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Improving Access to Water and Sanitation for the Poor – Somalia

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ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
Pro-Poor Access to Water and Sanitation – Hargeisa Case Study

This study will be driven by the following research questions:

1. Who are the poorest people/households in Hargeisa? How do we define them and where do we find them?
2. What access and service levels do the poor have to water and sanitation?
3. How do the poorest suffer disproportionately from their condition of access to W&S in terms of costs and health?
4. What opportunities exist to improve conditions of the poorest?

The case study will require a mixed methods approach.

The quantitative aspects include analysis of two data sets: WB poverty study and MICS as well as the design and implementation of a structured household sample survey.

The qualitative aspects will include focus group discussions – or similar methods – on the constraints to and opportunities for improving service delivery to the poor.
See full tender here: Improving Access to Water and Sanitation for the Poor – Somalia.

Expression of Interest Deadline: 22 January 2015. Expression of interest to be submitted via the eConsultant2 website. Request for expression of interest for selection #1169904.

LED Street Lighting Retrofit Project in Surabaya, Indonesia

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Street lighting retrofit with energy efficient Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology in Surabaya offers a significant energy and cost savings potential for the city government. Under the Sustainable Energy and Emissions Planning or SUEEP Program (http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/pdf/10.1596/978-0-8213-9837-1) the World Bank is supporting a program of technical assistance in introducing a private sector company in the street lighting system of a major city in Indonesia through a public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement.

The scope of the project is to identify an international Technical Consultant (Consultant) who will be responsible to assess independently the feasibility of performing a pilot demonstration of replacing inefficient street lighting lamps with modern efficient LED lamps (Pilot) in Surabaya on a sample basis in order to demonstrate the energy savings, emissions reduction and financial benefits that may be realized by the City Government of Surabaya (CGS) should they pursue the project.

This project is financed under the ESMAP (Energy Sector Management Assistance Program) Trust Fund. The consultant will be an individual.

See full tender here: LED Street Lighting Retrofit Project – Surabaya, Indonesia.

Expression of Interest Deadline: 22 January 2015. Expression of interest to be submitted via the eConsultant2 website.

Analytical Work & TA Ganga River Basin, India

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The terms of reference of the assignment outline a major program of work to support the strategic basin planning efforts of Government of India over a two to three year period. The focus of the project is on technical assistance to government though modelling and analytical work combined with capacity building.

The high-level objectives of the project are:
(i) To significantly strengthen the capability of relevant central and state government agencies to undertake comprehensive evidence-based strategic basin planning for the Ganga River basin;
(ii) To develop, document and disseminate (through detailed analytical work and stakeholder engagement) a set of plausible scenarios that balance significantly improving the health of the river and maintaining an acceptable level of economic productivity, and;
(iii) To build stronger and more accessible information and knowledge base to guide ongoing dialogue around and management of the Ganga River basin.

See full tender here: Strategic basin planning for Ganga River Basin – India.

Expression of Interest Deadline: 29 January 2015. Expression of interest to be submitted via the eConsultant2 website.

Operational Procurement vs Corporate Procurement

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Over the last couple of months you may have noticed that we have published multiple tender announcements and opportunities on our blog, both under the ‘eConsultant2’ tab and the ‘Projects’ tab. You might be wondering, what is the difference? The difference between the opportunities published relates to the procuring entity. The Corporate Procurement (eConsultant2) is procured by the i-love-procurement2World Bank itself, while Operational Procurement (Projects) is procured by the borrowing countries. With operational procurement, the role of the World Bank is limited to oversight and issuing a ‘no objection’ – the World Bank has an oversight role in this but does not run the procurement process. Continue reading →

Capacity Building Sanitation Plan – Vietnam

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The development objective of the TA is to support the Can Tho City Peoples’ Committee and the City’s Department of Construction in implementing the poor-inclusive City Sanitation Plan by providing expertise to develop curricula, guidelines and training programs to increase implementation capacity for the Plan.

Through an assessment of current and future demand for human resources competencies in sanitation in Can Tho the TA will establish a framework and program for delivering capacity building to the city agencies responsible for the planning, coordination and implementation of sanitation services in the city’s urban, peri-urban and rural areas.

See full tender here: Capacity Building Sanitation Plan – Vietnam

Expression of Interest Deadline: 09 February 2015

Health Insurance Subsidy Process Evaluation – Kenya

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The African Health Markets for Equity (AHME) is a five-year project that aims to improve health outcomes through the provision of quality private sector health care targeting the poor in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana. In Kenya, the AHME project is supporting the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to design, test, and scale-up the Health Insurance Subsidy Program (HISP) that will serve as a mechanism for the Government of Kenya to subsidize NHIF insurance cover for the poorest households in Kenya.

To supplement a quantitative impact evaluation of the programme, the NHIF plans to carry out a process evaluation. The aim of the process evaluation is to assess programme implementation and provide information that will help implementers determine the degree to which the HISP intervention was implemented as planned (implementation fidelity).

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Transport Specialist / Highway Engineer in Tanzania

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The World Banks Transport and ICT Global Practice is looking for a highly organized, energized and experienced individual Short Term Consultant (STC) to serve as Transport Specialist/Highway Engineer based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The candidate will participate primarily in the Banks transport sector work and operations in Tanzania.
See full tender here: Transport Specialist or Highway Engineer – Tanzania.

Deadline: October 26, 2014