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ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
Assignment Title: Solid Waste Management and Recyclables Value Chain Assessments for Selected Cities in Yemen
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ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
I. Project Context and Development Challenges
After a decade of conflict, Yemen’s cities have been very badly impacted, with widespread destruction of urban infrastructure, a breakdown of basic government functions, and interruption of basic urban services including solid waste management (SWM)services. Authority in Yemen is fragmented, with parallel institutions operating in government and opposition-held areas. At the sub-national level(governate level), independent public sector entities called City Cleaning and Improvement Funds (CCIFs) provide SWM services.
The conflict has significantly affected SWM services by limiting CCIFs’ funding, the destruction of infrastructure and equipment, and contributing to staffing challenges and fuel shortages. Despite a reduction of per capita generation of MSW over the past decade, many cities have experienced an influx of internally displaced people and associated waste generation, adding further strain on the solid waste collection services. Waste separation, sorting and further processing is carried out by the private – and mostly informal – sector, but any recycling yards/sorting plants that existed before the conflict throughout the country are currently not operational.
Given this situation, an estimated 330,000 tons of uncollected plastic waste (10 per cent of total leakages, based on latest available national and city-based data on waste generation, composition, and collection coverage) end up on Yemen’s streets and the environment every year, resulting in clogged drains, air pollution from burning waste, and plastics pollution in the ocean.
The Yemen Integrated Urban Services Emergency Projects (YIUSEP I, P164190) and YIUSEP II(P175791, incl. two additional financing (AF) rounds) are part of the Bank’s holistic emergency response in Yemen with the objective to restore access to critical urban services, including SWM, and strengthen resilience to shocks in selected cities in the country. UNOPS acts as the implementing agency. In the SWM sector, YIUSEP II investments include supply contracts for equipment and vehicles, rehabilitation of waste transfer stations, and capacity development and direct institutional support to CCIFs in selected cities. Under the Second AF, a Result-Based Financing (RBF) scheme incentivizes CCIFs in Sana’a, Aden, and Mukalla towards institutional improvements, the expansion and improvement of solid waste collection services, improved financial sustainability of SWM services, increasing the number of women in technical roles and the rollout of public information campaigns.
Despite the activities under YIUSEP II, there are two key development challenges:
1. Lack of knowledgeabout the SWM sector in cities beyond Sana’a, Aden, and Mukalla
While a solid wastesector assessment for Sana’a, Aden, and Mukalla has been carried out to informthe above-mentioned RBF schemes and investments, there is a lack of sectorknowledge and needs in other Yemeni cities. This knowledge is required tosystematically inform investments under YIUSEP II/potential future AFs and/oroperations.
2. Lack of knowledge about Yemen’s plastics and other recyclables value chains
The waste sector assessment for Sana’a, Aden, and Mukalla has confirmed that source separation, sorting, and sale of recyclables to international markets takes place through a network of informal waste pickers and aggregators. However, there is a lack of detailed knowledge about the recycling sector in Yemen. This prevents the targeted support for informal waste sector initiatives and scaling up collection, sorting, and recycling efforts in the country, and reduce (ocean)plastics pollution. While YIUSEP’s current focus is on restoring basic waste services, increased knowledge on plastics pollution and the plastics value would inform the CCIF’s ongoing public information campaigns and help them prepare future interventions that (re)build basic collection and sorting infrastructure for plastics and other recyclables.
II. Objectives
The objectives of this consulting assignment are to i) improve knowledge of the solid waste management sector and its challenges and plastic value chains in selected cities in Yemen, ii) develop a roadmap for reform and institutional improvements, and iii) identify potential investments and, taking the country context into consideration, innovative solutions.
The outputs from this consulting assignment will be used to inform the ongoing Yemen Integrated Urban Services Emergency Project and could form the informational basis for rolling out potential RBF schemes in cities beyond Sana’a, Aden, and Mukalla or preparing potential future World Bank operations in Yemen.
III. Activities
This consulting
assignment will address the key development challenges described above through
two distinct but interconnected activities: Activity 1 will assess the solid
waste sector in the cities of Ibb, Ash Shihr, and Al Ghaydah. Activity 2 will
increase knowledge about Yemen’s value chain for plastics and other recyclables
in the cities of Sana’a, Aden, Mukalla, Ibb, Ash Shihr, and Al Ghaydah. Aforementioned cities are tentative; a final selection will be agreed following the commencement of the consultancy. The
consultant for this assignment will further undertake virtual dissemination activities
(Activity 3) and summarize the two assessments and any feedback from the dissemination
activities in a final report (Activity 4).
FUNDING SOURCE
The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment / services described below under the following:
ELIGIBILITY
Firms should provide information as to:
- Team capabilities to respond to the nature of the advertised tasks including team experience, qualifications, languages and understanding of solid waste management and recycling markets in Yemen and similar contexts. The team should demonstrate fluency in English and Arabic.
- Firm experience in similar assignments related to solid waste management and recycling markets in Yemen and similar contexts.
- Firm ability to provide an effective local on the ground team in Yemen.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The World Bank Group invites eligible firms to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested firms 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. for firms; CV and cover letter for individuals). Please note that the total size of all attachments should be less than 5MB. Submissions should not exceed 30 pages. Firms may associate to enhance their qualifications unless otherwise stated in the solicitation documents. Where a group of firms associate to submit an EOI, they must indicate which is the lead firm. If shortlisted, the firm identified in the EOI as the lead firm will be invited to the request for proposal (RFP) phase.
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NOTES
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