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RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
CAPABILITY STATEMENT
2018
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Resilient Infrastructure Capability Statement
A multi-disciplinary team providing wide ranging support and technical assistance to improve the resilience of infrastructure and communities across the globe.
OUR CORE SERVICES
PRE-INVESTMENT STUDIES We provide the combination of engineering, economic, financial, environmental and social advisory services under one roof. We can assist with project sifting and prioritisation, business case development, evaluating an opportunity and its feasibility, through tailored pre-investment studies, from pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, to project validation, navigating complex bureaucratic environments, regulatory and policy aspects. The studies include site assessment, market analyses, technical, environmental and social studies, cost-benefit and value for money analyses, financial/economic modelling, risk analysis and mitigation, and financial structuring.
POLICY DEVELOPMENT We have wide experience in the development of policy and strategy documents, and in advising governments and international organisations on international best practice, technical methods and capacity building. IMC can advise how resilience can be achieved through a systemic approach that links from climate science and risk assessment through to engineering solutions and economic prioritisation, and as well as wider stakeholder engagement and assessment. In particular, IMC has experience in how resilience can be embedded in infrastructure and to improve disaster preparedness. This includes working with road departments and maintenance operations.
SUPPORT TO PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION We support the implementation of resilience projects across the whole project life cycle, from project prioritisation and appraisal, through feasibility studies, design, construction and
monitoring and evaluation. IMC has core strength in the successful integration of resilience through both hard infrastructure (capital improvements and maintenance budgeting) as well as complementary approaches to achieve resilience through ’community-led resilience‘, institutional strengthening and improved asset management.
RECENT AND ONGOING PROJECTS
Planning for the Integration of Climate Resilience in the Road Transport Sector in the Caribbean Through this Caribbean Development Bank-funded assignment, we are developing standardised processes for the inclusion of climate and disaster resilience into the road network management. The project will demonstrate how climate and disaster resilience measures can be integrated into the road transport sector, while developing a package of materials, including methodologies for climate vulnerability and risk assessment, criticality analysis and economic appraisal. These are being developed and tested in Dominica, Guyana and Saint Lucia.
Low Income Community Housing Support Project, Bangladesh IMC is assisting the government of Bangladesh to help over 3,000 urban poor families access secure and affordable housing. The project engages communities living in hazard-prone slums and informal settlements to identify, design and finance secure and affordable housing solutions. It details assessments of eligible communities and of land tenure status of selected settlements, and develops community-based plans for upgrading settlements and designs for housing.
Building Climate Resilience into the Improving Rural Access Tanzania Programme Through this DFID-funded programme, we are helping to develop climate-resilient rural roads in Tanzania. This is done by incorporating adaptation principles into the planning, financing and design of road improvement and maintenance works, and recommending an appropriate funding mechanism for emergency responses to road network failures. The climate vulnerability and risk assessment methodology includes exposure, vulnerability, hazards and hotspots GIS maps of the country.
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Developing Secondary Cities with Green Growth Opportunities, Rwanda IMC produced national guidelines and a road map to support the Rwandan government’s plans to direct urbanisation towards six secondary cities, in a climate-resilient, low-carbon and inclusive manner. Services included a background analysis on green urbanisation to establish the green economy potential in secondary cities; a green city framework and guidelines, and strategic and practical advice.
Operational Guide for Mainstreaming Disaster Resilience into Urban Investment Projects IMC produced an operational guide that drew on current risk assessment, disaster management and climate change adaptation thinking to mainstream disaster resilience into urban investment projects in South Asian cities.
Local Disaster Recovery Framework Guide, Worldwide This World Bank knowledge product pooled best practice in enhancing the resilience of infrastructure across all sectors provided by local governments, and how the preparedness, budgetting and post-disaster recover of this could be enhanced.
Rural Access Programme (RAP), Nepal IMC has been the programme’s main consultant since RAP’s inception phase in 1999, and is currently overseeing the third stage. RAP 3 is delivering award winning results in rural road maintenance, short-term job creation, poverty reduction and market-led economic development. It supports labour-based rural infrastructure works that are climate and disaster resilient.
Applied Research Programme in High Volume Transport Between 2017 and 2021, IMC will manage the DFID Applied Research Programme in High Volume Transport which is focusing on national and regional transport corridors and within cities in low-income countries in Africa and South Asia. One of the four themes is the promotion of low-carbon transport through technological and other solutions, including non-motorised transport options.
Kagera Earthquake Reconstruction, Tanzania The project rehabilitated damaged public buildings, including schools and health facilities. IMC helped the core project team to cost the reconstruction, putting together an implementation roadmap, and proposed the technical expertise needed.
Hydrological and Meteorological Early Warning Systems, Ethiopia IMC was part of a team employed by the World Bank to develop a strategy for the development of early warning systems across Ethiopia. The team was responsible for completing economic appraisals of different options and providing gender and social impact assessments for the proposals.
Strategic Transport Advisory Support, Niue IMC supported the government of Niue, which is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries, to
develop their first National Transport Strategy and Action Plan. The strategy focused on increasing resilience against natural disasters and climate change impacts, by assessing the risks and proposing adaptation measures for existing infrastructure.
Adaptation at Scale/Climate Information Prizes Ideas to Impact (I2I) is a DFID programme that has designed and runs innovation prizes to incentivise the development and deployment of technologies to increase resilience to climate change and access to clean energy, safe drinking water and sanitation for low-income people in developing countries.
Mainstreaming Climate Resilience in the Road Sector, Serbia On behalf of the World Bank, IMC helped Serbian authorities to develop guidelines on the integration of climate resilience into road network management, through completion of a pilot study to test proposed methodologies and processes.
PEAKS Climate, Environment, Infrastructure & Livelihoods (CEIL) Framework, Worldwide This DFID research and call-down service included production of a suite of learning products on international best practice in the areas of investment, risk assessment, design and delivery of resilience across infrastructure sectors.
OUR PEOPLE
JONATHAN ESSEX Climate resilience leader. Chartered environmentalist and civil engineer with 20 years’ experience in climate-resilient infrastructure, sustainable construction methods, and development of climate vulnerabilty and risk assessments for infrastructure projects.
NÚRIA BIOSCA Senior Engineer with experience in resilient infrastructure and vulnerability and risk assessments in the fields of urban development, housing and transport. Her experience includes extensive fieldwork assignments in developing countries and deep knowledge of GIS tools.
JOHN WHITE Highway and drainage engineer with 40 years’ experience in developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Speciliased in the assessment and design of climate and disaster resilience measures for roads and transport.
JAMES REEVES Transport and infrastructure economist with 28 years’ worldwide experience in project preparation, appraisal, strategic planning, as well as planning and appraisal of cost-benefit analysis and resilience investments.
SAMINA KHAN Chartered civil engineer with experience in coastal and flood risk management strategies. Experience includes the development of schemes that demonstrate people, property and critical infrastructure will be protected now and into the future, taking climate change into consideration.
For more information please contact:
Jonathan Essex, Principal Consultant [email protected]
Núria Biosca, Senior [email protected]
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