Individual Consultant to Develop Sector Specific Guides for Mainstreaming National Determined Contributions (Ndc) into Waste Management Sector - 3360587

The DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT in Rwanda from African region had released this tender for Expression of Interest are invited for Individual Consultant to Develop Sector Specific Guides for Mainstreaming National Determined Contributions (Ndc) into Waste Management Sector Location: Kigali Deadline: Saturday, 05/08/2023 23:59 Expression of Interest (EOI) Re-Advertised Individual Consultant to develop sector specific guides for mainstreaming National Determined Contributions (NDC) into Waste Management Sector Reference Number: 83438184 Background The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federally owned international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The GIZ Office in Kigali covers GIZ’s portfolio in Rwanda and Burundi. GIZ Rwanda/Burundi implements projects on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union and other commissioning authorities in the following priority areas: Sustainable Economic Development, Good Governance, Climate, Energy and Sustainable Urban Development, Digitalization and Digital Economy, Mineral Governance, Peace and Security in the Great Lakes Region. Context The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), along with the Ministry of Environment (MoE) and the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (Department of Education and Environment Mainstreaming: DEEM) have been mandated to ensure the Environment and climate change are mainstreamed into national planning and budgeting processes. To be able to track the mainstreaming efforts, the above-mentioned institutions developed the checklist composed by the key performance indicators which are used at the planning and budgeting levels. MINECOFIN, MoE and REMA use these key performance indicators to ascertain the environment and climate change has been taken into consideration during the planning and budgeting stages. Sectors and districts are requested to take into consideration the checklists and make sure from the submission of the planning and budgeting call circular the mainstreaming guidelines were shared, clear and understandable. The staff who support this activity of mainstreaming Environment and Climate Change (ECC) are the Directors of Planning in the Ministries and the Districts. The Civil Society Organizations and Private Sector have been claiming the additional cost for greening their activities/ projects. They forget to cost the indirect benefits of going green than business as usual. The later causes consequences which at the end cost huge financial resources to recover the losses. Despite the efforts deployed by the MoE, MINECOFIN and REMA while raising awareness the staff from sectors and districts need adequate capacities to develop themselves the mainstreaming guides, understand them and use them. During the financial year 2020/2021 the assessment of the mainstreaming status of the Environment and climate change by the key sectors of the national strategy for transformation phase one (NST1) was conducted. In Rwanda the mainstreaming status stands at 69.1% and around 17.5% of the indicators were not reported. NDC assist II project was thought as solution towards that issue and will develop sector guides for mainstreaming NDC into Waste Management sector. Unreported indicators were estimated to 17.5%. Another observation was that indicators related to Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) are still implemented at a lower level and there is no specific budget line allocated to them in the sectoral and district action plans and therefore need a particular attention for the integration in sectors plans and reporting (Assessment of the implementation of the environment and climate change activities by sector Ministries and Districts 2020/2021). In 2015 the Government of Rwanda developed the National Determined Contributions (NDC) to fully implement climate change adaptation and mitigation activities/ projects/ programs. It is against this backdrop, the GIZ is in the process of hiring a consultant to develop the sector specific mainstreaming guidelines for the waste management sector. Based on the sector specific mainstreaming guidelines, the Individual Consultant will develop training manual to increase the capacities and awareness of the concerned staff at the sector level to be able to ensure the full mainstreaming of NDC in action plans and budgets of the concerned sector. 2. Tasks to be performed by the contractor The consultant is responsible for providing the following services: Conduct situation analysis to understand better the integration of the NDC in the waste management sector Carry out intensive consultation meetings with all stakeholders including high level decision makers to understand better how NDC can be integrated and monitored through sector plans and budgets Through consultations to identify key performance and gender disaggregated indicators to support the implementation and monitoring of Rwanda’s progress in implementing its NDC in the selected sectors In consultations with MINECOFIN, MoE and REMA develop a reliable, feasible and practical approach to track the progress made on the selected key indicators To support the technical staff and propose framework and measurement approaches To establish baseline data on the key selected NDC indicators which have been problematic in the past Develop specific NDC mainstreaming guides for the waste management Sector Carry out a quick assessment to identify the capacity gaps to ensure NDC is fully integrated in the selected Sector In partnership with MINECOFIN, MoE, REMA and concerned sector to identify sector experts, private sector members, Civil Society Organization representatives and decision makers who will be trained In consultations with MoE, MINECOFIN, REMA and Sectors select the appropriate training modalities and suitable approaches Develop tailored training modules for different categories and organize their validation sessions Conduct trainings of different categories and produce the training report Raise awareness on the drafted sector specific guidelines for mainstreaming NDC in the waste management Sector with tender notice no. 83438184 published on 24 Jul 2023. The tender expired on 05 Aug 2023. This tender is sourced from Official Website and is eligible for suppliers interested in General management consultancy services. Interested bidders can obtain further information including complete bid documents or ways to participate by registering on Tender Impulse and referencing via Tender Impulse ID 3360587.