Call summary :

Purpose

Risk profile

The grant aims to support Togo to have an up-to-date risk profile at national level. The information generated by the risk profile will inform policies at national and local levels. The products from the risk assessment will support the use of two key user groups:

- The quantitative risk profile produced with the probabilistic approach will feed into national planning processes to foster the integration of risk into development planning and budgeting decision making. The results therefore should be able to provide AAL/PML analysis and potential impact analysis relevant for the national development planning around disaster risk reduction and also provide insights for continental and regional platforms.

- As such, the risk assessment analysis should specifically include a framework and cases studies of resilience needs to be factored into cost-benefit analysis (CBA) usable by Agence Nationale de la Protection Civile as a decision-support tool for prioritizing disaster risk reduction (DRR) investments and activities. The method applied should be able to provide national level analysis to support the identification of potential risk reduction, risk retention and risk transfer investments. Data should also be presented in a manner that makes it compatible with future downscaling for the assessment of specific investment prioritization.

- The project will aim to undertake at least one workshop in Lome with government stakeholders to present the draft results and their potential application to government planners and officials tasked with the fiscal management of disasters, and investment planning.

In addition, core AAL/PML analysis identifying high risk areas and populations should provide base layers that can be useful for early and anticipatory action and early warning and early action systems. Information should be presented in such a way as to enable its application in the defining of approximate thresholds of potential impacts for larger disasters as a tool to strengthen preparedness and risk reduction measures. The project will also aim to conduct at least one workshop with national institutions to analyze their strengths and the areas of improvement in using risk information in the disaster risk management cycle, with a focus on the use of risk information for impact-based early warnings and early actions.

Outcome

The Grant is expected to have the following outcomes:

- National investments in disaster risk reduction and national and sub-national development plans are increasingly evidence-based thanks to the new risk profile, whose information on hazards, exposure and vulnerability and probabilistic risk is available on a digital database.
- Capacities of national counterparts are strengthened to develop or reinforce early warning systems through enhanced knowledge regarding the application of risk analysis to impact based early warnings and early actions by using the information in the new probabilistic risk profile.

Output

The Grant will produce the following outputs :

- The country has a new probabilistic risk profile that is elaborated in a joint effort with national institutions, which is also available in a digital database, followed by a roadmap for the implementation of priority interventions that is informed by a cost benefit analysis.
- The national institutions have more capacities to use risk information for development planning, disaster risk reduction actions as well as early warning and early actions.

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Budget and administrative-related aspects

The duration of the proposed project cannot exceed 12 months. The maximum amount requested from UNDRR for the implementation of this project cannot exceed 230 000 USD. The project proposal must not exceed 10 pages (attachments such as scanned copies of entity’s registration, CVs of staff etc. do not count).

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