Mid-term Evaluation of 2014 Floods Appeal Operation, IFRC (Bangladesh)
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world and extremely vulnerable to climate change because of its geophysical settings. The country is low-laying and flat with huge inland water bodies, including some of the biggest rivers in the world. Flooding is an annual recurring event during the monsoon season, when 80% of […]
Proposal Development “forecast based financing”, GRC (Bangladesh)
The need for humanitarian funds and the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance have steadily increased over the past ten years on a global level. Climate risks in general are partly responsible for this tremendous increase and are being amplified by climate change impacts. Current and future risks of climate change in combination […]
Proposal Development DIPECHO, German Red Cross (Bangladesh)
The Southern part of Bangladesh is grappling with recurring natural disasters, such as cyclones, floods and tidal surges that are expected to intensify with climate change in the future. The majority of the population in this area lives in utmost poverty. Communities lack knowledge and capacities to effectively prepare for disasters and thus repeatedly lose […]
Support Proposal Development ECHO, German Red Cross (Pakistan)
This consultancy mission served to support the preparatory work for the elaboration of an ECHO proposal under the ECHO HIP 2015. The northwestern provinces of FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been facing waves of displacements due to military operations along the border to Afghanistan for many years. As a result of the launch of the […]
Development of Integrated Programme Strategy, German Red Cross (Philippines)
During this 6 weeks consultancy mission, I elaborated a detailed program strategy for the management of integrated livelihood, DRR and CCA activities in the frame of GRC’s Haiyan Recovery intervention. This process involved the conceptualization and facilitation of a workshop on Integrated Programme Management with the in-country Project Team, as well as the elaboration of […]
Development of Project Ideas and training on ECHO Guidelines, German Red Cross (Pakistan)
During this 6 weeks consultancy mission, I developed various project ideas for GRC’s portfolio to be handed in with various back donors. The elaborated project ideas dealth with the topics of 1.) Strengthening the basic health infrastructure in KP Province, 2.) Humanitarian response to the current IDP crisis in KP Province, and 3.) Improvement of […]
Development of Recovery Programme after Typhoon Haiyan, German Red Cross (Philippines)
Typhoon Haiyan was the most powerful storm ever recorded. Due to its severity, but also due to peoples’ vulnerabilities und unpreparedness, it caused extensive damage to life, housing, livelihoods and infrastructure. The high levels of vulnerabilities that pre-dominated the area already before the typhoon facilitated the disastrous impact of the event. These vulnerabilities include the […]
Elaboration of a DRR Project Proposal, German Red Cross (Philippines)
The project I elaborated within this 4 weeks consultancy mission seeks to establish and/or strengthen community based DRR structures on all administrative levels. The goal is that by the end of the project, government institutions and civil society organizations on national, provincial and municipal level as well as local communities and schools are able to […]
Team Leader ECHO Proposal Elaboration (Consortium), German Red Cross (Bangladesh)
Located on the Indian sub-continent, Bangladesh straddles the largest river delta on earth. With more than 1.000 people per km², it has the highest demographic density of all territorial states on earth: A surface area of 147.570 km² is inhabited by an estimated 162 million people. More than 74% live inrural areas. 50% of are […]