eC2: Support for Implementation of Indonesia WAVES

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

Indonesia is a partner country in the Global Partnership program (GPP) for Wealth world money smallAccounting and Valuation of Ecosystems (WAVES). The WAVES GPP promotes implementation of natural capital accounting (NCA) following UN Statistical Division (UNSD)s 2012 Standard for System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA 2012). Indonesia WAVES Program development objective is to strengthen the capacity of Government of Indonesia to regularly and systematically (i) implement NCA, and (ii) use the developed accounts in policy analysis in natural assets utilization and development planning. WAVES Program will provide technical assistance support to achieve the programs intermediate outcomes and increase capacity to compile, understand, and use NCA to inform development planning.

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Call for Proposals: Statistical Capacity Building Pilots, Funded by World Bank

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data on Monday, July 18, abcde-2016-300_0announced a new multi-million dollar funding initiative to support collaborative data innovations for sustainable development.

As part of the Collaborative Data Innovations for Sustainable Development Pilot Funding, which is supported by the World Bank’s Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building (TFSCB), the Global Partnership is now seeking innovative proposals for data production, dissemination and use, primarily in low­-income and lower­-middle-­income countries, for sustainable development generally and linked to the Sustainable Development Goals in particular.
The goal is to encourage collaboration, experimentation, learning and capacity development in the field of sustainable development data, especially where needs are continuous or recurrent, and where innovations can be readily adapted to other regions and sectors. Continue reading

eConsultant2: improve cooperative business management capacities

Deadline: 18-Jul-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

IFC in Rwanda is looking for qualified service providers to design and implement a business management capacity building program for horticulture producer organizations in Rwanda. The program will initially cover approximately 20 producer organizations, mostly cooperatives. Please refer to the ToRs for more information.

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eConsultant2:Kenya Local Content Development Project

Deadline: 17-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The WBG is hiring an individual consultant as a project coordinator and technical lead with experience Free-BRT-Bus-rides-in-LAgosin developing and managing SME capacity development and local content projects. This individual will manage the project from the start, setting up a public-private oversight committee, undertaking stakeholder outreach, as well as designing, running, and monitoring the projects technical work.
 

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eConsultant2: Development of e-government procurement Strategy

Deadline: 02-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The Technical Assistance (TA) will help the government prepare itself with the different Financial Educationpreparatory tools, documents and capacities. Improving Readiness for e-Procurement – one of the components under the Grant includes the activities to develop e-GP Strategy, carry out extensive Business Process Reengineering (BPR) of the Procurement Processes and practices, development of e-GP guidelines, and development of business, functional and technical specifications and bidding document for the implementation of e-GP System in Zimbabwe.

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Dar es Salaam Metropolitan Development Project – Tanzania

Tanzania has experienced strong and rapid economic growth, with its annual GDP growth averaging around seven percent in the last decade. It is expected that this growth trajectory will be sustained with the discovery of natural gas deposits. Tanzania is urbanizing rapidly and its economic development is and will be shaped by its rapid urbanization and its emerging role as a regional hub.
The Tanzania Country Economic Memorandum 2014 emphasized the importance of cities in the economic growth of the country as they are driving the growth of non-farm businesses and can be the gateways to export markets that Tanzania needs to grow.

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