- Role: Partner of’implementation
- Closing date of applications : 1 December, 2023
- Start date of the project: 15 December 2023
- Project duration: 7 Months
- Work place: Nigeria/Ivory Coast
- Contract type: Agreement of consultant
- Direct contact: Regional project manager
- Travel: Abuja for a week for trainer training
1.Context
L’humanitarian team OpenStreetMap United States, Inc. (HOT) applies open source principles and open data sharing for humanitarian response and economic development. Founded following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, stakeholders and organizations recognized the need for accurate and accessible maps to facilitate humanitarian response and the potential for international development interventions. Since then, HOT has used its network of tens of thousands of volunteers to contribute to OpenStreetMap, the free and editable world map. HOT’s network and tools allow everyone, local or international, to have an impact by putting places on the map.
The Hub of’West and North’Africa (WNAH) is a branch of HOT that covers 24 countries in the region with the mission of making open data and free software a decision support tool for development focused on the communities. The WNAH works with humanitarian organizations, governments, civil society, private operators, institutions and other actors to use the OpenStreetMap (OSM) tools; data collection, data collection, data collection, and, advanced spatial analysis and cartographic production are the essential tools that the Hub will promote for socio-economic decision-making.
We want to connect with communities so that data and maps can be a tool for analysis and decision-making to improve people’s lives. Through a regional approach, helping local communities with map data, open source tools and software, and, our goal is to contribute to the development of communities by improving their living conditions.
2. Project
EcoSmart Cities Project
The Eco-Smart Cities project aims to solve complex problems in the urban centers of the region. He envisions a future where cities become living, intelligent ecosystems. The project aims to fight against the degradation of the environment, limited resources, inadequate infrastructure, etc, public health issues and economic inequalities through a comprehensive and open approach to data and participatory mapping. This project will stimulate sustainable urban growth that will benefit current and future generations. This goal will be achieved by collecting data, performing analysis and presenting the information visually. This valuable data will help urban planners, national authorities, and,the private sector and other’ stakeholders to make informed decisions and develop strategies for’urbanization.
To meet the challenges of sustainability, a comprehensive strategy taking into account the environmental, social and economic dimensions is necessary. Data can play a crucial role in this process. It is nevertheless essential to ensure that all – stakeholders including governments, local authorities and private sector partners – collaborate effectively to develop and implement sustainable policies. One of the first stages of this project is to accurately map the layout of the city, including its structures, buildings, equipment, roads, its waterways and its use of the soil.
The Eco-Smart Cities project targeting built and populous cities under-cartographed aims to achieve and catalyze ambitious and interdependent goals. These objectives are designed to address the urgent obstacles of rapid urbanisation and foster sustainable urban progress. These objectives aim to establish a comprehensive and unified methodology to build regional cities that care about the’environment, streamlined and robust.
Project objectives
The main aspirations of the project are :
- Build the capacity of local volunteers in remote mapping and validation to support project activities.
- Through collaboration with local teams, remotely map at least two populated cities in each of the two project countries.
- For analysis, map and merge critical urban infrastructure with other data sets, including population and air pollution.
- Acquire relevant existing data sets with critical stakeholders to support maps and other analysis activities.
- Develop training resources in English and French and share them with local project teams.
- Conduct remote mapping of buildings, roads, waterways, land use and other essential equipment to support development and sustainability.
- Combine other reliable open data sources, existing urban data sets and remote map data for analysis and visualization.
- Use open and available air pollution datasets with project data to develop thematic maps on air pollution by city, causes, sources, and, affected populations and associated hazards.
- Organize a knowledge sharing webinar with all representatives of participating cities to discuss the sustainability of project outcomes.
3. Scope of work
Responsibilities:
As part of its missions, the local team will have to complete the following list of responsibilities :
- Serve as the main representative of HOT in the cities selected by the project in Nigeria/Cote d’Ivoire, France, working closely with municipal authorities and the private sector to conduct desk reviews and investigations of data use cases.
- Supported by the Regional Project Director, execute the project.
- With the support of the’ HOT team, identify the cities and areas of’ interest.
- Engage with the different levels of stakeholders to ensure that data needs are met.
- Conduct a literature review to acquire relevant existing data sets from project partners and stakeholders.
- Assist the regional project manager in selecting the cities of the project according to the guidelines.
- Recruit and submit a list of local remote cartographers and validation teams for verification to the regional project manager.
- Ask a representative of the’organisation to attend a training of trainers and’ to use the training material to plan the local training of project teams and stakeholders.
- Organize the training of local teams using’ tools and equipment provided by the’ team of WNAH.
- Use the Tasking Manager project template to develop TM projects for the selected cities and towns.
- Use WNAH and MERL tools to track daily performance of local teams and produce a weekly report.
- Submit a weekly activity report.
- Under the supervision of MERL specialists, supervise the remote mapping and validation activities of the local’ team.
- Support the production of communication media (blog articles, stories, quotes, anecdotes, photos, videos..).
- Prepare and submit monthly progress reports to the regional project manager.
- To prepare and submit financial reports with all supporting documents by instalment payment.
- Submit a final report at the end of the project
Results of the project :
- 1.4 Million buildings mapped and validated
- Two or more cities mapped (depending on the final choice of cities)
- 1000 Km of mapped roads
4. Requirement of the proposal
Required skills of teams and Qualifications:
- At least two years of professional experience in using HOT core tools and other open source tools
- As a team, demonstrate the ability to execute project requirements
- Have a good working relationship with communities, cartographers, national stakeholders, etc.
- Ability to use Tasking Manager, JOSM, Rapid and QGIS for remote mapping activities of the project
- Ability to use HOT validation workflows to carry out quality assurance and quality control
- The local team must be able to present the project and collect existing data sets from municipal authorities (Transport data, waste management, education, health)
- Able to read, write, understand and speak English (professional)
- Demonstrate evidence of work on related projects in the past two years
- Dynamic, motivated and strives to continuously improve
- A team of qualified validators and remote mapping with OSM identifiers
- Ability to submit technical, narrative and financial reports quickly
How to apply
Interested organizations must submit a project proposal to program.wna@hotosm.org composed of:
Section A. Context : briefly describe the context and organization of your company / organization as well as the sub-consultants that your organization proposes to hire for this mission.
Section B. Summary of consultant experience:The candidate must summarize all previous projects falling within the scope or implemented in a similar context. The applicant must in particular demonstrate :
- Experience working with municipal and state stakeholders and carrying out a documentary review of the available data sets and an approach for shared data sets at state and municipal levels.
- Work experience on projects related to open technology.
- Experience in building a team of experienced OSM mappers and validators (it is estimated that approximately 15 cartographers and 5 validators will be required to map 1.4 million buildings in 6 months). If necessary, share the’ID OSM of mappers and validators in the appendix.
Section C. Comments or amendments : present or justify any changes to the terms of reference that the candidate would like to propose, if necessary, to better and more effectively perform the assignment
Section D. Technical approach: the candidate must articulate his approach to achieve the results defined in these terms of reference. This section should also indicate how the candidate will achieve the objectives and deliverables. In particular, please describe the’ approach you will take to track the performance of the’ mapping team (HOT strongly suggests a mapped building payment approach to maintain the quality and performance of the team while at the same time long project, but would like to know your approach).
Annex 1: Endowment plan and key personnel– The candidate must present an organizational and management structure which clearly describes the different positions as well as the roles and responsibilities of the team members. The candidate must provide the CV of the manager of the project in the form of annexes to the technical proposal.
Annex 2: Proposed work schedule for the project
Annex 3: Budget ( should not exceed 34,000 USD ).
The team leader will have to travel to Abuja in December 2023 for a trainers’ workshop. HOT will cover all travel expenses, including:
- Transport to Abuja
- Transport to and from airport ( if applicable )
- Hotel for training time
- Daily package of food
- The team leader must have a good understanding and writing of the English language because the training takes place in English.
Evaluation criterion:
Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria :
- Qualifications and experience of the local team leader and members
- Proven experience in the implementation of related projects over the past two years
- Proposed budget and profitability
- Experience and qualified team
- Demonstrated ability to achieve project objectives on time