Type of service provide :

The resident technical assistant and his pool of experts supported AFD with overseeing and implementing the 6 projects financed by Euroclima+, and also helped to organise regional events and implement a communication plan for the programme.

• Coordinating the selection process for projects funded under the Euroclima+ programme (drawing up a project shortlist and issuing restricted calls for tender);
• Developing the timetable and relationships with beneficiaries and local agencies and teams, assisting with contract set-up for selected programmes, clarifying needs and drafting terms of reference;
• Supervising and monitoring AFD projects by defining objectively verifiable indicators and objectives, developing a regular coordination mechanism and a data management system to record performance and ensure adherence to deadlines;
• Bringing in technical expertise and working to build beneficiaries’ capacities based on the needs expressed;
• Ensuring good communication between the various stakeholders involved in each component and overseeing the organisation of regional events, communities of practice, consultation workshops and sector working groups.

Type of service provide :

Developing a monitoring and evaluation and lesson-learning mechanism to cover a period of 3 years. The 3 projects will be jointly evaluated and reviewed to share lessons learned and disseminate innovative ideas beyond the scope of the projects. The lesson learning component includes producing a film to reach a larger audience. The organisation programme Solidarité-Eau (pS-Eau) is also involved in the project, raising awareness within the WASH sector.

• Collecting and reviewing project documents, meeting stakeholders, developing a peer-reviewed monitoring and evaluation methodology and developing a cross-project lesson-learning methodology;
• Conducting a peer-reviewed monitoring and evaluation using OECD/CAD criteria, and regular monitoring by project leaders, and updating a website set up for use by project partners;
• Organising capacity-building and knowledge-sharing meetings with project leaders, WASH practitioners and the AFD operational team;
• Producing two films and a « capitalization report » to demonstrate the lessons learned;
• Developing a plan to disseminate the monitoring & evaluation and lesson-learning findings through a workshop and lesson-learning conference at AFD head office.

Type of service provide :

Technical, environmental and social project management for carrying out studies, monitoring the construction work (conditional phase) and providing social support for the project on all PIP components.

• Conducting social project management (MOS) to improve communication and involve the final beneficiaries in jointly constructing the planned works, assisting the project owner to manage the resettlement action plan (RAP) and select candidates eligible for community development fund support;
• Undertaking technical project management, including carrying out detailed technical studies, producing feasibility reports and tender documents for all the works planned in the PIP (roads, drainage, commercial facilities, living environment, local amenities), as well as conducting topography and geotechnical studies;
• Updating the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) to reflect changes to the location of the construction work and intregrating new requirements into the technical specifications;
• Inspecting and supervising constrution work (conditional phase), including providing assistance with works contracts, validating execution plans and programmes, overseeing contract execution, assisting the contracting authority with handover operations.

Type of service provide :

Assessment and mapping of the flood risk in 5 districts of Bangui

• Preparing tools to create a GISWEB;
• Conducting interviews with the heads of the districts and local residents to define, on a street-by-street basis, those areas affected by severe or occasional flooding;
• Presenting the results in map form;
• Submitting a proposal to create a technical and institutional action plan to the institutional platform.

Type of service provide :

Supporting water and sanitation service providers in the regions of Cusco (6 operators) and Arequipa (1 operator) with assessing the natural risks to which they are exposed and which threaten both the integrity of their infrastructure and their service operations.

• Reviewing the available regional-level data available on hazards, infrastructure and its operational status, and on risk management processes currently used by service providers;
• Segmenting water and sanitation networks and describing their operational status; developing analytical models for describing and presenting hazards, vulnerability and risk; producing a cartographic atlas broken down by region and by provider;
• Organizing field survey campaigns (4 teams x 16 days) to inform the assessment: conducting surveys of non-geo-referenced infrastructure, determining its vulnerability, carrying out participatory risk mapping with local communities;
• Submitting a natural risks assessment study, set out by region and by service provider, and providing geo-referenced databases;
• Organizing a collaborative, multi-stakeholder workshop to brainstorm potential prevention and reduction measures;
• Formulating risk prevention and mitigation plans, set out by region and by operator, which included a budgeted and timed action plan, a monitoring framework, and an investment plan.