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eConsultant2: Energy & Resource Efficiency Analyst for MENA Program and Business Development Support

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Deadline:18-Oct-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The MENA E&REF team is seeking an individual consultant to support business development efforts and program management. The Consultant will work with the MENA E&REF advisory programs by collecting and analyzing market and client data, supporting development of business development and knowledge management materials, organizing events, and select project activities on as need basis. The position could be based in Egypt, UAE, or Pakistan.

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Can Dutch firms profit from carbon pricing?

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Article originally posted on the World Bank website.

New Principles to Help Accelerate the Growing Global Momentum for Carbon Pricing

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • New report shows the number of implemented or planned carbon pricing schemes around the world has almost doubled since 2012, with existing schemes now worth about $50 billion.
  • About 40 nations and 23 cities, states or regions are using a carbon price. This represents the equivalent of about 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide, or 12 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions.
  • And new report lays out six key principles to put a price on carbon – the FASTER principles – for putting a price on carbon based on economic principles and experience of what is already working around the world

The spotlight is on New York now with the upcoming United Nations meeting on the new Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Week New York, and in about two months, global leaders will meet again in Paris for COP 21.

The decisions made in New York and Paris will set the course for development for years to come. But while these are top level, pivotal meetings, actors around the world are not waiting for a global agreement to act. They are already putting a price on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions to drive clean investment. This includes the private sector. And we’ve seen companies from the oil and gas industry – calling for widespread carbon pricing. Today, over 400 businesses worldwide are using an internal price on carbon to guide their investments.

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econsultant2: Private health markets analysis in East Asia

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Deadline: 15 October 2015

The purpose of the study is to assess the Hospitalnature of private health markets and identify private sector players and opportunities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines. In addition to a detailed analysis of private health markets, the study also includes a mapping of the main private sector players, including hospitals, diagnostics, primary care providers, medical technology and equipment, pharmaceuticals and long-term elderly care.

The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the IFC have recently established a research platform to support private sector analysis in developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific. DFAT and IFC recognize the need to better understand the role of the private health markets in East Asia and to identify opportunities to support private sector projects that deliver developmental impact and reach low-income segments.

See full tender here: # 1201450 Private health markets analysis in East Asia

eConsultant2 website: https://wbgeconsult2.worldbank.org

Tender notification: #1201450

Assignment Countries:

– Vietnam
– Indonesia
– Cambodia
– Myanmar
– Philippines

eConsultant2: PPP Options Study NRW reduction Kenya

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Deadline: 12 October 2015

This assignment has the following objectives waterfor Nairobi and Mombasa water company:

1. Explore various PPP options for sustainable Non-revenue Water (NRW) reduction involving significant risk transfer to the private sector. The analysis should include for each utility:
o An organizational description.
o A financial assessment.
o The pros and cons of each PPP option and a recommendation on the selected option.

2.Once the government has agreed on the preferred option for each city:
o Identification of any regulatory or institutional issues that will affect implementation of such option.
o Identification of capacity building needs to enable implementation of such option.
o A market sounding for potential strategic investors for such option.

3. Provide a business case including financial model of the preferred PPP option for each of the two utilities with a view to: (i) improve NRW; (ii) make optimal capital investments; and (iii) ensure long-term economic NRW sustainability of the system. This will include the following for each utility:
o Collection of data and determination of a baseline for the network and facility assessment, drawing on the on-going NRW activities in each city.

4. Development of a NRW Strategy and Investment Plan or validating any such plan that has been developed under the on-going NRW activities.

See full tender here: # 1200987 PPP Study Accelerated and Sustainable NRW reduction for Mombasa and Nairobi

eConsultant2 website: https://wbgeconsult2.worldbank.org

Tender notification: # 1200987

Assignment Countries:

  • Kenya

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.

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 →

Investing in agricultural risk management

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By any measure, agriculture is risky senegal_sdgs_blogbusiness. It is also vital to ensuring food security and providing employment for 2.6 billion people worldwide, the vast majority of whom are subsistence farmers. Producing more than two-thirds of all food consumed worldwide on roughly half of the world’s arable land, these farmers are also the poorest, the most vulnerable, the most food insecure on earth.

The World Bank is spearheading a global initiative to promote a better understanding of agricultural risks, as well as effective pathways to improved risk management. In addition to enabling agriculture risk knowledge sharing through the FARMD platform, the Bank has worked with nearly 20 countries to help agricultural stakeholders better comprehend the complexity of risks. This knowledge aids the selection of risk mitigation, transfer, and coping investments.

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World Bank Webinar: ‘Unleashing Private Investment in Renewable Energy’

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evd__8324What solutions already exist and what needs to be done to stimulate further private sector investment in renewable energy?

At the 9th of October, a panel of global and regional investors, a renewable energy developer, and a senior government official will discuss how success can be scaled; and explore the specific actions to leverage public energy financing for scaled up private flows. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will open the discussion in a moderated conversation with Norway’s Foreign Minister Mr. Børge Brende.

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Successful NL / WB Clean Cookstove Webinar held on September 29

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On Tuesday, September 29, your webinarNL4WorldBank team at the Netherlands embassy, in close cooperation with the World Bank Group, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, organized the first ever Clean Cookstove Webinar.

You will find the audio recording of the webinar here. The initial clip is a preview – click on ‘download’ to hear the entire recording.

 

Universal health coverage programs transforming care for poorest and most vulnerable

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Article originally published on World Bank website.

The expansion of universal health coveragenurses-in-tonga is critical: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank Group, 400 million people do not have access to essential health services and 6% of people in low- and middle-income countries are tipped into or pushed further into extreme poverty because of out-of-pocket health spending. The World Bank report, Going Universal: How 24 countries are implementing universal health coverage reforms from the bottom up, looks at how 24 countries have embarked on the path to universal health coverage and are expanding coverage to the poor—who too often get much less from their health systems than the better-off. Continue reading →

Infrastructure Financing through PPPs in the Middle East and North Africa Region

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Date: October 06, 2015Infrastructure_Financing_PPPs_MENA
Time: 10:00AM EST
Themes: Public-Private Partnerships

This webinar discusses how PPPs can be a mode for infrastructure financing, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Topics to be covered include:

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