VN045 - National Short-term Consultants to provide consulting service in building 3 models of climate change resilient communities in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

Background

In Viet Nam, climate change is expected to pose greater health risks to Vietnamese community from increases in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events (e.g., more heat events of longer duration, floods, droughts and salt intrusion, wildfires and storm surges), poor air quality, impacts on drinking and recreational water quality, food-borne diseases and vector-borne and zoonotic diseases.

Climate-driven events are impacting communities in many ways, impairing air and water quality, polluting land and increasing health risks of residents. As communities work to protect public health from more heat waves, wildfire smoke, drought and salt intrusion, flooding and other climate-related disasters, they need resources and information to better prepare for, withstand and recover from them. To cope with climate change impacts to communities, it is necessary that communities have a strong capacity, starting from good awareness on health impacts from climate change, capacity to assess their vulnerability and risks to climate change to capacity of making plan for adaptation and mitigation of climate change impacts and for recovery after climate change events.

In an effort to strengthen capacity of communities to cope with climate change impacts, VIHEMA with support from WHO has conducted capacity building for vulnerability assessment, climate risk assessment, monitoring and evaluation, and climate change adaptation planning in which a set of indicators for V&A assessment was applied in 3 selected communities in 3 provinces. Based on that foundation, VIHEMA proposes WHO to support in building 3 models for climate change resilient communities in WASH to cope with change climate in vulnerable communities (in flood, sea level rise, drought areas) in selected provinces including Thai Binh, Ca Mau and Nghe An.    

As part of its technical assistance to VIHEMA, WHO is recruiting 02 national consultants to provide technical support to VIHEMA in conducting the above activity.

Objectives of the consultancy activity

To provide consulting service in building 3 models of climate change resilient communities in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

Timelines:

Start date:  15 September 2023 (subject to confirmation)

End date:   31 December 2023

Number of working days as a consultant: 25 non-consecutive days

Address for application

Administrative Officer
World Health Organization
UN Building, 304 Kim Ma Street, Hanoi, Viet Nam
Or by email at: wpvnmapplicants@who.int

Note: applicants should indicate vacancy notice number and title of position in the email subject