Information de base

Numéro de référence

0000205288

Organisation émettrice

Canadian Red Cross

Type d’appel d’offres

DDP - Demande de proposition (Formel)

Numéro d’appel d’offres

CRC 21-11

Titre

Consultancy Services - Disaster Risk Reduction Athabasca Tribal Council (ATC)

Code d’identité d’origine

PP.CO.ON.783021.C104172

Détails

Emplacement

Canada, Tout le Canada, Tout le Canada

Type d’achat

Terme: 2021-09-30 00h00:00 HAE - 2022-09-30 00h00:00 HAE

Description

General
As part of the Alberta 2016 Wildfire Recovery Operations, the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) has recently launched a project in partnership with the Athabasca Tribal Council (ATC) located in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB). The one-year project has as its primary objectives to:

Strengthen and build capacity within ATC to champion and support communities to adopt a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) approach to managing disasters;
Strengthen institutional and community Emergency Response (ER) and Disaster Risk Management (DRM) capacities; and
Strengthen individual and community resilience to prevent and reduce impacts from emergency disasters.

* The CRC recognizes that great strength exists within the ATC and its communities, and through this project, the CRC will help facilitate the community-driven enhancement of these strengths.

Background and Context
Since the 2016 Alberta Wildfires, the CRC has been working alongside the ATC as a wanted helper, supporting the ATC-led processes of self-determination and governance related to ER and DRM. In that time, we’ve witnessed the capacity and strength of the ATC and RMWB’s Athabaskan, Dene, Cree and Métis communities to manage fire and flood disasters, and carry-out evacuations in response to unsafe drinking water, as well as witnessed the systemic and long-standing barriers that impact Indigenous community resiliency – having a significant negative impact on the enormous strength of the nations and their cultural knowledge.

The ATC was formally established in 1988 to represent the interests of the five First Nations in the RMWB, including the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Chipewyan Prairie First Nation, Fort McKay First Nation, Fort McMurray No. 468 First Nation, and Mikisew Cree First Nation. The ATC is responsible for providing essential services to these 5 First Nation communities and is comprised of 4 departments that deliver community programing and supports: Child and Family Services, Education, Employment and Training, and Health. Each department has a role to play in integrating risk reduction into existing programs.

The 2016 Horse River Fire exposed long standing issue related to ER and DRM among First Nations and Métis communities. Since 2016, the region has experienced multiple events that have impacted recovery progress including: the Fort McMurray economic downturn; the chemical contamination of the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation water treatment plan and supply; the COVID-19 global pandemic; and the 2020 Spring ice jam flooding.

In the aftermath of the 2016 Wildfires, the ATC in collaboration with the Athabasca River Metis and the Nistawoyou Association Friendship Center, and with the support of the Canadian Red Cross, led a study, “Rebuilding Resilient Indigenous Communities- Assessing the Indigenous Impacts of the Horse River Wildfire”. The study found a number of gaps and shortfalls during the response, which are the basis for this project. The report can be reviewed here Research - Athabasca Tribal Council (atcfn.ca).

Requested Services
As such, the CRC is seeking consultancy services to work in collaboration with the CRC and ATC to enhance/augment existing community ER planning efforts and to develop a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Planning Toolkit for use by Indigenous organizations, pilot its implementation, and deliver complementary training. The toolkit and its different components are intended to advance ER and DRM planning in an innovative manner, utilizing a strength-based approach that recognizes local ecological factors and relates to Indigenous communities, even if steering away from traditional non-Indigenous ER/DRM planning methodologies. At the same time, the toolkit must meet regional and provincial legislation requirements, and must be aligned to national and international DRR, EM and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Frameworks. The process used must have strong community-based, inclusive and participatory approaches, recognizing that the process of planning for disasters is as important as the plan itself, and encouraging the meaningful participation of those most at-risk.

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Dates

Publication

2021-07-27 10h37:48 HAE

Intention de soumissionner

Optionnel

Date limite pour soumettre l’intention

2021-08-10 17h00:00 HAE

Échéance de la réception des questions

2021-08-05 17h00:00 HAE

Questions sont soumises en ligne

Non

Date de fermeture

2021-08-17 17h00:00 HAE

Information du contact

Johanne Lafleche

438-355-2660

johanne.lafleche@redcross.ca

Processus de soumission

Type de soumission

Soumission électronique

Fixation des prix

Dans un document attaché

Liste de documents de la soumission

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Bid Documents	Documents defining the proposal	Oui	Non
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Directives additionelles d’appel d’offres

Please make sure to send your proposals directly to johanne.lafleche@redcross.ca and follow all insructions provided.

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