eC2:Provision of capacity building services to Egyptian Water and Sanitation public agencies

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Deadline: 15-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)water

The academic institutes will provide capacity building services in the following areas to 3 WSCs (Sharkiya, Dakahlia and Beheira governorates), the Holding Company for Water and Waste Water (HCWW), the Egyptian Water Regulation Agency (EWRA), and the Project Management Unit (PMU) in the Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities (MHUUC):
– Monitoring and Evaluation,
– Project Management,
– Strategic Planning,
– Asset Management,
– Operations and Maintenance,
– Procurement,
– Citizen Engagement,
– Financial sustainability
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eC2: Cotton-Apparel Value Chain in Kenya

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Deadline: 14-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)index

The consultant will work to look in depth at the cotton-apparel value chain to identify potential obstacles to greater growth. Depending on the location of the main economic activities throughout the value chain, the analysis may focus on specific geographic areas. The selected consultants will be expected to carry out a detailed mapping of the actors in the different links of the value chains. The instruments to be administered by the firm will further cover firm dynamics; costs, productivity, and jobs (scale and skills demanded); and barriers to competitiveness, value chain deepening, and job creation at each stage. In addition, the instruments will cover cross-cutting issues such as the costs of trade, as well as labor market rigidity and costs, and education and skills.
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eC2:Interim Support to the PPP Unit-Lesotho

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Deadline: 10-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)PPPs

The Government of Lesotho has entered into a landmark Public Private Partnership (PPP) for a new national referral hospital and three primary filter clinics in Maseru (QMMH PPP).The Government wishes to ensure that these PPPs remain cost effective, provide reliable and timely services at the agreed price and to the agreed quality, consistent with legal standards, financial probity and management accountability, while maintaining good partner relationships with the Private Operator.
IFC has mobilized financial resources for the recruitment of a specialist contract management Consultant to support the strengthening of processes and procedures which will assist Government in effective and efficient monitoring of the PPP agreements

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Record Number of Economies Carried Out Business Reforms in Past Year: Doing Business

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WASHINGTON, October 25, 2016 – db17-reportA record 137 economies around the world have adopted key reforms that make it easier to start and operate small and medium-sized businesses, says Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All, the World Bank Group’s annual report on the ease of doing business.

The new report finds that developing countries carried out more than 75 percent of the 283 reforms in the past year, with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for over one-quarter of all reforms.

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Korea: a model for development of the water and sanitation sector

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Can a sustainable water sector be developed simultaneously with a country’s growth? Can the water sector continue to expand and achieve cheonggyecheon_stream-seoul-south_korea.jpgcomprehensive coverage and financial sustainability goals to become a recognized global model for water sector management and performance? Can a country without a single sewer line in 1958 have 90 percent of its wastewater treated by 2012?

The answer is yes! The example is Korea.

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Taking Disaster Risk Management to New Heights

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  • As urbanization rates skyrocket worldwide, cities large and small are grappling with increased disaster risk as infrastructure buckles underneath the weight of rapidly growing populations.
  • In flood-prone Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, public safety officials are working to better protect residents from recurrent flooding, which disproportionately impacts the city’s many makazi holela – unmapped, resource-poor informal settlements.
  • GFDRR is supporting Dar es Salaam’s efforts to secure vulnerable neighborhoods through the Ramani Huria initiative, a community-mapping project that trains university students and local community members on platforms that create open-source maps of the most flood-prone areas of their city. Using novel technologies, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, volunteers better understand vulnerabilities in their community, and put crucial information in the hands of those who need it most.

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Climate-Smart Poultry Farming Brings Prosperity to Kenya’s Smallholders

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  • The Kenya Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Project supports smallholder farmers through new technologies, improved market access and climate-smart agriculture approaches.
  • More than 75% of Kenyans make a living in agriculture.
  • Poultry is recognized for being among the “greenest” meats, using up less resources and emitting less greenhouse gases than larger livestock.

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OUT NOW! Flagship Report: Doing Business

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Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All, db17-reporta World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 14th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time.

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Published by RVO “In the Loop” Newsletter

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Today an article was published about the NL-4-WorldBank website in theuntitled Netherlands Enterprise Agency newsletter, which is geared towards dutch embassies World Wide.

Below an excerpt of the article, to read the rest click here.click here.

Stay up-to-date! NL-4-WorldBank Website

Are you working with the World Bank? Do you want more information on tenders, developments or the procurement framework? The website NL4Worldbank can be useful to you!

 

eC2:Undertaking Optima HIV studies and capacity building

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Deadline: 07-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)medical-appointment-doctor-healthcare-clinic-health-hospital-medicine[7]

Consultant firms will be required to:
a) complete, under leadership of the World bank Task Team Leader, 12 Optima HIV modelling studies using both the allocative efficiency and cascade modelling approaches
b) Support the World Bank and country team in disseminating results of country analyses through academic publication, policy briefs and in-country dialogues
c) Follow up to assess actual changes in allocations
d) Undertake capacity building in Optima HIV

Jointly, these case studies will contribute economic, health impact and epidemiological evidence to the overarching question of improving the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of HIV responses in these countries and building the global evidence base for better allocative efficiency.

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