Consultancy service on Analysis of the Kathmandu Valley Flood 2024 through a Watershed Management Perspectives
Oxfam is a global movement of people fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Across regions, from local to global, Oxfam works with people on transformative changes. Oxfam's work is grounded in the commitment to the universality of human rights. Driven by diversity, evidence and experience, we take sides against poverty and injustices everywhere. Oxfam has worked in Nepal since the 1980s through various development, humanitarian and influencing initiatives in close collaboration and partnerships with people, organisations and institutions. Oxfam is a global confederation that includes 21 member organisations, or Affiliates, who contribute their diverse strengths and expertise to help achieve our shared goals working across more than 80 countries, including in Asia. Oxfam’s vision is a Just and Sustainable World. Our mission in Nepal as a development and humanitarian organization is to strengthen civic space and peoples’ actions to end all forms of inequalities and social injustices, informed by a decolonial feminist lens rooted in the Global South. Oxfam’s organisational values guide our work, behaviours, and culture: Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities. Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them. Solidarity: We join hands, support each other, and collaborate across boundaries to work towards a just and sustainable world. Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice. Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for. Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes.
Details / requirements:
Oxfam focuses its activities on providing a comprehensive response to poverty, working cohesively in the four areas that constitute its identity: development cooperation, humanitarian action, faire trade, social mobilization, campaigns and education for global citizenship.
Oxfam are conducting a Request for Proposal (RFP) process and invites you to submit a proposal to provide Oxfam, within their requirements, for:
TITLE: Consultancy service on Analysis of the Kathmandu Valley Flood 2024 through a Watershed Management Perspectives
Oxfam Program:
Emergency Flood and Landslide Response Project
Objective of the assignment:
- Identifying the root causes of the September 2024 floods and evaluating existing flood management strategies.
- Analyzing drinking water supply systems, drainage networks, and flood mitigation infrastructure in Kathmandu Valley.
- Assessing the impact of Melamchi Drinking Water Project’s additional water injection on the Bagmati watershed.
- Conducting rainfall analysis, flood modulation, and GIS mapping of water sources within the valley.
- Evaluating existing disaster risk management frameworks, early warning systems, and inter-municipal coordination mechanisms.
- Providing actionable recommendations for improved watershed management of Kathmandu valley to enhance flood resilience, watershed management, and strengthen water governance structure.
Date : Estimated Date in between 27 March 2025 to 28 April 2025.
Type of Consultancy: VAT registered Consultancy Firm
You´ll find in the Request for Proposal all the terms and conditions in order to submit your proposal with all required details in the link below.
The Request for Proposal is available for download here:
https://oxfam.box.com/s/810w609g6xnextudfg7avfy3879i2to7
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR OFFER:
Quotes to be sent by mail to consultancy_nepal@oxfam.org.uk by/ before 17:00pm on 23 March 2025
The subject of the mail must be:
RFP/24-25/053/Nepal Flood Study + [Name of the bidder]
We look forward to receiving a proposal from you and thank you for your interest in our account.
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| Posted Date | 12 Mar, 2025 |
| Apply Before | 23 Mar, 2025 |
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