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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The German Red Cross is seeking for a National and an International consultant <b>to conduct a participatory evaluation of the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment used by the VNRC as well as to provide a comparative analysis with the DMC Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Assessment (CBDRA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>See attached the ToR and below some information about the project objectives and background. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The consultancy will also be advertised in the VUFO NGO centre Website.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Please circulate the information amongst the relevant networks.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Best Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Jerome Faucet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Title of the consultancy: </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Participatory evaluation of the VCA used by the VNRC and comparative analysis with the Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Assessment (CBDRA) with involvement of relevant stakeholders and vulnerable groups.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Duration & timing:</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Maximum of 34 working days for the international consultant and 27 days for the national consultant, over 17 week period from 24<sup>th </sup>November with the final report completed by 21<sup>th</sup> March 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:-1.5in'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Duty station:</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Hanoi, Viet Nam, with travel to selected communes in provinces <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:.1in;line-height:50%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:50%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>The project, <i>Enhancing the capacities of disaster risk reduction practitioners in Viet Nam through the consolidation of best practices and lessons learnt for community based disaster risk management, vulnerability capacity assessment and disaster response mechanisms, </i>funded by European Union humanitarian aid, supports disaster risk reduction (DRR) practitioners in Viet Nam to be better equipped and prepared to implement disaster risk management programmes.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The project will be implemented by the Vietnamese Red Cross (VNRC) with support from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the German Red Cross (GRC), and the Spanish Red Cross (SRC).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The GRC will directly provide support to the VNRC for the implementation of the Result 2 of the project which can be summarised as follows: The experience and knowledge of VNRC in implementing Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) is consolidated for replication by government staff and non-government DRR practitioners, through the evidenced based documentation of good practices including the incorporation of gender, disability and climate change adaptation approaches. The outputs of the evaluation and the consolidated VCA approach will be widely shared among relevant government and non-government DRR actors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Application Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Interested candidates are invited to send their applications by email in English consisting of a CV, a letter of motivation and a financial and technical offer to: <a href="mailto:grc.vietnam.hr@gmail.com">grc.vietnam.hr@gmail.com</a>. <i>Please indicate clearly your application subject: “VCA consultant”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Deadline: 15<sup>th</sup> November 2014 at 17:00, Hanoi time. </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Please note that only applications which are submitted in English shall be considered. While German Red Cross appreciates all responses, only candidate under consideration shall be contacted and invited for an interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div>
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