eC2: Resource Efficiency and Clean Energy Advisory for Footwear supply chain

Deadline: 15-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Footwear sector together with textile one plays an important role in economic stand but solar-energyhigh water, energy consuming and generate pollution. Therefore, working on greening footwear supply chain is a comprehensive way sector focus to meet sustainable development goals.This assignment is part of IFCs Vietnam Resource Efficiency Program to reduce resource consumption and greenhouse gas intensity consistent with the countrys green growth strategy. The multi-year program is implementing innovative aggregation approaches to scale-up impacts such as engaging with leading brands and their supply chains. IFC is looking for a good consultant to conduct indicated project in Vietnam.

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eC2: Competitiveness Assessment of competitive products in fruits and vegetable value chain in Albania

Deadline: 15-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)mozambique_cad-productions_-j_capela_resizednew

Consulting firm to help IFC/WBG and GoAlbania to conduct competitiveness assessment of products in fruits and vegetable value chain in Albania, and identify ones with competitive advantage

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eC2:Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Water and Sanitation (Senegal) to improve sanitation services delivery in small towns

Deadline: 21-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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Pour être éligible, le candidat doit disposer de compétences avérées en matière détudes de définition de stratégie dassainissement dans les gros centres ruraux ou les petites villes, incluant lélaboration des schémas directeurs jusquà la réalisation des études techniques détaillées et la production des dossiers dappels doffres en vue de la réalisation des travaux. Les membres de léquipe de consultants choisie devront justifier chacun au moins de deux expériences concluantes en matière de projets similaires, particulièrement appliquées aux populations sénégalaises ou ouest-africaines. La gestion détudes sur des populations rurales de grande taille est aussi essentielle.

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eC2:Assess the Feasibility of Creating a Regional Energy Hub in Egypt

Deadline:21-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)India Energy

The World Bank, on behalf of the MoP, intends to hire a consulting firm to define the shape of the desired regional energy hub in Egypt, based on a comprehensive feasibility study of costs and benefits as well as non-financial considerations; develop a strategy to achieve the establishment of that hub, the timeline in which to achieve it as well as a high-level implementation plan for it.

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eC2:Water Utility Prefeasibility Study for Private and Public Debt Financing to Enhance the WSS Service Delivery in the Urban Area of Tegucigalpa

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Deadline: 15-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)water

Design a business plan (BP) based on existing information on the SANAA, which will need to be validated to build an interactive financial model (FM) that will guide UMAPS in decision making with respect to the operation, maintenance and investments that will improve the quality of water and sanitation services as well as achieve financial and environmental sustainability.

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eC2: Risk Communication Research for the Open Data for Resilience Initiative

Deadline: 08-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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This project seeks to document the third pillar of the work program, Using Data, similar to how OpenDRI has documented its first two pillars through the above publications. This pillar brings together ideas and efforts from the fields of risk communication, user-centered design, and civic technology to ensure that investments in generating, collecting and sharing data contribute to evidence-based and risk-informed policies, ideally causing change in policy and behavior. Further, the third pillar seeks to inform the ways in which OpenDRI designs projects falling under the first two pillars.

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eC2:Water Utility Prefeasibility Study for Private and Public Debt Financing to Enhance the WSS Service Delivery in the Urban Area of Tegucigalpa

Deadline: 08-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)water

Design a business plan (BP) based on existing information on the SANAA, which will need to be validated to build an interactive financial model (FM) that will guide UMAPS in decision making with respect to the operation, maintenance and investments that will improve the quality of water and sanitation services as well as achieve financial and environmental sustainability.

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eC2: Scaling Solar Ethiopia – Resource Measurement Campaign

Deadline: 07-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)solar-energy

The Scaling Solar program (see http://www.scalingsolar.org) aims to accelerate the roll-out of competitively priced, utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power in Sub-Saharan Africa through a coordinated, packaged and largely standardised joint World Bank Group (World Bank, IFC, and MIGA) solution based on a templated Public Private Partnership (PPP) transaction. To date, four countries have signed up to the program and more countries are expected to follow shortly. In relation to Scaling Solar Ethiopia, IFC intends to hire a firm to provide reliable on-site measured solar resource data for an expected 3 separate sites in Ethiopia for a period of 1 year. The firm is to install, manage and maintain solar resource measurement stations at these sites in order to provide bankable solar resource data in line with the details to be provided in the terms of reference.

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eC2:A BUSINESS TO CONSUMER-MARKET PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH TO IDENTIFY AND CONFIRM MARKET NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR FORTIFIED NUTRITIOUS FOODS.

Deadline: 13-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)mozambique_cad-productions_-j_capela_resizednew

IFC has invested in Africa Improved Foods (AIF)that is producing highly nutritious quality fortified foods to address the malnutrition among vulnerable population segments in East Africa. For more sustainable development in future the company is planning on increasing the focus from the current range of fortified porridge for pregnant and lactating mothers & infants over 6 months to commercial product range of nutritious general foods, while maintaining focus on international quality, local sourcing and affordability.
This will eventually help in diversifying cost and revenue streams by leveraging on better technology investment in the region. IFC requests for Expression of Interest (EoI) to identify, quantify and validate the opportunity for this potential product range in specific East Africa Markets (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and DRC).

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eC2:Baseline Data Collection for The Kenya Tea Development Agency(KTDA) Project

Deadline: 07-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The external firm is to conduct the following:coffeeuganda
Step 1: Brief desk review of existing project documents and external documents that are identified as relevant. The end result of this will lead to the inception report
Step 2: Hiring and training of enumerators with IFC Staff and KTDA invited to attend (attendance will be at the discretion of IFC and KTDA)
Step 3: Finalization of questionnaire: review and translation as well as pilot testing of questionnaire which can be done as part of enumerator training
Step 4: Data collection in the field which will include capturing of GPS data points through tablet technology
Step 5: Code and clean data set prior to transmission to IFC

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