UNOPS’ work in the South Asia region focuses on
the construction and opera...
UNOPS’ work in the South Asia region focuses on
the construction and operation of high quality sustainable infrastructure and
sustainable procurement, project management, timely provision of services, and
the use of most relevant technologies. One of the main focuses on UNOPS work in
South Asia is to reduce the vulnerability of population to unsafe
infrastructure, maximize the impact of public investments in infrastructure,
and improve the effectiveness and financial viability of the public services
delivered out of key public infrastructures. Such projects provide social and
economic benefits to vulnerable populations across the region, and contribute
to poverty eradication. Projects target a range of sectors such as education,
health, urban development, environmental services, climate change mitigation,
as well as a range of “soft” support in Capacity Building, operations and
maintenance of public assets, local governance, etc.
UNOPS Bangladesh has received an invitation from
the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) to submit proposal for the Establishment
of a Climate Resilient Local Infrastructure Centre (CReLIC). The
Centre is intended to fill up the gap between the increasingly diverse and
competent landscape of think tanks and scientific institutions that provide policy
advice and scientific data in Bangladesh and best practices generated within
the LGED on the other side. CReLIC is one of the three components of the
Climate Resilient Infrastructure Mainstreaming (CRIM) Project funded by
KFW Development Bank and Green Climate Fund. The other two components are:
Climate Resilient Rural Infrastructure and Climate Resilient Urban
Infrastructure.
In particular, the services to be
provided include technical and management support to LGED in the following
areas:
- Establishment
of a knowledge management system within the LGED to facilitate climate
proofing in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of all
local infrastructure on a sustainable basis.
- Adjustment of
standards, procedures and guidelines of LGED accordingly.
- Mainstreaming
climate proofing throughout the LGED organization and their local
partners.
- Set-up and
development of the Climate Resilient Local Infrastructure Centre (CReLIC)
as a staff unit under the LGED top management and initiate the permanent
institutionalization structure of CReLIC.
This project has four work packages:
1) Knowledge Management; 2) Guidelines, Standards and Procedures; 3)
Communication, Consultation and Training; and 4) Institutional Development.
This 5 year project will lead to the institutionalization of the Centre
as a staff unit under the LGED top management which will be responsible for:
establishment of the knowledge management system for climate proofing in
the planning, design, construction and maintenance of all local infrastructure;
and setting of standards, procedures and guidelines for ensuring climate
proofing.
Overall, the services will require
designing and steering a comprehensive change process in a large organization
and establishing a sustainable cooperation network on the national and
international level.