eC2: Informing Partnerships between Government and Ethnic Basic Education Providers

Deadline: 04-Dec-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: The World Bank (WB) education team, in collaboration with Myanmar Education Consortium (MEC), is recruiting a consultancy firm/consultant(s) to carry-out a scoping study to inform the development of modalities for engagement and partnership between the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Ethnic Basic Education Providers (EBEP) in the States/Regions and conflict-affected areas.

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e2C: Feasibility study for Temperature Controlled Logistic (TCL) services in Sub Saharan Africa (the Assignment)

Deadline: 05-Dec-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: The Assignment is a market study of the Temperature Controlled Logistic (TCL) sector in Nigeria, Kenya and Côte D’Ivoire. TCL services would include storage/transportation/distribution, together with other value added services, of food/perishable products in a temperature controlled environment.

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eC2: Capacity Building and Risk Transfer Pilot in Mozambique

Deadline: 30-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: Applicants may request to apply for a capacity building and implementation of risk transfer pilot support. A Risk Transfer Pilot Project is a project that develops and issues an index-based insurance product for cotton and other crops for one or more clients in Mozambique.
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eC2: Business case assessment for Bonsucro sustainability standard and improvement framework for sugar mills and smallholder value chains in India

Deadline: 04-Dec-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: IFC and Bonsucro are interested to undertake a business case assessment for Bonsucro sustainability standard and improvement framework for sugar mills and smallholder value chains in India.

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eC2: SERBIA NATIONAL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN (NDRMP): FLOOD RISK MAPPING

Deadline: 04-Dec-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Rural Infra in Cambodia

Objective: The objective of Component 2 on Disaster Risk Identification and Monitoring within the Programmatic Approach is to support the Government of Serbia, in particular the Serbian water sector institutions under the Ministry of Agriculture, in generating actionable flood risk information and to strengthen (flood) risk assessment methodologies. Serbia completed a preliminary flood risk assessment in 2011 and defined 99 flood prone areas throughout the country. Following this, 25 out of those 99 flood prone areas were mapped during the Study of Flood Prone Areas in Serbia (SoFPAS) project finalized in 2012.

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eC2: Executive Education: Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance

Deadline: 30-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) vn-communitybased-disasterrisk-780x439

Objective: The objective is to develop a 4-day modular capacity building program on Disaster Risk Financing(DRF)to enhance understanding of DRF strategies and instruments for protection from natural disasters, embedded in the broader Disaster Risk Management and fiscal risk management frameworks, and build the skills of stakeholders to design and implement such strategies.

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eC2: Second Verification of Reforestation on Degraded Lands in Northwest Guangxi

Deadline: 16-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: The firm will conduct Second Verification of Reforestation on Degraded Lands in Northwest Guangxi (CDM Reference No. 3561). The project activity established 6,849 ha of multiple-purposes forests on degraded lands in Longlin, Tianlin and Lingyun Counties of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China.

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e2C: Technical Assistance to Strengthen Community-Level Capacity to Manage Disaster Risk and Recovery in Afghanistan

Deadline: 27-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: In order to increase disaster risk awareness and capacity of communities by afghanistan.gif supporting them in conducting participatory disaster risk mapping and disaster risk reduction activities to inform the design and implementation of community sub-projects under the Citizen Charter Project (CCAP), this consultancy will work with select Community Development Councils (CDCs), created under the National Solidarity Program (NSP), in high risk accessible areas, focusing initially on the North of the country.

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eC2: Tunisia Satellite Seeps Study

Deadline: 27-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective:  The World Bank is seeking to procure the services of a firm to provide a radar satellite study to the ETAP, the Tunisia National Oil Company, aimed at establishing a comprehensive and homogeneous hydrocarbons seeps inventory and evaluation (quality, size, repetitiveness) of the northern offshore Tunisia between the Algerian and Italian borders (around 50 000 km2). The deliverables will be a GIS (Arcview, vector format) file with the mapping of the seeps extension over a period of 10 years from about 50 validated satellite scenes.

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eC2: The recruitment of a firm to perform study on shea butter value chain in Mali

Deadline: 25-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: Shea butter is made from the nuts of the African Shea tree that only grows inmali.png the Sahel region of the continent. In Mali, one of the top shea nut-producing countries, it is estimated that three million women work directly or indirectly in the shea butter sector in Mali, producing an estimated 150,000 tons of shea. However, 95% of shea products are exported as raw material and only 5% as processed products. The current organization of butter production and commercialization activity in villages in Mali is a hindrance to real participation in the export of processed products. The current supply is not completely adapted to satisfy the international requirements of the highest paying markets, which could be a factor of the quasi-inexistent export of processed shea products in Mali. The main objective of the assignment is to prepare a comprehensive program including investment projects as well as technical assistant aiming at increasing Malian sheas value addition through a productive partnership between agro-industry players and smallholders, based on a strong analysis of the shea value chain, its organization, key players, key figures and SWOT analysis, drawing from findings of existing studies and programs on shea in Mali and in the sub-region and new analysis to be conducted by the Consultant.

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