TA-9461 REG: Protecting and Investing in Natural Capital in Asia and the Pacific – Knowledge Specialist (Resource Person) (50159-001)
Country: Philippines
PRIMEX fielded a Knowledge Specialist who developed the knowledge products (KPs) by reviewing, summarizing, editing, and formatting existing consultants’ technical reports on applying NBS to address urgent global and societal challenges such as climate change and increasing natural disasters. The consultant also preparef blogs highlighting the key messages, approaches, findings, and good practices presented in the KPs. The consultant also coordinated with pertinent departments, divisions, and peer reviewers in publishing the KPs following ADB procedures.
The expected outputs included the following: (i) A complete submission of a case study on nature-based solutions (NBS) for flood-risk Management (ADB brief) based on the consultant’s report, “Final report Nature-based solutions in Philippine river basins”; and (ii) A complete submission of a working paper on NBS for climate change and disaster risk management based on the consultant’s report, “Operationalizing nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk management”. To produce the two outputs, the consultant coordinatef any additional inputs, approvals, layout, and design including researching photographs, proofreading, final signoffs, and uploading to adb.org and other relevant ADB platforms for dissemination. This involved following ADB procedures for official publication such as that of the DOC and SDCC.
In coordination with the DOC and Development Asia blogs teams, prepared three blog articles, highlighting the main points of the above KPs (one blog per publication).