Consultant - Flood and Drought Toolbox Developer

at  International Water Management institute

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is an international non-profit, research-for-development organization that works with governments, civil society, and private sector organizations to solve water-related issues in developing countries and scale up solutions. IWMI is headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and is a CGIAR research center with offices in 15 countries and a global network of researchers operating in about 56 countries.
We seek proposals from qualified consulting firms to develop a web application utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure and the Python programming language. Under DIWASA, we aim to develop a web-based application to visualize geospatial and tabular information related to floods and droughts in Africa and country-specific knowledge products, using open-source data, programming languages, and tools. The web tool should have robust visualization and data analytics capabilities so that users can rapidly analyze current and future water risks and inform the decision-making process.

• Detailed architecture design document.
• Fully functional web application dashboard with frontend and backend components (The tools should also be standalone to ensure they can be adopted by national partners).
• Comprehensive presentation of historical to current climate hazards and their impact from the continental to sub-national level.
• Climate risk assessment integrating approximately 25 indicators to visualize water, agriculture, and nutrition impacts at the continental to sub-national level.
• Visualization of AWS-generated flood/drought forecasting model products through a simple tool for visualization and dissemination to country-specific partners.
• Flood and Drought Impact Assessment tool that utilizes DEA data assets, AWS ODR, and other geospatial products (e.g., NOAA/IRI forecast, NASA Earth Data Cloud, and several others) to visualize pre-, during-, and post-flood/drought assessments.
• Source code repository with version control (e.g., Git).
• Documentation, including user manuals, API documentation, and deployment guides.
• Training sessions for our team members on maintaining and operating the web application.