Objective of the AssignmentÂ
This 3-year assignment under Component 2 of LURP aims at strengthening integrated urban planning and development control practices in five urban areas in Liberia (Greater Monrovia, including Monrovia and Paynesville, Buchanan, Ganta, Gbarnga) through a cohesive approach involving a combination of policy dialogue, capacity development via learning by doing, surveys, modeling and analytics, mainstreaming of affordable technologies, plan making, and public awareness.
Specific objectives for the geographical areas under consideration are to:
1.     Include capacity building as a streamlined approach across all activities through learning-by-doing methods;
2.     Establish guidelines to support urban planning and enforcement;
3.     Mainstream the use of affordable spatial data technology in urban planning practice;
4.     Develop a legacy of digitized baseline data with future projections of urban environments and the natural hazards for urban planning purposes;
5.     Support government to develop and commence implementation of long-term spatial urban plans that include zoning maps, define future development and growth, and establish these as best practice examples for future planning processes;
6.     Identify environmentally important and flood/erosion hazard-prone areas that require protection and strict no-build enforcement.
7.     Develop infrastructure investment plans for the Greater Monrovia Districts (including the cities of Monrovia and Paynesville), Buchanan, Ganta and Gbarnga.
8.     Capacity development and support to strengthen institutional ongoing dialogue on policy, legal and institutional framework for urban planning.
The objective of the urban spatial plan for each urban environment is to inform immediate infrastructure investment priorities and inform approaches to enhance strategic and resilient development control objectives. The planning process shall be structured as a government and community led exercise that is built incrementally while building capacity and understanding. As part of this planning process, the Consultant is expected to develop baseline information with sufficient granularity for these urban settings of the existing footprint and potential future growth scenarios. This baseline information shall also include the development of current and future hazard / risk maps for floods (all urban environments except for Greater Monrovia) and erosion (Greater Monrovia and Buchanan).
The main tasks required inter alia to successfully accomplish the assignment are as follows:
Phase I: Mobilization, data collection, review, and inception report [2 months]
Phase II: Existing Situation Analysis and Strategy Development [3 months]
Phase III: Plan Initiation, Data Assembly and Skill Building [6 months]
Phase IV: Detailed flood and erosion hazard and risk assessments [3 months]
Phase V: Planning and Skill Building [12 months]
Phase VI: Plan Implementation Support and Skill Building [12 months]
Phase VII: Program Evaluation and Closure [1 month]
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Required Key Experts’ Qualifications and ExperienceÂ
Experience on similar assignments and in similar cities is expected. The indicative composition of the team is listed below.Â
 Table 1: Team composition.
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No | Key Expert | Required Minimum Qualifications and Experience | No. of Persons as part of the team | Total Inputs (in person-months)* |
1 | Urban Planning Specialist -Team Leader | M.Sc. in Urban Planning or Urban Management,
15 years post-qualification relevant experience |
1 |
24 |
2 | Transportation and Infrastructure Planning Expert | M.Sc. in Transportation Planning or civil engineer, or related field
10 years post-qualification relevant experience |
2 |
4 |
3 | Urban Economy, Trade or Industrial Development Specialist | M.Sc. in Urban Economy or Industrial & Trade Development or related fields
10 years post-qualification relevant experience |
1 |
4 |
4 | Social Services Infrastructure Planning Expert | M.Sc. in Transportation Planning, Utilities Planning or related Social Sciences
7 years post-qualification relevant experience |
2 |
4 |
5 | Water and Drainage Infrastructure Specialist | M.Sc. in Water Engineering/ Hydrology or related field
10 years’ experience |
1 |
2 |
6 | Housing Development, Land and Real estate. | M.Sc. in Housing or Estate development/or related field
7 years post-qualification relevant experience |
1 |
4 |
7 | Environment Management Specialists | M.Sc. in Environment studies
7 years post-qualification relevant experience |
2 |
4 |
8 | Geographic Information Systems Mapping | BSc. in GIS or related field
5 years post-qualification relevant experience |
2 |
4 |
9 | Flood and erosion risk management expert | M.Sc. in Disaster Risk Management or hydrology or geology related field
7 years post-qualification relevant experience |
2 |
4 |
No | Non-Key Experts | Required Minimum Qualifications and Experience | No. of Persons as part of the team | Total Inputs (in person-months)* |
10 | Knowledge and Skill Building Coordinator | M. Sc in Public Administration, Urban Planning, Education, or related field with at least 10 years of relevant training post-qualification relevant experience |
1 |
24 |
11 | Institutional Development and Governance specialist | M.Sc. in Public Sector Administration, Governance, Institutional development or related field
10 years post-qualification relevant experience |
1 |
2 |
12 | Solid waste management Expert | M.Sc. in Solid Waste Management/Environmental Engineering or related field
10 years post-qualification relevant experience |
1 |
2 |
13 | Programmer | 5 years post-qualification relevant experience in customization of open-source tools |
1 |
3 |
14 | Gender/Community mobilization specialist | B.Sc. in Gender Studies/Social Work/Sociology or related field
5 years post-qualification relevant experience |
1 |
4 |
The consulting team members must demonstrate strong skills in the design of surveys, gathering data, doing quantitative and qualitative analysis and preparing reports and spatial plans. Excellent communication and organizational skills are a must.
Experts must demonstrate relevant experience on at least two assignments for a similar city setting in sub-Saharan Africa in the last 7 yearsÂ
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