Job Description

Date: 18 March 2024 

Call for Proposal / Request for Proposal

Coordinating Lead Author(Individual Consultant) for the second edition of the Biennial Report

 “Global Infrastructure Resilience”

1. Backgroundandcontext

The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academic and knowledge institutions. It aims to address the challenges of building resilience into infrastructure systems and the development associated with it. The vision, mission, goal,and objectives of CDRI are explicitly linked to the post-2015 development agendas. The Coalition will also contribute to the resilience of the global infrastructure systems in an increasingly interconnected world. 

CDRI published the first edition of its Biennial Report, titled – “Global Infrastructure Resilience: Capturing the Resilience Dividend” in October 2023. It is CDRI’s principalvehicle for engaging and focusing the attention of a global audience of political leaders, policymakers, practitioners and researchers on the critical and multifaceted challenges posed to disaster and climate-resilient infrastructure.

2.Biennial Report: Second Edition

The first edition of the Biennial Report was well received and captured the curiosity of a wide range of stakeholders. It presented a compelling economic, financial, and political imperative for investing in resilience based on GIRI (Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index), a first ever fully probabilistic risk assessment of infrastructure assets covering 6 hazards and 7 infrastructure sectors. The Report provided data driven country specific risk metrics to support investments for infrastructure resilience with pathways for upscaling finance, application of Nature-based Infrastructure Solutions (thematic focus for the first edition) and strengthening infrastructure governance. The Report along with its executive summary is now available for download at: cdri.world/gir.The GIRI data platform is also an integral part of the Biennial Report  and makes available the data from the model for visualisation, interpretation, and analysis. It can be accessed at: cdri.world/giri.

For the second edition of the Biennial Report (hereafter referred to as the “Report”), CDRI aims to further bolster the uptake of resilience.

For the same, a new thematic area would be selected alongside other components of the Report that would be integrated as “Chapters” within the Report. Together, they would define the meta-narrative and key messaging of the Report. 

The second edition of the Biennial Report, much like the first, will be guided by a high-level International Advisory Board (IAB), which willreview and approve the draft of the Report before publication. For the development of the Report, CDRI will engage with multiple stakeholders, including its members, Multilateral Development Banks, bilateral agencies, and technical and academic organizations. Contributions will be invited from these stakeholders for the different sections of the Report.

It is in this backdrop that CDRI seeks to hire a consultant for the role of the Coordinating Lead Author on the second edition of the Biennial Report. 

3. Objectives

The key responsibilities of the Coordinating Lead Author will be as follows.

Producing the draft of the Second Biennial Report in collaboration with various technical partners/contributors. The Coordinating Lead Author is expected to be the pen holder for the final draft Report and provide strategic guidance to the various contributors.

Coordinating with and supervising various partners/contributors with support from the Project Management Team

Coordinating with the Advisor for the Biennial Report and the Project Management Team at CDRI. The Project Management Team for the Biennial report includes Director-Research, Knowledge Management and Capacity Development, Lead Specialist, Senior Specialist and Analyst.

For detailed information, please check the complete version of the advert attached below. 

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