Deadline: 01-Aug-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D
.C.)
The Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF (IEO) is requesting Expressions of Interest from interested consulting firms and/or institutions for the Climate Change Focal Area Study.
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IDA Works for Everyone: Climate Change!
Deadline: 28-Jul-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Was
hington D.C.)
This component of the “Haiti DTIS implementation project” will produce a Feasibility Study for Collection and Treatment Centers or Logistic Platform suitable for perishables crops located in an agribusiness industrial park promoted by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. This study will include the assessment of the financial, economic, security, engineering, and market demand aspects of the stages in the Logistic Platform (processing, storage and inspection), as well as the required supporting road infrastructure.
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Deadline: 05-Aug-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The World Bank Group is seeking a firm to carry out data entry for a household/youth census in select communities in Honduras. Data collection is expected to take 5 weeks, with 256 census being collected per day. The census will be administered in communities in three municipalities with an estimated total of 5,000 households. The population eligible to complete the full census will be youths aged 15-25, and there are an estimated 4,790 eligible youths in the target communities. The length of the census instrument will depend on the number of eligible youths in each household. There will be multiple versions of the census. The firm will be expected to deliver a daily random sample of data collected and to deliver the full dataset within three weeks of data collection. Tasks under this assignment can be performed from the firm’s preferred location(s)
Deadline: 05-Aug-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The WB seeks the services of a highly skilled consultant to : (i) develop instruments for a baseline assessment in Form B (Grade 9), conduct power calculations and sampling, and analyze the data and produce a report of findings. The Form B National Assessment package to be produced would include: a) student test b) student questionnaire and c)teacher/school questionnaire. (ii) develop instruments, conduct data analysis and write a report for the study on teachers numeracy and literacy competencies at the primary level and Math and Science competencies at the junior secondary level. The instruments to be developed would include: a) Primary (Grade 1-4) Teacher Test in Literacy and Numeracy, b) Secondary Teacher Test in Mathematics, c) Secondary Teacher Test in Physics, d) Secondary Teacher Test in Biology, e) Secondary Teacher Test in Chemistry, f) School/Teacher Questionnaires.
Deadline: 01-Aug-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washi
ngton D.C.)
The Objective of this assignment is to prepare the Mini-grid Component of the Rwanda Renewable Energy Fund Project. The mini-grid component is expected to support private sector renewable energy mini-grids to demonstrate that commercially viable mini-grids are able to deliver affordable electricity services to households and enterprises in rural areas.
Deadline: 25-Jul-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
Objective: This assignment will support the Market Intelligence and Consumer Education components of the project by conducting in-depth research on consumer perceptions, preferences and willingness to pay for solar and other off-grid lighting/energy services in Myanmar. The results of this research will assist Lighting Myanmar companies in developing their market strategies and product offerings, and will also inform the design of a consumer education campaign to promote high-quality solar products
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WASHINGTON, June 30, 2016 – The World Bank Group is moving to help India deliver on its unprecedented plans to scale up solar energy, from installing solar panels on rooftops to setting up massive solar parks. This will catapult India to the forefront of the global effort to bring electricity to all, mitigate the effects of climate change, and set the country on a path to become the ‘India of the future’.
“The world must turn to (the) sun to power our future,” India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the historic COP21 climate conference in Paris last year. “As the developing world lifts billions of people into prosperity, our hope for a sustainable planet rests on a bold, global initiative.”
The 12th Annual Meeting of the International Water Resource Economics Consortium (IWREC) will be hosted by the World Bank in Washington, DC on September 11-13, 2016. The overall theme of the meeting will be “Water Security in a Changing World.”
Deadline: 24-Jul-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The objective of the assignment is to provide Technical Assistance support to the Iraqi
Ministry of Electricity in the preparation and implementation of a set of key interventions, both in the short and the medium terms aimed at electricity services restoration, improvements in the supply reliability and operations efficiency.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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