Mission Description

The Evacuation Center Design Expert is expected to provide high-level expertise and advice to the Project Leader, the Technical Coordinator, the Gender and the Urban Planner/Architect experts based in Manila, for the minimum standards, guidelines, and prototype designs of evacuation centers for Local Government Units (LGUs) in the Philippines that are GEDSI responsive, EREID responsive, and climate and disaster resilient.

To further enhance this work, an Evacuation Center Design Expert will be engaged to provide technical review, insights, and recommendations to improve the standards, guidelines, and designs of evacuation centers. The Evacuation Center Design Expert will work closely with the Urban Planner/Architect expert, offering high-level guidance and expertise.

Tasks and Responsibilities

The Evacuation Center Design expert will mostly support the Urban Planner/Architect expert already mobilized by the project.

The Urban Planner/Architect expert has already conducted a comprehensive review of policies, implementing rules and regulations, memorandum circulars, evaluation reports, secondary literature, publications, training materials, and other related documents used by DILG and other government agencies related to design standards of evacuation centers in the Philippines. The Urban Planner/Architect has also developed the draft guidelines and minimum standards as well as prototype designs.

While the Urban Planner/Architect expert will have the pilot seat in developing the following deliverables, the Evacuation Center Design expert will provide high-level guidance, insights, technical inputs and recommendations on the following key areas:

• Review and improvement of minimum standards and guidelines to provide comprehensive guidance to Local Government Units (LGUs).
• Review and development of a prototype designs for evacuation centers using various contexts/settings (e.g. urban/rural, ideal/basic) that are gender-responsive, socially inclusive, climate-and disaster resilient, and sensitive to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
• Enhancement of standards and designs to ensure they meet the needs of communities and align with international best practices.
• Development of a training module in collaboration with the Training Needs Assessment (TNA) Expert to build the capacity of LGUs in understanding and applying the guidelines and minimum standards of evacuation centers, as well as assessing existing evacuation facilities.

Guidance and advice can be provided remotely, but the expert’s availability must be compatible with the time zone of the Philippines for coordination calls and necessary reviews with the project team as well as potentially with partners.

Deliverables

The Evacuation Center Design expert will contribute to the development of the following deliverables:

1. Prototype designs of the evacuation center that address the needs and safety of vulnerable people, particularly women, children, the elderly, and PWDs, and are climate-smart and pandemic/infectious disease-sensitive.
2. Minimum standards and guidelines for the construction of permanent evacuation center.
3. Training design, module, manual, and materials to support LGUs in assessing existing evacuation centers and on enhancing the understanding of LGUs of the approved minimum standards and guidelines for the construction of evacuation centers that are climate- and disaster resilient, GEDSI-responsive, and pandemic/infectious disease-responsive.