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eConsultant2: Design Review for a Phased Rehabilitation & Extension of Monrovias Sewerage System

Deadline: 11-May-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

This consultancy has three main objectives: (a) Update the information about the current waterpiped sewerage system and treatment plant of Monrovia (Liberia), in particular carry out a customer enumeration, compile a map of the existing system as well as estimate the demand and willingness to pay for piped sewerage; (b) Assess the technical options and associated costs for a rehabilitation of Monrovias piped sewerage system, and its phased extension to priority areas, recommending a technical solution;(c) For the recommended approach, prepare a detailed design and costing, including draft safeguard and tender documents, for Phase 1 i.e. the rehabilitation of the existing system and important minor extensions up to a budget of US$ 20m.

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Leaders Aim to Put a Price on Half of All Global Carbon Emissions

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Ten leaders, including Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, have laid out goals in a joint vision statement to expand carbon pricing to cover 25 percent of global emissions by 2020, and achieve 50 percent coverage within the next decade.

Currently, some 40 governments and 23 cities, states and regions put a price on carbon pollution, accounting for 12 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. This marks a three-fold increase over the past decade.

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eConsultant2: GFF: Innovative Finance for Health Landscape Analysis

Deadline:14-May-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The Firm will be hired to do a landscape analysis of private investors, both global and local,Hospital who are already active in the health and/or RMNCAH space in developing countries, and identify possible opportunities to leverage GFF and partner resources and financing instruments to encourage more pro-poor, bottom of the pyramid investments to maximize health impact. Private sector for the purposes of this analysis will include investments into both for-profit and not-for profits (including NGOs).

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eConsultant2: Soil and Leaf Testing:KTDA Tea Zones

Deadline: 05-May-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)_DSC0993

IFC is working with KTDA to carry out soil and leaf testing across the 67 factories. The project will collect a statistically valid set of soil and leaf samples from each major soil type. Analysis of these samples will identify macro and micro soil nutrient deficiencies, which will be addressed through the development of improved fertilizer blends and application recommendations.

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eConsultant2:CONSULTANCY FOR A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE PROPOSED INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PPP

Deadline: 03-May-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The Consultants will prepare a feasibility study consistent with the PPP Act (2013), to a standard that will enable the County Government of Nakuru to establish the technical configuration, commercial attractiveness and bankability of the proposed Project. The overall objective of the consultancy assignment is to assist the County Government in developing a bankable transaction structure for the proposed project under a PPP scheme.

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eConsultant2:CONSULTANCY FOR A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE PROPOSED: MURANGA TOWN/ MUKUYU WATER SUPPLY PPP

Deadline: 03-May-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)water

The Consultants will prepare a feasibility study consistent with the PPP Act (2013), to a standard that will enable the County Government of Muranga to establish the technical configuration, commercial attractiveness and bankability of the proposed Project.
The overall objective of the consultancy assignment is to assist the County Government in developing a bankable transaction structure for the proposed project under a PPP scheme.

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World Bank Group Urged to Help Solve Refugee Crisis, Other Challenges

Government ministers from around the world confronted the refugee crisis, a slowing economy, and other global challenges at the 2016 World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings.

“Forced Displacement and Development” was the only item on the agenda at the Dev CommDevelopment Committee meeting on Saturday. The committee, which represents the 189 shareholder countries of the Bank Group and the IMF, urged its members to take action to support vulnerable people who have been forced to flee their homes, and encouraged the institutions to partner with humanitarian organizations to help forcibly displaced people and host communities confront the root causes of the problem.

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eConsultant2: Qualitative Research in urban water

Deadline: 01-May-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The Equity Analysis of Piped Water Delivery in Urban Mozambique (P156563) study have waterthe following objectives:
i. Identify the urban poor, their level of and trends in access to improved water supply services, and conditions of access to services.
ii. Undertake a thorough review of access constraints to water supply by the poor.
iii. Model the investment requirements for rehabilitation and expansion of water supply services, and impacts on operational and maintenance costs.
iv. Based on (i), (ii), and (iii), understand potential mechanisms to address access constraints to inform policy, regulation, and utilities action plan to secure access to improved water by the poor.

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See What You Missed at the World Bank GroupSpring Meetings

During the Spring Meetings 2016 the World Bank Group hosted distinguished speakers , from Queen Rania and Ban Ki-moon to Michelle Obama and Bill Gates. Click the links below to replay all 19 webcasts, read blogs, and watch videos highlighting the best of the Meetings.

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The full schedule with the list of events which include webcasts, and fotos here.

All the videos taken during the meetings can be found here.

 

eConsultant2: Competition Assessment of the Wheat and Sunflower Seed Post-Production Distribution Chain

Deadline: 30-Apr-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The objectives of the competition assessment of the post-production distribution chainIFC and the Dutch (including acquisition, warehousing, transportation and export segments) of wheat and sunflower seed are to: (i) assess the competition status and identify key barriers to competition in these segments of the chain; (ii) assess the impact of barriers to competition on farmers and private sector investments; (iii) propose remedy solutions to the Competition Council and the Government of Moldova.

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