Projects

1. Name of assignment or project: Development of Climate Scenarios and Climate Change Scenarios considering the results of the Fifth IPCC assessment results through National, Sub-National or other level of scaling
Year: 2018 – 2019
Location: Madagascar
Client: Cellule de Prévention et Gestion des Urgences (CPGU), World Bank Funded Project
Main project features: The project aims to develop climate change scenarios at national and sub-national scale for sectoral adaptation planning.
Position Held: Team Leader – Climate Change
Activities performed:

  • Lead the project design and monitor the technical quality of the deliverables.
  • Stakeholder engagement and coordination
  • Coordinate with various ministries and departments to conduct user-need assessment to understand the climate change information needs for climate change adaptation planning in their respective portfolio.
  • Lead the data collection and assessment of observed climate sensitivity and compiled a national and sub-national level climate change scenario for sectoral users (e.g. agriculture,water,health) for interpreting the climate change scenarios in their adaptation planning.
  • Provided recommendation on understanding current climate risk with help of disaster loss and damages data for assessing the anticipated impacts of future climate change scenarios.
  • Prepared policy brief documents on climate change specific to Madagascar and its potential impact on various climate-sensitive sector including agriculture, water resources and health.
  • Facilitate workshop for stakeholders on climate change adaptation planning
  • Capacity building of government staffs on using climate information for adaptation planning

2. Name of assignment or project:  Macro-economic impact of natural hazards for guiding risk management investments in Tamil Nadu and Odisha
Year: 2019-2020
Location: India
Client: Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System
Main project features: The activity aims to quantify the macro-economic impact of natural hazards in the past for guiding disaster risk management investments in Tamil Nadu and Odisha
Position Held: Climate Risk Management Expert/Project Manager
Activities performed:

  • Lead the project implementation, monitoring, and ensuring quality deliverables
  • Coordinated with finance and economic experts from Indian Institute of Technology Madras to design approach and methodology for assessing economics of disasters
  • Guide the team on the decision contexts of policy makers in the Government context to ensure the deliverables are addressing the needs of policy makers for planning disaster risk reduction investments
  • Prepared economic rationale for policy makers on disaster risk reduction investments from the past

3. Name of Assignment or Project: Capacity building on generation and application of downscaled climate change projections
Year: 2014-2016
Location: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Client: ESCAP
Main Project Features: Build capacities of NMHSs in customizing regional climate projections, capacity building of sectoral users on interpretation and application of customized projections for risk analysis, and planning departments for integrating risk-informed adaptation into development planning processes.
Position Held: Climate Change Risk Assessment Expert
Activities Performed:

  • Evaluated various global climate models and compiled high-resolution climate change scenario for pilot countries.
  • Performed climate diagnostics to evaluate the uncertainties of various climate models, and compiled climate change scenarios for national and sub-national levels.
  • Assessed climate change risk to various sectors (agriculture, water resources, health) posed to the pilot countries, at various administrative levels, from national to sub-national spatial scale.
  • Provided recommendation on risk-informed adaptation planning for the identified climate risk on sectors.

4. Name of Assignment or Project: Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture Sector
Year: 2016
Location: Pacific Islands (Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tuvalu)
Client: ESCAP
Main Project Features: Assess the climate risk on agriculture sector and provide risk management strategies to address short term and long-term needs in the Pacific Islands.
Position Held: Climate Risk Management Specialist
Activities Performed:

  • Assessed climate sensitivity of agriculture sector in the subsectors crops, livestock and fisheries.
  • Evaluated climate risk in the agriculture risk for both observed and projected climate change.
  • Prepared agriculture risk management strategies for the observed climate variability and long-term projected climate change in the Pacific Islands.
  • Provided training to experts from national agriculture agencies in Pacific Islands on agriculture risk assessment and management with the help of climate information at various time scales.

5. Name of Assignment or Project: Development of high-resolution climate change model for the Maldives through statistical and dynamic downscaling of global climate change models to provide projections
Year: 2011-2012
Location: Maldives
Client: Ministry of Housing and Environment, Maldives
Main Project Features: Development of high-resolution climate change scenario at Atoll level for the Maldives through statistical and dynamic downscaling of global climate change models to provide projections for Atoll level Climate Change adaptation planning.
Position Held: Statistics and Climate Downscaling Expert
Activities Performed:

  • Evaluated climate change models and compiled statistically and dynamically downscaled climate change scenarios for Maldives at Atoll levels.
  • Assessed the risk to sectoral agencies in Maldives to the future climate based on the past climate impacts
  • Developed a Geo Climate Information system (GCIS) for the national technical agencies to evaluate the hazard and risk due to climate change.
  • Provided hands-on training for Maldives Meteorological Service staffs and other national stakeholders on GCIS.
  • Facilitated workshop for policy makers on climate change scenarios and its likely impact on various climate sensitive sectors in Maldives.
  • Guided the sectoral agencies in interpreting climate change scenarios for adaptation planning in their respective sectors.
  • Capacity building for government staff

6. Name of Assignment or Project: Expanded climate risk management technical assistance support project
Year: 2010-2012
Location: Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste
Client: UNDP BCPR
Main Project Features: Build capacities of UNDP, UN, regional agency personnel, and partner agencies in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste on analyzing risks related to climate variability and change, and identify risk management solutions, to inform country climate risk management and climate change adaptation program development.
Position Held: Climate Risk Assessment Specialist
Activities Performed:

  • Compiled climate profile for the pilot countries – especially on national weather and climate context, current climate variability, and status of climate and hazard information
  • Compiled projected climate change scenario from various global models for the pilot countries to understand the long-term changes in climate parameters.
  • Assessed climate impacts and risks for both past and future climate.
  • Evaluated climate sensitivity on various sectoral agencies such as agriculture, water resource, and economy
  • Assessed the coping capacity of climate risk, especially for the institutions and communities
  • Provided training to national stakeholders on climate risk assessment

7. Name of assignment or project:  Strengthening climate information and early warning system in Cambodia to support climate resilient development and adaptation to climate change
Year: Jan 2020 – Sep 2020
Location: Cambodia
Client: United Nations Development Programme
Main project features: The activity aims to build capacity of Department of Meteorology Staff to generate long range forecast for climate zones in Cambodia, and to generate agro-met and crop advisories.
Position Held: Climate Expert
Activities performed:

  • Assessment of surface observatory-based and satellite-based climate records over Cambodia to derive climatology, trends, variability.
  • Delineation of homogenous climate zones and justify the delineation with large-scale and local climate drivers.

8. Name of assignment or project: El Nino-associated risk assessment in Papua New Guinea and East Timor
Year: 2017
Location: Papua New Guinea, East Timor
Client: UNDP
Main project features: The project involves development of a step-wise process for assessing El Niño-associated risks and impacts on various sectors in Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste.
Position Held: Team Leader – Climate Application
Activities performed:

  • Coordinate with various stakeholders to understand El Niño’s biophysical impacts on agriculture systems, water resources sector, ecosystem services, infrastructure, and public health.
  • Characterized the risk of past El Niño episodes on various sectors based on country-specific case studies.
  • Development of a standardized methodology/framework to carry out El Niño risk assessment.
  • Trained selected technical staff of meteorological agencies in conducting El Niño risk assessments.
  • Delivered the impact outlooks and provided guidance for sectoral agencies and key stakeholders to manage potential risks.
  • Provided awareness to policy makers through policy brief on El Niño impacts.

9. Name of Assignment or Project: Technical advisory services for climate information and services to manage climate risk in the dry zone of Myanmar
Year: 2016-2017
Location: Myanmar
Client: UNDP
Main Project Features: Strengthen institutional arrangements and related capacities of Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, sectoral agencies, local government institutions, CSOs, and communities in managing climate-related risks through improved understanding of climate risks in project locations; Enhancing the formulation of weather/ climate forecast and related information, including information dissemination; Development/ expansion of decision support systems to aid potential impact and risk analyses in the agriculture sector
Position Held: Climate Risk Assessment Expert
Activities Performed:

  • Compiled climate profile for the pilot townships in the central dry zone of Myanmar, to understand the observed variability and trends of rainfall climatology, onset, peak, duration, intensity, withdrawal.
  • Performed climate diagnostics to identify suitable high-resolution climate change models and compiled climate change scenario for pilot townships.
  • Assessed extreme analysis variability in future climate for pilot townships to aid adaptation planning process.
  • Assessed climate risk on agriculture sector for pilot townships in Central dry zones of Myanmar and provided thresholds for the development of decision support system.
  • Prepared decision matrix for managing climate risk on agriculture sector with the help of climate information at various time scales.

10. Name of Assignment or Project: Assessment of El Niño-Associated Risks in the Asia-Pacific.
Year: 2016
Location: Asia (Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri lanka, Vietnam) & Pacific Islands (Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tuvalu)
Client: UNDP
Main Project Features: Development of a step-wise risk assessment of El Niño on various sectors in Asia and the Pacific to maximize the opportunities and minimize the losses.
Position Held: Climate risk assessment Specialist
Activities Performed:

  • Assessed El Niño’s biophysical impacts on agriculture systems, water resources sector, ecosystem services, infrastructure, and public health.
  • Characterized the risk of past El Niño episodes on various sectors in the Asia Pacific region based on case studies.
  • Development of a standardized methodology to carry out El Niño risk assessment in the government agencies of Asia-Pacific.
  • Trained national stakeholders (Meteorological agencies; Disaster Management agencies; sectoral agencies such as agriculture, water resource, planning, etc.,) on carrying out El Niño risk assessment in their respective countries.

11. Name of assignment or project:  Facilitating working session for Department of Meteorology and Hydrology  (DMH) and Department of Disaster Management (DDM) on using climate forecast products for Disaster preparedness and response planning, supported under “Strengthening Climate and Disaster Resilience of Myanmar Communities (TA-9307)
Year: May 2019
Location: Myanmar
Client: Asian Development Bank
Main project features: The activity aims to assist DDM Staffs to better understand and interpret DMH’s monsoon outlook and forecast products to identify appropriate preparedness and response measures while also updating their plan
Position Held: Climate and Early Warning Expert
Activities performed:

  • Coordinated with TA consultants to prepare working session materials and facilitate the working session with DMH and DDM
  • Identify opportunities on use of climate forecast information for Disaster Management planning and as relevant provide examples and best practices.
  • Provide a report on opportunities to further strengthen the use of climate information for DM planning for DDM.

12. Name of assignment or project: Development and Implementation of the System for Multi-Hazard potential impact Assessment and Emergency Response Tracking
Year: Mar 2018 to Mar 2019
Location: India
Client: Government of Tamil Nadu, India (World Bank Funded Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Project)
Main project features: The project aims to strengthening early warning system and thereby enhancing the Disaster Management capacity of the Tamil Nadu State.
Position Held: Team Leader
Activities performed:

  • Facilitated consultation meeting with all the sectors for strengthening Early Warning System in the State.
  • Lead the development of Decision Support System for archiving all disaster related data in a one platform for assessing the existing risk and also modeling the anticipated risk based on forecast.
  • Compiled sectoral sensitivity and assessed various hazard thresholds, which could be used for translating forecast information into potential impacts with response advisories.
  • Conducted need assessment and ensured the design and development of the decision support system and mobile application, are used for early warning by disaster managers.
  • Integrate surveillance of multiple hazards into the system for effective monitoring of hazards.
  • Lead the design and conduct of capacity-building trainings on impact-based forecasting and SMART DSS
  • Expanded the use of system in DRR planning and development
  • Provided outreach to replicate in other States of India.
  • Assisted policy makers in bringing out the policy documents supporting the sustainability of the developed early warning system, and the system to address Sendai Framework priorities.

13. Name of assignment or project: ASEAN Dynamic Risk Assessment Guidelines
Year: 2017
Location: ASEAN countries
Client: UNESCAP
Main project features:
Position Held: Consultant – Risk Assessment Guidelines
Activities performed:

  • Prepared an approach paper that serves as outline for systematic development of dynamic risk assessment guidelines for National Disaster Management Offices in ASEAN countries, which ultimately assist them for establishing early warning by understanding historical risks.
  • Developed a web-portal featuring data sources, sharing examples of dynamic risk assessment, and best practices from the world.

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/adage-approach/home

14. Name of assignment or project: Multi-hazard risk assessment in Papua New Guinea
Year: 2017
Location: Papua New Guinea
Client: UNDP
Main project features: The project aims to assess the vulnerability of communities and infrastructure to natural hazards, determine their degree of exposure to future hazardous events, and develop risk reduction recommendations to be integrated into development planning processes. The assessments were used to generate baselines and risk profiles for DRR programming in pilot provinces.
Position Held: Hydro-Meteorological Risk Assessment Expert
Activities performed:

  • Assessed hydro-meteorological hazards and risks for five pilot provinces in Papua New Guinea, including but not limited to tropical cyclones and storm surge, drought, strong winds and sea level rise
  • Provided recommendations and inputs in the preparation of provincial DRR plans in relation to hydro-meteorological hazards and risks
  • Developed and conducted a training program in hydro-meteorological hazard risk assessments for technical staff

15. Name of Assignment or Project: Strengthening of Myanmar’s multi-hazard early warning system
Year: 2013-2015
Location: Myanmar
Client: ESCAP
Main Project Features: The project assists Myanmar’s DMH in developing a capacity building program document to guide DMH engagements with donors, and addresses capacity gaps in disaster early warning, and generation and application of agrometeorological products and services.
Position Held: Disaster Risk Assessment Expert
Activities Performed:

  • Assisted in designing multi-hazard early warning system framework for Myanmar.
  • Assessed climate sensitivity of agriculture sector from the past impacts.
  • Formulated ways to manage climate risk in agriculture sector with the help of climate information (especially from various forecast products) at various time scales.
  • Provided inputs for the development of web-based agro-advisory expert system.

16. Name of assignment or project:  Enhancing Community Resilience to Natural Disasters in Southeast Asia
Year: 2008
Location: Cambodia, Vietnam
Client: DANIDA
Main project features: The project aims at enhancing community resilience to natural disasters in the coastal Cambodia and Vietnam.
Position Held: Technical Specialist
Activities performed:

  • Coordinated with stakeholders for implementing project activities on a timely manner.
  • Assessed the coastal community resilience in the pilot sites
  • Assessed the hazard, vulnerability, capacity and risk of natural disasters in the coastal communities of Cambodia and Vietnam.
  • Prepared risk maps for coastal hazards in the pilot communities
  • Provided training on using evacuation maps and risk communication tools for the community level organizations.