eC2: TA Activity to establish a city-owned Yangon Flood Resilience Strategy

Deadline: 21-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) water

The assignment described in this REoI, falls under the Technical Assistance activity attached to Component 2 of the Myanmar SEA-DRM project and is referred to as Yangon Flood Resilience Strategy.  The consulting services (the Services) for Yangon Flood Resilience Strategy include: Task 1: Prepare three strategic directions that inform the formulation of a preferred Flood Resilience Strategy and prepare a Catalog of Measures, a matrix of design principles and example measures applicable to the Yangon situation,
Task 2: Establish a city-owned Flood Resilience Strategy for Yangon and engage with YCDC and Yangon Regional Government in a Multi-Criteria Analysis CBA to design a multi-annual Investment Program for flood resilience interventions (structural and non-structural) (Program of Measures)  Task 3: Pre-feasibility Study (engineering design) for selected priority investment options.

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eC2: Assessment on Electricity for Host Communities and Forcibly Displaced People in the Sahel

Deadline: 01-Jun-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)energy

The overall objective of this activity is to conduct an assessment of electricity access to better understand demand and supply and identify market barriers, key market players and support required to promote the growth of basic electricity services for conflict-affected zones (borders), host communities and FDPs in the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Tchad).

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eC2: Indonesia Coastal Fisheries Initiative – Challenge Fund

Deadline: 15-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)index

The Indonesia CFI-CF Project aims to support the development of a fisheries investment package by a coalition of community, government, and businesses, and support finding an investor for the resulting investment package. One promising idea will be selected through a competitive process and awarded a contract for the development of the package. The World Bank will oversee the activities of the awardee, review project outputs, and provide guidance on analyses for ensuring that the investment package is robust (described further below).

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eC2: Digital Economy For South Asia (DE4SA)- Digital Economy Assessments

Deadline:  15-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) index.jpeg

The World Bank Digital Development Global Practice (DD GP) is engaging with countries across Asia to identify new opportunities for growth and inclusion from the digital economy. These engagements have resulted in most cases from ongoing policy dialogue or investment lending programs and they reflect an interest from these countries to identify the public policies and investments that can promote their national digital economies. At the same time, there are opportunities to be realized through regional programs that could improve connectivity, access to markets, and grow the regional digital economy. In addition, there are also ongoing engagements with countries across Africa in other engagements.

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eC2: CGAP Women in social commerce in Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Pakistan: Personas, opportunities, and financial inclusion insights

Deadline: 14-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) woman

CGAP is exploring womens engagement in social commerce to understand potential implications for financial inclusion and to capture opportunities and build resilience. CGAP seeks a vendor to conceptualize and execute a blend of quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, focusing on women who engage in this phenomenon. The selected firm will identify and describe the distinct personas of those who buy, sell, and play other supporting functions in social commerce; prioritize a smaller group of personas according to CGAPs research agenda and hypotheses; and identify their motivations, needs, and behaviors and explore critical questions related to livelihoods and financial inclusion. The deliverables include a report, narrative and presentation on the personas and findings for each country as well as an overarching analysis, videos on the priority segments in each country, report on the role of financial services to meet women’s needs.

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eC2: Consulting Assignment for a Consulting Firm for the Better Life Farming Alliance Project in India

Deadline: 03-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)Picture1

The Consulting Firm is required to undertake the following activities under the assignment which will be divided into two phases. The second phase of the assignment will be extended to the Consulting Firm contingent on satisfactory delivery and submission of all deliverables outlined under the scope of Phase I.
PHASE I : Under Phase I, the Consulting Firm will provide support in the design of the technical assistance and capacity building strategy of the project.
PHASE II: The second phase of the project will primarily be on the design of the training modules by IFC and delivery of entrepreneur trainings on ground based on TNA.

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eC2:Resource Efficiency Benchmarking of Red Meat Abattoirs in South Africa

Deadline: 03-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) index

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group (WBG), launched the Agri-processing Resource Efficiency (APRE) Project that has two core components:(1) provide advisory and implementation support to agri-processing companies on water efficiency measures, develop and disseminate replicable solutions and best practices together with sector aggregators; and
(2) work with public/private stakeholders in three localities on specific policy/regulatory measures to support water efficiency, convening public-private dialogues to reach consensus on them. Red meat processing is one of the priority subsectors for engaging under the first component of APRE program. IFC is seeking a consulting firm to help with the resource efficiency benchmarking of the red meat abattoirs in South Africa that aims to assess the gaps in the efficiency of the use of resources, with focus on water, and identify areas for improvements in performance and sustainability.

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eC2: Update delineation and characterization of the groundwater bodies at risk, including pressure and risks, and perform status assessment

Deadline: 07-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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The assignment envisages the following activities with regard to the 93 Ground Water Bodies (GWBs)in Bulgaria identified in the River Basin Management Plans (2016-2021) as not being in good status (63) or to be at risk of not achieving good qualitative or good chemical status (30): the implementation of the updated methodologies/approaches and delineation of the groundwater bodies, updating the characterization of GWB,
determining the background level concentration (BGL) and threshold values (TV) for contaminants in the GWB, evaluating the pressures and risks for the quantitative and chemical status applicable to the GWBs and identifying the trends,  and finally evaluating the quantitative and chemical status of the GWB.

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eC2: Indonesia Coastal Fisheries Initiative – Challenge Fund

Deadline: 08-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) index

Specifically, by time of close, the contracted organization will have:
1) Developed an investment package, a report outlining a set of well-defined investment project proposals;
2) Completed a series of analysis to validate the technical, legal, and social feasibility of the proposed investments; including estimates of the financial return from undertaking the investments, and appraisal of social and environmental impacts as well as their mitigation measures (using the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework);
3) Conducted concrete preparatory actions that increase the chance of success (or reduce the risks) of the proposed fishery investment package, such as capacity-building of stakeholders, strategy development, or certification audits, in preparation for the implementation of activities in the proposed investment package;
4) Have in-principle agreements with potential investors and donors to undertake the financing of the project proposals.

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eC2:Renewable Energy Competitive Bidding Strategy

Deadline: 07-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)energy

Scope of Work
The assignment has four components:
(i) Develop RE Competitive Bidding Strategy, including volume and timeline recommendations, type of bidding, roles of key agencies, and ensuring maximum economic benefit over the long-term;
(ii) Procurement Framework for Competitive Bidding, including consideration of qualification requirements, winner selection process, and sellers liabilities;
(iii) Stakeholder Consultations and Capacity Building, including regular workshops, briefings, and other engagement to ensure that all key federal and provincial agencies, and private sector developers and investors, are consulted regularly;
(iv) RE Competitive Bidding Action Plan, including a capacity assessment of key agencies, communication strategy, and immediate next steps for implementation.

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