Consultant to develop loss and damage databases with emphasis on wildfires in Guatemala and Colombia
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction · PANAMA CITY · Apply by October 20, 2026
About this role
Result of Service At the end of the consultancy, Colombia and Guatemala will have strengthened methodologies and information for the identification, estimation and standardized recording of wildfire impacts and losses affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services, building on existing national methodologies and risk information. The consultancy will result in a standardized proposal for the cataloguing and classification of wildfire events; a methodology for recording non-economic losses associated with biodiversity and ecosystem services; and a consolidated historical database of wildfire events, impacts, damages and losses for Colombia in El Tuparro National Natural Park and Isla Salamanca National Natural Park, and for Guatemala in two protected areas to be jointly identified by CONRED and UNDRR, compatible with DELTA Resilience. It will also provide a comparative analysis of existing methodologies in Colombia and Guatemala for the economic estimation of damages to natural capital and losses of ecosystem services, identifying data requirements, strengths, limitations and opportunities for harmonization. In Guatemala, the work will build on and complement the information…