eC2: Baseline and En-Line Surveys for Jobseekers

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

The primary purpose of the consultancy will be to implement baseline and end-line surveys of jobseekers who register to participate with ISKUR. This baseline will be important for a study of the impact of the employment support program and its component parts on employment and other outcomes of program participants and their families. The survey will be conducted with jobseekers in their homes, with the aim of collecting information on socioeconomic status and work, migration and education histories from the jobseeker, and basic demographic, employment and education information on other co-residing household members and important family members (e.g., educational attainment of parents and numbers, gender age and location of children).

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Blockchain: How the Fourth Industrial Revolution can help accelerate progress towards development

Blockchain has been called a pillar of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, comparing it to1 es4_Z6OdX80rv4UdXbcVRw technologies such as the steam engine and the internet that triggered previous industrial revolutions. It has the power to disrupt existing economic and business models and may prove particularly valuable in emerging market economies. According to experts, blockchain also holds great promise as a method of fighting corruption, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, where more smartphone penetration can facilitate the adoption of new technology.

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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations

Improving the capacity of national statistical systems (NSSs) has long been a part of the chart_0global development agenda. The NSSs play an important role in modern economies. They provide stakeholders, ranging from policy makers to stock market analysts and the general public, with the data on the country’s socioeconomic developments. At the international level, monitoring global initiatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires high-quality data that are produced consistently across different national statistical systems.

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eC2:Preparation of Feasibility Level Design and Cost Estimate of the Access Road for the Naoro-Brown Hydropower Project

Deadline: 16-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) HYDRO

The objective of this assignment is to prepare a feasibility level design for the proposed (approximately) 60km section of the Naoro-Brown Hydropower Access Road with a Class 4 Bill of Quantities (BoQ) cost estimate.

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Revolutionizing mobility through blockchain

As digital technology continues to transform and reshape the transportation industry in-rickshaws-hyderabad-plamenj-flickrover the last few years, blockchain as a decentralized distributed technology has been embraced by other fields through various applications. It has found varied applications across banking, financial services, healthcare, e-governance, and voting.

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Digital technologies allow people to take on risks and explore new opportunities

In the era of digital technology, the structure of production as well as the interaction orange_fengjie_linebetween humans and machines is being redefined. The diffusion and application of digital technology can increase productivity in an unprecedented manner, with potential to reshape the role of humans in the function of production. Jobs are the drivers of development and pillars of resilience for people. Five years ago, the World Development Report (WDR 2014),  Risk and Opportunity – Managing Risk for Development, highlighted the role of enterprises in supporting people’s risk management by absorbing shocks and exploiting the opportunity side of risk. There have been heated debates on how technology may lead to risks, such as job loss and structural changes of employment. While the risks are real, the estimates of the impact of digital technology on employment vary widely, from substantial job loss for both skilled and the unskilled workers, to potential job gains thanks to the complementarity of humans and machines, as well as the income and wealth effect derived from higher productivity.

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eC2: Developing digital applications in village service delivery: Software Development Services

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

1_zcLRD1dCY-Wzg0I6PepeKA.jpgRequiring an eligible firm to provide software development services for a World Bank program related to improving village service delivery. The assignment will require the firm to design, develop, test, verify, commission various web based and mobile applications (incl. UI/UX and backend), based on latest software development frameworks. The firm will build, operate and transfer the complete technology to the respective government ministry for scaling the application at the project completion. The firm will also be required to pass a cyber-security audit from another agency, as per agreed terms and conditions with the end user of the application. The firm will provide complete documentation including design documents, testing/verification documents and source codes (with updated tracking changes) to the end user at the completion of the project. The firm will also provide technical support and assistance for a period of one year or more to the end user after the project completion.

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eC2: Developing digital applications in village service delivery: human centered design

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

The assignment requires an eligible firm well-experienced in human-centered design to develop suitable UI/UX interface designs and dashboards for a number of different smartphone and web-based applications related to improving village service delivery. This assignment will require the firm to conduct key informant/expert interviews, focus groups, targeted surveys and other similar studies using the human centered design approach in at least 10 different locations throughout Indonesia.

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Our children’s planet: What does their education have to do with climate change?

Our world is very different than our grandparent’s. In 1950, there were about 2.5 billion 1_dshzzz8-5ywxq6sjduincwpeople; today, there are more than 7 billion. Overall, people are healthier, wealthier, and more secure.

But this has come at a cost. The stress on our planet has been immense. Human beings have dramatically altered the climate, changed the chemistry of the oceans, and triggered mass extinctions. The impact has been so great as to define an entirely new geological era — the Anthropocene, turbo charged by a “great acceleration” of population, economic growth and natural resource consumption since the 1950s.

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eC2: Supply Chain Management Consultant

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

IFC is seeking to contract a firm which has expertise in improving the productivity of raisin production by farmers and in developing raisin supply chain. The consultant will be working with an IFC client company and grapes farmers to improve the productivity and efficiency of clients raisin supply chain and to set in place a strong supply chain management and development capacity in order to ensure the long-term and reliable availability of raisins from farmers at competitive prices, in sufficient quantities and with the high quality required by the client.  The overall objective of the assignment is to improve the productivity and efficiency of the farmers producing and supplying grapes to the Client.

The Consultant will also support IFC on collecting the data required for monitoring and evaluating the Projects impact on farmers and their livelihoods.

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