Water Resources and Drought Management Expert
2 days ago
Job Posting: 09/Jan/2025
Closure Date: 23/Jan/2025, 4:59:00 PM
Organizational Unit: FAVIE
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Grade Level: N/A
Primary Location: Viet Nam-Hanoi
Duration: 80 working days, up to 31 December 2025
Post Number: N/A
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**Organizational Setting**
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO's goal is to achieve food security for all and ensure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With 195 members - 194 countries and the European Union, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide and has started working in Viet Nam since 1978 with its Representation (Country Office) opened in Ha Noi.
The Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) is part of FAO’s regular assistance to the Government of Viet Nam, allowing FAO to respond to the country’s most pressing needs for technical assistance. For the 2024-2025 biennium, FAO Viet Nam, with support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), is implementing the project “Drought impact assessment Central Highlands, Viet Nam” in collaboration with the Department of Water Resources (DWR). The aim of the project is to provide MARD/DWR with a tested working tool for agricultural drought impact assessment applicable at province level scale. The project will commission high resolution (20m) water consumption and soil moisture products from the WaPOR portal across a 1,500 km2 trial block in in drought affected districts of Dak Lak and Dak Nong Provinces for analysis by the team.
**Reporting Lines**
The incumbent is put under the overall supervision by the FAO Representative, technical supervision by the Lead Technical Officer in FAO-RAP, and day-to-day management by Assistant FAO Representative (Programme).
**Technical Focus**
The overall focus of this role is to provide specialized expertise on assessing drought impact on water resources in Viet Nam band to support capacity development in using the data products produced by the project. The incumbent is expected to lead a national team of consultants and support capacity development in MARD/DWR.
**Tasks and responsibilities**
Lead national team in the following tasks:
- Development of baseline assessment covering trial block area for which WaPOR level 3 data products will be produced. The baseline assessment is expected to include the following:
- Literature review of existing research and reports on water scarcity in the region.
- GIS mapping of water resources and usage patterns
- Collection and analysis of relevant operational data over at least 5 consecutive water years for three representative irrigation schemes within the trial block
- Collection of landcover data for irrigated and rainfed agricultural land derived from existing statistical records and trained satellite observations
- Review of water and energy usage data across economic sectors (agriculture, domestic, industrial) within irrigated and rainfed land disaggregated by gender
- Assessment of changing crop water demand and irrigation scheduling adjustments.
- Selection of drought risk indices to be derived from WaPOR level 3 variables, applicable at pixel level and for eventual quantification at the level of the trial block
- Preparation of a feasibility study for implementing an agricultural drought management operation for the Central Highlands using WaPOR Llevel 3 data products. The feasibility report is expected to include the following
- Analysis of WaPOR Level 3 data products
- Preparation of drought indices resulting from analysis
- Design of operational system using PyWaPOR implementation across the Central Highlands
- Benefit-cost analysis of implementation and operation at the level of the Central Highlands region (and/or per km2)
- Analysis of existing agricultural drought management programmes in Central Highlands and the development of drought impact indices based on WaPOR Level 3 data products.
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