eConsultant: Off-grid Energy Access Market Mapping Tool for Sub-Saharan Africa

Deadline: 23-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Among other areas, IFCs Energy & Resource Efficiency Advisory Group supports the India Energydevelopment of distributed energy services companies (DESCOs) in emerging markets that use a range of technologiesbroadly falling into the categories of standalone solar home systems, micro grids and mini-gridsto provide energy services. The lack of detailed, as well as accurate, data on the market for energy services has been identified by many DESCOs as a major barrier to their scale-up.

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Capacity Building for Tanzania Geothermal Development Company: Environmental and Social Safeguards

Deadline:  21-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The overall objective of this consultancy is to provide Tanzania Geothermal Development Company Krafla_geothermal_power_station_wiki(TGDC) with best practices in preparing of environmental and social safeguard documentation for the geothermal exploration drilling in Ngozi, SW Tanzania. During the implementation of this assignment, the consultant will also have as a primary objective of training the staff at TGDC in aspects related to environmental and social safeguards for geothermal exploration drilling.

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eConsultant2: Capacity Building for Tanzania Geothermal Development Company

Deadline: 21-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The overall objective of this consultancy is to assist TGDC in preparing for geothermal exploration Krafla_geothermal_power_station_wikidrilling in the Ngozi area in SW Tanzania. The specific objectives are i) to present best practices to TGDC for the definition of the project contracting and management structure and ii) to present best practices to TGDC on the preparation of specific documents needed for the procurement of consultants and service providers to carry out the exploration drilling project.

 

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Recap: Procurement Event NL

On the 3rd of March VNO-NCW and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency jointly hosted a World Bank i-love-procurement2procurement event during which a presentation was held about the new Procurement Policy Framework. Around 25 companies, many of which had been involved in the preceding stakeholder consultations, were present to learn from Mr. Enzo de Laurentiis, World Bank Regional Procurement Manager, about the new framework and the new opportunities it creates for the private sector.

Mr. de Laurentiis underlined that the new regulations introduced more flexibility in the design of the procurement process to ensure that it is fit for purpose and appropriate to the size, value and risk of the project. He added that one of the fundamental pillars of the new framework was that it allowed the use of value-for-money criteria for contract award decisions.

A key point, according to Mr. de Laurentiis, was that the World Bank will now be more involved in the contract management. He added that the World Bank would also take a more pro-active stance to facilitate solutions in regard to contract-related complaints – although legally it might not be a contract party.

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eConsultant2:Developing a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the Hydropower Sector in Myanmar

Deadline: 28-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

IFC is seeking a consulting firm with a consortia of individuals to conduct a Strategic Environmental HYDROAssessment (SEA) for the hydropower sector in Myanmar. The aim of the SEA is to identify and achieve broad consensus on a balanced, equitable and sustainable development pathway for hydropower in Myanmar over the next 20 years and beyond, based on environmental, social and economic considerations, to achieve the long-term economic development and sustainable use and protection of natural resources and ecosystems.

 

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eConsultant2: Energy Efficienct Technologies & Equipment Benchmarking for Bangladesh Textile Sector

Deadline: 15-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

PaCT is a joint initiative, working towards the adoption of best practices in the textile wet processing textilesector. The program aims to become a leader in driving long-term competitiveness, and environmental sustainability of the sector by addressing critical issues, particularly focusing on the reduction of water, energy, and chemical consumption and wastewater pollution.
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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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China: Keeping the Water and Environment Clean in the Qiangtang River Basin

The article was published on the World Bank website the 29th of February. Qiangtang River Basin

Qiangtang River is the largest river in China’s Zhejiang Province, providing drinking water for most of the 15 million people living in the river basin. It is called the “Mother River” of Zhejiang.

In the last few decades, with rapid economic growth, huge volumes of untreated wastewater and solid waste were dumped into the river, polluting the water and environment. This in turn poses a serious threat to the living conditions and the safety of drinking water of a large number of urban and rural residents.

While larger cities have made good progress in improving environmental services in recent years, small towns are lagging behind. Water supply is estimated to be safe in only 29% of Zhejiang’s small towns. Wastewater treatment coverage rate in small towns is only 26%. Sanitary solid waste disposal facilities are almost non-existent.

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eConsultant2: Scaling up Power Transmission in Africa

Deadline: 15-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The investigation will examine the underlying conditions in detail including (i) relevant light-bulb-297489_640sector legislation, policies, and regulation; (ii) public sector technical, planning, and financial capacity; (iii) financial structuring of transactions, availability of funding from multiple sources and access to international capital markets, as well as tariff structure reforms; and (iv) associated environmental and social compliance aspects.

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eConsutlant2:Nigeria National Health Facility Survey 2016

Deadline: 14-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The objectives of the survey include to collect baseline health facility data, against which Surveyprogress in subsequent years can be measured as part of the Saving One Million Lives Program for Results (SOML PforR). To meet these objectives, the World Bank is supporting health facility based surveys in all the 36 states and the FCT. This process is strongly guided by the Federal Government of Nigeria, with close coordination with the State Governments and technical support from the World Bank.

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