CLEAR Global is hiring a
Location: Bolivia (Amazon and Highlands)
Travel: To locations to be confirmed; non-travel time will be home-based
Reporting to: CLEAR Global Project Officer
Timeframe: June-Dec 2024, with possibility of extension (up to 47 FTE days total)
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Background
CLEAR Global is looking for a researcher to lead research in partnership with Practical Action for the project “Indigenous inclusion for informed Disaster Risk Reduction decision-making in Bolivia”.
The project will build on the Lloyd’s Register Foundation 2021 World Risk Poll data. This data shows that climate-related weather hazards are a serious concern in Latin America, with 80% of people surveyed in Latin America and the Caribbean concerned about experiencing serious harm from severe weather. While Indigenous people constitute 48% of Bolivia’s population, they are largely excluded from data that informs policymaking. Despite playing a crucial role in disaster response, they lack participation in formal decision-making processes, resulting in uninformed risk reduction strategies. Informed by the insights of the World Risk Poll data, this project aims to integrate Indigenous knowledge into datasets, tailor communications to diverse groups, and empower Indigenous communities in disaster management and policymaking, focussing on Early Warning Systems and Disaster Risk Reduction initiatives.
Alongside its project partners, CLEAR Global will collaborate with Indigenous communities in Bolivia, prospectively the Tacana and Tsimane Moseten in the Amazon and the Aymara in the Highlands. The project will comprise three stages. The researcher will be engaged in the first stage of the project, which comprises activities including workshops to co-produce and validate Indigenous knowledge on climate change and promote its integration into formal plans and procedures, a sociolinguistic assessment to understand communication needs, a development of a glossary of DRR/EWS terms, and an advocacy plan for Indigenous integration into DRR. This will inform subsequent project stages to include training development for Indigenous leaders, collaborative mapping activities, co-design of risk management plans, assessment of risk communication strategies, language mapping, and integration of findings into Lloyd’s Risk Poll dataset.
The role
The researcher will lead CLEAR Global’s contribution to the research study under this project, including fieldwork with the Tacana, Tsimane Moseten, and Aymara communities in Bolivia. They will work with remote support from CLEAR Global’s project team and Practical Action’s Bolivia office and coordinating staff, and in collaboration with Practical Action’s research lead.
The research will include key informant interviews and focus group discussions with community members to understand the conceptualization of risk, climate change and adaptation in local languages and communication needs around climate change and weather-related emergencies among the participating communities. A short glossary of key terms will be developed in relevant Indigenous languages, with the consultant developing the tools for and facilitating focus group discussions to test and validate this terminology. The researcher will produce a written overview of their findings to include recommendations to inform further phases of the project.
Responsibilities
Deliverables
Qualifications and experience required
Terms and conditions
Payments will be made as follows:
In addition, CLEAR Global will cover the following agreed costs from the project budget:
The researcher will be expected to provide documented evidence of their own insurance cover. The researcher will be expected to provide their own equipment and supplies (laptop, mobile phone, any recording equipment, etc.).
The researcher will be briefed on security management plans if relevant and must sign to confirm their acceptance of rules.
How to apply
CLEAR Global will accept offers from individual consultants and consulting firms.
To apply for this consultancy please send the following documents:
1- A technical and financial offer to include:
2- Curriculum vitae highlighting experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) and at least three professional references.
3- Examples of relevant similar work to review are welcome.
Please upload the technical and financial offer as one document under “cover letter” and present the CV(s) of the expert(s) proposed in one document under “CV”.
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