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The city of Beira, located in Central Mozambique between the Indian Ocean and the Pungue river estuarine, forms an economical hub of the southern African region. Beira is considered to be one of the African cities that will be most affected by the increase of heavy rainfall events, the increase in the frequency of cyclones and sea level rise as a result of climate change. In addition to climate change, rapid population growth has induced some people to start new settlements and industrial sites in the wetland areas which were formerly left out from urban development prospects. The city masterplan was revised and large infrastructure projects are underway, such as the redesign and re-dimensioning of the pluvial drainage system, the rehabilitation and redesign of the coastal protection system, and the renaturalization and restoration of parts of a river that drained the oldest parts of Beira.
In this challenging environment associated with water resources, the project is to evaluate the effects on water resources of local climate, possibly including extreme events, and hydrological patterns as well as the influences of urban development by monitoring selected parameters and elements in local water resources. The project is under the co-supervision of UNU-FLORES and the University of Zambeze (UniZambeze) Centre of studies, Innovation and Advanced Education (CEIFA), based in Beira, Mozambique.
The main objective of the position is to assist in collecting, organizing, processing, and analysing geospatial data and information and establishing and maintaining a database of geospatial and other non-geospatial data to be used or to be generated in the project housed at the CEIFA at the UniZambeze in Beira, Mozambique, through the tasks as follows. The consultant will submit:
Under the authority of the Director of UNU-FLORES and direct supervision of the Academic Officer-Water Resources Management, who is in collaboration and coordination with the CEIFA, the successful candidate shall undertake the following tasks: