Disaster and Climate Risk and Resilience Assessment Co-Development
Solicitation number BCRFPEMCR127
Publication date
Closing date and time 2023/09/13 17:00 EDT
Last amendment date
Description
To meet this mandate, the Ministry and CAS have committed to taking a distinctions-based approach to co-developing the DCRRA with First Nations and Indigenous Partners at all stages of the project. All co-development work should meet or exceed alignment with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act and objectives relating to risk assessments and upholding Indigenous knowledges in the BC First Nations Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan. The draft assessment at the provincial scale is expected to be completed by March 31, 2024, and draft regional scale assessments is expected to be completed by March 1, 2026. Interim guidance on upholding local and Indigenous knowledges in risk assessments is required by March 31, 2024, with final guidance required by March 1, 2026.
The approach to the DCRRA will be guided by the following key pillars:
(1) Co-developed with First Nations and Treaty Nations, and engaged on with Indigenous Partners, taking a distinctions-based approach;
(2) Takes an equity-informed approach;
(3) Grounded in local knowledge and contexts, reflects best available western knowledge and upholds Indigenous knowledges; and
(4) Supports community-level actions.
The provincial assessment will inform a subsequent Provincial Disaster and Climate Risk Reduction Plan.
The project scope includes, but is not limited to:
- Project management, including sub-contracting services; research and development of approaches to uphold local and Indigenous knowledges in risk assessments;
- Facilitation of trauma informed and culturally safe in-person and virtual co-development engagements with reciprocal information sharing;
- Identifying and implementing ways to uphold local and Indigenous knowledges in the DCRRA process and outputs;
- Issuing capacity funding and honoraria payments to First Nations and Indigenous Partner participants; and
- Professional writing and design.
Contract duration
The estimated contract period will be 42 month(s).
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Contact information
Contracting organization
- Organization
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Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness
- Contracting authority
- Janet McGuire
- Email
- Janet.McGuire@gov.bc.ca
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