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eConsultant2: assessment of Urban Water Management of Greater Antananarivo

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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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eConsultant2: Including vaccines in African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization

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

The World Bank is managing a trust fund for medicines regulatory harmonization (MRH) and is currently working with three Africa sub-regions (EAC, ECOWAS, SADC) on regional harmonization projects with a focus on generic drugs in partnership with WHO and NEPAD. This consultancy will focus on adding vaccines to this work program, specifically their inclusion in the regional road map for regulatory harmonization.

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eConsultant2: Strategy and Transaction support Cornubia PPP South Africa

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Deadline: September 22, 2015

The World Bank is providing technical support public-Private-Partnershipto eThekwini regarding how to advance the cit’s urban regeneration goals. This solicitation for site-specific financial and real estate development advisory services is one component of that effort. The municipality requires support to: Identify business models and transaction structures that are market-viable, cost-efficient, and that facilitates the Citys policy goals; and support the municipality in commencing implementation of the selected business model — including support for negotiating a formal agreement (about provision of bulk infrastructure) among the municipality, the existing land owner/developer, and other major stakeholders. Continue reading →

Tender: study of pilot waste water treatment plant in Kinshasa

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Recrutement d’un Consultant (Firme) pour waste water treamentréaliser les études d’APS, APD et DAO des travaux de construction d’une station pilote de traitement des boues de vidange dans la ville de Kinshasa.

Le Gouvernement de la République Démocratique du Congo a obtenu un don de la Banque mondiale en diverses monnaies pour financer le Projet d’Alimentation en Eau Potable en Milieu Urbain (PEMU) et a l’ intention d’utiliser une partie Continue reading →

Ethiopia – Second Agricultural Growth Project signed

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Ethiopia’s second agricultural growth Ethiopia agproject, which was adopted by the World Bank Board of Directors on March 31, 2015, has now been signed. The project involves a total of $365 million, of which $350 million is provided by the World Bank.

The development objective of the Second Agricultural Growth Project for Ethiopia is to increase agricultural productivity and commercialization of small holder farmers targeted by the project. The project comprises of five components: Continue reading →