Individual Consultancy to Develop Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) Roadmaps

SADC SECRETARIAT REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANTS SELECTION COUNTRY: Botswana NAME OF PROJECT: SADC REGIONAL CLIMATE RESILIENCE PROJECT (RCRP) PROJECT ID: P180171 ASSIGNMENT TITLE: INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANCY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL MULTI-HAZARD EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS (MHEWS) ROADMAPS REFERENCE NUMBER: SADC/3/5/2/475 DATE OF ISSUE: 22nd October 2026 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is a Regional Economic Community comprising of 16 Member States, namely, Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Established in 1992, SADC is committed to regional integration and poverty eradication within Southern Africa through economic development and ensuring peace and security. Guided by the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) 2020-2030, and premised upon the SADC Vision 2050, the SADC Region has developed the Implementation Plan for the Regional Indicative Strategy Development Plan, for regional integration that seeks to promote cooperation amongst Member States for macro-economic beneficiation. One of the strategic objectives of the RISDP is to facilitate improved disaster risk management in support of regional resilience. In view of the above, the SADC Secretariat is undertaking a number of interventions aimed at increasing the resilience of the SADC economies, improvement of livelihoods of the region’s communities and the protection and restoration of biodiversity and the region’s ecosystems. One such initiative is the Regional Climate Resilience Program (RCRP), which is a programmatic framework (structured as a series of projects or SOPs), funded by the World Bank, with the objective of strengthening the resilience to water-related climate hazards and their impacts in Eastern and Southern African countries. The Project Development Objective (PDO) of the RCRP-1 R