Air Quality Data and Engagement Consultant

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Consultant Position Title:

Air Quality Data and Engagement Consultant

Manager/Point of Contact:

Beatriz Cardenas

Consultancy Type:

Fixed Price

Consultancy Term:

12/15/2023

Through

8/15/2024

Location:

Colombia, Mexico, Kenya, Uganda[BC1]

Dept/Program/Center:

Cities Program

Consultant Location:

Mexico

Point of Contact

Savannah Willard ([email protected])

Deadline for Submission

4 December 2023

Language of Proposal

English

For Internal Use Only

Summary

The WRI Air Quality Program intends to award a consultant an eight-month fixed price contract to evaluate the performance of our NASA Air Quality (AQ) Forecast tool in four cities - Bogota, Kampala, Nairobi, and Monterrey - as well as to engage policymakers in Monterrey and Bogota around the use of the AQ forecast tool. This is an essential component of the team’s CanAIRy Alert project, which aims to deliver air quality monitoring tools for cities in low- and middle-income countries.

Program Overview

WRI’s air quality team applies a data-to-action approach to addressing these bottlenecks, working directly with city governments in LMICs worldwide on a range of projects (USAID-funded Clean Air Catalyst, U.S. State Dept.-funded South-East Asia Community of practice, etc.). WRI’s strategy focuses on translating existing, already-paid for science into decision-relevant, action-provoking and locally relevant tools.

Scope of Work and Deliverables/Outputs

· Conduct a literature review of AQ forecast model evaluation performance. Use findings to contribute to internal WRI reports generated as part of CanAIRy Alert phase I, proposing a methodology to evaluate model performance for Nairobi, Kampala, Bogota and Monterrey.

· Review and provide an analysis of the functionality of the bias-corrected air quality forecast, as well as an accompanying methodology[SW2] , available in CanAIRy alert

· Conduct evaluation[SW3] of the bias-corrected AQ forecast [BC4] model for the cities of Bogota, Monterrey, Kampala and Nairobi with NASA and city-level data provided by WRI, producing a report synthesizing the model’s performance in each city. [SW5]

o Contribute analyses to final report on the evaluation performance model for Bogota[SW6] , Nairobi, Monterrey and Kampala. The report will include a section with recommendation of options for potential to operationalize the process.

· Design and prepare content for a training session to air quality practitioners from Nairobi, Kampala, Monterrey and Bogota on air quality forecast model performance evaluation.

· Participate as trainer in 4 [SW7] [BC8] [BC9] virtual sessions on AQ performance evaluation to AQ practitioners.

· Review Pollution Insights pilot tool, delivering short report on recommendations and proposed options to operationalize and make it available as a tool.

· Contribute to developing a Data Protocol for environmental municipal policymakers and data providers that could assist in utilizing the AQ forecast evaluation.[SW10] [BC11]

· Participate in periodical meetings (frequency biweekly, half an hour).

Consultant Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in physics, engineering, or atmospheric sciences

· MS or PhD, ideally in data analytics

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