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Asian Development Bank

Project Name: Enabling the Protection of Jiaozhou Bay Water Quality and Wetland Ecosystem

http://www.adb.org/Documents/ADBBO/AOTA/40017022.ASP

China, People’s Rep.of –AOTA: (N) PRC 40017-02

Executing Agency: Qingdao Environmental Protection Bureau

TA Amount: US$750K

Date of First Listing: 30 December 2008

Project Impact: Strengthened capacity of the Qingdao Municipal Government in strategic environmental planning and management to support sustainable economic development in Jiaozhou Bay area.

Project Outcome: Increased protection of Jiaozhou Bay water quality and wetland ecosystem through the development of a strategic environmental assessment.

Project Outputs: (i) creation of an effective management mechanism for strategic environmental and planning process, (ii) strategic environmental assessment, and (iii) operational guideline and monitoring system for implementation.

Consulting Services: The consultant team will comprise six international consultants for 15 person-months and eight national consultants for 60 person months.

Project Processing Stage: Approved by the Bank: Dec 08

Project Officer: Qingfeng Zhang (+632 632-6219)

Project Name: Wuhan Urban Environmental Improvement Project

http://www.adb.org/Documents/ADBBO/PPTA/42011012.ASP

China, People’s Rep.of–PPTA: PRC 42011-01

Executing Agency: Wuhan Municipal Government

TA Amount: US$700K

Sector/Subsector: Water Supply, Sanitation & Waste Management /Waste Management

Date of First Listing: 21 October 2008

Project Impact: Improved urban environment, public health, and quality of life for urban residents and businesses in Wuhan.

Project Outcome: Improved management of surface water sources and sludge treatment in Wuhan municipality.

Project Outputs: (i) Analysis of Yangtze River Basin Water Pollution Prevention and Control Plan, Wuhan urban development master plans, and policies and overall justification of the Project. (ii) Technical peer review of subproject selection, design, costs, etc. Subprojects revised and refined as necessary. (iii) Analysis of financing needs, financial management, and institutional capacities in the Wuhan Municipal Government. (iv) Assessment of social economic impacts of subprojects on beneficiaries, affected persons, poor, and vulnerable persons. (v) Assessment of involuntary resettlement impacts and preparation of resettlement plans. (vi) Environmental Impact Assessments, Summary Environmental Impact Assessment, and Environment Monitoring Plan. (vii) Institutional capacity building plan and corporate development plan. (viii) Participatory planning process developed and implemented. (ix) Investment project proposal for ADB financing.

Consulting Services: A total of 43 person-months of consulting services (17 international and 26 national) will be required. The consultants will provide expertise in wastewater management and sludge treatment, environment, financial, economic, social development and resettlement, and institutional development.

Environmental Assessment: To Be Determined

Project Processing Stage: Approved by the bank Nov 08

Recruitment of Consultants: Recruitment of consultants to take place in early 2009.

Project Officer: Huang Jingmin (632-6486) jhuang@adb.org

Social Sectors Division, EARD

GRM

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Further details are available from Graham Poon at graham@kleinhardt.com.au or ph 4040-7100/0448-951 454.

Project: Development of tourism concession policy in Sierra Leone

Details: This assignment is to conduct a legal analysis of the existing land concession policy in Sierra Leone, and develop an adequate concession framework for the cultural heritage sites and environmentally protected sites of Sierra Leone that is conducive to develop sustainable tourism at these sites.

Individual/Firm Profile: The consultant will be a firm or consortium.

Submission Requirements: The World Bank now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.). Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.

Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through World Bank Group eConsultant http://www.worldbank.org/wbgeconsultant

Notes: Consultants will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the current edition of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers.

Following this invitation for Expression of Interest, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding.

Project: eLearning Modules & Learning Management System

Tender Agency: Ministry of Justice, New Zealand

Closing Date: January 8, 2009

Details: Office 2007 Implementation Program – eLearning Modules and Learning Management System for MS Office 2007. Within the Technology and Services Group, the Office 2007 Implementation Program’s Business Readiness Workstream is charged with ensuring all Ministry and judicial staff are sufficiently trained in the use of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of products prior to its implementation. Therefore, the Ministry is seeking proposals from suppliers for the provision of:
- An Off the Shelf eLearning solution for the delivery of training in the use of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite for Ministry personnel and the Judiciary, and
- A Learning Management System (LMS) for the management and administration of the above training solution.

Project: Research – heat tolerant corals and climate change

Agency: World Bank

Closing Date: December 17, 2008

Details: Research on temperature-tolerant corals for the adaptation of coral reefs to climate change impacts in the Caribbean. The objective of the consultancy is to research heat tolerant corals to encourage adaptation measures to reduce impact of climate change for coral reefs in the Caribbean. The Japan-based consultant’s activities specifically aim to identify the biochemistry features and algal symbiont strains of the heat tolerant coral strains and to research available remote sensing data to assist in the field work to search of temperature tolerant populations of corals.

This consultancy will provide essential background and laboratory research to support the field research of the pilot project proposed by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (CCCCC) to identify, cultivate, and restore (repopulate) temperature tolerant corals at sites affected by past coral bleaching induced by climate change in the Caribbean. Thus, the consultant’s activities shall be closely coordinated with the associated researchers hired for the pilot by the CCCCC.

Laboratory work in Japan:
1. Identification of the algal symbiont types in the heat tolerant versus non heat tolerant corals. Coral tissue samples and live fragments of temperature tolerant corals will be shipped to the consultant’s laboratory in Japan.
2. Testing enzymatic or other differences between temperature tolerant versus non tolerant genotypes, at various temperatures and if possible at different seawater pH.
3. Collaborate with the associate researchers for the development of multiple hypotheses for experimental testing in the laboratory and field sites, comparing temperature tolerant corals with non-tolerant genotypes of the same species and other species. Once temperature tolerant corals and their non-tolerant conspecifics are identified, they are tested for symbiont types in the laboratory and grown in the nurseries to obtain fragments for experiments such as calcification, growth, bleaching, and response to acidification. This work should also include looking at methods of possible active or passive introduction of resistant algal symbionts into genetic lines where they are presently absent, and experimental protocols for replanting temperature tolerant coral strains by different methods into reef adaptation sites.

Field work in Belize and other countries:
1. Assist with carrying out field scoping with maps and GIS information, as well as development of maps illustrating the findings.
2. Assist with developing protocols for identification of coral reefs which are tolerant to thermal stress, either through resilience or resistance. This activity will include identification of bleaching tolerant reefs and heat tolerant corals that have survived the most recent severe bleaching event of 2005 (using size of colony or thicket as an indicator of age), using live samples of these corals taken by the associate researchers for culture and testing. Remote sensing data such as the archives from the bleaching event of 2005 or earlier would be used to help search for temperature tolerant populations of corals.
3. Help design a program for deployment of temperature loggers in the sites to record thermal range and thermal stress.
4. Assist with the production of a report on the findings of the pilot work from Belize and St Lucia to be disseminated and possibly replicated in other Caribbean countries as well as to the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Project: Timor-Leste Public Sector Capacity Development Program-Curriculum Development and Training Adviser – INAP

Details: The Australian Managing Contractor, GRM is seeking a Curriculum Development and Training Adviser (CDTA) – National Institute of Public Administration (INAP), to work in concert with counterparts in the Government of Timor-Leste. The position will be for six months.

The CDTA will work with the counterparts in INAP and the PSCDP National Advisers and HRD & Management Adviser (HRDMA). The CDTAs will support and assist INAP to prepare modules for three foundation courses to enable civil servants without tertiary qualifications to transition to the new career regime and salary scale. (It is envisaged these courses will then form the basis of ongoing, regularly delivered, professional development programs for civil servants).

This will include strengthening of the skills and knowledge of INAP staff in the area of public administration including the Civil Service Law and associated regulations, TNA, curriculum development, and adult centred training and assessment strategies including work based learning and skill transfer in the workplace. The CDTAs will also assist INAP to establish the relevant systems and procedures to implement and monitor these courses in a sustainable manner.

Note: A language skill in Portuguese or Tetun, and ability to speak and write English to a high standard is highly desirable.

For more information on the Terms of Reference with selection criteria and applications, as well as information on how to apply for the current opportunities available, contact Graham Poon at graham@kleinhardt.com.au or phone: 4040 7100 or mobile: 0448 951 454.