Water Resources Infrastructure Specialist (National)

T A -9506 INO: Preparation of the Enhanced Water Security Investment Project - Water Resources Infrastructure Specialist (National) (46380-028) 

Consultant Type Individual Selection Method Individual Consultant Selection (ICS)

Source National Technical Proposal Not Applicable

Selection Title Preparation of the Enhanced Water Security Investment Project

Package Number Package Name Water Resources Infrastructure Specialist (National)

Advance Action      Yes      No Engagement Period     15     MONTH   Consulting Services Budget USD     58,000 Budget Type      Estimated      Maximum

Approval Number 9506 Approval Date 14-Mar-2018 Estimated Short-listing Date 30-Mar-2018 Estimated Commencement Date 20-Apr-2018

Open to non-Member Countries      Yes      No

Additional Information

Possibility of contract extension      Yes      No      Not known       Possibility of consideration for downstream assignment      Yes      No      Not known       Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC)      Yes      No     Country of assignment     Indonesia Country of eligibility for national consultants     Same as country of assignment

Contact Information

Project Officer Eric Quincieu Designation Senior Water Resources Specialist     Asian Development Bank Email equincieu@adb.org

Primary	Agency	Country	Agency Role	Contact Person
	Directorate General of Water Resources, Ministry of Public Works & Housing, Republic of Indonesia	Indonesia	Executing Agency	Mr. Tri Sasongko Widianto

Expertise Water Resources Infrastructure Specialist Expertise Group Agriculture/Rural Development TOR Keywords water resources, infrastructure development

Objective and Purpose of the Assignment 

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing technical assistance to the Government of Indonesia to prepare the Enhanced Water Security Investment Project. The project will support the Government to improve selected dimensions of water security (economic water security and resilience to water-related disasters) for which Indonesia lacks. The project will promote an integrated river basin management approach with the following objectives: (i) improving water resources planning and management to meet rising demands for irrigation and non-agricultural users; (ii) minimizing spatial and temporal variations in water availability by improving water storage facilities and conveyance; and (iii) increasing resilience to climate change. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is expected to provide parallel collaborative cofinancing to improve land management in upper river basins. The project will implement selected infrastructure subprojects that will be designed under the Accelerating Infrastructure Delivery through Better Engineering Services Project including four flood risk management and one bulk water supply subprojects. It will also implement two flood risks management subprojects to be prepared under Flood Management in Selected River Basins Sector Project. Detailed engineering designs, environment and social safeguards documents and permits, and bidding documents will be prepared as per ADB standards for those selected subprojects. Through its partnerships, ADB will introduce innovations to inform the design of the project: (i) water accounting using satellite data to predict water availability, adjust engineering design, and improve water allocation planning through the partnership between ADB and UNESCO-IHE; and (ii) piloting benchmarking and monitoring of land use change and erosion through the partnership between ADB and the European Space Agency. Funding from the climate change fund will be explored for preparing the climate risk vulnerability assessments for the selected river basins.

Scope of Work 

The services will provide support to (i) conduct consultations with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (MPWH) and river basins stakeholders to finalize the scope of the project, and to ensure that innovations are built into the investment; (ii) undertake due diligence of technical, social, financial, environmental, gender, and economic aspects of the project; and (iii) ensure that subprojects designed under the L3455-INO: Accelerating Infrastructure Delivery through Better Engineering Services Project and L3440-INO: Flood Management in Selected River Basins Sector Project, are complying with ADB’s technical, environment and social safeguards and fiduciary requirements. The major outputs include finalization of project scope, preparation of the design of the ensuing project and readiness in accordance with ADB standards (safeguards, detailed engineering design and climate change).

Detailed Tasks and/or Expected Output 

(i) Support the review of feasibility studies and engineering design for infrastructure subprojects prepared under the Accelerating Infrastructure Delivery through Better Engineering Services Project (four flood risk management and the one bulk water supply subprojects) and two flood risks management under the Flood Management in Selected River Basins Sector Project. (ii) Support the preparation of feasibility studies for infrastructure subprojects that are not designed under L3455 and L3440 (iii) Review government planning and design guidelines for river infrastructure and recommend improvements for complying with international best practices on climate resilience, bioengineering and seismic risk proofing. (iv) Review the operation and maintenance data collection, information system maintenance and budgeting processes and capacity of river basins organizations for river assets and formulate project components to address gaps. (v) Identify infrastructure investments suitable for private public partnership and performance-based O&M and prepare related documentation (vi) Contribute to the formulation of project components, cost estimates, terms of reference. (vii) Contribute to the preparation of the linked documents. The consultant will prepare the following formal reports, in addition to any necessary working papers or reports required for the preparation of the proposed investment projects: (i) Technical notes to support upgrading of planning and engineering guidelines; (ii) Report on operation and maintenance processes, information system and budgeting; (iii) Inputs to review of feasibility studies prepared under L3455 and L3440; and (iv) Working Group materials and discussion and technical notes as required.

Minimum Qualification Requirements 

The consultant must have at least 10 years of experience in designing and supervising water infrastructure works, and a master’s degree or equivalent in civil engineering. The consultant must have a robust knowledge base on asset management, operation and maintenance using information systems. Knowledge of the government planning cycle, procurement procedures and financial management mechanisms is essential. He/she must have excellent written and oral communications skills.

Minimum General Experience     7 Years Minimum Specific Experience (relevant to assignment)     7 Years Regional/Country Experience      Required      Desired      Not Required

Schedule and Places of Assignment (chronological and inclusive of travel) Schedule Type      Continuous      Intermittent     Max. Working Days/Week Home Office 5 Field 6     City and Country Working Days Estimated Start Date Estimated End Date Other Details (use if place selected is Others) Jakarta, Indonesia 239 20-Apr-2018 20-Mar-2019   Home Office, Other 25 21-Mar-2019 30-Jun-2019 Semarang   Total 264

Information

• Location: Indonesia
• Starts March 14, 2018 20:00 , ends April 3, 2018 17:59

Taxonomy

• Agriculture
• Resource Management
• Infrastructure
• Water Resource Management
• Infrastructure Management
• Agriculture & Forestry
• resource management