Background
Floods occur in both winter and summer in Macedonia, driven by different meteorological processes. Floods often occur along the country’s major rivers Vardar, Crna Reka, Treska, Strumica, Pcinja, Lepenec and Bregalnica. The Vardar River basin is the largest in the country, accounts for 80% of the nation’s water resources, and has the highest potential flood risk in the country. Winter and spring floods are generally driven by prolonged rains and intensive snowmelt (or a combination of both). Summer flash floods are driven by short and intensive rains (most frequently summer storms) in smaller river basins (Negotino and Kavadarci, 1995). EM-DAT indicates that between 2002 and 2006, five flood events resulted in the death of two people, and affected 114,061 people.
Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Project Manager, the Contractor shall be responsible for carrying out the following tasks:
- Familiarize with the risk and hazard assessment framework, especially the Law on Crisis Management and the Regulation on the
methodology for preparation of the Assessment from all risks and hazards (Official Gazette of RM, No. 13/2011)
Review and compile existing and available floods related information from various sources (e.g., official institutions, relevant studies and
similar). Data on all potential sources of flood hazard need to be obtained (e.g., surface runoff, storm waters, groundwater and ordinary
water courses)
- Review of the existing situation regarding flood assessment, including early warning and alerting for floods and ICT solutions
Conduct preliminary flood risk assessment. Information on historic and potential (future) floods need to be assembled for this purpose
Requirements
The Contractor (company) shall have extensive experience in developing and managing complex projects in the area of water resources / watershed management, environment or sustainable development.
It shall have a record of minimum 4 projects of comparable nature and scope (e.g., river basin management plans; flood risk management plans; complex water resources projects such as irrigation / drainage or dams projects, optimization of water resources systems; feasibility studies for complex environmental investment projects that include water-related issues, water-use projects or other).
The scope of work requires an interdisciplinary team of skilled professionals with previous experience in similar environmental/ flood protection/water resources/watershed management projects. Team members shall possess excellent relevant technical skills in order to successfully implement the assignment.
Deadline: 14 December 2015
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