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The PMC will coordinate between PSC and project management body. In addition, the PMC will have the following specific roles and responsibilities: 1. review and recommend of annual work plans and budgets presented by the CTA and NPC; 2. establishing a Technical Working Group (TWG) and preparing terms for the group; 3. making decision of the composition of working partners and working groups; 4. solving issues raised by the TWG; 5. solving issues related to project components and working groups; 6. assessment of the efficiency of project components and activities; 7. solving technical problems to facilitate smooth implementation of the Project; 8. deciding need and preparing draft agenda for the meetings of the PSC; 9. taking up issues to be presented in the meetings of PSC; 10. formulating strategies for capacity building and training; 11. approval of communication and public involvement plan 12. preparing events to present project results having national importance; 13. preparing trimester and annual progress reports; 14. approval of the monthly progress reports. The PMC will meet on a monthly basis, and when required. 7.5.1.3 Project organization A project organization will be created by designating international, regional and national experts in order to carry out the overall project activities. For the provision of technical assistance the Government of Finland will award a contract to an international consulting company. The technical assistance requirements for the project components including the list of international and regional expert posts are shown in Table 4. The following government staff members will be assigned by GoN to the project with the specified responsibilities: 1. National Project Coordinator assigned by DFRS (full time) 2. Forest Inventory Manager assigned by DFRS (full time) 3. Mapping and GIS -Application Manager assigned by DFRS (full time) 4. Remote Sensing Analyst Manager assigned by DFRS (full time) 5. Topographic Mapping Manager (full time for certain months from the Department of Survey) 6. Biodiversity Mapping Manager (full time for certain months from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation) 7. NTFPs Mapping Manager (full time for certain months from the Department of Plant Resources) 8. Watershed Mapping Manager (full time for certain months from the Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management) 9. Community Forestry Information Manager (full time for certain months from the Department of Forests) The project organization will be further modified and extended in the work plans. More experts and field specialists are required to implement the work (Field Crew Leaders, Cartographers, Database operators, etc.). 7.5.2 Output and timetable Duty / Product Timetable Project Steering Committee established 1 st month of the 1 st year Project Management Committee established 1 st month of the 1 st year Overall project work plan and budget made and approved 1 st half of the 1 st year Table 4. Required expertise in technical assistance Title Duration Tasks Long Term Experts 1) Chief Technical Advisor, International 52.5 months Overall management of the technical assistance and external expertise; Forest inventory, general data collection; preparation of software development and other contracts and procurements; Capacity 37
2) Senior Technical Advisor, International 3) Junior Technical Advisor, International 4) Biodiversity Mapping Expert, Regional 5) Project Field Manager, Regional 6) Financial Administrator/Accountant 7) Senior Data Management Adviser building, training; Project management and reporting. 31.5 months Acquisition of proper RS image materials; GIS and RS training; Assist in data and training needs assessment and database design; Data integration and sharing 21 months Assist in biometrical modeling, RS image processing and training; 36 months Assist in defining inventory scheme and data logging in biodiversity matters, organize biodiversity, NTFP, TOF and forest resource consumption surveys and developing methods 36 months Assist and support in launching field inventory scheme, organizing training and field work arrangements, quality control and responsible for data consistency and compatibility 58 months General Support to the Project Administration and procurement; financial management of the project; Support to the National Project Accountant (Accounting/Reporting, Control and Bank Reconciliation) 56 months Organizing collaboration between organizations contributing to the FRA Nepal Project (“data partners”), data sharing protocol development and data collection campaigns; assist in preparing and carrying out assessment of nationally important data needs. Short Term Experts 8) Forest Biometrics Expert 1+1+1 = 3 months Develop statistical reliability estimates for FRA and Inventory data; Biomass and yield modeling. 9) Inventory Design and 1 month Design inventory scheme and sampling methods to be utilized in Sampling Survey Expert 10) Forest Information Systems and Remote Sensing Expert 11) Biodiversity Mapping Expert, International 12) LiDAR Technology & Applications Expert, International 13) Senior Remote Sensing and GIS Advisor, Regional 14) Forest Mensuration and Data Collection Expert, Regional 15) Database and Data Sharing Expert, Regional 16) LiDAR Technology Expert, Regional 2+3+3+2 = 10 months 1+1 = 2 months collection of multi-source forest data Design pilot system for forest inventories including data collection, data entry and data analysis; Develop improved satellite image processing techniques, color-balanced mosaics, segmentation and volume/biomass estimates for inventories, Basic research and training in the areas of expertise. Design of biodiversity surveys, refine data collection system and its integration to OSFIS, integrate different datasets, produce biodiversity indicators and estimators, plan sharing of biodiversity data. 3 months Design and apply LiDAR technology to Nepalese conditions and arrange use of ALS data, provide respective training 8 months Support in image analysis 17) Unspecified experts 3 months Unspecified 7 months Assist in creating field inventory scheme, carrying out field measurements, developing technology for field work; organize field work for sample tree data collection for modeling 7 months Assist in establishing, testing and using of the FIS Database and Data Sharing System 6 months Assist in designing and applying LiDAR technology to Nepalese conditions and in processing and use of ALS data International contracts Laser scanning data acquisition and processing National contracts Forest inventory software development Satellite image procurement Satellite image processing Provide processed ALS data and integrate ALS as part of RS support system to the FRA Software development and programming of Forest Inventory procedures, Assist in database design; Development of Database Management Systems (DBMS); Image acquisition Ortho-rectification and radiometric correction Detailed Terms of References for long-term for short-term experts are presented in Annex G. 38
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Page 5 and 6: Abbreviations ADB ALS ALOS CBO CBD
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