eConsultant2: Lighting Africa: Retail Channel Development in Nigeria

Deadline: 01-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The Lighting Africa Nigeria Program now seeks to engage a Consulting firm starting April 2016 for a period of 12 months with the opportunity for follow-on work based on performance, to: solar-energy

1. Identify, pre-qualify and recruit potential retail channel members that will stock and retail solar products.

2. Assign a team of Retail Market Developers who will:

  • Work very closely with IFC Business Development Consultant to execute point 1 across the targeted regions in Nigeria, and develop a comprehensive database of retailers, sub-distributors and wholesalers and identify new market segments.
  • Work with the IFC Business Development Consultant to develop and undertake continuous monitoring of the channels and recommend any improvements to enhance their performance.

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eConsultant2: TA for supporting Kenya’s devolution process

Deadline: 29-Feb-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

This consultancy will have three main objectives:

(a) to carry out an institutional review of how different counties are dealing with theSenegal-Woman-at-Well-800ir water utilities in providing water and sanitation services and provide some good practices from best performing counties and utilities, both nationally and internationally;
(b) to support Kiambu County to conceptualize and implement the clustering process; and
(c) develop material and organize forums to support knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer learning for counties nationally.

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Climate Friendly Transport in Developing Countries

On December 3, 2015 the World Bank published an article on the support Nigeria-Lagos-busof Multilateral Development Banks to climate friendly transport in developing countries. The first bus-based mass transport system in Lagos, Nigeria has proved to be a success.

Lagos, Nigeria, is the sixth largest city in the world. It is also the fastest growing and one of the most congested in the world. Commuting for Lagosians can be a serious challenge. Until recently, transport options to get to work were either small minibuses (the danfos) or larger minibuses (molues). Traffic was bad and transport expensive.

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eConsultant2: Water for Agro-Pastoralist Livelihoods in Somaliland and Puntland

Deadline: 07-Jan-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) seeks qualified firms to identify wadis for development, Wadissupport the site selection for eight sites, and implement an impact assessment to improve the pastoral and agro-pastoral communities’ access to, and management of, small-scale water sources and to enhance the capacity of the government to implement small-scale water interventions in targeted arid lands of Somaliland and Puntland.

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eConsultant2: assessment of Urban Water Management of Greater Antananarivo

Deadline: 20-Oct-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

After severe flooding at the beginning waste water treamentof the year (January 2015), the Government of Madagascar requested support from the World Bank to address its water issues in Antananarivo. A scoping mission in March 2015 led to a recommended approach of integrated urban water management (IUWM) that can bring together the different agencies and stakeholders that play a role in different aspects of water management. This assignment will provide a rapid institutional assessment of the key entities involved in water management in Antananarivo and will form the basis for developing an IUWM planning process. Continue reading

eConsultant2: Ethiopia – Development of Transit Oriented Development Implementation Program for the City of Addis Ababa

Deadline: 20-Oct-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The services include institutional Ethiopia-Road-Constructiondevelopment support and capacity building services to help Addis Ababa City government (AACG) achieve the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) aspects of the new Structure Plan for the city of Addis Ababa. The consultants will report to the World Bank Task Team Leader, and interact directly with the Addis Ababa Land Management and Development Bureau (AALMDB), which is primarily responsible for implementation of the structure plan, throughout the assignment. The consultancy’s main objectives are to: Continue reading

Successful NL / WB Clean Cookstove Webinar

Every year over 4 million people, mostly women and children, die due to air pollution caused by unhealthy cookstoves and other heat sources. webinar-met-worldbankOn Tuesday, September 29, your Netherlands Embassy’s NL4WorldBank team, in close cooperation with the World Bank Group, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized the first ever Clean Cookstove Webinar to address this issue.

How it works

Geared towards the Dutch private sector, the webinar offered the participants the chance to pitch their companies’ cookstove or related product to a group of World Bank staff all working on cookstove projects across the world. Continue reading

eConsultant2: Design of RBF Mechanism for Solid Waste Management in Mauritania and Senegal

Deadline: September 29.

The objective of this activity financed by solid wasteGPOBA and implemented by the World Bank Urban team is to design results-based financing (RBF) or output-based aid (OBA) mechanisms, provide related policy, investment and institutional enhancement recommendations that are necessary to improve the performance of solid waste management in each cities. A particular focus of this activity will be to identify solutions approaches that improve access to sound solid waste services to poor households. The countries where the work is planned are Mauritania and Senegal. Continue reading

Tender: Water Supply And Sanitation Construction Works in Uganda

The Republic of Uganda has received a loan from the World Bank for a Water Management and Development Project, and intends to applywater part of these proceeds to payments under the contract for construction works for water supply and sanitation in Rukungiri Municipality, Katwe-Kabatoro and Koboko Town.

Deadline: November 10, 2015

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eConsultant2: Warranty Tracking System for Off-Grid Solar Products in Ethiopia

Deadline: 01-Oct-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

solar-energyThe World Bank is supporting Ministry of Energy Ethiopia and Development Bank of Ethiopia to enforce warranty service of off-grid solar products by developing a web-based electronic database and information management system.The World Bank now invites eligible consulting firms to indicate their interest in providing the services of developing the data platform.

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