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For
Community
Based Early Warning System (CBEWS)
Manual
Development
Doaba Foundation is
a humanitarian organization working in disaster prone areas envisions the
“Disaster Prone Communities Becoming Self-Reliant in Pursuit of Their Common
Interests”. Doaba’s mission is to improve the quality of life among rural people
and, true to its name, concentrates on communities prone to flood disasters. It
believes in achieving the goal through optimal utilization of available
resources i.e. physical-biological, moral and human. It seeks to build capacity
of such communities incorporating even the relief activities into program of
preparedness interventions, facilitating emergence of self-reliant communities.
The Project titled
“Community based disaster risk management” is being implemented by Doaba
Foundation with the financial support of welthungerhilfe. CBDRM committees have
been formed under CBDRM project. There is need to enhance community awareness,
linkages establishment, skills to explore sources of information and to
effectively and efficiently warn communities early in case it is needed.
Purpose
and Scope of Work:
Doaba Foundation is interested to establish
Community Based Early Warning System (CBEWS) and develop a Manual for CBEWS. CBEWS manual is to enhance
skills of early warning committee’s members and all CBO members so losses of
life, infrastructure, livelihood etc may be reduced also threats to life injury
may be minimized.
The manual’s purpose would be to
provide clear guidelines, tools, techniques for effectively and efficiently
establish and run early warning system. CBEWS Manual will be developed in Urdu
language so community can easily understand it. Printed manual will be helpful
for early warning committee members to refresh contents in future. This will
also beneficial for dissemination of information to illiterate community
members as it will also contain pictorial material.
Key
Components of manual would be as under but not limited to;
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What is community based early warning
system
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Purpose and importance of community based
early warning system
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Components of early warning system
o Means and methods
of information collection
o How to
assure quality and reliability in information
o Means and methods
of monitoring disaster according to information
o Means and
methods of information dissemination
o Response
after receiving and disseminating early warning information
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Reasons of flood
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Types of flood
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Factors play role in flood
o Heavy rain
fall
o Melting of
glaciers’
o Climate
change
o Any other
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Measurement of rain fall by installation
of manual rain gauges
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How to measure ‘cusec’?
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Government line departments (National,
provincial and district level) responsible for early warning
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Government line departments responsible
to register queries and provide information
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How to coordinate with government line
departments (National, provincial and district level)
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How to keep record of early warning
committee activities
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Early warning kit
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Use of early warning kits tools
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Action plan for community based early
warning committees
CBEWS manual must include;
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70% theoretical knowledge
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30% practical knowledge with daily life
examples
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Pictorial material to elaborate the contents
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Manual will be in Urdu language
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Easy words should be use so community may
easily understand
Conditions for manual;
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Consultant/ firm should not replicate already
developed manual
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Manual must cover all contents mentioned in
ToR
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Manual must reflect CBDRM approach
Who
can submit Proposals?
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Consultant
/ Firm having expertise in developing CBEWS manual
Deliverables
and Timeframe:
The general idea for
subjects and time line is as under;
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CBEWS manual
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Sr. No
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Subject
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Time Line
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1
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Consultant
meeting with CBDRM team
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October 15
, 2012
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2
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Sharing of first draft of CBEWS manual (must include pictorial
material) with Doaba Foundation
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October 20, 2012
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3
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Feed back
by Doaba Foundation
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October
22, 2012
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4
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Sharing of final draft (must include pictorial material) of CBEWS
manual with Doaba Foundation
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October 25, 2012
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5
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Publication
200 copies by Consultant/firm (Color print in shape of user friendly hand
book) based on feedback by Doaba Foundation
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October 26,
2012
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Content of the Proposal:
The Consultant / Firm are required to submit a
detailed Technical and Financial proposal for Doaba community management skills
training.
Technical
Proposal:
The technical proposal must contain:
1- Contact person and/or organization name,
number, and address
2- Profile
3- Proposed Methodology as per TORs
4- Training agenda and schedule/duration
Financial
Proposal:
The Financial proposal must contain i) Detailed
Budget and ii) Validity period of the quoted price.
Submission Procedure:
The technical and financial proposals (could
be sent in both- soft via email and hard via post/courier should be sent in
sealed envelope.)
Please submit Proposals to:
Address:
Human Resource Department, Doaba
Foundation, House No. 1, Street No.2, Shalimar Colony, Bosan Road Multan
The last date for submission
of proposal is 10 October, 2012.
Proposals
received after the submission deadline will not be entertained under any
circumstances.
Doaba Foundation
reserves the right to accept or reject the proposals without assigning any
reason what so ever
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