Technical support for WDAA in 10 Lower Kafue water dispute areas, Zambia

The contractor will focus on generating accurate, evidence-based information to support water governance, equitable allocation, and dispute management. The assignment will begin with a comprehensive review of existing hydrological, meteorological, and water use data, including flow records, water abstraction data, infrastructure operations and climate variability patterns. WARMA will supply water flow data. This will be complemented by field data collection and stakeholder consultations to fill information gaps and capture local water-use dynamics across agriculture, hydropower, mining, fisheries, domestic supply, and ecological systems. Besides providing a team of long-term and short-term experts, the Contractor shall facilitate the procurement of services by third parties where necessary. Close coordination and consultation with the GIZ project team in Zambia will be required. This will contribute to achieving output indicator 3.1 of AWARE 2.0 to carry out Water Deficit and Availability Assessments in the Lower Kafue Sub-catchment, including documentation of the methodology, and stakeholder inclusion used for each of the different assessments, classified into micro/community, meso/Local authority and macro/commercial scale. Based on this classification, the consultant will recommend appropriate and cost-effective approaches for each water dispute area. For instance, at micro/community level transparent visualiation of scientific data, knowledge and experience may be crucial to resolve disputes while at macro scale scientific data is necessary to facilitate dialogue. This means that the consultant will engage different assessment methodologies, based on the above classification, at every water dispute area. The contractor will further carry out quantitative assessments of water demand versus availability, model scenarios of water deficits under different climatic and usage conditions, and map 10 critical hotspots of water stress. Based on these findings, the contra