TERMS OF REFERENCE SUMMARY INFORMATION

January 2025

Contents

Content                                                                                                            Page

Background Information                                                                                                          3

Terms of Reference                                                                                                                 5

Deliverables                                                                                                                             6

Payment Schedule                                                                                                                   7

Submission of Proposal                                                                                                          7

Disclaimer                                                                                                                               7

1.       BACKGROUND INFORMATION  

1.1      Coastal Resilience in Lagos

Lagos is one of Africa’s largest and fastest-growing megacities with a population of over 25 million people, a gross domestic product of 84 billion USD and a growth of 77 people per hour between 2010 and 2030. It is located on swampy mangroves along Nigeria’s Atlantic Coastline. Surrounded by wetlands, lagoons and the Atlantic Ocean, Lagos is battling with water resilience challenges. The city slopes north to south, with the built-up region at one metre above sea level along the coast and 75 meters above sea level in the north. The natural vegetation is saltwater mangrove swamp forest but has been replaced by impermeable surfaces due to rapid urbanization. The coastal region is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise and increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events. The ever-increasing rate of urbanization, population growth, demand for land for development and the attraction for coastal areas for residential schemes by the wealthy has resulted in huge reclamation activities which further reduce coastlines and makes rural coastal communities even more prone to flooding and displacement.

Lagos has been recognised as one of the 6 most vulnerable megacities in the world from the effects of sea level rise due to climate change and sinking land (NASA Study 2016). The physical coastal pressure due to the urbanisation of Lagos, Victoria Island and the entire Lekki corridor is already enormous and continues accelerating in an unstoppable way. The coastal erosion, mainly originating from the Commodore Channel breakwater structures, has been combatted by man-made interventions that spread over approximately 15 kilometres on the ocean. However, erosion is still taking place where these interventions stop (CDR International, 2024).

Water is a critical resource in Lagos, and the city’s coastal resilience is an important factor in its overall resilience to these challenges. These challenges present a significant threat to the growth and development of the city. To move towards sustainable urbanization, the city needs to protect its coastal areas to be resilient to hazards including those associated with climate change. There are different multilateral corporations with high-end business activities across economic value chains, including oil and gas, food and beverages, technological and hardware manufacturers, agricultural producers and other competitive sectors. The City Governance structure consists of different Ministries, Departments and Agencies, with mandates of managing the operations of different aspects of the City’s economy, including about 15 water-related institutions. The coastal areas of Lagos State are occupied by more than 50% of its population, impeding its economic activities due to certain vulnerabilities. To improve the city’s economic comparative advantage, there is a need for a collaborative approach by all water stakeholders in the State, to lead the development and deployment of innovative solutions that mitigate against the impacts of climate change and build the resilience of coastal areas.

The project, State Partnership for Coastal Resilience Initiative (SPCRI) is bringing together water stakeholders in the State, to catalyse cross-sector collaboration and governance that will advance State-wide action to address coastal risk and improve coastal resilience.

1.2      State Partnership for Coastal Resilience Initiative

The Lagos State Partnership for Coastal Resilience Initiative is a public-private partnership model that brings together water stakeholders, to catalyze cross-sector collaboration that advances actions to address coastal risk and improve coastal resilience. The initiative seeks to promote a collaborative approach that identifies key issues mitigating coastal resilience, ranging from policy and advocacy challenges, community capacity issues, finance and investment complexities, and infrastructural deficits, and promote the development of innovative nature-based solutions that sustainably improve the resilience of coastal area dwellers. The project seeks to organize water-related stakeholders and institutions in Lagos State, to build a consultative platform that identifies, manages the coastal economy of the State, and enhances community capacity for engagement and participation, while serving as a means that will take the city from the stage of diagnosing and identifying coastal economy challenges, to developing and deploying innovative and sustainable nature-based solutions to improve coastal resilience and promote the economic activities of the coastal regions.

Project Objectives:

1. Improve the climate resilience of the coastal regions of Lagos State through, community empowerment, advocacy and policy reforms that protect the region and promote community rights and local economic activity.
2. Identify and develop a portfolio of bankable coastal resilience projects with different finance mechanisms for investment in the State.
3. Promote the identification and development of community-driven nature-based solutions to improve city coastal resilience and promote local economic activity.

Objective 1 focuses on the deployment of advocacy and policy reform tools to champion a climate-resilient coastal region of Lagos through interventions such as research and feasibility studies and the initiation of a Lagos Coastal Development Platform which is now known as the Coastal Resilience Working Group (CoastRes) under the Lagos Water Partnership (LWP), a platform leading the development and delivery of an investment vision for Lagos Water Security. The platform is where the key public and private sector players come together to reflect, plan and stimulate the implementation of the development and investment agenda for the water resources sector in Lagos.

The Research and Feasibility Studies component will analyze the technical strengths and weaknesses of Lagos State policy and regulatory capability on coastal resilience; and feasibility studies into the prospects of establishing sponge cities using nature-based solutions. Findings will inform policy reforms for a resilient coastal region. Other comparative cities in the continent will be studied to understand the policy tools deployed to promote the resilience of the coastal regions and understand the adaptability of such policies in Lagos State.

2. TERMS OF REFERENCE

The objective of this Terms of Reference (TOR) is to provide a guide on the scope of work, deliverables and timeline required to deliver the institutional capacity building plan and pilot of capacity building scheme for Lagos Coastal Development. For this TOR, the Work will be divided into three Scopes namely;

1: Institutional capacity assessment

2: Development of a capacity building plan

3. Pilot capacity building scheme

Scope 1: Institutional capacity assessment

1. Mapping of existing institutions with roles and responsibilities directly or indirectly focused on Lagos coastal development.
2. Conduct a capacity assessment of the institutions with core focus on areas such as technical capability in project development, investor engagement, climate resilience expertise, nature-based solutions, policy development and implementation.
3. Match existing capacity with global best standards for the sector using comparative analytical tools.
4. Validate assessment results with stakeholders including in focused institutions.

Note: The consultant is expected to carry out consultation workshops with stakeholders to complete the scope above.

Scope 2: Development of a capacity building plan

1. Identify capacity building tools, activities, and interventions to addressed capacity gaps identified in scope-1 above. Such interventions and tools could include but not limited to trainings, learning exchange visits, embedded advisory, development of modules, strategies and processes etc.
2. Develop a capacity building plan with detailed concept notes and description for implementation.
3. Review and validate plan with stakeholders for adoption and implementation.

Note: The consultant is expected to carry out consultation workshops with stakeholders to complete the scope above.

Scope 3: Pilot capacity building scheme

1. Identify priority high-end capacity building interventions from the plan developed from scope-2 above.
2. Develop concept note for pilot of the identified interventions.
3. Implement the identified interventions above as a pilot scheme for scale-up in the State.

Note: The consultant is expected to carry out a minimum of three (3) training workshops with stakeholders as part of the pilot scheme to complete the scope above.

3. DELIVERABLES

The Deliverables (D), as outlined in Table 3.1, under this project will be in three workstreams;

Table 3.1: Deliverable and the Acceptance Criteria for Scopes 1 , 2 and 3

Note: D means Deliverable

Maps, graphics, drawings, tables and other interactive information are expected at the relevant portions of each deliverable.

4. PAYMENTS SCHEDULE

The scope of work is in three workstreams; D1 Institutional capacity assessment; D2: Development of a capacity building plan and D3 Pilot capacity building scheme. The payment schedule of this project is pegged as contained in Table 4.1 below;

Please note that the budget below includes cost of consultation and training workshops and all associated logistics.

Note: The above table is for internal use only

Table 4.1: Payment Schedule  

5. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Interested consultants (organizations preferably) can submit a copy of their proposal to procurementng@wateraid.org on or before 11:59 pm (Lagos time) on February 6, 2025. All questions related to this TOR by interested Consultants should be directed by email to procurementng@wateraid.org. Please ensure that all financial proposals are submitted in Naira.

6. DISCLAIMER

The Resilient Water Accelerator (RWA)/WaterAid will not accept any liability or be responsible for any costs incurred by interested consultants in preparing a response for this TOR. Neither the issue of the TOR nor any of the information presented in it should be regarded as a commitment or representation on the part of RWA/WaterAid (or any of its partners) to enter into a contractual arrangement.