eC2: Technical advisor for renewable energy PPP options in small and mini grids in Haiti

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Deadline:  05-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) PPPs

The PPIAF-financed activity provides technical assistance and capacity building to the Government to successfully implement these priority actions. In this context, the World Bank is seeking a Technical Advisor to support Government in strategic and operational decisions related to the scale up of distributed renewable energy in Haiti, in particular through developing public-private partnerships (PPP) options for retrofitting of existing utility/municipal mini grids, and building incentives for investments in new mini grids. This will be done through the provision of capacity building, facilitation of lessons learned from similar country contexts and other similar technical advice.

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eC2: Consultancy to Support the Ministry of Health to develop the Kenya Health and Research Observatory Web Portal for Tracking and Analysis of Health Data

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Deadline: 11-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) medical-appointment-doctor-healthcare-clinic-health-hospital-medicine[7]

The Consultancy firm will work closely with the MoH, WHO and World Bank focal point for the National Health Observatory in the development of the KHRO portal. The scope of work includes planning, documentation, development and installation of the KHRO web portal into the MoH data center, capacity building of the MOH team in the maintenance and management of the health observatory.

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Across India, Solar Power Brings More than Light

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DULU SARNA, India—Sarita Asur, a subsistence farmer and young mother of three, lives maxresdefault in one of India’s most remote tribal areas—a place so isolated that it’s not just off the power grid, it’s also absent from most maps. She and her community, the Asur tribe, are based in the eastern state of Jharkhand.  Nearly half of the people in this isolated territory lack access to electricity—the highest percentage of any state in India.

So when Azure Power, a private solar provider and longstanding IFC client, won a contract to bring power to 320 households in 11 mud-brick villages scattered across the state, the first item of business was to locate these communities. Engineers spent a week driving and trekking through waterlogged jungle to identify the coordinates of each village—including Sarita Asur’s. Next, Azure Power arranged to transport the equipment (including 450-pound batteries) on the narrow, unpaved roads of one of India’s poorest regions. Continue reading →

Make it convenient, make it credible

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We’re living in a time of disruptive technologies evolving at an exponential pace. Today, top_0you can enjoy an Impossible Burger (meat industry disrupted) delivered by Caviar (food delivery disrupted) to your AirBnB (hotel industry disrupted) while you’re on FaceTime (telecommunication industry disrupted) urging your teenager to get back to lessons on Khan Academy (education industry disrupted). And all the while, you’re leaving a trail of digital data points.

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eC2: Cold chain energy efficiency in India: Analysis of EE opportunities in pack houses

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Deadline: 05-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) th

The objective of this assignment is to support the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in developing options for enhancing the energy efficiency of pack-houses in India. 

The assignment objective will be achieved through an analysis of current energy consumption trends in different types of pack-houses, assessments of the implications of capacity addition projections, identification of energy efficiency improvement opportunities in pack houses, and drawing lessons from relevant experience in India and internationally. The assignment is expected to result in a set of recommendations for BEE action to promote energy efficiency in the cold chain, pack-houses in particular. Actions that BEE may consider in this area can include specific guidance related to equipment and appliance, insulation, building design, and ancillary equipment that can minimize energy consumption.

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eC2: Study on Using the Climate Auction Model to Catalyze Energy and Resource Efficient Buildings in Indonesia

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Deadline: 28-Jan-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) climate

The World Bank is seeking to hire a firm to conduct an extensive study of the potential to use the Climate Auction Model, as piloted by the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation, in the context of green buildings in Indonesia. The study will consist of a Regulatory Assessment, a Market Scoping and an Economic Analysis of the green and affordable housing in Indonesia and enable the World Bank to prepare a pilot in Indonesia.

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eC2: Lighting Africa, Nigeria – Consumer Education: Above the Line Phase 3

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Deadline:  31-Jan-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Solar-street-lights-in-Guinea1

Lighting Africa is a joint World Bank/IFC program aimed at helping 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially rural, urban, and sub-urban consumers without electricity access to high-quality, safe, and reliable lighting products by the year 2030.
Launched in March 2015 and scheduled to end in April 2019, the Lighting Africa (Nigeria) Program has committed significant resources and worked closely with a range of key stakeholders to develop an off-grid energy market in Nigeria. The market is now in its early growth stage. As the program enters its final quarter, consumer education is focused on addressing the perception, knowledge and purchase barriers encountered by consumers. Accordingly, IFC is soliciting proposals from marketing communications firms to develop and implement a close-out above-the-line consumer education program that builds on previous efforts to drive rapid consumer uptake of quality verified solar lighting products.

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eC2: Improved renewable energy integration and electricity services through battery storage in India

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Deadline: 20-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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II. Objectives of the assignment:

4. The technical, economic and social benefits of battery energy storage solutions (BESS) have not been well examined in India, nor have the business cases for deploying BESS been articulated at different voltage levels.

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eC2: Integrated Water and Hydropower Development in the Drina River Basin

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

Historically, two approaches have been used to assess the options for utilization of the HPP potential in the DRB:

1. Development of the basin-wide studies, followed by
2. Development of the technical design documents and environmental and social impact assessments for identified priority projects.

At this stage, in order to evaluate the options for construction of greenfield and rehabilitation of existing hydropower plants in the wider DRB, the WBG intends to conduct a detailed review of existing river basin studies as well as technical and environmental and social studies, reports and assessments developed for candidate HPP projects.

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eC2: STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL ASSESSMENT FOR KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP AND TOWN & KALOBEYEI SETTLEMENT AND TOWN

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Deadline: 11-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) syrian-refugees-saeed3

The objective of the assignment is to conduct a strategic environmental and social assessment (SESA) to identify and examine potential key environmental and social aspects to inform the design and implementation as well as to identify associated risks of the proposed activities under the KKCF in line with IFC Performance Standards. The SESA will focus on and fully examine all the potential environmental and social issues associated with the development of the planned interventions under the KKCF.

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