National Consultant: Physical Assessment Expert

Result of Service The service will ultimately result in preparing a comprehensive baseline report that includes a desk review and benchmarking report, physical data report, urban analysis report for the selected site(s) in Damietta city. Accordingly, the baseline report will pave the way for the urban planning interventions.

Work Location Egypt

Expected duration 4 Months

Duties and Responsibilities ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. It is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system.

BACKGROUND UN-Habitat and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.

Mandated by the UN General Assembly in 1978 to address the issues of urban growth, it is a knowledgeable institution on urban development processes, and understands the aspirations of cities and their residents. For forty years, UN-Habitat has been working in human settlements throughout the world, focusing on building a brighter future for villages, towns, and cities of all sizes. Because of these four decades of extensive experience, from the highest levels of policy to a range of specific technical issues, UN-Habitat has gained a unique and a universally acknowledged expertise in all things urban. This has placed UN-Habitat in the best position to provide answers and achievable solutions to the current challenges faced by our cities. UN-Habitat is capitalizing on its experience and position to work with partners to formulate the urban vision of tomorrow. It works to ensure that cities become inclusive and affordable drivers of economic growth and social development.

In October 2016, at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III – member states signed the New Urban Agenda. This is an action-oriented document which sets global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development, rethinking the way we build, manage, and live-in cities. Through drawing together cooperation with committed partners, relevant stakeholders, and urban actors, including at all levels of government as well as the private sector, UN-Habitat is applying its technical expertise, normative work and capacity development to implement the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goal 11 – to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Urbanization is a key driver of development. Hence, sustainable planning and governance of urbanization is crucial to accommodate the rapid population growth, empower cities to optimize the value of urbanization and ensure even development, inclusion and equality. Rapid urbanization presents a unique opportunity to lift millions out of poverty when managed sustainably. However, inadequate urbanization management, doubled with rapid population growth has adversely affected quality of life leading to lack of adequate housing, and increasing inequality. These conditions contribute to diseconomies (e.g., congestion, pollution, displacement) that overtime negatively affects the overall city prosperity, efficiency, productivity and competitiveness.

UN Habitat in Egypt Established in 2005, UN-Habitat Egypt Programme has been providing technical support to national counterparts on a wide range of urban issues. Adopting an integrated approach, UN-Habitat Egypt has supported reforming and improving urban planning and management through three main sub-programmes, namely; urban planning and design; urban policies, legislation and governance; and urban basic services and mobility.

Urban Policy, Legislation and Governance Programme The Urban Governance, Policies and Legislation Programme in Egypt works towards to tackling the multi-dimensional urbanization context with a special attention to urban management, urban planning, urban economy where all stakeholders are empowered and enabled to engage and play their expected role(s). The programme is working with all stakeholders and on different levels to find new appropriate, realistic and context driven ways of making sure that the urbanization processes are providing acceptable spatial standards and services. The programme is also working towards enhancing the capacity of relevant actors in reforming the legal and institutional framework governing urban development; promoting the empowerment of local government; enhancing land tenure security; establishing processes for participating and inclusive planning process; enhancing local economic development and social entrepreneurs. The programme provides legislation enhancement and policies development support on the national level in order to replicate and scale up all of its successful interventions.

Hayenna – Integrated Urban Development Project In 2018, the Ministry of Housing, Utilities, Urban Communities (MoHUUC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), the General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP), the UN-Habitat and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Cooperation (SECO) signed three different agreements (the project agreement, the separate agreement, and the contract) governing the Hayenna- Integrated Urban Development Project. The project aims at developing a more transparent land management, as well as implementing better-planned and financially sustainable basic infrastructure services that offer an attractive and inclusive alternative to informal settlements and promoting local economic facilities in two pilot Governorates. Qena was selected as the first pilot Governorate. Damietta, as the second pilot governorate will follow benefiting from the lessons learned from the first pilot. The project thereby intervenes in three dimensions: urban planning and design, public finance management and land-based financing, and support to urban legislation and regulation.

Damietta City Damietta city is the capital of Damietta governorate with a total area of 6025.9 feddans and 281,493 inhabitants (72983 families with an average of 3.85 persons/family, 52% male and 48% female). The average population density of the city is 47 person/feddan. 13.6% of the population has a university degree, while 67.9% has attended school, and 18.5% has not gotten formal education. According to the 2017 national census, the considerable population is working in transformative industries (42%) and wholesale and retail trade (31%). While the percentage of the population working in services/ administrative positions and agriculture has declined. Damietta City is considered as the business and investment capital of the governorate. According to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)’s 2017 national census, total population of Damietta governorate is 1.5 million, representing 7%, of the Delta region’s total Population. While Damietta City, accounts for the equivalent of (45.4%) of the total urban population of the governorate with total population 281493 inhabitants, and (19%) of the total population of Damietta Governorate.

REPORTING LINE The consultant will work closely with the Urban Governance, Policies and Legislation Programme and under the direct supervision of the Programme Manager to fulfill the following tasks:

Duties and responsibilities The consultant will prepare a comprehensive baseline physical report for the selected site(s) in Damietta City, while covering the following: 1) Review the previous strategic and detailed plans for Damietta city, in addition to identifying any gaps and potential contradictions, and how to tackle each (if present). 2) Identify urban characteristics (slopes, topography, torrents, areas prone to flooding …etc.); geological characteristics (structure, soil's geological components, sand dunes…etc.). 3) Develop site(s) inventory and analysis of the available information e.g., satellite images, maps, physical features of the project area, access, surrounding land use …etc. 4) Analyze roads and transportation networks, including a) Mobility as an important indicator of a region's urbanization, b) Level of flexibility of the transport system, i.e., the balance between formal and informal transportation, c) Means of transportation and the scales of use of each. 5) Develop city expansion profile, including a) Social and economic activities, b) Historic boundaries, c) Informal construction and building patterns, d) Typologies of informal expansions, including drinking water sources, access to sanitation facilities, recreational places, parks, etc.; e) Land availability, landmarks, connectivity, main functional and activities hubs, housing and agriculture patterns and building materials. 6) Develop population and social profiles for the selected site(s) in collaboration with the urban and socioeconomic profiling consultant. 7) Identify specifically the selected site(s) boundaries and cadastral coordinates. 8) Receiving and collecting the official data on land tenure from the different state institutions 9) Prepare the land fragmentation history report (fragmentation tree) 10) Allocate the land plots at the cadastral maps to produce land tenure maps 11) Prepare the site’s land tenure data base: i. Official land record ii. Historical background for formal and informal transactions and fragmentation iii. The existing buildings legal status iv. Official cadastral maps v. GIS database and shapefiles vi. Plot profile which includes ownership, number, size and location vii. Track and analyze the evolution and changes of land market (both formal and informal) 12) Prepare a comprehensive capacity assessment for the relevant project (thematic) stakeholders, that should include - but not limited to – the following: a. Identification of the relevant stakeholders to each topic b. The results of the capacity assessment for each stakeholder c. The proposed capacity building interventions for each stakeholder d. The capacity building program (indicators, timeline, means…. etc.) e. Conduct a series of workshops and trainings with the local government officers to build their capacity in using geographic information system (GIS) and related softwares including Geo-database Design Concepts, Introduction to Computer Programming (Arc Objects and VBA), ArcGIS Custom Development, ArcGIS Advanced Analysis, ArcGIS Server, GIS Integration with GPS and Remote Sensing Technologies for Spatial Modeling, GIS Multi-user Database and GIS Advanced Skills …. etc. 13) Prepare and submit a full documentation report, that covers: a. All the mission phases, progress, and challenges b. Lessons learned and best practices

Qualifications/special skills Academic Qualifications: Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in urban and/or regional planning, urban design, architecture, urban studies, or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience: A minimum of two (2) years of proven experience in the fields of urban studies, urban profile, urban upgrading projects, urban planning, urban development, social development, or a related field is required. Experience in conducting fieldwork is required. Experience in land readjustment or detailed planning is desirable. Familiarity working with local administration units and local communities is desirable.

Language Fluency in oral and written Arabic and good command of English is required

No Fee THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.