deleted immediately. You cannot undo this action.
File Name File Size Download
terms_of_reference_coastalcities_designsolutions.docx 21 KB

Related Resources

Awareness material
22 Jun 2020
Albania is a flood-prone country that has faced changing rainfall patterns with stronger and longer rainfall periods over the past 15 years. The inadequate infrastructure increases the severity of floods every few years in the northern part of Albani...
Tags: Awareness material, Behavior Change and Disaster Preparedness, Community Risk Assessment, Flood, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Case Study
10 Mar 2014
This paper addresses the role of the private sector in humanitarian action in Indonesia and broad patters of engagement between the humanitarian and the private sectors. In analysing these issues, the paper identifies the barriers to, and opportu...
Tags: Case Study, Post-Disaster Recovery, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Risk Reduction
Case Study
07 Mar 2015
The Partners for Resilience (PfR) put their integrated approach and vision of community resilience into practice to improve the livelihoods of rural communities in Nicaragua. In the municipalities of San Lucas and Las Sabanas, their micro-projects co...
Tags: Case Study, Drought, Flood, Landslide, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods